Software Update: AlmaLinux 9.1

Just like Red Hat who released Enterprise Linux version 9.1, CloudLinux also released version 9.1 of AlmaLinux. AlmaLinux, like Rocky Linux, is one of the newcomers to fill the gap left by CentOS. Due to the large number of sponsors, AlmaLinux also seems to be here to stay. The release notes for this release can here are being found; this is the announcement for AlmaLinux version 9.1:

Changelog

• Added a new remote machine attestation tool:
  • Keylime
• Updated packages:
  • SELinux user-space packages to version 3.4
• Added SHA-256 support in the module tool
• libsepol-utils package has new policy utilities
• The system configuration and the clevis-luks-systemd subpackage changes enable the Clevis encryption client to unlock also LUKS-encrypted volumes that mount late in the boot process without using the systemctl enable clevis-luks-askpass.path command during the deployment process.
• Added NetworkManager support for migrating connection profiles from the deprecated ifcfg format to keyfile format.
• NetworkManager indicates that WEP support is not available in AlmaLinux 9.
• The MultiPath TCP (MPTCP) code in the kernel has been updated and upstream Linux 5.19.
• Added a new package:
  • XMLStarlet
• Updated command line tools:
  • opencryptoki to version 3.18.0
  • powerpc-utils to version 1.3.10
  • libvpd to version 2.2.9
  • lsvpd to version 1.7.14
  • ppc64-diag to version 2.7.8
• Updated infrastructure services tools:
  • chrono to version 4.2
  • unbound to version 1.16.2
  • frr to version 8.2.2
• Added new module streams:
  • PHP 8.1
  • Ruby 3.1
  • Node.js 18
• Updated module stream:
  • Apache HTTP Server to version 2.4.53.
• Performance tools and debuggers updates:
  • Fall gravel 3.19
  • System Tap 4.7
  • Dynast 12.1.0
  • elfutils 0.187
• Updated performance monitoring tools:
  • PCP 5.3.7
  • Grafana 7.5.13
• Compiler updates:
  • GCC Toolset 12
  • LLVM Toolset 14.0.6
  • Rust Toolset 1.62
  • Go Toolset 1.18
• Minimal ISO changes:
  • OpenSCAP profiles are available during install (albz#94)
• rsyslog package is now part of Minimal install class (albz#187)
  • kernel-modules-extra package is included to support more hardware

You can reference the upstream RHEL 9.1 release notes for a full list of changes in this release.