Red Hat presented the release of the distribution Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2, as well as an update to the previous branch – Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.8. Ready-made installation images are available for registered users of the Red Hat Customer Portal (public iso images CentOS Stream 10, as well as free builds RHEL for developers). The release is designed for x86_64, s390x (IBM System z), ppc64le (POWER9), Aarch64 (ARM64) and RISC-V (preview) architectures. Updates for the RHEL 10.2 release will be generated until May 2032. The RHEL 10 branch will be maintained until 2035 (+ 4 years of extended paid support), RHEL 9 until the end of May 2032, and RHEL 8 until 2029.
RHEL packages are not hosted in a public repository git.centos.org and are provided to the company’s clients only through a closed section of the site, which has a user agreement (EULA) prohibiting the redistribution of data downloaded through the client portal, which creates legal risks when using these packages to create derivative distributions. The RHEL sources remain available in the CentOS Stream repository, but it is not fully synchronized with RHEL and the package versions in it do not always match the packages from RHEL. Rocky Linux, Oracle and SUSE reproduce the sources of the RHEL release rpm