Announcing AlmaLinux 9.3 Stable!

Hello Сommunity. The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is proud to announce the general availability of  AlmaLinux OS 9.3 codenamed “Shamrock Pampas Cat”!

Installation ISOs are available on the mirrors now for all 4 architectures:

• Intel/AMD (x86_64)
• ARM64 (aarch64)
• IBM PowerPC (ppc64le)
• IBM Z (s390x)

Torrents are available as well at:

• Intel/AMD (x86_64)
• ARM64 (aarch64)
• IBM PowerPC (ppc64le)
• IBM Z (s390x)

ISOs, Live Images, Cloud and Containers

AlmaLinux also offers a variety of Cloud, Container and Live Images. The builds for these get kicked off as soon as the public repository is ready. The following images are expected to be available shortly.

We will post a separate “Images Update” announcement soon, to keep the community informed.

• Docker images including Platform and UBIs alternatives. We provide a wide variety of containers for your use. Please see our  Docker Official Image as well as  all AlmaLinux images.

• LXC/LXD

• Live Media for GNOME, GNOME-mini, KDE, XFCE, MATE and more.

• Cloud Images

  • AWS AMIs for x86_64 and Graviton Instances
  • Azure Images for in standard and HPC flavors for x86_64 and aarch64
  • Google Cloud
  • Generic Cloud/Cloud-init for all 4 architectures
  • Open Nebula for all 4 architectures
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for x86_64 and aarch64

• Vagrant Boxes:

  • Libvirt
  • VirtualBox
  • Hyper-V
  • VMWare
  • Parallels

• Raspberry Pi

• Windows Subsystem for Linux

Release Notes and More Information

AlmaLinux 9.3 aims to improve flexibility and reliability, as well as to enhance security across hybrid environments. This release continues simplifying automation and system management. Web console enhancements simplify management tasks. Additionally, users can configure health check actions for Podman containers and vsock devices in virtual machines. Application Streams updates provide developers with flexibility and customization options without affecting the platform’s stability. The 9.3 offers enhanced security and compliance. Additionally, it provides enhanced flexibility, stability, and reliability needed to support hybrid cloud innovation.

You can read more about this release by checking out the  Release Notes.

Join us on Mastodon!

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Pitch In

Join us in the  AlmaLinux Community Chat to get any assistance you need and help others. You can also post a question on our  9.3 Forum, on our AlmaLinux Community on  Reddit or catch us on  Twitter.

Please report any bugs you may see on the  Bug Tracker.

Enjoy the release and have fun!

Announcing AlmaLinux 9.3 Stable!