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Hey, what are you doing for Memorial Day? Heading out of town? Having a few friends over (that used to be a thing once upon a time)? How about having yourself a good old fashioned installfest? That's right! The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is proud to announce the release of AlmaLinux OS 8.4 Stable. Available now on a mirror near you! Download a fresh copy and then join us to talk about it.
Thanks to the community for the thousands of downloads of AlmaLinux OS 8.3, all your valuable feedback, [bug reports](https://bugs.almalinux.org/) and most of all your [contributions](https://github.com/almalinux). We're proud to announce the availability of [AlmaLinux OS 8.4](https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos/x86_64/8.4html) just one short week following the release of RHEL 8.4*. This is a production ready, stable release and ready to power all your computing needs and workloads.
## Release Notes and More Information
You can read more about it by checking out the [Release Notes](https://wiki.almalinux.org/release-notes/8.4.html). The biggest change you'll notice is that the #1 most requested feature, Secure Boot, is now fully supported in this release. Other changes include [OpenSCAP](https://www.open-scap.org/) support, the release of a devel repo and some new module streams and some compiler updates. You can also find a link to the upstream release notes there, which will provide you with a complete list of changes and updates to this release. Please stay tuned for the ARM beta release coming REALLY SOON.
AlmaLinux is more than just software, there's a whole community of dedicated people making the magic happen. You can help. Join us on our [AlmaLinux Community Chat](https://chat.almalinux.org/), sponsored by our good friends at Mattermost, to get involved, ask for help or just meet fellow community members. Send us your Pull Requests on [GitHub](https://github.com/almalinux). Report any bugs that you might stumble upon on the [Bug Tracker](https://bugs.almalinux.org/). You can also ask a question on our [8.4 Stable Forum](https://forums.almalinux.org/c/devel/8-4-stable/21) or post something on our [AlmaLinux Community on Reddit](https://reddit.com/r/almalinux).
## A Very Special Thank You to Our Sponsors and Supporters.
###### The AlmaLinux OS Foundation would like to thank our gracious sponsors who made this release and every other release possible. You can find a full list of sponsors and supporters on the [AlmaLinux Home Page](https://almalinux.org/). We can all help builder a better world and a better open source ecosystem when we support each other. With every new release comes a rush of traffic as the bits get spread throughout the world to our over [100! mirrors](https://mirrors.almalinux.org/). We'd like especially thank our dear friends at [HiVelocity](https://www.hivelocity.net/) for providing hosting and bandwidth for our primary rsync mirror. Please check them out for all your hosting needs.*Red Hat and RHEL are trademarks or registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Legally, we wanted you to know that.
