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Two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, nicknamed php2shell, were disclosed by PHP today. AlmaLinux 8, 9, and 10 are all affected. We'll release patches for testing today. https://almalinux.org/blog/2026-10-21-php2shell-cve-2026-109618-cve-2026-109619/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

The real superpower of open source in science is the people! @bennyvasquez.bsky.social talks about how shared workarounds and lessons turn one lab’s fix into another lab’s breakthrough: https://allthingsopen.org/articles/why-science-keeps-choosing-open-source via @allthingsopen.bsky.social

When major Linux kernel vulnerabilities are announced, Dr. Owain Kenway of UCL watches our team ship fixes in the open, in real time. That transparency helped make AlmaLinux the choice for a major UCL system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgizIcwTb60 with @bennyvasquez.bsky.social

Your security team wants receipts. AlmaLinux OS has them. 🧾

.@tuxcare.bsky.social contributed free DISA STIG automation for AlmaLinux OS 9 to the ComplianceAsCode project! Learn more: https://almalinux.org/blog/2026-10-26-disa-stig-automation-almalinux-os-9/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Open source works when people show up! 👏 @bennyvasquez.bsky.social and DeShea Witcher discuss how the Promo SIG benefits the broader AlmaLinux community. www.youtube.com/shorts/et9za...

📢 A new Linux kernel vulnerability, tracked as ZDI-CAN-33367, is the same kind of bug as Dirty Frag and Fragnesia. AlmaLinux 8, 9, and 10 are affected. Patched kernels are available for testing! https://almalinux.org/blog/2026-10-23-zdi-can-33367/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

PwnEscape (CVE-2026-99999): a guest VM can attack its host kernel to leak memory, crash it, or gain root. Rated Critical. AlmaLinux 8, 9, and 10 are affected. Patched kernels are available now. almalinux.org/blog/2026-10...

AlmaLinux is bound for Texas LinuxFest! Come find us, and catch Jonathan Wright’s session on DNS: its history, nameservers, TTLs, caching, record types, and email. Learn the backbone you blame every day. https://2026.texaslinuxfest.org/

Thank you to our Gold-level sponsors for backing AlmaLinux OS! Your support keeps the project community-owned, community-governed, and forever free. 🙏

Researcher finds it, kernel devs write an upstream fix, distros pick it up. PwnEscape (CVE-2026-99999) is a KVM guest-to-host escape, and the open source loop is already running on it. Worth a read: www.theregister.com/virtualizati... by @ssharwood.bsky.social via @theregister.com.bsky.social

Evan Keller, Founder at Keller Solutions built a web app that tracks his pilot friends’ planes on a vertical touchscreen at their weekly airport meetup. It runs on AlmaLinux, on a Dell and a Raspberry Pi. Hear how it came together: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqWQ... @bennyvasquez.bsky.social

AlmaLinux has grown a lot, and we want what we build next to be what you actually need. 🐧 What’s working? What’s missing? What’s the ONE thing you’d most like us to do? Take our 5-minute anonymous survey (open until Nov 16)! almalinux.org/blog/2026-10...

Atomic SIG just shipped atomic-ci v13: bootc-base-imagectl rechunking, image-builder ISOs that boot into a live session, and aarch64 ISOs. Atomic Desktop users: first update re-pulls the image, then back to small diffs. almalinux.org/blog/2026-10...

Meet Muuhh Ikeda, one of two newly elected AlmaLinux Board members! See his take on innovation vs. sustainability, his first distro, and a command line editor opinion he considers settled. https://almalinux.org/blog/2026-10-09-2026-election-winners/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Here is Tip 2 for submitting to the SCaLE 24x CFP How to pick a topic: Something you know well just learned, or can bring clarity to others More tips for writing your SCaLE proposal: https://ow.ly/uJJx50ZUTao CFP Deadline November 1: https://ow.ly/qNEj50ZUTal

⚠️ PwnEscape (CVE-2026-99999) is a newly disclosed Linux kernel vulnerability. AlmaLinux 8, 9, and 10 are affected. Patched kernels are available for testing! Read more: https://almalinux.org/blog/2026-10-16-pwnescape-cve-2026-99999/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

The Promo SIG (formerly known as the Marketing SIG) is here to make sure to spread the good word about AlmaLinux! Learn more: almalinux.org/blog/2026-10... @bennyvasquez.bsky.social @tuxcare.bsky.social www.youtube.com/shorts/E0ZPP...

Tristan Théroux has entered the AlmaLinux board member chat! 💬 He has plans for the community, as well as strong opinions about the best distro and command line editor. https://almalinux.org/blog/2026-10-09-2026-election-winners/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

AlmaLinux now certifies software, not just hardware! The rewritten suite finishes most runs in under 10 minutes, and results land in the new public catalog. dnf install alma-certify and tell us your machine works. 👇 almalinux.org/blog/2026-09...

📰 Our October newsletter is here! Read the latest AlmaLinux news and updates ⬇ 👉 Subscribe on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/almalinux-news-october-2026-almalinuxos-fcu2e 👉 Subscribe via email: https://lists.almalinux.org/postorius/lists/newsletters.lists.almalinux.org/

🛣️ AlmaLinux has grown a lot since we started, but we want to make sure that our users and community shape what comes next. Please take 5 minutes to complete our survey! Let us know what's working, what's missing, and what you'd most like to see! 🔗 almalinux.org/blog/2026-10...

The UK is reorganizing regional HPC by architecture instead of subject area. UCL's new machine runs AlmaLinux and goes CPU-first, with high memory bandwidth per core for its materials scientists. Dr. Owain Kenway explains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgizIcwTb60 @bennyvasquez.bsky.social

The Atomic SIG has just released v13 of atomic-ci! This release was about catching up with where bootc is today, and the tooling keeps evolving. Here's what's new and what's next 👇 https://almalinux.org/blog/2026-10-13-atomic-bootc-modernization/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

AlmaLinux is headed to #SC26! Find us at Booth 1704 to talk HPC, long-term stability, and a RHEL-compatible OS that’s community owned and forever free. https://sc26.supercomputing.org/

How to get involved in the Core SIG: join AlmaLinux chat, sit in on the public meetings every other Tuesday, grab an open GitHub issue! Andrew Lukoshko says whatever your background, there’s something for you to do. 👉 https://youtu.be/KyD8o59YsQ4

AlmaLinux is proud to be a Gold Sponsor of @allthingsopen.bsky.social Come meet the community at Booth 79 with @bennyvasquez.bsky.social and Jonathan Wright, and don't miss benny’s two sessions. Bring your questions and ideas! 💡 #AllThingsOpen

Everything in AlmaLinux builds on the Core SIG's work: cloud images, live media, even our own infrastructure. Andrew Lukoshko explains why a solid base system is why people trust AlmaLinux. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyD8o59YsQ4&feature=youtu.be @bennyvasquez.bsky.social

Please welcome Tristan Théroux and Muuhh Ikeda to the AlmaLinux OS Foundation board! 🥳 Meet our two newest board members, elected in our first vote under the new bylaws: https://almalinux.org/blog/2026-10-09-2026-election-winners/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

AlmaLinux 9.9 Beta "Chartreuse Bobcat" is here for x86_64, ARM64, ppc64le, and s390x. GCC Toolset 16, Node.js 26, PHP 8.4, and fapolicyd 2.0 are all in. It's a beta, so keep it off prod. Grab the ISOs and break things for us! 💥 almalinux.org/blog/2026-09...

Happy World Space Week! 🔭 These photos come from @eso.org Very Large Telescope and VLT Survey Telescope. The updated VLT telescopes run on software that runs on AlmaLinux 9, so the stable part of the stack stays on the ground while the cameras look way out.

AlmaLinux is a Gold Sponsor of @allthingsopen.bsky.social! Come find us at Booth 79. @bennyvasquez.bsky.social and Jonathan will be there, and benny has two speaking sessions on the schedule. Stop by and say hi! #AllThingsOpen

AlmaLinux certification just got easier! 🙌 Software is now certifiable, and hardware certs take under 10 minutes: dnf install alma-certify, run it, done. No AlmaLinux install needed, live media works. See the new catalog: almalinux.org/blog/2026-09...

ICYMI: AlmaLinux 10.3 Beta "Mauve Lion" is ready for testing on all six architectures. Do your ModSecurity rules survive CRS 4? How do Podman 6 upgrades go, rootless especially? Tell us on the 10 Beta Forum! 🗣️ almalinux.org/blog/2026-09...

Catch Andrew Lukoshko at Linux Plumbers next week if you want to chat all things AlmaLinux! https://lpc.events/ #LinuxPlumbers

This is it! Last call to vote in the AlmaLinux Board election! Voting closes October 2nd. If you haven't cast your ballot yet, now's the time. Check your email and make your voice heard!

👷 The Core SIG really is foundational to, well, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation! Andrew Lukoshko and @bennyvasquez.bsky.social discuss what the Core SIG does, how the work they do impacts the community, and how new people can get involved: https://youtu.be/KyD8o59YsQ4

Chartreuse Bobcat has entered the chat! AlmaLinux 9.9 Beta is out on all four architectures, with GCC Toolset 16, Node.js 26, PHP 8.4, and fapolicyd jumping to 2.0. Test it, file bugs, tell us what you find: almalinux.org/blog/2026-09...

AlmaLinux is built by the community and sustained by the community! Thank you to our Silver-level sponsors for backing that mission: MEGWARE HawkHost @cern.bsky.social BlackHOST @mattermost.bsky.social Codenotary StorPool @fastly.com AMD Fsas Technologies Taiwan SIE @algolia.bsky.social Arm

Software certification for AlmaLinux is now here, and hardware certification now takes under 10 minutes! Shout-out to our amazing Certification SIG members for all their hard work on this. 🫶 youtu.be/oyEOzjOow44

AlmaLinux is community-owned and community-governed, which means the Board is chosen by you! Voting for this year's election closes October 2nd. If you're part of this community, your voice belongs in this decision. 🗳️

Headed to the Open Source Summit in Prague? Come find @bennyvasquez.bsky.social and Andrew Lukoshko at booth 10 and let's talk Linux! 🐧 https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-europe/register/

AlmaLinux 10.3 Beta "Mauve Lion" is out for all 6 arches, and we need your hands on it. ModSecurity's return and the Podman 6 container overhaul are exactly what real-world testing is for. Download and report back 🫡: almalinux.org/blog/2026-09...

📰 Our September LinkedIn newsletter is here! 👉 Subscribe to our LinkedIn newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/almalinux-news-september-2026-almalinuxos-ht3qe/ 👉 Subscribe to receive our email newsletter: https://lists.almalinux.org/postorius/lists/newsletters.lists.almalinux.org/

🐱 AlmaLinux 9.9 Beta “Chartreuse Bobcat” is now available! fapolicyd reaches 2.0 in this update, and you'll also find new compiler toolsets, new module streams, and improved security. 🔗 https://almalinux.org/blog/2026-09-17-announcing-99-beta/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Ever wanted to help route traffic for millions of users, but also enjoy a good Ansible playbook? Infrastructure SIG has a job for you. Jonathan Wright tells @bennyvasquez.bsky.social exactly where the "easy to get started" code lives. ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn4-...

🗳️ THE VOTES ARE OPEN! AlmaLinux 2026 board elections are officially live. Check your email for your ballot and make your voice heard. Every vote shapes our community's future!

AlmaLinux 10.3 Beta “Mauve Lion” is now available! 🔹 ModSecurity returns 🔹 Podman 6 moves container configuration out of /etc 🔹 New compiler toolsets 🔹 New language runtimes 🔹 Improved security https://almalinux.org/blog/2026-09-10-announcing-103-beta/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

🥁 Drumroll please: We are so excited to announce the 2026 AlmaLinux Board Nominees! Read more about them and stay tuned for upcoming voting information: https://almalinux.org/blog/2026-09-14-2026-election-candidates/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky