Over on Phoronix, Michael Larabel reported that Red Hat did the unthinkable and made the general availability (GA) release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10.0 available. Version 10 of the enterprise Linux distribution wasn't supposed to hit until the Red Hat Summit, which happens May 19-22 in Boston.

As far as what's new in version 10, you'll find that it's been updated for post-quantum cryptography with system-wide cryptographic policis, OpenSSL, and OpenSSH support; Sequoia PGP tools for managing OpenPGP encryption and signatures; SELinux improvements including CIL output for audit2allow and Wayland support for the SELinux sandbox; enhanced compliance and system roles; an optimized kernel for better scalability, memory management, and performance under heavy workloads; modern hardware support; and more.

The development toolchain includes Python 3.12, Ruby 3.3, Node.js 22, Perl 5.40, PHP 8.3, Git 2.45, Subversion 1.14, GCC 14.2, glibc 2.39, Annobin 12.55, binutils 2.41, Apache 2.4.62, NGINX 1.26, Varnish Cache 7.4, Squid 6.10, MariaDB 10.11, MySQL 8.4, PostgreSQL 16, and Valkey 7.2. 

Of course, you can also expect RHEL to embrace AI. In a recent press release, Joe Fernandes, VP and General Manager, AI Business Unit, Red Hat, had this to say, “Red Hat knows that enterprises will need ways to manage the rising cost of their generative AI deployments, as they bring more use cases to production and run at scale. They also need to address the challenge of integrating AI models with private enterprise data and be able to deploy these models wherever their data may live. Red Hat AI helps enterprises address these challenges by enabling them to leverage more efficient, purpose-built models, trained on their data and enable flexible inference across on-premises, cloud and edge environments.”

You can download RHEL 10 from the official Red Hat download site and read the official release notes (for the beta) here.