AlmaLinux Wiki
# last updated: 2025-02-18

# Amazon Web Services AMIs

# AlmaLinux OS versions 9.5.20241122:

  • Fixes:

  • New packages were added:

    • sos: A set of tools to gather troubleshooting information from a system.
    • tcpdump: A command-line tool for monitoring network traffic.
    • nfs-utils: Built-in capability for mounting Network File System (NFS) filesystems, such as Amazon Elastic File System (EFS).
    • jq: Command-line JSON processor.

The complete list of installed packages starting with this version is available on cloud-images (opens new window) git repository.

# AlmaLinux OS versions 9.3.20240303 and 8.9.20240303:

  • AlmaLinux Amazon Images were switched from Instance Metadata Service Version 1 (IMDSv1) to Instance Metadata Service Version 2 (IMDSv2). The IMDSv2 is beneficial in multiple use cases such as:

    • Misconfigured Open Web Application Firewalls (WAF).
    • Misconfigured Open Reverse Proxies (Apache HTTP Server, Squid etc.).
    • Server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerabilities.
    • Open router.
    • Open Layer 3 Firewall.
    • Virtual private network (VPN).
    • Tunnel.
    • Network address translation (NAT). For more details see article (opens new window) from AWS Security Blog and talk (opens new window) from AWS re:Invent 2019.

  • The size of boot partition (/boot) increased from 512 MiB to 1024 MiB / 1GiB.

  • Add EC2 Instance Connect support - see more.

# Azure

# AlmaLinux OS versions 9.5-202411260:

  • New packages were added:
    • langpacks-en: Adds en_US.UTF-8 setting it as a default locale.
    • sos: A set of tools to gather troubleshooting information from a system.
    • tcpdump: A command-line tool for monitoring network traffic.
    • nfs-utils: Built-in capability for mounting Network File System (NFS) filesystems, such as Azure Files.
    • cifs-utils: Built-in capability for mounting Server Message Block (SMB) filesystems, such as Azure Files.
    • jq: Command-line JSON processor.
    • rsync: For synchronizing files over a network.

The complete list of installed packages for this version is available on cloud-images (opens new window) git repository.

# Generic Cloud

# AlmaLinux OS versions 9.5-20241120 with Cloud-init (OpenStack compatible)

  • New packages were added:
    • langpacks-en: Adds en_US.UTF-8 setting it as a default locale.

The complete list of installed packages starting with this version is available on cloud-images (opens new window) git repository.

# AlmaLinux OS versions 9.4-20240507 and 8.10-20240530 with Cloud-init (OpenStack compatible)

Impacted architectures: x86_64, AArch64, ppc64le, s390x

The size of boot partition (/boot) increased from 512 MiB to 1024 MiB / 1GiB. This means that three and more kernels can be installed and enables larger initramfs (initial ram file system) and kernel related development.

# AlmaLinux OS version 8.9-20231128

Impacted architecture: x86_64

AlmaLinux Generic Cloud images have now unified - BIOS and UEFI - boot support. The download URLs of the UEFI images are symlinked to the current image for compatibility: $MIRROR/almalinux/8/cloud/x86_64/images/AlmaLinux-8-GenericCloud-UEFI-latest.x86_64.qcow2.

# OpenNebula

# AlmaLinux OS versions 9.5-20241120

  • New packages were added:
    • langpacks-en: Adds en_US.UTF-8 setting it as a default locale.

# AlmaLinux OS version 8.10-20240530

Impacted architecture: x86_64

AlmaLinux OpenNebula images have now unified - BIOS and UEFI - boot support. The download URLs of the UEFI images are symlinked to the current image for compatibility.

# Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

# AlmaLinux OS versions 9.5-20250205 and 8.10-20250215

  • Enhancements:

  • New packages were added:

    • jq: Command-line JSON processor.
    • nvme-cli: NVMe management command line interface.

  • Some packages were removed to optimize package selection:

    • firewalld: Do not install firewall to avoid a conflict between the rules of the firewall inside the and Security lists or Network security groups (NSGs).
    • cockpit-system: Cockpit admin interface package for configuring and troubleshooting a system.
    • cockpit-ws: Cockpit Web Service.
    • dnf-utils: Yum-utils CLI compatibility layer.
    • gdisk: An fdisk-like partitioning tool for GPT disks.

Impacted architecture: AArch64

Use ttyAMA0 as a serial port on AArch64 according to the OCI documentation (opens new window).

# AlmaLinux OS versions 9.5-20250205

  • Fixes:

    • The OCI-specific kernel command-line parameters are ineffective, resulting in a broken boot process on bare metal instances that use iSCSI disks.

  • New packages were added:

    • langpacks-en: Adds en_US.UTF-8 setting it as a default locale.

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