AlmaLinux 9 “Emerald Puma” is available for download

Many improvements for the Web Console

AlmaLinux 9, which is a CentOS alternative, runs Linux kernel 5.14.0-70.13.1.el9_0 under the hood. It delivers some enhancements around cloud and container development as well as improvements for extra security. AlmaLinux 9 restricts the use of SHA-1 for signatures in the default crypto policy. The developers warn there might be some issues with this change while accessing the older systems via SSH, so they provide a solution to enable SHA-1 when needed. You can use the following command to activate SHA-1:

update-crypto-policies --set DEFAULT:SHA1

The new release signs the packages and repositories with the new RPM-GPG-KEY-AlmaLinux-9 GPG key while adding SAP and SAP HANA repositories to the system. It also brings some enhancements to Web Console (cockpit); delivering more performance metrics as well as the capability of identifying bottlenecks. Web Console now also can apply live kernel patch and build images via a single build node. Additionally, AlmaLinux 9 enables Smart Card Authentication through Web Console and introduces new security profiles.

The SELinux performance has been greatly improved and SSSD delivers additional logging details. AlmaLinux 9 comes with new wallpapers as well. The remaining package changes can be seen below:

• Perl 5.32
• PHP 8.0
• Git 2.31
• Apache HTTP Server 2.4.51
• Varnish Cache 6.6
• Squid 5.2
• MySQL 8.0
• Redis 6.2
• GCC 11.2.1
• glibc 2.34
• binutils 2.35.2
• Go Toolset 1.17.7
• PCP 5.3.5
• Grafana 7.5.11
• GDB 10.2
• Valgrind 3.18.1
• SystemTap 4.6
• Dyninst 11.0.0
• elfutils 0.186
• Maven 3.6
• Ant 1.10

Upgrade AlmaLinux 9.0 Beta to AlmaLinux 9

To upgrade a system from AlmaLinux 9.0 Beta to AlmaLinux 9, you can use the following command, twice:

dnf upgrade -y

Download AlmaLinux 9

You can also download the ISO images for x86_64, ARM64, ppc664le, and s390x systems and choose from Boot, Minimal and DVD versions by following the link below: