EuroLinux 8.5 based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 sources has been released.

EuroLinux 8.5 Released

On November 26, 2021, we released version 8.5 of the EuroLinux operating system. It is compatible with the latest upstream release. With this release, we focused on a smooth rebuild of the system both at our site and at organizations compiling their own systems/forks using EuroLinux Gaia system. For the first time we coordinated the system build in several organizations in parallel. The experience we gained will allow us to work even faster in the future.

At the beginning of the release notes we will describe the technical advantages and new capabilities of the EuroLinux ecosystem. Then we will present the roadmap and links to the release notes documents along with the jumpstart documentation. All new features in the release are marked as (New) in the header.

Advantages and technological differentiators of EuroLinux

(New) Universal Migration Scripts

We have released universal migration scripts. They are available at https://github.com/EuroLinux/eurolinux-migration-scripts. What’s important is that these scripts update all packages of the distribution you are migrating from. No packages from the previous vendor remain after migration. This is the implementation of one of the popular requests made by our customers. In addition, the scripts have options that allow you to customize their operation to individual requirements. The migration process is described here.

(New) HA and RS Repositories

EuroLinux 8.5 is the first release that includes High Availability and Resilient Storage repositories from the beginning. They significantly increase the system's capabilities and allow for easier migration, especially from very expensive cluster solutions from other vendors.

(New) Open x86_64 buildroot with HA and RS repositories

We have added HA and RS repositories to our open buildroots. These are available for the x86_64 architecture, as they are not present on other architectures.

Open x86_64 buildroot

To date, none of the distributions derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources (both RHEL itself and those that try to call themselves community-developed systems) have made their buildroot open. This means that those not in the project cannot fully enjoy the privilege of building their own software on a given system. All of these systems provide repositories devoid of many packages. In particular the development packages, which contain (among other things) the headers necessary to develop your own software for Enterprise Linux platforms. EuroLinux is the only one Enterprise operating system vendor that has decided to make full build trees available to the community. These contain all packages produced from source packages contained in the repositories.

NOTE: Packages and repositories that give access to full build trees are not officially supported. For example in the case of perl packages, they are broken by design because it is impossible to simultaneously make all build artifacts available and support 100% modularity.

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