RHEL 9 Releasing very soon, Rocky 9 beta?

We do have testing/release candidate images you are free to test (though they are soon to be outdated and replaced with newer “production” images). Majority of our testing and discussion related is on our mattermost.

The tentative dates for release are between July 7th and the 14th.

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Sure, thank you very much.
Looking forward on release dates.

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http://download.rockylinux.org/stg/rocky/9/isos/x86_64/

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based on @lee link

i guess this could be the release version or at least the one they testing now as there no RC attached to it despite it in the RC2 folder

https://download.rockylinux.org/stg/rocky/9.0-RC2/isos/x86_64/

Yes, what is there will be what ends up being the release version. From a release engineering perspective, we do this on purpose with all of our releases. The release that ends up being final sits in a folder that still has “RCX” in its name despite the images not having RC in their name, on the off chance that something could be wrong even with the stuff we consider “final”. If something came up, you’d probably see an RC3 but we’ve never had that happen so far.

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thanks for clarification and thanks for the whole team for your great work and have a nice day :slight_smile:

Great news, thanks for your help.

So I can use that ISO to install Rocky 9 and it will become final by updates right? Like Fedora does. Official Redhat RCs cannot do this as far as I know, full reinstallation is required from official release ISO.

Rocky 9 now released, available for download here:

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The RC2 is just the GA, You can check the CHECHSUM of their isos.

Awesome, thank you team.

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