Global – October 12, 2026 -- CIQ's RLC Pro LTS bundles five active FIPS 140-3 CMVP certificates, validated per minor version on x86_64, as a standard feature rather than a paid upgrade, as the company lays out documented migration paths for RHEL, Oracle Linux, SUSE, Amazon Linux 2 and unsupported Linux users.
RHEL, Oracle Linux and CentOS users skip recertification
RLC Pro shares its Enterprise Linux foundation with RHEL, Oracle Linux and CentOS. Applications compiled against that base carry over with little to no change. Because the migration preserves the foundation, it also preserves the certification, which removes the recertification step platform teams usually budget for a full platform change.
CIQ's migrate2rlc script automates the conversion. It checks the current version, third-party repositories and FIPS requirements, then runs the migration and validates the result.
SUSE and Amazon Linux 2 users get pinned versions and bundled support
RLC Pro delivers minor versions pinned to a schedule the customer controls, plus direct engineering support included in the subscription. Amazon Linux 2 reached end of support on June 30, 2026, leaving organizations still running it with RLC Pro as CIQ's defined destination.
RLC+ gives unsupported Linux teams a no-cost entry point
Teams on community Rocky Linux, CentOS, AlmaLinux, Debian or Ubuntu can start with RLC+, which runs on the same foundation as RLC Pro at no cost. CIQ names four triggers for upgrading to RLC Pro: a compliance requirement the free tier does not cover, a support response time the team cannot provide itself, production scale beyond self-support, and mounting engineering time spent remediating CVEs in-house.
Enterprise Linux Manager replaces provisioning tooling in every subscription
CIQ Enterprise Linux Manager ships with every RLC Pro subscription and replaces Satellite or Foreman-style tooling, which migrations rarely budget for. Teams can run migrate2rlc on their own, while CIQ migration engineers handle complex configurations, regulated workloads and fleets large enough to justify a dedicated plan.