Rocky Linux 9.5 Available Now

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Rocky Linux 9.5 has been released. See our release announcement for more details.

Thank you for supporting Rocky Linux!

Sincerely,
Release Engineering @ The Rocky Linux Project
https://rockylinux.org

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Great, but “release notes” links to an empty page. Is it supposed to send us to the upstream notes?

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FWIW the link works fine for me. Goes to a page which contains the release notes.

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Yes, the link works now. It appears none of the bugs or changes effect my use case, samba and backup server to home network. I’ll be installing when I can sit in front of the server as I don’t use automatic installs or packagekit when a kernel is involved.

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Great news.

I think the rocky9.5 entry is missing in libosinfo/osinfo-db though:

 rocky8               | Rocky Linux 8                                      | 8        | http://rockylinux.org/rocky/8           
 rocky8-unknown       | Rocky Linux 8 Unknown                              | 8-unknown | http://rockylinux.org/rocky/8-unknown   
 rocky8.4             | Rocky Linux 8.4                                    | 8.4      | http://rockylinux.org/rocky/8.4         
 rocky8.5             | Rocky Linux 8.5                                    | 8.5      | http://rockylinux.org/rocky/8.5         
 rocky8.6             | Rocky Linux 8.6                                    | 8.6      | http://rockylinux.org/rocky/8.6         
 rocky9               | Rocky Linux 9                                      | 9        | http://rockylinux.org/rocky/9           
 rocky9-unknown       | Rocky Linux 9 Unknown                              | 9-unknown | http://rockylinux.org/rocky/9-unknown   
 rocky9.0             | Rocky Linux 9.0                                    | 9.0      | http://rockylinux.org/rocky/9.0
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Hi

Is it possible to still upgrade to 9.4 from version 9.1 as my software does not work on 9.5. Wondering if there is an upgrade path to the version before the current or do i have no choice but to upgrade to the latest ?

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This is intentional. See my reply here.

You can use the vault if you absolutely must use an older version. This will require modifying your repo files.

Note that this is not supported as 9.4 is end of life.

Using the vault will require you to modify your repo files. As stated before, using the vault is not supported by the project and the community.

Updating and running on the latest versions available is the only supported path for Rocky Linux.

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Thank you for confirmig what I had suspected - much appreciated

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Virtualbox box for Rocky 9.5 is missing.

The latest box version (4.0.0) links to an external image url, which doesn’t exist anymore because of the Rocky 9.4 move from Index of /pub/ to https://dl.rockylinux.org/vault/:
https://portal.cloud.hashicorp.com/vagrant/discover/rockylinux/9/versions/4.0.0

Does anybody know who is responsible for updating the virtual box boxes?

The way the Rocky box is using the above mentioned linking makes boxes unusable after each Rocky release. I think this should be fixed so you are able to use older Rocky version.

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Success story, Mini PC, Intel N97

Blackview M80 acquired Dec 2024. Ran up Windows,
with Disk Manager shrunk C: now 800Gb free space.
Booted 9.5 Minimal on USB DVD. Installed fine.
Used reFind on a small USB stick to avoid bios hassles.
Leaving intact Windows on the internal disk.

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Good news! but where is build log?