Rocky Linux 10.2 Released with Updated Enterprise Linux Stack
Rocky Linux 10.2 Released with Updated Enterprise Linux Stack
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Publish Date: 2026-05-29 12:57:00
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Powered by Linux kernel 6.12, Rocky Linux 10.2 has been officially released as the latest update in the project’s Enterprise Linux 10 series, following yesterday’s Rocky Linux 9.8 release and the recent RHEL 10.2 update.
Rocky Linux 10.2 expands post-quantum cryptography support in components such as OpenSSH, libssh, Directory Server, p11-kit, and Podman tools. In light of this, OpenSSH now supports ML-KEM hybrid key exchange in FIPS mode, and libssh introduces hybrid post-quantum and traditional key exchange methods combining ML-KEM with ECDH.
This release also updates the FUTURE system-wide cryptographic policy to allow only hybrid ML-KEM key exchange algorithms, removing traditional non-post-quantum methods. The Rocky team cautions that this may disrupt connections to endpoints lacking post-quantum cryptography support, including most public internet services. The default cryptographic policy remains unchanged.
For desktop environments, Rocky Linux 10.2 now delivers Firefox and Thunderbird as Flatpaks by default. When a graphical environment is chosen, the Anaconda installer installs the Flatpak versions automatically. RPM packages remain available in AppStream throughout the Rocky Linux 10 lifecycle, and administrators can override this behavior using Kickstart.
Rocky Linux 10.2
The installer and image creation stack have been updated as well. The default /boot partition size is now 2 GiB, accommodating larger initramfs images. Additionally, a new rdp Kickstart command enables headless graphical installations over RDP.
On top of that, the Image Builder Cockpit application can now create bootable container and disk images. Support for stateless PXE images for HPC and diskless systems is available through the pxe-tar-xz output format.
The software stack has been updated across languages, databases, compilers, and infrastructure services. Rocky Linux 10.2 now includes Node.js 24, PHP 8.4, Ruby 4.0, Python 3.14, OpenJDK 25, Apache…
