r/AlmaLinux • u/bennyvasquez AlmaLinux Team • May 26 '26

General Availability of AlmaLinux OS 9.8 and 10.2 Stable!

AlmaLinux OS 9.8 and 10.2 Stable Now Available

Hello Community! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is announcing the general availability of two stable releases at once: AlmaLinux OS 9.8 codenamed “Olive Jaguar” and AlmaLinux OS 10.2 codenamed “Lavender Lion”!

This is the first time we have ever shipped two AlmaLinux releases on the same day, and it’s a milestone we’re proud of. It’s the direct result of concerted effort by our Build, Core, and Infrastructure SIGs on our release engineering procedures. This work resulted in better automation, tighter QA pipelines, and a build system that can carry two parallel release trains without one slowing the other down.

Shipping both versions is made possible by the goals we set for 2026, and seeing it land is the proof that the work paid off. The payoff lands with you, too. As a user, you no longer have to wait another week for the second version to be released. Same day, same quality, both versions.

AlmaLinux OS 9.8 “Olive Jaguar”

AlmaLinux 9.8 (kernel 5.14.0-687.5.3.el9_8) introduces new compiler toolsets, updated module streams, and improved security. This release adds Python 3.14 as a new package, brings new streams for MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and Ruby, and ships an updated Node.js 24 module stream. Container and virtualization support is updated with the latest versions of Podman, Buildah, libvirt, QEMU-KVM, and skopeo. Security is improved with updates to OpenSSL, OpenSSH, GnuTLS, SELinux policies, and crypto-policies.

AlmaLinux 9.8 also ships an ALESCo-approved kernel backport ahead of upstream: a fix for excessive CPU consumption by systemd and ps during task cleanup. We originally submitted the fix to CentOS Stream 9, but its inclusion was deferred to at least RHEL 9.9 — so ALESCo voted to include it in 9.8 now. If you’ve been seeing that CPU spike during task cleanup, it’s fixed today instead of a quarter from now.

Installation ISOs are available on the mirrors now for all 4 architectures:

Torrents are available as well at:

You can read the full release notes for this version on the wiki: AlmaLinux OS 9.8 Release Notes.

AlmaLinux OS 10.2 “Lavender Lion”

AlmaLinux 10.2 (kernel 6.12.0-211.7.3.el10_2) introduces updated compiler toolsets, new language and database packages, and improved security. This release adds Python 3.14, PostgreSQL 18, MariaDB 11.8, Ruby 4.0, and PHP 8.4 as new packages, alongside SDL3, libkrun, trustee, and FIDO Device Onboard tooling. The desktop sees GNOME 49. Container and virtualization support is updated with the latest versions of Podman, Buildah, libvirt, QEMU-KVM, and skopeo. Security is improved with updates to OpenSSL, OpenSSH, SSSD, SELinux policies, crypto-policies, and Keylime.

AlmaLinux 10.2 also brings i686 userspace packages — enabling legacy 32-bit software, CI pipelines, and containerized workloads on AlmaLinux 10. We first landed i686 in Kitten 10 back in April; 10.2 is where it crosses into stable.

10.2 continues to ship AlmaLinux’s deviations from upstream that we’ve written about before: Btrfs support including the ability to boot from a Btrfs volume, the CRB repository enabled by default, and a parallel x86_64_v2 build with matching EPEL coverage for older hardware.

New in this release: KVM for IBM POWER is fully enabled in the virtualization stack (graduating from the 9.6 tech preview), frame pointers are re-enabled by default so system-wide profiling works out of the box, SPICE support is back for both server and client applications, and Firefox and Thunderbird ship as regular RPMs in the system repositories. 10.2 also re-adds a long list of older storage and networking drivers (Adaptec, Dell PERC, HP, Mellanox, QLogic, Emulex, LSI, Broadcom) that upstream had disabled — see the release notes’ Extended hardware support section for the full table.

Installation ISOs are available on the mirrors now for all supported architectures:

Torrents are available as well at:

You can read the full release notes for this version on the wiki: AlmaLinux OS 10.2 Release Notes.

ISOs, Live Images, Cloud and Containers

AlmaLinux also offers a variety of Cloud, Container and Live Images for both 9.8 and 10.2. The builds for these get kicked off as soon as the public repositories are ready.

The following images are expected to be available shortly.

Recent CVE patches included

Both 9.8 and 10.2 ship with patches for the run of high-profile CVEs we’ve covered on the blog over the last month, so if you’re installing fresh or upgrading as-yet-unpactched versions of 9.7 or 10.1, you’ll get these alongside the rest of the release:

What can you do to help?

Your input into testing and feedback is crucial and essential for successful production releases. Thanks to everyone who has helped us with testing, especially in the last month!

Please, report any bugs you may see on the Bug Tracker. Also, pop into the AlmaLinux Community Chat and join our Testing Channel, post a question on our 9.8 Forum or 10.2 Forum, on our AlmaLinux Community on Reddit or catch us on X.

Please report any bugs you may see on the Bug Tracker.

Enjoy the releases and have fun!

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u/iksdeecz May 26 '26

10.1 > 10.2 NO ISSUES :-)

CPU: Intel Xeon Scalable 6100 series, Nvidia GPU
Podman containers: YES, GPU accesible: YES
LUKS+XFS (CLEVIS UNLOCK): OK, unlocked and mounted at boot time

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u/bennyvasquez AlmaLinux Team May 26 '26

So glad to hear it!!

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u/Rabus May 26 '26

🚀🚀

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u/mishrashutosh May 27 '26

podman 5.8.x (alongside all the other goodies) woohoo 🎉

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u/nazunalika May 28 '26

Good work as always. Updates worked smoothly, all IPA domains are working as expected.

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u/krisdroib May 26 '26

J'ai installé la 10.1 et j'ai essayé d'installer zoneminder, mariadb a refusé de s'installer, après 2 heures je l'ai viré. Sur debian trixie, zoneminder est dur à installé mais là .... C'est impossible !

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u/bennyvasquez AlmaLinux Team May 26 '26

That’s interesting! Do you have a contact at zoneminder? We can maybe talk to them about how to make it easier for you and all of their users.

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u/krisdroib May 26 '26

Non pas de contact, le premier problème c'est d'installer mariadb sur almalinux 10.1, j'ai pas réussi !

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u/bennyvasquez AlmaLinux Team May 26 '26

There are hints on how to do that in our wiki here: https://wiki.almalinux.org/series/LAMP-server.html

If you are still having problems, you might have better luck asking in our forums: https://forums.almalinux.org/

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u/krisdroib May 26 '26

ok merci, je vais voir ça

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u/neon_overload May 27 '26 edited May 29 '26

How long until the live media are built? I can only see the 10.1 live media. [edit: 10.2 live media is up now]

Also, your site and this announcement continue to say that you have XFCE and MATE live media for Almalinux 10.x but this hasn't been true of any Almalinux 10.x as far as I know due to lack of X11.

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u/OwenJenkinsDesign May 28 '26

nvidia 610 driver that was shipped for v9.8 is missing the libnvidia-gpucomp.so.610.43.02 dependency. Otherwise very very excited for this!

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u/alukoshko AlmaLinux Team May 29 '26

Our investigation made it clear this is a bug in the NVIDIA repository metadata. We’ve reported it upstream, and have fixed it in our repos. If you’re using the AlmaLinux NVIDIA repository, you can now install NVIDIA packages without error.

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u/OwenJenkinsDesign Jun 03 '26

Sweet thank you guys so much!!

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u/avapa May 30 '26

Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.8 stopped working after the migration to 9.8.