The AlmaLinux Foundation rolls out AlmaLinux 9.6 on the same day that Red Hat officially releases RHEL 10.
On Tuesday, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation announced the release of AlmaLinux 9.6, code-named “Sage Margay.” The release comes a week after Red Hat released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6.
Because AlmaLinux is a near-clone of RHEL (its feature set is exactly the same, although there might be slight differences in the code), many organizations running the distro in production may choose to skip this release, since yesterday Red Hat announced the official release of RHEL 10. With a beta version of AlmaLinux 10 already available, a ready-for-primetime release of AlmaLinux 10 is likely only days away.
That being said, a sizable number of users will decide to upgrade to this, since AlmaLinux will support the 9.x series through May 2027.
“Thanks to our rock-solid infrastructure and the betas that we continue to deliver, we were prepared for 9.6 like never before,” AlmaLinux’s lead architect Andrew Lukoshko said in a statement. “With our improved testing speeds, improved build speeds, and minimal changes between our beta and stable releases, we are very excited to release this version of AlmaLinux as quickly and securely as our community has come to expect.”
IBM Power users will be interested to know that, thanks to input from the Oregon State University Open Source Lab, this release includes a tech preview of KVM virtualization support for the IBM Power architecture, which has been unavailable upstream since version 9.0.
“AlmaLinux 9.6 marks another milestone release for AlmaLinux, as we continue to deliver AlmaLinux using the same upstream that Red Hat uses to build RHEL,” said benny Vasquez, chair of the AlmaLinux OS Foundation. “Our community is more engaged and excited than ever before, and we are driven by their needs every day.”
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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