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Amazon Linux 2023 version 2022.0.20221012 release notes

Note

These release notes are for a version of the Tech Preview of Amazon Linux 2023.

The Generally Available Amazon Linux 2023 is the successor to the Tech Preview releases. See the AL2023 User Guide for information on AL2023 and keeping up to date with Amazon Linux releases.

Major updates

Note

This is an old Tech Preview and should no longer be used.

The release notes are preserved for posterity.

Amazon Linux 2022 includes the following major updates.

  • Starting with AL2023 version 2022.0.20220728, SELinux was switched from an enforcing to a permissive mode by default. You can change SELinux settings to enforced mode via command line by running the setenforce command.

  • The legacy pcre package is deprecated and will be removed in a future Amazon Linux release. The pcre2 package is the successor, and the few remaining packages in Amazon Linux 2022 that depend on the deprecated pcre library will be migrated to pcre2 in future updates.

Known Issues

  • Amazon Linux 2022 contains a known issue where customer defined NTP servers via DHCP are not honored.

    Work-Around - Configure the NTP servers using a config file in /etc/chrony.d

  • Enabling FIPS mode is currently unsupported, and there will be changes to how a FIPS mode enabled system works in upcoming releases.

  • There is a known issue by which enabling FIPS mode with update-crypto-policies —set FIPS will result in a non functional system. This will be addressed in a future release.

Security Updates

Contact us

If you find a security issue, contact our security team rather than opening an issue.

We use GitHub issues to gather feedback about Amazon Linux 2022 and to track bug reports and feature requests. You can look at existing issues to see whether your concern is already known. If it is not, open a new issue.

If you just have questions about Amazon Linux 2022, feel free to start or join a discussion. Feedback on Amazon Linux 2022 can also be provided through your designated Amazon representative.

Major changes since the first Tech Preview release

  • Kernel updated from 5.10 to 5.15

  • OpenSSL updated from 1.1 to 3.0

  • Amazon CLI updated to Amazon CLI v2

  • Amazon Tools found in Amazon Linux 2 have been added to the repositories like ecs-agent, aws-cfn-bootstrap, aws-kinesis-agent, ec2-instance-connect, and other tools.

  • rsyslog is no longer installed by default, and thus the system-journald is the way syslog works, with journalctl as the client that can look at logs.

  • The default curl is part of the curl-minimal package, which supports the most popular protocols. You can switch to the full-featured curl if needed by running dnf install --allowerasing curl-full libcurl-full

  • The default gnupg is a minimal one, which is limited in functionality, but has the minimal code needed to GPG verify RPMs, and brings a minimal number of packages into AMIs and container images. If you need full gnupg functionality, you can get the full gnupg by running dnf install --allowerasing gnupg2-full

  • Curation of packages - As part of the development cycle, we have curated the list of packages available in the repositories. This involved removing a number of packages that were no longer needed due to dependencies. Some package may be re-added to the repository as we work through customer requests.

  • Language run-times were updated and some runtimes like Ruby were name-spaced allowing newer versions to be added in the future without removing the current ones from the repositories.

  • The Java ecosystem is now based on Amazon Corretto 17 rather than OpenJDK 11. Java build tools have been rebuilt to newer versions and run with Amazon Corretto.

Repository

This update to the Amazon Linux 2022 repository and AMI includes the following new packages.

  • amazon-ecr-credential-helper-0:0.6.0-1.amzn2022.src

  • container-selinux-2:2.189.0-287.amzn2022.src

  • dotnet6.0-0:6.0.108-1.amzn2022.0.1.src

  • libpeas-0:1.32.0-1.amzn2022.0.2.src

  • lttng-ust-0:2.13.1-2.amzn2022.0.2.src

The repository includes the following packages that were removed since the last release.

  • apache-commons-daemon-1.2.4-1.amzn2022

  • apache-commons-lang-2.6-33.amzn2022

  • cal10n-0.8.1-14.amzn2022

  • dain-snappy-0.4-12.amzn2022

  • findbugs-3.0.1-25.amzn2022

  • findbugs-bcel-6.0-0.22.20140707svn1547656.amzn2022

  • jakarta-persistence-2.2.3-2.amzn2022

  • jakarta-ws-rs-2.1.6-8.amzn2022

  • jakarta-xml-rpc-1.1.4-2.amzn2022

  • jboss-el-2.2-api-1.0.5-5.amzn2022

  • jboss-jsp-2.2-api-1.0.1-24.amzn2022

  • jboss-modules-1.5.2-13.amzn2022

  • maven-artifact-resolver-1.0-26.amzn2022

  • maven-install-plugin-2.5.2-14.amzn2022

  • objectweb-pom-1.5-14.amzn2022

  • os-maven-plugin-1.6.2-3.amzn2022

  • shrinkwrap-1.2.6-6.amzn2022

  • snappy-java-1.1.2.4-19.amzn2022

  • tomcat-taglibs-standard-1.2.5-13.amzn2022

  • univocity-output-tester-2.1-5.amzn2022

The repository includes the following packages that were updated since the last release.

  • ant-1.10.12-5.amzn2022.0.

  • apache-commons-beanutils-1.9.4-10.amzn2022.0.2

  • apache-commons-cli-1.5.0-3.amzn2022.0.2

  • apache-commons-codec-1.15-6.amzn2022.0.2

  • apache-commons-collections-3.2.2-27.amzn2022.0.2

  • apache-commons-compress-1.21-3.amzn2022.0.2

  • apache-commons-io-2.8.0-7.amzn2022.0.3

  • apache-commons-jxpath-1.3-43.amzn2022.0.2

  • apache-commons-lang3-3.12.0-5.amzn2022.0.2

  • apache-commons-logging-1.2-30.amzn2022.0.2

  • apache-commons-parent-52-6.amzn2022.0.2

  • apache-parent-23-8.amzn2022.0.2

  • apache-resource-bundles-30-5.amzn2022.0.2

  • apiguardian-1.1.2-3.amzn2022.0.2

  • atinject-1.0.5-3.amzn2022.0.2

  • beust-jcommander-1.78-9.amzn2022.0.2

  • byte-buddy-1.12.0-3.amzn2022.0.2

  • cdi-api-2.0.2-5.amzn2022.0.2

  • cglib-3.3.0-7.amzn2022.0.2

  • curl-7.85.0-1.amzn2022.0.1

  • dnf-plugin-release-notification-1.2-1.amzn2022.0.1

  • dracut-config-ec2-3.0-4.amzn2022.0.1

  • easymock-4.2-7.amzn2022.0.2

  • felix-parent-7-8.amzn2022.0.2

  • felix-utils-1.11.6-5.amzn2022.0.2

  • flatpak-builder-1.2.2-1.amzn2022.0.1

  • fusesource-pom-1.12-10.amzn2022.0.2

  • guava-31.0.1-3.amzn2022.0.3

  • httpcomponents-client-4.5.13-4.amzn2022.0.3

  • httpcomponents-core-4.4.13-6.amzn2022.0.2

  • httpcomponents-project-12-6.amzn2022.0.2

  • jakarta-annotations-1.3.5-13.amzn2022.0.2

  • jakarta-servlet-5.0.0-10.amzn2022.0.2

  • jansi-2.4.0-3.amzn2022.0.2

  • java_cup-0.11b-21.amzn2022.0.2

  • jdom-1.1.3-30.amzn2022.0.2

  • jdom2-2.0.6-27.amzn2022.0.2

  • jflex-1.7.0-10.amzn2022.0.2

  • jsoup-1.13.1-9.amzn2022.0.3

  • jsr-305-3.0.2-5.amzn2022.0.3

  • junit-4.13.1-7.amzn2022.0.2

  • junit5-5.7.1-5.amzn2022.0.2

  • libesmtp-1.0.6-25.amzn2022.0.1

  • libtool-2.4.7-1.amzn2022.0.2

  • lua-5.4.4-3.amzn2022.0.1

  • maven-antrun-plugin-3.0.0-5.amzn2022.0.2

  • maven-artifact-transfer-0.13.1-6.amzn2022.0.2

  • maven-assembly-plugin-3.3.0-8.amzn2022.0.2

  • maven-common-artifact-filters-3.2.0-3.amzn2022.0.2

  • maven-compiler-plugin-3.8.1-12.amzn2022.0.2

  • maven-dependency-analyzer-1.11.3-6.amzn2022.0.2

  • maven-dependency-plugin-3.1.2-9.amzn2022.0.2

  • maven-dependency-tree-3.0.1-10.amzn2022.0.2

  • maven-file-management-3.0.0-17.amzn2022.0.2

  • maven-filtering-3.2.0-5.amzn2022.0.2

  • maven-jar-plugin-3.2.0-9.amzn2022.0.2

  • maven-parent-34-10.amzn2022.0.2

  • maven-plugin-build-helper-3.2.0-7.amzn2022.0.2

  • maven-plugin-testing-3.3.0-25.amzn2022.0.2

  • maven-plugin-tools-3.6.0-12.amzn2022.0.3

  • maven-resources-plugin-3.2.0-6.amzn2022.0.2

  • maven-shared-incremental-1.1-25.amzn2022.0.2

  • maven-shared-io-3.0.0-17.amzn2022.0.2

  • maven-source-plugin-3.2.1-8.amzn2022.0.2

  • maven-wagon-3.4.2-6.amzn2022.0.3

  • mockito-3.12.4-3.amzn2022.0.2

  • modello-1.11-8.amzn2022.0.2

  • mojo-parent-60-5.amzn2022.0.2

  • munge-maven-plugin-1.0-24.amzn2022.0.2

  • openssl-3.0.5-1.amzn2022.0.2

  • opentest4j-1.2.0-10.amzn2022.0.2

  • osgi-compendium-7.0.0-12.amzn2022.0.2

  • p11-kit-0.24.1-2.amzn2022.0.1

  • plexus-archiver-4.2.4-5.amzn2022.0.2

  • plexus-build-api-0.0.7-36.amzn2022.0.2

  • plexus-classworlds-2.6.0-10.amzn2022.0.3

  • plexus-compiler-2.8.8-5.amzn2022.0.2

  • plexus-components-pom-6.5-6.amzn2022.0.2

  • plexus-containers-2.1.0-9.amzn2022.0.3

  • plexus-interpolation-1.26-10.amzn2022.0.3

  • plexus-io-3.2.0-9.amzn2022.0.2

  • plexus-languages-1.0.6-6.amzn2022.0.2

  • plexus-pom-7-5.amzn2022.0.2

  • plexus-resources-1.1.0-9.amzn2022.0.2

  • plexus-utils-3.3.0-9.amzn2022.0.3

  • postfix-3.7.2-4.amzn2022.0.2

  • qdox-2.0.0-9.amzn2022.0.2

  • rsync-3.2.6-1.amzn2022.0.2

  • sisu-mojos-0.3.4-11.amzn2022.0.2

  • slf4j-1.7.32-3.amzn2022.0.3

  • subversion-1.14.2-5.amzn2022.0.1

  • system-release-2022.0.20221012-0.amzn2022

  • tzdata-2022d-1.amzn2022.0.1

  • xbean-4.18-7.amzn2022.0.2

  • xz-java-1.9-3.amzn2022.0.2

AMIs

Docker Container image

  • curl-minimal-7.85.0-1.amzn2022.0.1.aarch64

  • curl-minimal-7.85.0-1.amzn2022.0.1.x86_64

  • libcurl-minimal-7.85.0-1.amzn2022.0.1.aarch64

  • libcurl-minimal-7.85.0-1.amzn2022.0.1.x86_64

  • lua-libs-5.4.4-3.amzn2022.0.1.aarch64

  • lua-libs-5.4.4-3.amzn2022.0.1.x86_64

  • openssl-libs-3.0.5-1.amzn2022.0.2.aarch64

  • openssl-libs-3.0.5-1.amzn2022.0.2.x86_64

  • p11-kit-0.24.1-2.amzn2022.0.1.aarch64

  • p11-kit-0.24.1-2.amzn2022.0.1.x86_64

  • p11-kit-trust-0.24.1-2.amzn2022.0.1.aarch64

  • p11-kit-trust-0.24.1-2.amzn2022.0.1.x86_64

  • system-release-2022.0.20221012-0.amzn2022.noarch

  • tzdata-2022d-1.amzn2022.0.1.noarch

Default AMI

  • curl-minimal-7.85.0-1.amzn2022.0.1.aarch64

  • curl-minimal-7.85.0-1.amzn2022.0.1.x86_64

  • dnf-plugin-release-notification-1.2-1.amzn2022.0.1.noarch

  • dracut-config-ec2-3.0-4.amzn2022.0.1.noarch

  • libcurl-minimal-7.85.0-1.amzn2022.0.1.aarch64

  • libcurl-minimal-7.85.0-1.amzn2022.0.1.x86_64

  • lua-libs-5.4.4-3.amzn2022.0.1.aarch64

  • lua-libs-5.4.4-3.amzn2022.0.1.x86_64

  • openssl-3.0.5-1.amzn2022.0.2.aarch64

  • openssl-3.0.5-1.amzn2022.0.2.x86_64

  • openssl-libs-3.0.5-1.amzn2022.0.2.aarch64

  • openssl-libs-3.0.5-1.amzn2022.0.2.x86_64

  • p11-kit-0.24.1-2.amzn2022.0.1.aarch64

  • p11-kit-0.24.1-2.amzn2022.0.1.x86_64

  • p11-kit-trust-0.24.1-2.amzn2022.0.1.aarch64

  • p11-kit-trust-0.24.1-2.amzn2022.0.1.x86_64

  • rsync-3.2.6-1.amzn2022.0.2.aarch64

  • rsync-3.2.6-1.amzn2022.0.2.x86_64

  • system-release-2022.0.20221012-0.amzn2022.noarch

  • tzdata-2022d-1.amzn2022.0.1.noarch

  • xxhash-libs-0.8.0-3.amzn2022.0.1.aarch64

  • xxhash-libs-0.8.0-3.amzn2022.0.1.x86_64

Minimal AMI

  • curl-minimal-7.85.0-1.amzn2022.0.1.aarch64

  • curl-minimal-7.85.0-1.amzn2022.0.1.x86_64

  • dnf-plugin-release-notification-1.2-1.amzn2022.0.1.noarch

  • dracut-config-ec2-3.0-4.amzn2022.0.1.noarch

  • libcurl-minimal-7.85.0-1.amzn2022.0.1.aarch64

  • libcurl-minimal-7.85.0-1.amzn2022.0.1.x86_64

  • lua-libs-5.4.4-3.amzn2022.0.1.aarch64

  • lua-libs-5.4.4-3.amzn2022.0.1.x86_64

  • openssl-3.0.5-1.amzn2022.0.2.aarch64

  • openssl-3.0.5-1.amzn2022.0.2.x86_64

  • openssl-libs-3.0.5-1.amzn2022.0.2.aarch64

  • openssl-libs-3.0.5-1.amzn2022.0.2.x86_64

  • p11-kit-0.24.1-2.amzn2022.0.1.aarch64

  • p11-kit-0.24.1-2.amzn2022.0.1.x86_64

  • p11-kit-trust-0.24.1-2.amzn2022.0.1.aarch64

  • p11-kit-trust-0.24.1-2.amzn2022.0.1.x86_64

  • system-release-2022.0.20221012-0.amzn2022.noarch

  • tzdata-2022d-1.amzn2022.0.1.noarch