AlmaLinux 10.2 Beta released today as their next AlmaLinux 10 release coming down the pipe and derived from the upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 state. Plus this AlmaLinux release continues adding more changes on their own.

Most notable on the AlmaLinux side with the 10.2 release is bringing [1]i686 user-space packages support . This i686 user-space package support comes even with upstream RHEL 10 not supporting said 32-bit packages. AlmaLinux is providing these 32-bit packages to assist those in needing to still run 32-bit legacy software atop their x86_64 hosts. This new support is just for i686 user-space package support and comes without any i686 ISOs or the like as that is still a no longer supported configuration.

AlmaLinux 10.2 Beta adds Python 3.14, PostgreSQL, Ruby 4.0, PHP 8.4, and other new packages. AlmaLinux 10.2 Beta is also patched against the recent Copy Fail vulnerability.

Downloads and more details on the AlmaLinux 10.2 Beta release can be found via today's announcement on [2]AlmaLinux.org .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/AlmaLinux-Kitten-i686-Userspace

[2] https://almalinux.org/blog/2026-05-04-announcing-102-beta/