Already available? RHEL 10 can be downloaded before the announcement
So far there has been no official announcement of a new version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. However, customers can already download an image.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is now available in version 10.0. Although no official announcement has yet been made, a corresponding ISO image is already available for download from the customer portal. As the IT magazine Phoronix reports, there have also been several updates to the documentation of the Linux distribution since yesterday, Tuesday. According to the report, this indicates that the release will be announced soon, for example at the upcoming Red Hat Summit, which will take place from May 19 to 22, 2025. For desktop use, RHEL 10 is to receive revised Wayland support and thus finally replace X11.
RHEL web console gets file management
The first innovations were already apparent in the pre-release version of the distribution, including file management for the web console. In addition to viewing files and folders, it can be used to perform the usual tasks such as copying, pasting and deleting. Frequently used directories can also be created as bookmarks and files can be uploaded from the browser to the RHEL system. In addition, RHEL 10 will save disk space in future by no longer automatically downloading the metadata of the file lists when downloading the metadata of a repository. The dnf command is an exception if the metadata is absolutely necessary for execution.
In order to offer several versions of a program in the package sources, a repository used to contain several packages. As with the upstream CentOS Stream 10, RHEL 10 is expected to use non-modular packages instead. Flatpaks are available for desktop programs. However, Firefox will only be installed automatically once the system has been registered and connected to the Internet. The beta version of RHEL 10 also hints at changes to graphical remote access, which will use Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) instead of Virtual Network Computing. There is a similar change to the PipeWire sound server, which replaces PulseAudio.
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Furthermore, an update of the Linux kernel is planned to improve performance and hardware support. The vector instruction set extensions will also be usable, as the system will support microarchitecture level v3 for x64 processors. In addition, newly created user accounts should have admin rights by default if the option is not explicitly deactivated. An overview of all changes is not expected until after the official announcement in the release notes.
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