OS Distribution Release Rocky Linux 9.4 (Blue Onyx)

Rocky Linux 9.4 is available as a prebuilt image and netboot install.

This version of Rocky Linux will be supported by Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation until November of 2024.¹

A brief list of changes are below. You can view the release notes and upstream releas notes for all changes.

• Python 3.12
• Ruby 3.3 available as a module stream
• PHP 8.2 available as a module stream
• LLVM 17.0
• GCC 13
• Go 1.21.0
• Rust 1.75.0
• nginx 1.24 available as a module stream
• MariaDB 10.11 available as a module stream
• PostgreSQL 16 available as a module stream

Installation

You can install Rocky 9.4 via the VPS Console using option #9 (install new OS image) and selecting “Rocky Linux 9.4 (Blue Onyx) 64-bit”.

SELinux release 3.6 is enabled. The initial boot after the install will relabel the filesystem, after which the system will reboot in to enforcing mode.

Rocky Linux 9.4 is only available to HVM instances.