We are pleased to announce the availability of Photon OS 4.0 rev 2.

Users can download this release from https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Downloading-Photon-OS in pre-packaged binary formats, including bootable x86_64 and arm64 ISOs, pre-installed minimal OVA customized for a VMware hypervisor environment, Amazon AMI image, Google GCE image, Azure VHD, as well as a Raspberry Pi Image.


Our Special Thanksto the Photon OS open source community for their support and contribution to making this release happen.

Highlights of the Release

  • Support for OpenSSL 3.0
    - OpenSSL 3.0 is now default
  • Introducing pmd-nextgen
     - Cloud-enabled, mobile-ready, lightweight remote management tool.
    - Controls the systemd services and more on Photon OS using REST API.
    - Provides non-intrusive API-based monitoring,
    - Uses REST API for real-time configuration and performance and Linux-based systems' health monitoring
  • Real-Time enhancements
     - Low-latency improvements and OS jitter reduction
    - Stability and debugging enhancements
  • Other Enhancements- Enhancements and bug fixes to tdnf
    - Support of GNU tarfs for Linux-esx kernel
    - eBPF support for Linux Kernel
    - Installer enhancements such as     Secondary Kickstart device support and User-specified media mounting options.
  • Important package updates
     - Linux kernel 5.10.83
    - Glibc 2.32
    - Systemd 247.10,
    - Python3 3.10.0
    - Openjdk : 11.0.9
    - Openssl : 3.0.0
    - Cloud-init: 21.4.

Contribute to Photon OS

The Photon OS project team welcomes contributions from the community! Your comments, suggestions, issue reports, and pull requests help us improve Photon OS's releases!

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