| Introduction | RHEL clone Rocky Linux 9.3 was released today as Red Hat< a i=4>Enterprise Linux distribution CentOS Free alternative to Stream and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, now available for download. |
Rocky Linux 9.3 was released 6 months after Rocky Linux 9.2. It brought back cloud images and container images for the PowerPC 64-bit Little Endian (ppc64le) architecture, which were missing from Rockly Linux 9.2 due to QEMU issues. Mirror. However, developers say these images may lack some features compared to other architecture-enabled images.
This release also introduces a new kernel-uki package that provides users with a Unified Kernel Image (UKI) variant for booting Rocky Linux. This feature is considered experimental in this release and UKI images are signed with their own SecureBoot key.
In addition to this, Rocky Linux 9.3 merges the kernel-rt package into a sub-package of the kernel package and introduces new versions of Java through the java-21-openjdk package. It also updates AMI images for AWS EC2 AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures to support UEFI boot in addition to traditional BIOS boot.
In terms of security, Rocky Linux 9.3 improves support for the Extended Master Ciphertext (EMS) extension (RFC 7627) for all TLS 1.2 connections required by the FIPS-140-3 standard, further integrating OpenSSH removed the less secure SHA-1 message digest and updated the SCAP security guide to version 0.1.69.
4.57、Grafana 9.2.10、PCP 6.0.5、Valgrind 3.21、SystemTap 4.9、elfutils 0.189、OpenSCAP 1.3.8、SETools 4.4.3、Keylime 7.3.0 和 pcsc-lite-ccid 1.5.2。
For more details, check out the release notes.
Rocky Linux 9.3 is now available for download from the official website and supports x86_64 (64-bit), AArch64 (ARM64), PPC64le (PowerPC 64-bit Little Endian) and s390x (IBM System z) architectures. Live images including GNOME, KDE Plasma, Xfce and MATE desktops, as well as cloud and container images are also available for download.