Rocky Linux 8

Rocky Linux is a powerful, completely free, open-source, and community-driven enterprise operating system. It is engineered to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), ensuring a smooth, reliable, and enterprise-grade environment suitable for mission-critical workloads on Azure.

Built by the community, for the community, Rocky Linux promotes open and transparent development where anyone can contribute. Whether you are a developer, document writer, translator, web developer, infrastructure engineer, security expert, or QA specialist, your contribution can make a real impact.

Rocky Linux 8.10 – What’s New

🔒 Security Enhancements

• SCAP Security Guide 0.1.72
• Updated CIS profiles
• PCI DSS 4.0–aligned profile
• Updated DISA STIG profiles
• libkcapi 1.4.0
• New -T option for specifying target file names in hash-sum calculations
• stunnel 5.7.1 with improved FIPS mode behavior
• Support for modern PostgreSQL clients
• OpenSSL TLS toolkit updates
• API-level protection against Bleichenbacher-style RSA PKCS #1 v1.5 attacks

🌐 Dynamic Languages, Web, and Database Servers

• Python 3.12
• Ruby 3.3
• PHP 8.2
• nginx 1.24
• MariaDB 10.11
• PostgreSQL 16
• Git 2.43.0
• Git LFS 3.4.1

📦 Containers & Tools

• Podman build farm command (Tech Preview) for multi-architecture image creation
• Support for containers.conf modules
• Updated Container Tools package
• Podman v4.9 REST API now shows pull/push progress
• SQLite fully supported as the default Podman DB backend
• Multi-line HereDoc instructions now supported in Containerfile

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