RHEL 10 quietly leaks ahead of Red Hat Summit

Red Hat appears to have quietly made RHEL 10 available to paying customers, days ahead of its expected debut at next week's Red Hat Summit.

It's not official yet, but there are signs that RHEL 10 has quietly landed for some of the IBM subsidiary's paying customers. It doesn't appear on Red Hat's list of RHEL release dates - unless you switch the site language to Japanese, when the page reveals:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

That same page lists the codename for this release as Coughlan. A thread on Reddit suggests that this info was briefly visible on the English version of the page before vanishing. Further down the thread, users mention a download link, but as the Reg FOSS desk lacks the necessary subscription, we've been unable to verify access ourselves.

On Monday, the Red Hat Summit 2025 will kick off in Boston, Massachusetts. We would not be shocked if there were a significant announcement on the RHEL 10 release at the event, and general availability followed immediately afterwards.

Regular readers of The Register will have some idea what to expect anyway. We discussed the beta version and some RHELatives at the end of 2024. Coughlan drops several features we flagged as endangered back in 2023: no LibreOffice suite, for example, and no X.org server either. It's GNOME on Wayland only now - like it or not.

As we reported at the time, 32-bit x86 support is gone entirely - not just the kernel, but the libraries too. RHEL 10 also moves the baseline system requirements to x86-64-v3, meaning Intel Haswell or newer or AMD Excavator and later. Your x86 boxes will need Intel AVX2, plus Fused Multiply-Add and a few other modern CPU extensions that Red Hat described in January 2024.

Red Hat did not immediately respond to our request for comment on the leak.

AlmaLinux 10 has already been in beta testing for nearly six months, and Rocky Linux 10 is expected to land by the end of May. Meanwhile, Oracle Linux 10 is still in Developer Preview. ®