Hey, Welcome !!!
Welcome to the Circle Linux. We are excited to announce the general availability of the Circle Linux 8.5 for x86_64 and aarch64 architectures. This release is the culmination of months of hard work from every corner of the community.
About 10 days ago, the upstream updated the version 8.5. Community developers worked tirelessly for 10 days of development and brought this release to community users. I am very grateful to all the developers in the community for their hard work.
The Circle Linux distribution is a dependable, smooth and safe platform building from the downstream of upstream vendor (acting as the previous CentOS role). Circle Linux conforms fully with redistribution policy and aims to have full functional compatibility with the upstream product.
Download
To download the release of Circle Linux, visit https://www.cclinux.org/download.
Major Changes
Security
The system-wide cryptographic policies support scopes and wildcards for directives in custom policies. You can now enable different sets of algorithms for different back ends.
The Rsyslog log processing application has been updated to version 8.2102.0-5. This update introduces the OpenSSL network stream driver. This implements TLS-protected transport using the OpenSSL library into Rsyslog.
Networking
NetworkManager now supports configuring a device to accept all traffic.
The firewalld service supports forwarding traffic between different interfaces or sources within a zone, and filtering traffic that is forwarded between zones.
Kernel
The kernel version of Circle Linux 8.5 is 4.18.0-348.
The kdumpctl command now supports the new kdumpctl estimate utility.
The schedutil CPU frequency governor is now available on Circle Linux 8.5.
High Availability and Clusters
Local mode version of pcs cluster setup command is now fully supported.
New pcs command to update SCSI fencing device without causing restart of all other resources.
Dynamic programming languages, web and database servers
Later versions of the following components are now available as new module streams:
- Ruby 3.0
- Nginx 1.20
- Node.js 16
The following components have been upgraded:
- PHP 7.4.19
- Squid 4.15
- Mutt 2.0.7
The following compilers and development tools have been updated:
- GCC Toolset 11
- LLVM Toolset 12.0.1
- Rust Toolset 1.54.0
- Go Toolset 1.16.7
Known Issues
Since Circle Linux is based on RHEL source code, the known issues in RHEL release notes are likely to appear in Circle Linux. We will be updating this section with new items or bugs as they are discovered.
Sources
All Circle Linux 8 sources are hosted at https://git.cclinux.org.
Getting Help
The Circle Linux is sustained by community driven help and guidance. If you are new to Circle Linux, the best place to start is at https://wiki.cclinux.org/en/home.
Thanks
We thank everyone involved for helping us produce this product. Without them working lots and lots of hours in evenings, nights, weekends and holidays, we couldn’t have released this Release in the time we did, and we couldn’t witness the great changes in the community.
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