RED HAT introduced the release of the distribution red hat enterprise linux 10. Ready-made installation images prepared for registered users of the Red Hat Customer Portal (to evaluate functionality, you can use generally accessible ISO images centos stud 10, as well as free assemblies rheel for developers). The release is formed for architectures X86_64, S390X (IBM System Z), PPC64le (Power9) and Aarch64 (ARM64).
The Base of the RHEL 10 branch is involved in the package base of the Centos Stream 10 project, which is positioned as Upstream for Rhel, which makes it possible for third -party participants to control the preparation of packages for RHEL, to offer their changes and influence decisions made. In accordance with the 13-year-old the support cycle the Rhel 10 distribution will be accompanied until 2035 + 3 years of expanded paid support. Updates for Rhel 9 will continue to be produced until the end of May 2032, and Rhel 8 – 2029.
RHEL packages are not posted in the public repository git.centos.org and are provided to the company’s customers only through the closed section of the site on which the user agreement (EULA) prohibiting the redistribution of data, which does not allow these packages to use these packages to create derivatives of distributions. The initial texts of RHEL remain available in the Centos Stream repository, but it is not completely synchronized with RHEL and the versions of packages in it do not always coincide with RHEL packages. Rocky Linux, Oracle and Suse reproduce the initial texts of RPM RHEL release packages as part of the Openla project.
The main changes:
- From the supply is removed by X.org Server and related components. By default, a graphic glass based on the Wayland protocol is involved. The possibility of launching X11 applications in the Wayland session is ensured using the XWayland DDX server (left only a package “Xorg-X11-Server-XWayland”).
- The desktop environment is updated before the GNOME 47 release. In the classic GNOME session, a review mode for viewing open windows has been added, which was previously available only in the standard GNOME session. QT libraries are updated to version 6.7. The QT5 packages are removed from the supply (only QT 6 support was left).
- The supply of RPM packages for Firefox, Gimp, Libreoffice, Inkscape, and Thunderbird was stopped. To install Firefox and Thunderbird, automatic loading and installing packages in Flatpak format is