AlmaLinux was released in 2021 in the wake of Red Hat’s announcement that it would discontinue downstream development of CentOS. Like CentOS, AlmaLinux is community-supported and aims for binary compatibility with RHEL.
New versions such as the latest (code-named Seafoam Ocelot) match the release and software versions of RHEL itself. This is done using freely available open source code via the AlmaLinux Build System. This
