Almalinux Support?

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Any news on when Almalinux will be supported or at least starting beta testing?
Looks like its been in development for some time now
Thank you Kindly

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Hello–

Active development is ongoing for AlmaLinux 8 support, but it is not yet in the beta stage. Our parent company asked that we work on AlmaLinux 9 support, concurrently, which slowed down development a bit while those logistics were worked out. Unfortunately, I do not have an ETA as to when it will be ready and in beta. We are hoping by the end of the year.

Thanks
-Jenna

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sounds like that’s going to be in development for some time yet.

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Hello–

It has been. For better or worse, we are beholden to a parent company, and there has been some back and forth with what OS/version they want us to be supporting, which kept putting periodic halts on progress (and is why we are now working on Alma 9 support concurrently with Alma 8). I know it has been on our roadmap for a quite a while, and we are sorry about the delays.

Thanks,
-Jenna

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Hi folks,

What is the latest with this?

Obviously CentOS 7 full updates have stopped now, but the end date for even maintenance updates is less than 18 months away too!

I suspect many here would now prefer to migrate directly to Alma/RHEL 9 now, especially with the major bump in kernel versioning.

Thanks,

Jon

Thanks,

Jon

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Hello–

Alma and Rocky Linux 8 support is ending internal beta testing and will be released, soon. There will be an announcement here, on the blog, and on Facebook, as well as in the changelog when that occurs.

Alma and Rocky 9 support is in active development (one of the delays for 8 was that our parent company wanted us to focus on 9 at the same time).

Thanks,
-Jenna

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Thanks for the update Jenna!

Does this mean that 9 is not far behind, since the development was largely parallel? Or is there more to it than that?

Will RHEL still be supported, or is it just Rocky/Alma from now on?

Sorry for all the quesitons! :slight_smile:

Thanks,

Jon

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Hello–

I can’t really give any kind of relative ETA for 9 support. I know it should not take as long as 8, at least not development-wise, since a lot of the groundwork was already done, but, again, we’re beholden to a parent company, who has had us changed our focus more than once (one of the reasons 8 has taken so long). I am not really able to predict what may occur, there. I believe that the roadmap goal is by the end of the year, but there are a lot of external factors that may change that. (We’re also a super small team–there are only 7 of us, total, including myself, so that does affect the speed of some larger changes/features like this).

RHEL will still be supported. CentOS will not. CloudLinux is still being tested, so that is still a bit up in the air–it will be supported, but it may not be immediately at launch.

Thanks
-Jenna

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cannot wait for Alma support to be released and get my server fully up to date, thank you for the update.

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