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EuroLinux 8.10 Release Notes

This version’s code name is Bucharest - the capital of Romania, also known as “Paris of the East”.

Major changes in EuroLinux 8.10.

Security

Key security-related highlights:

  • OpenSSL adds API-level protection for RSA PKCS #1 v1.5 decryption process.
  • libkcapi delivers new functions and tools.
  • stunnel provides many new SSL-related features.

Programming languages, web and database servers

Later versions of the following application are now available:

  • MariaDB 10.11
  • nginx 1.24
  • PHP 8.2
  • PostgreSQL 16
  • Python 3.12

The following components have been upgraded:

  • Git LFS to version 3.4.1
  • Git to version 2.43.0

Compilers and development tools

Updated performance tools and debuggers

The following performance tools and debuggers have been updated:

  • elfutils 0.190
  • Valgrind 3.22

Updated compiler toolsets

The following compiler toolsets have been updated:

  • GCC Toolset 13
  • Go Toolset 1.21.0
  • LLVM Toolset 17.0.6
  • Rust Toolset 1.75.0

Java implementations in EuroLinux 8

The EuroLinux 8 AppStream repository includes:

  • The java-21-openjdk packages, which provide the OpenJDK 21 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 21 Java Software Development Kit.
  • The java-11-openjdk packages, which provide the OpenJDK 11 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 11 Java Software Development Kit.
  • The java-17-openjdk packages, which provide the OpenJDK 17 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 17 Java Software Development Kit.
  • The java-1.8.0-openjdk packages, which provide the OpenJDK 8 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 8 Java Software Development Kit.

Batteries repositories

Batteries repository contains packages that are needed to rebuild the distribution but are not included in any upstream repositories. Right now, this repository includes more than 3000 packages for each buildroot.

Known issues

  • The AppStream is is about 15GiB. After long discussion and feedback we decided to keep it RHEL like way, where AppStream ISO is so full because it can be used to mount repositories used for mirroring and system. We are sorry but current state (mostly modularity) make things extremely hard to manage without breaking user experience.
  • Due to evolution of build process update for SCAP Security Guide are delayed now. They are going to be delivered soon.

Gaia build system

We are currently using Gaia 3.0 and preparing 4.0 with branding kit.

Container and cloud images

You can use the following publicly available images for EuroLinux 8:

Additional resources