presented the release of the distribution Rocky Linux 8.7 , aimed at creating a free assembly of RHEL, capable of taking a place of classic centos, after the Red Hat company stopped supporting the Centos 8 branch at the end of 2021, and not in 2029, as was supposed initially. This is the third stable release of the project, recognized as ready for working implementations. Build Rocky Linux prepared for architecture x86_64 and Aarch64. Additionally, assemblies for Oracle Cloud Platform (OCP), cloud circles are formed,
GenericCloud, Amazon AWS (EC2), Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, as well as images for containers and virtual machines in Rootfs/OCI and Vagrant formats (Libvirt, VirtualBox, VMware). Linux changes are reduced to getting rid of the reference to the Red Hat brand. The distribution is completely binarno compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 and includes all the improvements proposed in this issue. For example, new Ruby modules: 3.1, Maven: 3.8, Mercurial: 6.2, Node.js 18 and updated versions of the GCC Toolset 12, LLVM Toolset 14.0.6, Rust Toolset 1.62, Go Toolset 1.18, Redis 6.2.7, Valgrind 3.19, Valgrind 3.19, ChRONY 4.2, UnBound 1.16.2, Opencryptoki 3.18.0, PowerPC-Utils 1.3.10, Libva 2.13.0, PCP 5.3.7, Grafana 7.5.13, Systemtap 4.7, NetworkManager 1.40, Samba 4.16.1.
Among the changes specific for Rocky Linux, you can note the supply in a separate repository pluse a package with a mail client Thunderbird With support for PGP and the Open-VM-Tools package. In the repository nfv a set of packages for virtualization of networks developed, developed
SIG-group nfv (Network Functions Virtualization).
The project was translated under the protection of recently created Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (Resf), which registered as a socially useful corporation ( Public Benefits Corporation ), not aimed at making a profit. The owner of the organization is Gregory Kurtzer, the founder of Centos, but the control functions in accordance with the adopted charter delegated to the board of directors, in which participants involved in the work on the project are elected by the community.
in parallel for the development of expanded products based on Rocky Linux and supporting the community of the developers of this distribution, a commercial company CTRL IQ was created, which received $ 26 million. The Rocky Linux distribution itself promises to develop, regardless of CTRL IQ under the control of the community. Companies such as Google, Amazon Web Services, Gitlab, Montavista, 45DRives, Opendrives and Naver Cloud.