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This wiki serves as the place to find downloads, documentation, and security advisories. The latest official documentation is published on https://vmware.github.io/photon/.
Photon OS 5.0 provides enhancements in Network Configuration Manager, PMD-nextgen, Container Runtime Security, Linux Real-Time Kernel, and TDNF Features. The release introduces the Photon OS Container Builder tool. This release of Photon OS also supports XFS and BTRFS filesystems, Control Group V2, ARM64 on Linux-esx kernel, PostgreSQL. It contains installer improvements and critical updates to the OSS packages including Linux kernel version updates. To download the distribution images, go to Downloading Photon OS 5.0 GA.
Photon OS 4.0 GA introduces support for the Real Time flavor of kernel linux-rt, SELinux , installer improvements, PMD role management improvements and critical updates to OSS packages including linux kernel, systemd, and glibc. To download the distribution images, go to Downloading Photon OS 4.0 GA.
Photon OS 3.0 GA introduces new devices support including ARM64 (Raspberry Pi 3), installer improvements and up-to-date OSS packages including linux kernel, systemd and glibc. To download the distribution images, go to Downloading Photon OS 3.0 GA.
Photon OS 2.0 introduces new security and OS management capabilities, along with new and updated packages for cloud-native applications and VMware appliances. To download the distribution images, go to Downloading Photon OS 2.0 GA.