Amazon Linux 2 release notes
The sections in this guide contain the release notes for Amazon Linux 2. The following table provides an overview of the important changes to Amazon Linux 2.
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20241113.1 includes updated packages for this release. | November 18, 2024 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20241031.0 includes updated packages for this release. | November 7, 2024 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20241014.0 includes updated packages for this release. | October 16, 2024 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20241001.0 includes updated packages for this release. | October 3, 2024 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20240916.0 includes updated packages for this release. | September 20, 2024 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20240903.0 includes updated packages for this release. | September 6, 2024 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20240816.0 includes updated packages for this release. | August 22, 2024 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20240809.0 includes updated packages for this release. | August 15, 2024 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20240719.0 includes updated packages for this release. | July 23, 2024 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20240709.1 includes updated packages for this release. | July 11, 2024 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20240620.0 includes updated packages for this release. | June 25, 2024 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20240610.1 includes updated packages for this release. | June 13, 2024 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20240529.0 includes updated packages for this release. | June 3, 2024 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20240521.0 includes updated packages for this release. | May 24, 2024 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20240503.0 includes updated packages for this release. | May 8, 2024 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20240412.0 includes updated packages for this release. | April 19, 2024 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20240329.0 includes updated packages for this release. | April 3, 2024 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20240318.0 includes updated packages for this release. | March 25, 2024 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20240306.2 includes updated packages for this release. | March 11, 2024 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20240223.0 includes updated packages for this release. | February 23, 2024 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20240124.0 includes updated packages for this release. | January 24, 2024 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20240109.0 includes updated packages for this release. | January 10, 2024 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20231218.0 includes updated packages for this release. | December 19, 2023 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20231206.0 includes updated packages for this release. | December 11, 2023 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20231116.0 includes updated packages for this release. | November 17, 2023 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20231101.0 includes updated packages for this release. | November 3, 2023 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20231020.1 includes updated packages for this release. | October 24, 2023 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20231018.2 includes updated packages for this release. | October 23, 2023 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20231012.1 includes updated packages for this release. | October 16, 2023 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20230926.0 includes updated packages for this release. | September 29, 2023 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20230912.0 includes updated packages for this release. | September 18, 2023 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20230906.0 includes updated packages for this release. | September 11, 2023 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20230822.0 includes updated packages for this release. | August 25, 2023 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20230808.0 includes updated packages for this release. | August 14, 2023 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20230727.0 includes updated packages for this release. | July 31, 2023 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20230719.0 includes updated packages for this release. | July 25, 2023 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20230628.0 includes updated packages for this release. | June 29, 2023 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20230612.0 includes updated packages for this release. | June 15, 2023 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20230530.0 includes updated packages for this release. | June 7, 2023 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20230515.0 includes updated packages for this release. | May 24, 2023 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20230504.1 includes updated packages for this release. | May 12, 2023 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20230418.0 includes updated packages for this release. | April 24, 2023 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20230404.1 includes updated packages for this release. | April 12, 2023 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20230404.0 includes updated packages for this release. | April 7, 2023 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20230320.0 includes updated packages for this release. | March 23, 2023 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20230307.0 includes updated packages for this release. | March 9, 2023 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20230221.0 includes updated packages for this release. | March 1, 2023 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20230207.0 includes updated packages for this release. | February 14, 2023 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20230119.1 includes updated packages for this release. | January 26, 2023 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20221210.1 includes updated packages for this release. | December 16, 2022 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20221103.3 includes updated packages for this release. | November 16, 2022 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20221004.0 includes updated packages for this release. | October 20, 2022 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20220912.1 includes updated packages for this release. | September 21, 2022 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20220805.0 includes updated packages for this release. | August 23, 2022 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20220719.0 includes updated packages for this release. | August 2, 2022 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20220606.1.0 includes updated packages for this release. | June 6, 2022 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20220426.0 includes updated packages for this release. | April 26, 2022 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.202200419.0 includes updated packages for this release. | April 19, 2022 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.202200406.1 includes updated packages for this release. | April 6, 2022 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20220316.0 includes updated packages for this release. | March 16, 2022 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20220310.0 includes updated packages for this release. | March 10, 2022 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20220218.3 includes updated packages for this release. | March 8, 2022 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20220218.1 includes updated packages for this release. | February 18, 2022 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20220207.1 includes kernel updates, fixed CVEs, features, and backports for this release. | February 7, 2022 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20220121.0 includes updated packages for this release. | January 21, 2022 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20211223.0 includes kernel updates and updated packages for this release. | December 23, 2021 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20211201.0 fixed an issue with Network Security Services (NSS) that affected up to and including version 3.73. This issue caused NSS to be vulnerable to a heap overflow when handling DER-encoded DSA or RSA-PSS signatures. | December 1, 2021 | |
Amazon Linux 2 .0.20211103.0 repositories point to the Amazon S3 dual stack IPv4/IPv6 endpoint. | The system-release was updated to point the Amazon Linux repositories to the Amazon S3 dual stack IPv4/IPv6 endpoint. | November 3, 2021 |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20211005.0 includes updated packages for this release. | October 5, 2021 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2 .0.20211001.1 updated the ca-certificates to version 2021.2.50-72.amzn2.0.1. This addresses the expiring IdentTrust DST Root CA X3. This affected some Let’s Encrypt TLS certificates. | October 1, 2021 | |
Fixed occasional boot problems with grub2 on ARM64 and improved compatibility of grub2 generated config file with grubby. | August 13, 2021 | |
GRUB has been updated to 2.06 with some launch time improvements. | July 21, 2021 | |
Updated chrony to 4.0 from 3.5.1. | May 25, 2021 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20210427.0 The ec2-net-utils bug was fixed with multiple secondary IPs attached to one ENI. | April 27, 2021 | |
Updated irqbalance to 1.7.0 from 1.5.0. AL2 AMIs default to HTTPS for repository access. | April 21, 2021 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20210318.0 yum will no longer make IMDSv1 calls. | With this update, yum will no longer attempt to make IMDSv1 calls. The amazon-linux-extras utility has been updated to support a simpler format of the Extras catalog. | March 18, 2021 |
With this update, Amazon Linux 2 can now connect to its yum repositories over HTTPS. This can be enabled on boot or at runtime. | January 26, 2021 | |
This update renewed GPG key and updated system-release to allow for the use of HTTPS repositories with Amazon Linux. | December 18, 2020 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20201111.0 Fixed time calculation errors when using dates after 2038. | Addressed the glibc bug that lead to time calculation errors whenever using dates after 2038. Instance launch times were also improved. This was achieved by adding the new dracut-config-ec2 package, which ensure that the initramfs that are built for use inside EC2 don’t include extra files that aren’t already used inside EC2. | November 11, 2020 |
Two kernel CVEs were added and the CVE-2019-20907 bug in python 2.7.18 was addressed. | September 4, 2020 | |
Included are security updates for gettext, python2-rsa, and python. The AWS CLI was updated, and a bug was addressed for the amazon-linux-extras utility. After this fix, the utility no longer recommends deprecated topics. | August 24, 2020 | |
Amazon Linux 2 2.0.20200722.0 Security updates and bug fixes. | Security updates were added for libxml2 and thunderbird, and a dependency bug was fixed for system-rpm-config. | July 22, 2020 |
Python 2.7 was updated to most recent upstream version - 2.7.18. The ca-certificates fix was addressed for the Sectigo intermediate CA expiration issue. | June 17, 2020 | |
Amazon Linux 2 added the Kernel Live Patching Public Preview, which applies CVE fixes without the need for reboot. | May 29, 2020 | |
Linux kernel 4.19 was made available in Amazon Linux 2 Extras channel. | July 18, 2019 | |
Amazon Linux 2 Amazon EC2 Instance Connect is enabled by default. | Changed Amazon EC2 Instance Connect is enabled by default. | June 27, 2019 |
Amazon Linux 2 AMIs with NVIDIA GPU drivers are now pre-installed and pre-configured for use on the P and G instance families that are available on AWS Marketplace. | May 23, 2019 | |
Amazon Linux 2 A new systemd service is added to launch on boot. | A new systemd service was added to launch on boot. The service submits the host public keys for identity validation to support an upcoming feature for connecting to EC2 instances. | May 14, 2019 |
This update fixes incorrect permissions for some system files. | March 13, 2019 | |
Amazon Linux 2 is now supported for use on A1 instances. | November 26, 2018 | |
An ENA driver update was added. This update introduces Low Latency Queues (LLQ) for improved average and tail latencies. It also adds support for receive checksum offload that improves CPU utilization. | November 19, 2018 | |
The OpenSSH daemon configuration file /etc/ssh/sshd_config has been updated. The AuthorizedKeysCommand value is configured to point to a customized script and to /opt/aws/bin/curl_authorized_keys to support an upcoming feature to read SSH public keysfrom the EC2 instance metadata during the SSH connection process. | October 31, 2018 | |
Amazon Linux 2 now supports 32-bit libraries and compatibility packages,. With this support, you can now run 32-bit applications on Amazon Linux 2. | September 25, 2018 |
Release notes
- November 18, 2024
- November 07, 2024
- October 16, 2024
- October 3, 2024
- September 20, 2024
- September 6, 2024
- August 22, 2024
- August 15, 2024
- July 23, 2024
- July 11, 2024
- June 25, 2024
- June 13, 2024
- June 3, 2024
- May 24, 2024
- May 8, 2024
- April 19, 2024
- April 3, 2024
- March 25, 2024
- March 11, 2024
- February 23, 2024
- January 24, 2024
- January 10, 2024
- December 19, 2023
- December 11, 2023
- November 17, 2023
- November 03, 2023
- October 24, 2023
- October 23, 2023
- October 16, 2023
- September 29, 2023
- September 18, 2023
- September 11, 2023
- August 25, 2023
- August 14, 2023
- July 31, 2023
- July 25, 2023
- June 29, 2023
- June 15, 2023
- June 07, 2023
- May 24, 2023
- May 12, 2023
- April 24, 2023
- April 12, 2023
- April 7, 2023
- March 23, 2023
- March 9, 2023
- March 1, 2023
- February 14, 2023
- January 26, 2023
- December 16, 2022
- November 16, 2022
- October 20, 2022
- September 22, 2022
- August 23, 2022
- August 2, 2022
- June 6, 2022
- April 26, 2022
- April 20, 2022
- April 6, 2022
- March 16, 2022
- March 10, 2022
- March 8, 2022
- February 18, 2022
- February 7, 2022
- January 21, 2022
- December 23, 2021
- December 1, 2021
- November 3, 2021
- October 5, 2021
- October 1, 2021
- August 13th, 2021
- July 21, 2021
- July 1, 2021
- June 17, 2021
- May 25, 2021
- April 27, 2021
- April 21, 2021
- March 26, 2021
- March 18, 2021
- March 3, 2021
- February 19, 2021
- January 26, 2021
- December 18, 2021
- November 11, 2020
- September 17, 2020
- September 4, 2020
- August 24, 2020
- July 22, 2020
- June 17, 2020
- May 29, 2020
- July 18, 2019
- June 27, 2019
- May 23, 2019
- May 14, 2019
- March 13, 2019
- November 26, 2018
- November 19, 2018
- October 31, 2018
- September 25, 2018
- Release notes
