Is there going to be a Rocky 9

[whichiso]

With redhat releasing v9 is there any word of a Rocky v9? I used my Red Hat Developer to install it on virtualbox. The first quirk is there are no modules. I just got used to working with modules in v8 and now they seem to be gone.

[tjdoyle]

RHEL 9 Releasing very soon, Rocky 9 beta?

With it getting close to 6 months after the RHEL 9 beta and some talk about it possibly being released in a few weeks during the Redhat Summit [May 10th-11th], Is Rocky Linux going to prepare the infrastructure and a release a beta for Rocky 9 ahead of time? [So it’s a shorter time release between Rocky 9 beta → stable] One of the biggest criteria moving to Rocky Linux is how fast it would update its own packages for security updates and especially major versions. Alma Linux already has a 9 b…

Rocky 9 preparation?

Hi all, I’ve been spammed by redhat now for some time about the rhel9 beta. Yesterday the first beta rhel9 ubi cloud container images were released (7Mb compressed…impressive) Also centos9stream has been available for some time now. Is there any work or preparation being done for Rocky 9 yet ? Would be cool if Rocky 9 would be released really soon after RHEL9 goes gold. Rob Verduijn

[jlehtone]

@whichiso

The first quirk is there are no modules. I just got used to working with modules in v8 and now they seem to be gone.

That is no “quirk”, but “blessing”.

Red Hat made almost everything in RHEL 8 a module, even though there was no real need for those packages to be in modules. Apparently the feedback about modules has been unanimously not a praise; the implementation of dnf module system has issues.

Therefore, RHEL 9 has different packaging policy: make it module, if it has to be a module. Guess what? Nothing in RHEL 9.0 has to be a module. Some module streams are likely to be added in point updates, later.

[iwalker]

Rocky 9 released, available here

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