Global – October 12, 2026 -- CIQ is providing its Enterprise Linux Manager (ELM) at no additional charge to all RLC Pro subscriptions, giving fleet operators control over when packages reach production hosts.
ELM mirrors upstream repositories onto customer-owned storage
The tool sits between package sources and the hosts that install them. It mirrors upstream repositories onto infrastructure the customer already operates, whether connected or not, so hosts pull from that mirror rather than repeatedly querying off-site lists.
CIQ targets four weak points in the legacy Enterprise Linux model at fleet scale: vendor-wide curation that is not tailored to the customer, every host checking the same external list on its own, manual staging between dev and production, and custom RPMs that sit outside the curated repository and need hand-managed updates.
Content views let production stay pinned while dev tracks the latest snapshot
A content view is a named, versioned snapshot of what a group of hosts should receive. One view can combine upstream Enterprise Linux content, RLC Pro content from CIQ and a customer's own custom RPMs. Nothing is built until the operator composes it.
Dev hosts track the latest snapshot, while production stays pinned to a tested one. Promotion means re-pointing production at a newer snapshot, and rollback means re-pointing it at an older one. Every compose is retained, creating a record of what ran where.
If a package must be pulled, an operator excludes it from the dev content view and recomposes. Dev hosts stop seeing it, while production keeps it until the tested snapshot is promoted.
Arch User Repository incident shows the cost of fast updates
CIQ points to July 2025, when three Arch User Repository packages posed as patched browser builds and installed a remote access trojan. The community removed them in about two days, a window CIQ calls very long if such packages had reached production servers.