Welcome to the Circle Linux. We are excited to announce the general availability of the Circle Linux 8.6 for x86_64 , aarch64 and ppc64le architectures. This release is the culmination of months of hard work from every corner of the community.
About a few days ago, the upstream updated the version 8.6. Community developers worked tirelessly on continuous 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.
To download the release of Circle Linux, visit https://www.cclinux.org/download.
We now support PowerPC CPU and Test it on Inspur powersystem machine.
In Circle Linux 8.6, SELinux, the fapolicyd framework, and Policy-Based Decryption (PBD) for automated unlocking of LUKS-encrypted drives support the SAP HANA database management system.
Packages for fapolicyd have been upgraded to the upstream version 1.1. Among other improvements, you can now use the new rules.d/ and trust.d/ directories, the fagenrules script, and new options for the fapolicyd-cli command.
OpenSSH servers now support drop-in configuration files.
The pcsc-lite packages have been rebased to upstream version 1.9.5, which provides many enhancements and bug fixes.
You can now verify the versions of installed SELinux policy modules with the newly added --checksum option to the semodule command.
The SCAP Security Guide (SSG) packages have been rebased to upstream version 0.1.60, and the OpenSCAP packages have been rebased to upstream version 1.3.6.
Later versions of the following components are now available as new module streams:
Updated compiler toolsets
The following compiler toolsets have been updated:
Java implementations in Circle Linux 8
The Circle Linux 8 AppStream repository includes:
Java tools
Circle Linux 8.6 introduces a new log4j:2 module, which contains Apache Log4j 2, which is a Java logging utility and a library enabling you to output log statements to a variety of output targets.
The ansible-freeipa roles and modules are now available in the Ansible Automation Hub, which provides fast updates of the ansible-freeipa content.
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.
All Circle Linux 8 sources are hosted at https://git.cclinux.org.
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.
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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