Introducing CloudLinux OS 10.1 Stable Release

CloudLinux OS 10.1 offers a conversion-based installation approach. You can covnert an existing AlmaLinux 10.1 server to CloudLinux OS 10.1 using the cldeploy script. Please refer to the documentation for details.

Note: ISO images are no longer provided for CloudLinux OS 10 and above. The primary method for CloudLinux OS 10.1 installation is converting an existing AlmaLinux 10 server using the cldeploy script.

How to Upgrade

To upgrade to CloudLinux OS 10.1, use the standard dnf update command:

# dnf clean all && dnf update

Architectural and Delivery Updates

CloudLinux OS 10.1 introduces significant architectural changes:

• Conversion-based installation: The sole installation path is now a conversion from an existing AlmaLinux server (no ISO images available)
• Release scheme: CloudLinux OS 10 has the common AlmaLinux release scheme, with synchronized minor versions
• System identification: The /etc/os-release file will identify the operating system as AlmaLinux after conversion. Use cldetect and cldiag scripts to detect CloudLinux OS installation
• MySQL/MariaDB separation: Clean separation between upstream-provided mariadb/mysql and CloudLinux-provided cl-MySQL and cl-MariaDB

For more detailed information about these architectural changes, please refer to the CloudLinux OS 10 announcement article.

Changelog

• Kernel and kernel module
• — Distributed Kernel Version: 6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1
• — Distributed Kernel Module: lve-kmod-2.1-54.el10
• Compiler updates:
• — GCC 14.3.1
• — GCC Toolset 15 GCC 15.1 Binutils 2.44 Note that Annobin_ and dwz are not provided in GCC Toolset starting with version 15._
• — GCC 15.1
• — Binutils 2.44
• — Note that Annobin_ and dwz are not provided in GCC Toolset starting with version 15._
• — Go Toolset 1.24
• — LLVM Toolset 20.1.8
• — Rust Toolset 1.88.0
• — glibc 2.39
• — Annobin 12.99
• — binutils 2.41
• Performance tools and debuggers:
• — GDB 16.3
• — Valgrind 3.25.1
• — Bpftrace 0.23.5
• — rsyslog 8.2506.0
• — SystemTap 5.3
• — Dyninst 13.0.0
• — elfutils 0.193
• — libabigail 2.8
• Performance monitoring tools:
• — PCP 6.3.7
• — Grafana 10.2.6
• Security updates:
• — The system-wide cryptographic policies enable post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms in all policies by default.
• — OpenSSL 3.5 introduces support for the ML-KEM, ML-DSA, and SLH-DSA post-quantum algorithms and adds the hybrid ML-KEM algorithms to the default TLS group list.
• — This release introduces support for RPMv6 signatures. This new format enables multiple signatures in an RPM package. You can use Sequoia PGP tools to sign RPM packages with PQC algorithms and create or verify OpenPGPv6 signatures.
• — SELinux-policy 42.1.7
• — SSSD 2.11.1
• Networking tools:
• — NetworkManager 1.54.0
• — iproute 6.14.0
• — ethtool 6.15
• Containers & virtualization:
• — podman 5.6.0
• — buildah 1.41.4
• — Libvirt 11.5.0
• — QEMU-KVM 10.0.0
• Application Streams:
• — Node.js 24
• Web servers:
• — Apache HTTP Server 2.4.63
• Other updated components:
• — Python 3.12.11
• — Samba 4.22.4
• — Mesa 25.0.7

Information about Support for New Hardware Devices added in this release can be found in the Extended Hardware Support device list.

As we aim to maintain compatibility with AlmaLinux, you can reference the AlmaLinux 10.1 release notes for additional details about this release.