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Rocky Linux 9.5 and SystemRescue 11.03
Rocky Linux 9.5
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Rocky Linux is a nonprofit, community-based enterprise operating system. The project's website describes it as "100-percent bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux."
Rocky Linux 9.5 is focused mainly on security features and upgrades. Its SELinux policy now allows the Qemu Guest Agent to execute confined commands, while its crypto-policies now control Java's algorithm sections. Rocky Linux's ca-certificates program provides trusted CA roots in the OpenSSL directory format. In addition, both the OpenSSL TLS and the NSS cryptographic toolkits are upgraded.
Other upgrades are included for Apache HTTP Server 2.4.62 and Node.js 22, as well as system toolchain components such as GCC 11.5 and Annobin 12.70; performance tools and debuggers such as GDB 14.2 and Valgrind 3.23.0; monitoring tools including PCP 6.2.2 and Grafana 10.2.6; container management utilities such as Podman 5.0; and compiler toolsets such as GCC 14, LLVM 18.1.8, Rust 1.79.0, and Go 1.22. The addition of the cockpit-file package in the web console results in easier file management and provides basic web-based file navigation and commands.
Among known issues, the release notes mention that the Anaconda installer shows only empty pages when help buttons are clicked.
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