Current Release 9.8

Release notes for Rocky Linux 9.8¶

Upgrading¶

You can upgrade from Rocky Linux 9.x to Rocky Linux 9.8 by running sudo dnf -y upgrade.

Note

Rocky Linux does not offer an upgrade path from any version of Rocky Linux 8. We recommend that you perform a fresh OS installation to upgrade to Rocky Linux 9.8.

Installing¶

Before installing, ensure compatibility of your CPU with this procedure!.

To install Rocky Linux 9.8, go to the download page and download the version corresponding to your architecture.

Major changes¶

This document highlights major changes between Rocky Linux (RL) 9.7 and RL 9.8. If this is your first time migrating to RL 9, you might want to review the release notes for previous versions to get a feel for all the changes you will encounter.

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

Security¶

Listed below are security-related highlights in the latest RL 9.8:

GnuTLS 3.8.10 providing ML-KEM hybrid key exchange and ML-DSA post-quantum (PQ) algorithms
OpenSSH 9.9 with extensive improvements over OpenSSH 8.7
upgraded p11-kit packages to upstream version 0.26.1, providing support for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) definitions in PKCS #11 headers
clevis-pin-trustee package providing a new Clevis pin trustee that enables automatic encryption and decryption of LUKS-encrypted volumes, by using remote attestation through the Trustee Key Broker Service (KBS)
fapolicydpackages rebased to upstream version 1.4.3, providing filtering rules

Kernel¶

extends kernel observability for additional perf features and new Intel core, uncore, c-state, and package performance events
enables debuginfod support by updating perf to more recent upstream versions, improving alignment with perf and BPF tooling
expands core and uncore performance counters for newer Intel platforms and adds AMD IBS load-latency filtering to improve CPU and memory analysis
improves hardware coverage by adding or updating device drivers and device IDs for Intel EDAC, Intel QAT and Intel/AMD accelerator and crypto devices
updates kernel debugging and crash handling by rebasing crash and enhancing LUKS-aware kdump handling in both the kernel and kdump utilities

Infrastructure services¶

Later versions of the following application streams are now available:

MariaDB 11.8
PostgreSQL 18
Ruby 4.0

Compilers and development tools¶

System toolchain components¶

GCC 11.5
Glibc 2.39
Binutils 2.35.2

Performance tools and debuggers¶

Valgrind 3.26.0
SystemTap 5.4
elfutils 0.194
libabigail 2.9

Performance monitoring¶

PCP 6.37
Grafana 10.2.6

Compiler toolsets¶

GCC Toolset 15 including:
- GCC 15.2
- Binutils 2.44
LLVM Toolset 21.1.8
Rust Toolset 1.92.0
Go Toolset 1.26.2

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¶

As with any release, there are many known issues. Review the upstream listing for the complete details on these issues.

Deprecated Software

Some Application Streams, which are part of the Rocky Linux 9.8 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.

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!