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CentOS Alternative Rocky Linux 8.5 Is Out Now with Secure Boot Support, Updated Components
The Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation proudly announced today the general availability of
Rocky Linux 8.5 as yet another free and open-source CentOS alternative based on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux.
Derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5, Rocky Linux 8.5 is here to introduce an important
feature for the mass adoption of this CentOS Linux alternative, namely Secure Boot support.
This is the first release of Rocky Linux to include the official Rocky Linux signed Secure
Boot shim, but users need to validated it to ensure that it’s properly activated.
As such, the developers ask users to run a few commands after installing Rocky Linux
8.5.
sudo dnf install -y keyutils sudo keyctl show %:.platform
sudo mokutil --sb “There was an amazing amount of work and
collaboration that went into this release. The Rocky Release Engineering team went far
and above the call of duty to make 8.5 a reality so quickly,” said developer Gregory Kurtzer.
In addition to Secure Boot support, the Rocky Linux 8.5 release switches to the FastestMirror
DNF plugin for providing users with the fastest mirror during network installation, which
means that there’s no need for a Repository URL when using the Boot-only media.
On top of that, users will now find the Mozilla Thunderbird open-source email client with
PGP support and openldap-servers in the plus repository, as well as a rasperrypi2 kernel
for Raspberry Pi specific AArch64 support in the rockypi repository.
This release also brings new modules, including Ruby 3.0, nginx 1.20, and Node.js 16, as well
as updated components from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 release, including GCC 11, LLVM
12.0.1, Rust 1.54.0, Go 1.16.7, PHP 7.4.19, Squid 4.15, Mutt 2.0.7, OpenJDK 11.0.13 and
8.0.312, and many others.
It also inherits many of the new features and enhancements from RHEL 8.5, such as an
enhanced Cockpit web console, better support for containerized applications, new system
roles, Network Time Security (NTS) support for NTP, and support for OpenJDK 17.
You can download Rocky Linux 8.5 right now from the official website as DVD (Full), Minimal
or Boot ISO images for 64-bit (x86_64) and AArch64 (ARM64) hardware architectures. Existing
Rocky Linux 8.4 users need only to update their installations by running the sudo dnf
-y upgrade command in a terminal emulator.
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Rocky Linux is a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, built from the upstream project's source
code. The Rocky Linux team have launched version 8.5 of their operating system. One of the
major changes in this release is the debut support for Secure Boot. "In less then 48
hours from RHEL-8.5 being released, we had successful tests on our ISOs and just before
we were about to pull the string to go GA with 8.5, Microsoft countersigned our Secure
Boot shim. We quickly deliberated and decided to backtrack and incorporate that into the
8.5 release. There were some things that we had to get in order and resolved, but it is
with great pleasure that this release includes the official Rocky Linux signed shim. Here
is the full thread to the shim review. As with any security related diligence, it is
important to be able to validate the Secure Boot shim is exactly what you expect and that
it is properly activated.
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The 8.5 version of Rocky Linux , a distribution designed to be 100% compatible with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux and managed by CentOS project founder Gregory Kurtzer, has been announced.
The Rocky Linux team stated that they are happy to announce the 8.5 version. One of
the biggest changes in this version is secure boot support, while the secure boot pad is
exactly as expected and properly enabled. Built from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5
source code, the system is the result of the hard work of the community. The system that
comes with Docker Hub 12 includes Amazon web services as well as Google cloud platform.
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