Following last week's release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 stable, the AlmaLinux crew today announced AlmaLinux 9.4.

AlmaLinux 9.4 is out as the newest version of this popular community-driven downstream of RHEL. AlmaLinux 9.4 is derived from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 sources. AlmaLinux/RHEL 9.4 brings Intel Data Streaming Accelerator driver into a fully supported state, Intel SGX is now fully supported, NVMe over TCP being a tech preview feature, Python 3.12 can be optionally installed, and many other upgrades available as well as some new module streams.

With AlmaLinux 9.4, they have [1]restored support for older hardware deprecated by Red Hat with upstream RHEL. With AlmaLinux 9.4 the restored hardware support in this Linux OS includes the following drivers and hardware:

aacraid - Dell PERC2, 2/Si, 3/Si, 3/Di, Adaptec Advanced Raid Products, HP NetRAID-4M, IBM ServeRAID & ICP SCSI

be2iscsi - Emulex OneConnectOpen-iSCSI for BladeEngine 2 and 3 adapters

hpsa - HP Smart Array Controller

lpfc - Emulex LightPulse Fibre Channel SCSI

megaraid_sas - Broadcom MegaRAID SAS

mlx4_core - Mellanox Gen2 and ConnectX-2 adapters

mpt3sas - LSI MPT Fusion SAS 3.0

mptsas - Fusion MPT SAS Host

qla2xxx - QLogic Fibre Channel HBA

qla4xxx - QLogic iSCSI HBA

Downloads and more details on the AlmaLinux 9.4 release via [2]AlmaLinux.org .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/AlmaLinux-9.4-Beta

[2] https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-05-06-announcing-94-stable/