RHEL 10 quietly leaks ahead of Red Hat Summit
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2025/05/14/red_hat_enterprise_linux_10/
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It's not official yet, but there are signs that RHEL 10 has quietly landed for some of the IBM subsidiary's paying customers. It doesn't appear on Red Hat's [1]list of RHEL release dates – unless you switch the site language to Japanese, when [2]the page reveals :
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Release
General Offer Date
redhat-release Package errata date*
Kernel version of GA time
RHEL 10.0
2025-05-13
2025-05-13
RHBA-2025:6295 | 6.12.0-55.9.1.el10_0
That same page lists the codename for this release as Coughlan . A [3]thread on Reddit suggests that this info was briefly visible on the English version of the page before vanishing. Further down the thread, users mention a [4]download link , but as the Reg FOSS desk lacks the necessary subscription, we've been unable to verify access ourselves.
On Monday, the [5]Red Hat Summit 2025 will kick off in Boston, Massachusetts. We would not be shocked if there were a significant announcement on the RHEL 10 release at the event, and general availability followed immediately afterwards.
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Regular readers of The Register will have some idea what to expect anyway. We [7]discussed the beta version and some RHELatives at the end of 2024. Coughlan drops several features we flagged as endangered back in 2023: [8]no LibreOffice suite , for example, and [9]no X.org server either. It's GNOME on Wayland only now - like it or not.
[10]Wayland takes the wheel as Red Hat bids farewell to X.org
[11]'Tis the season to test the RHEL and AlmaLinux 10 betas
[12]Red Hat Enterprise Linux and AlmaLinux 8.10 released as end of the RHEL 8 line looms
[13]Axiom Space and Red Hat to take edge computing into orbit
As we reported at the time, 32-bit x86 support is gone entirely - not just the kernel, but the libraries too. RHEL 10 also moves the baseline system requirements to x86-64-v3, meaning [14]Intel Haswell or newer or [15]AMD Excavator and later . Your x86 boxes will need [16]Intel AVX2 , plus Fused Multiply-Add and a few other modern CPU extensions that [17]Red Hat described in January 2024 .
Red Hat did not immediately respond to our request for comment on the leak.
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AlmaLinux 10 has already been in beta testing for nearly six months, and Rocky Linux 10 is [19]expected to land by the end of May . Meanwhile, Oracle Linux 10 is still in [20]Developer Preview . ®
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[1] https://access.redhat.com/articles/3078
[2] https://archive.ph/OzeEL
[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/redhat/comments/1klnpce/red_hat_enterprise_linux_release_dates_rhel_10_is/
[4] https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/479/ver=/rhel---10/10.0/x86_64/product-software
[5] https://www.redhat.com/en/summit
[6] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_software/oses&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=2&c=2aCUShQsD13qlhmT_QvlojQAAABg&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0
[7] https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/13/rhel_almalinux_betas/
[8] https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/07/red_hat_drops_libreoffice/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/29/rhel_10_dropping_x11/
[10] https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/29/rhel_10_dropping_x11/
[11] https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/13/rhel_almalinux_betas/
[12] https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/29/rhel_and_alma_8_10/
[13] https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/07/axiom_space_and_red_hat/
[14] https://www.theregister.com/2013/06/03/feature_inside_haswell_intel_4g_core/
[15] https://www.theregister.com/2015/02/24/amd_carrizo/
[16] https://edc.intel.com/content/www/us/en/design/ipla/software-development-platforms/client/platforms/alder-lake-desktop/12th-generation-intel-core-processors-datasheet-volume-1-of-2/009/intel-advanced-vector-extensions-2-intel-avx2/
[17] https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/01/02/exploring-x86-64-v3-red-hat-enterprise-linux-10
[18] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_software/oses&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44aCUShQsD13qlhmT_QvlojQAAABg&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[19] https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/when-does-rockylinux-10-release/15314
[20] https://docs.oracle.com/en/operating-systems/oracle-linux/10/
[21] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
You don't seem to need to do anything special to see if from my login. I get in to redhat.com and go to the download link then to "All downloads" and it shows me all the links to download 10.0 isos, 4 of them, boot, binary, realtime and virtio-win isos plus 2 image files for KVM and WSL2. This is from a free developer subscription renewed about a week ago.
Direct download https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/479/ver=/rhel---10/10.0/x86_64/product-software will require a RH account.
Downloading now: that means that Red Hat support for machines running 8 will be slightly less priority. I seem to recall that Red Hat will normally actively support the current version and the immediate prior version. Will need to advise work tomorrow :)
if you ask for support from Red Hat, they will normally ask you to demonstrate any problem on the latest supported version. Your licence will apply to any Red Hat version so that's OK.
RHEL 8 will be supported well into 2029 - what's the rush? Other than the fact that 10 will be much better, of course!
Kernel goodness
Oooh, are they actually aligning with the rest of the universe and using an LTS kernel, this time around? If this kernel is based on the real upstream v6.12, that appears to signify a change in policy. Or is it actually 6.12 with half of 6.13 grafted in and vast stack of other random patches on top? Anyway, looking forward to Rocky 10 for work purposes, and about to give Fedora 42 a proper work-out for non-work purposes, as it were...
Download link indeed works for me via my account, and all the usual isos are available for RHEL 10 so far as I can see. If you want it I'd grab the iso now just in case the link goes dead....!