For anyone who uses RHEL or any of its clones (now forks, rather), beware that version 10 already does require a x86-64-v3 capable CPU.
I discovered this by accident while I tried to test CentOS Stream 10 on VirtualBox, which does not expose my processor’s more advanced features to the VMs.
As I tried to boot the installer I got the error: “The CPU does not support x86-64-v3”.
This change will of course be present on all CentOS Stream 10 clones and/or forks like Alma and Rocky 10, all due out in 2025.
I say this because I know there are many folks out there who run CentOS/Alma/Rocky on older hardware…
This news only concerns those of us who are interested in running RHEL or CentOS Stream on our home labs and we happen to use one of these CPUs.
Today I went to test CentOS Stream 10 which requires x86_64-v3 at minimum, and is based on Fedora 40.
I was surprised to see a warning message about my X86_64-V4-CAPABLE Intel Core i5-11400 CPU being detected as DEPRECATED hardware, and that it would be disabled on a future major release.
I know RHEL 10 is still over a year away but this is just a heads up.
— Again: All Intel Rocket Lake processors are x86_64-v4 capable, which puts them way above the CPU requirements for RHEL 10/CentOS 10.
Edit: After more reading and more careful consideration, I came to the conclusion that this simply does not make sense and must be a bug. The i5-11400 is by no means an ancient CPU. It’s from 2021 and it makes no sense for Red Hat to just deprecate it.