Rocky Linux 9.4 Available To Download

Rocky Linux is a community enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It is available for the x86_64 and AArch64 processor architectures.

This release is now available for the x86_64, aarch64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures. Please consult the release notes on the Rocky Linux Documentation for important information, including known issues and detailed changes in this version.

Highlights

Notable New Features and Changes

• Since Rocky Linux 9.3, Azure images are be published under the new publisher name: resf, moving away from the earlier, less intuitive name.
• In addition to the Azure Marketplace, Rocky Linux is available for free on the Azure Community Gallery, providing incredibly easy access to run Rocky on Microsoft Azure. Instructions on how to utilize the Community Gallery images can be found on this news post.

For a thorough list of updates and changes, refer to the Rocky Linux 9.4 Release Notes.

Special Interest Group Notes

• AWS images should now be able to boot in IPv6-only subnets, closing a longstanding bug that the Cloud SIG has worked with upstream to resolve
• Most images are now built with KIWI and our empanadas toolkit, with the exception of a few variants that are still using the old imagefactory method. If you have any trouble, please get in touch. More information is available in the full release notes.

Testing

Each Rocky Linux release undergoes extensive testing for accuracy and stability, incorporating both manual and automated checks across various environments and setups.

Rocky Linux 9.4 has been rigorously tested for a week before getting the final nod. Testing artifacts, discussions, and the release checklist are available here.

We welcome those interested in the release process to connect with the team at chat.rockylinux.org.

Upgrades and Conversions

Existing Rocky Linux 9 users can update to version 9.4 using dnf update through the terminal or via desktop tools like GNOME Software, KDE Discover, etc.

Users from other Enterprise Linux 9 based distributions can transition to Rocky Linux 9.4 using the migrate2rocky script.

See the press release and the detailed release notes for more information.