By all indications, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 — that would be RHEL 10 to most of us — was evidently overnight quietly rolled out to paying customers.
RHEL 10 installed in its Workstation configuration, showing its desktop environment, GNOME 47. | OS: Red Hat, Screenshot: Paowee, GPL, via Wikimedia Commons
Keep this under your hat because it’s still not official, but evidently Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 has reached General Availability, which is software marketing talk for it’s been released. It’s a soft release to be sure, but Michael Larabel reported on Phoronix at about midnight EDT that those with Red Hat customer accounts are now able to download and install or upgrade RHEL 10.
“Red Hat hasn’t formally announced Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 GA availability but should be imminent,” Larabel reported. “The RHEL 10.0 official release has been widely expected to occur leading up to the Red Hat Summit taking place 19 to 22 May in Boston.”
If this is true, and if Red Hat does wait until Monday’s opening of this year’s Red Hat Summit in Boston to make its official announcement, we actually might see one or two of the RHEL clones — I’m thinking AlmaLinux but Rocky Linux might jump in too — release their copies of RHEL10 ahead of Red Hat’s official announcement.
There is evidence to support Larabel’s report, even if there’s not yet a smoking gun. For example, some users on Reddit have reported that download links briefly appeared and then disappeared from public view on Red Hat’s website, although it’s said they remain available for customers with the appropriate access.
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Screenshot of Wikipedia page showing May 13, 2025 as the release date for RHEL 10.
I’ve reached out to both Red Hat and AlmaLinux, but haven’t yet received replies from either. If and when I do, we’ll update the story here.
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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