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Current Release 10.2

Rocky Linux 10.2

Rocky Linux 10.2 (RL 10.2) is the latest minor release of Rocky Linux's enterprise operating system. Listed in this document are the most notable changes between 10.1 and 10.2. If something is not listed, it probably means it has changed little since 10.1. If you are migrating to Rocky Linux 10 for the first time, you might want to review the release notes for 10.0 and 10.1 as well. Some critical notes remain from these previous versions.

Upgrading to Rocky Linux 10.2

To upgrade from any version of RL 10 to 10.2, simply run dnf -y upgrade.

Rocky Linux does not support upgrades to any major release. To move from 8.x or 9.x to Rocky Linux 10.x, perform a fresh install of the operating system and restore data from a backup.

New Features and Changes

The following sections describe selected features of RL 10.2.

As with all Rocky Linux releases, this release note covers numerous enhancements, changes, and new features.

For a complete list of major changes, see the upstream listing here.

Supported Architectures

Please check CPU Compatibility

On the x86_64 processor architecture, RL 10 no longer supports hardware at the x86-64-v2 microarchitecture level and earlier, and makes the x86-64-v3 microarchitecture level the baseline for distribution. To test your CPU's microarchitecture compatibility, use this procedure.

Infrastructure services

  • PostgreSQL 18 packages are now available.
  • MariaDB 11.8 packages are now available.
  • PHP 8.4 availability.
  • chrony packages updated to 4.8.
  • frr packages updated to 10.4.1.

Kernel

  • extends kernel observability with additional perf features and new Intel core, unicore, c-state, and package performance events.
  • more closely aligned perf and BPF tooling with upstream, including updating perf to the upstream version and enabling debuginfod support.
  • expands uncore and core performance counters for newer Intel platforms and adds AMD IBS load-latency filtering, improving CPU and memory analysis.
  • adds or updates drivers and device IDs for Intel EDAC, Intel QAT, and Intel/AMD accelerator and crypto devices, improving hardware coverage.
  • extends rtla threshold overflow actions, adds cpupower Python bindings, and updates rteval, improving realtime analysis and tuning.
  • updates kernel debugging and crash analysis by rebasing crash and enhancing LUKS-aware kdump handling in both the kernel and kdump utilities.

Security Features

  • keylime-agent rebased to 0.2.9
  • fapolicyd packages rebased to 1.4.3 with rule filtering ability
  • clevis-pin-trustee package provides a new Clevis pin trustee, enabling automated encryption and decryption of LUKS-encrypted volumes by using remote attestation through the Trustee Key Broker Service (KBS).
  • capnproto a new package that provides a high-performance data interchange and remote procedure call (RPC) system, using zero-copy serialization to eliminate overhead of traditional encoding and decoding.
  • openssh package introduces Module-Lattice-Based Key-Encapsulation Mechanism (ML-KEM) post-quantum (PQ) key exchange combined with elliptic curves standardized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in FIPS mode.
  • libssh introduces support for post-quantum traditional (PQ/T) hybrid key exchange methods based on the quantum-resistant ML-KEM standard and traditional Elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) key exchange schemes.
  • p11-kit packages upgraded to upstream version 0.26.1 delivering support for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) definitions in PKCS #11 headers.
  • podman-sequoia library supports composite post-quantum signatures.

Compilers and development tools

System toolchain

Rocky Linux 10.2 includes the following system toolchain components:

  • Annobin 13.02

Compiler toolsets

  • GCC Toolset 15, including:

    • GCC 15.2
    • Binutils 2.44

  • LLVM Toolset 21.1.8

  • Rust Toolset 1.92.0
  • Go Toolset 1.26.0

Performance tools and debuggers

  • GDB 16.3
  • SystemTap 5.4
  • elfutils 0.194
  • libabigail 2.9

Other notable changes

The FreeIPA project is working on a new user interface based on Cockpit. Portions of this are included in this release. (accessible at /ipa/modern-ui)

Known Issues

Since 10.2 now includes two versions of PHP (8.3 and 8.4), just adding a dependency can cause problems. Ensure when installing PHP dependencies that the dependency matches your installed version. As an example, if you are installing php-json, do a dnf provides php-json and then based on the response, install the package that is correct for your installed version of PHP.

There are known issues reported in the upstream here.

Deprecated Software

Some Application Streams, which are part of the Rocky Linux 10.2 repositories, will not receive any further updates. This is a regular occurrence that happens with nearly every release. Please make sure that you are using the latest supported version of the software.

Participating and reporting bugs

Please report any bugs you encounter to the Rocky Linux Bug Tracker. We also welcome you to join our community in any way you want, be it on our Forums, Mattermost, IRC on Libera.Chat, Reddit, Mailing Lists, or any other way you want to participate!