Rocky Linux 9.5 Released, Here’s What’s New

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Nov 20, 2024,
updated Nov 22, 2024

Quoting: Rocky Linux 9.5 Released, Here's What's New —

After RHEL 9.5 appeared less than a week ago, followed yesterday by the AlmaLinux 9.5 release, today, the Rocky team also announced the general availability of Rocky Linux 9.5.

It includes updated installation media, containers, cloud, and live images—all available on the project’s downloads webpage. Here is the new stuff.

Podman 5.0: This version of Rocky Linux ships with Podman 5.0, now boasts faster boot times for Podman machines, enhanced compatibility for volumes in “Podman kube play,” and a brand-new “Podman Farm” feature that supports multi-platform image building.

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FOSS Force:

• Rocky Linux 9.5 Released With Podman 5.0 and Cockpit Files Plugin Availability - FOSS Force

  The Rocky Linux team yesterday announced the release of Rocky Linux 9.5 as a drop-in replacement for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5, which was released one week ago, on October 13.

  For the uninitiated, Rocky Linux is one of the two most used independently developed clones of RHEL, the other being AlmaLinux. Although the two distributions both purport to be RHEL “clones”, they get there by two different routes, with AlmaLinux not being so much a clone of RHEL as a feature-by-feature copy.

  Rocky Linux strives to be more of a true clone — that is, a line by line copy of RHEL’s code, making it more like CentOS was until Red Hat moved it upstream and changed its name to CentOS Stream. That shouldn’t be surprising, since Rocky Linux’s founder, Gregory Kurtzer, was one of the founders of CentOS back around the turn of the century when CentOS first got going.

LWN:

• Rocky GNU/Linux 9.5 released

  Version 9.5 of the Rocky GNU/Linux distribution is out. As with the AlmaLinux 9.5 release, Rocky GNU/Linux 9.5 tracks the changes in upstream RHEL 9.5. See the release notes