A special edition of ELevate makes it possible for users to test AlmaLinux 10 beta using their AlmaLinux 9 production workloads in order to get the bugs out before the release of the prime-time-ready version of AlmaLinux 10.
Although we’re still months away from the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, which is expected to ship sometime around the middle of the year, there’s already a beta version RHEL 10, which was released in December. There’s also a beta version of AlmaLinux 10 — the distribution that’s almost but not quite a clone of RHEL — which was also released back in December.
On Tuesday we learned in a blog from Yuriy Kohut, an ELevate project engineer at CloudLinux — the company behind AlmaLinux — that ELevate now offers an easy upgrade path to 10 beta, which could be useful for organizations who want to prepare for an upcoming migration now, so that when D-Day arrives all potential issues will be known.
If you don’t know, ELevate is a useful tool for easy in-place migration from one version of a RHEL clone to another that CloudLinux developed at about the same time as it was releasing the first version of AlmaLinux. It’s based on Leapp, software developed by Red Hat for migrating its users to new RHEL releases.
“The AlmaLinux 9 to AlmaLinux 10 beta upgrade is a crucial part of our ongoing preparations for the version 10.0 stable release, expected in Q2,” Kohut said. “Early testing allows us to identify and address potential issues and before the stable release ensuring the stable upgrade for users.”
He was careful to point out that this upgrade path is for testing only and not for production use. Additionally, he said that when AlmaLinux 10.0 is officially released, ELevate will be able to migrate users from AlmaLinux 9 to stable AlmaLinux 10, but not from AlmaLinux 10 beta.
“You can update systems running 10 beta using the regular update process with detailed instructions that will be provided in the release notes,” he said.
To get started, checkout the ELevate Quickstart Guide on AlmaLinux’s website.
Naturally, Kohut is hoping to get feedback from users of the tool, to help ELevate’s developers remove bugs from the migration process before the official release of AlmaLinux 10.
“We’d love the community to help us try and test this new upgrade path and share their experiences,” he said. “Your input will directly contribute to the quality and development of the final release. Please, report any bugs you may see to the ELevate leapp repository.”
Kohut also pointed out that support for EuroLinux has been dropped from this edition of ELevate because the distro quit being distributed on October 23.
“This decision allows us to focus our resources on maintaining actively supported distributions,” he said.
Christine Hall has been a journalist since 1971. In 2001, she began writing a weekly consumer computer column and started covering Linux and FOSS in 2002 after making the switch to GNU/Linux. Follow her on Twitter: @BrideOfLinux
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