Rocky Linux 9.2
On May 16, 2023, Rocky Linux 9.2 launched. Please review the specific 9.2 release notes in the official Rocky Linux documentation for more information. These notes contain known bugs and more comprehensive details about changes in this version.
Major updates include:
- centos-release-nfv now provides content built on RHEL 9 buildroots
- Container Universal Base Image rockylinux/rockylinux:9-ubi more closely resembles RHEL UBI images:
- Replaced packages: libcurl -> curl-minimal, libcurl-minimal
- Added packages: gdb-gdbserver, gzip
- Removed packages: binutils, brotli, dmidecode
- network config cleanup added
- Microsoft Azure images are now published in the Shared Galleries
- LVM cloud image variants now remove /etc/lvm/devices/system.devices
Other updates, fixes, and changes can be found in the table below.
| Feature | Description |
| PowerPC (ppc64le) held back | Due to a serious issue with python3.9, the ppc64le architecture is not included in the Rocky Linux 9.2 release |
| DNF metadata transactions | To prevent failed transactions on a ppc64le Rocky 9 system, set the release ver. variable to 9.1 |
| Upgrade from Rocky Linux 9.x | Upgrade to Rocky Linux 9.2 using the command sudo dnf -y upgrade |
| Upgrading with LVM devices | Changes in lvm2 package may result in boot failure upon rebooting after upgrading |
| Cloud and container platform images | Images available for various platforms including Oracle Cloud Platform (OCP), GenericCloud, Amazon AWS (EC2), Container RootFS/OCI, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure |
| centos-release-nfv changes | Now provides content built on RHEL 9 buildroots instead of CentOS Stream 9 for compatibility |
| LVM cloud image variants | All types now remove /etc/lvm/devices/system.devices to resolve issues with PV/VG/LVs upon installation of the images |
| Wayland | Enabled by default for Aspeed GPUs |
| Intel ARC GPUs | Now supported |
| Flatpak bug fixed | Bug that breaks all fonts in Flatpaks (Cantarell) got fixed |
| Wireguard | Now works with SELinux |
| OpenSSL | Rebasing to version 3.0.7 |
| SELinux user-space packages | Updated to version 3.5 |
| Keylime | Rebasing to version 6.5.2 |
| OpenSCAP | Rebasing to version 1.3.7 |
| SCAP Security Guide | Rebasing to version 0.1.66 and adding a new rule for idle session termination |
| Clevis | Now accepts external tokens |
| Rsyslog | TLS-encrypted logging now supports multiple CA files |
| fapolicyd framework | Provides filtering of the RPM database |
| Application Streams | Later versions of nginx 1.22 and PostgreSQL 15 available |
| Python 3.11 and Tomcat 9 | Added |
| Git | Upgraded to version 2.39.1 with commit signing with SSH keys supported |
| Git LFS | Upgraded to version 3.2.0 |