# Amazon Linux 2022 Release Notes

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## Contents
+ [Amazon Linux 2022 release notes](#relnotes)
   + [Amazon Linux 2022 release notes update 2022-02-10](#relnotes-20220210)

## Amazon Linux 2022 release notes<a name="relnotes"></a>

This section contains upcoming changes and release notes for Amazon Linux 2022\.

### Amazon Linux 2022 release notes update 2022\-02\-10<a name="relnotes-20220210"></a>

Amazon Linux 2022 was updated in preview on February 10, 2022\.

### Updated AMI<a name="amis-20220202202040"></a>

This update of the Amazon Linux 2022 container image and AMI includes the following new packages\.

**Container image**
+ `+system-release-2022.0.20220204-0.amzn2022.noarch`

**Default AMI**
+ `kernel-5.10.96-90.460.amzn2022.x86_64`
+ `kernel-headers-5.10.96-90.460.amzn2022.x86_64`
+ `system-release-2022.0.20220204-0.amzn2022.noarch`

**Minimal AMI**
+ `kernel-5.10.96-90.460.amzn2022.x86_64`
+ `system-release-2022.0.20220204-0.amzn2022.noarch`

### Major updates<a name="kernel-updates"></a>

Amazon Linux 2022 includes the following kernel updates\.
+ Rebase kernel to upstream stable 5\.10\.96
+ CVEs fixed
  + CVE\-2022\-0330 \[drm/i915: Flush TLBs before releasing backing store\]
  + CVE\-2022\-0492 \[kernel: cgroups v1 release\_agent feature may allow privilege escalation\]
+ Amazon Features and backports
  + lustre: update to AmazonFSxLustreClient v2\.10\.8\-10
  + drivers/base/memory: introduce memory\_block\_\{online,offline\}
  + mm,memory\_hotplug: relax fully spanned sections check
  + mm,memory\_hotplug: factor out adjusting present pages into adjust\_present\_page\_count\(\)
  + mm,memory\_hotplug: allocate memmap from the added memory range
  + acpi,memhotplug: enable MHP\_MEMMAP\_ON\_MEMORY when supported
  + mm,memory\_hotplug: add kernel boot option to enable memmap\_on\_memory
  + x86/Kconfig: introduce ARCH\_MHP\_MEMMAP\_ON\_MEMORY\_ENABLE
  + arm64/Kconfig: introduce ARCH\_MHP\_MEMMAP\_ON\_MEMORY\_ENABLE
  + drivers/base/memory: fix trying offlining memory blocks with memory holes on aarch64
  + drivers/base/memory: use MHP\_MEMMAP\_ON\_MEMORY from the probe interface
  + mm: add offline page reporting interface
  + virtio: add hack to allow pre\-mapped scatterlists
  + virtio\-balloon: optionally report offlined memory ranges
  + audit: improve audit queue handling when "audit=1" on cmdline
  + cgroup\-v1: Require capabilities to set release\_agent