# Miracle Linux

MIRACLE LINUX is a Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based commercial Linux distribution in Japan, developed and supported by Cybertrust Japan Co., Ltd. MIRACLE LINUX 8.4 is a CentOS 8 compatible distribution.

## Overview

MIRACLE LINUX Corporation, later merged with Cybertrust Japan in 2017, was established in June 2000 by Oracle Corporation Japan and Nippon Electric Co., Ltd. Originally developed and marketed a Linux distribution for enterprises market that optimized for Oracle Database application.
In December 2003, Miracle Linux (Japan) and Red Flag (China) started a multibyte language-supported Linux distribution project named “Asianux”. Since then MIRACLE LINUX had been developed in the Asianux project for more than 10 years. After The Asianux project was disbanded in September 2015, MIRACLE LINUX had been developed in Japan by Cybertrust Japan Co., Ltd. "Asianux" remains part of the MIRACLE LINUX product name.
MIRACLE LINUX is widely used in industrial equipment where long-term supported OS is required. According to a survey by Mick Economic Research Institute in October 2020, MIRACLE LINUX has a 57% market share of the pre-installed Linux distribution of industrial PCs.
Responding to the discontinuation of CentOS Linux announced in December 2020, license fee is changed to free from MIRACLE LINUX 8.4 released in October 2021.

## Release history

| Date | Name | Code Name | kernel version | Base OS |
| 2000-09-29 | Miracle Linux Standard Edition Version1.0 | N/A | 2.2.16-3 | TurboLinux Server JP 6.1 |
| 2001-05-25 | Miracle Linux Standard Edition Version2.0 | Styrax | 2.4.2-2 | Red Hat Linux 7.1 |
| 2002-07-29 | MIRACLE LINUX Standard Edition V2.1 | Styrax | 2.4.9-31.22ml | RHEL 2.1 Update 2 |
| 2004-06-11 | MIRACLE LINUX V3.0 - Asianux Inside | Koumei | 2.4.21-9.30AX | RHEL 3 |
| 2005-03-17 | MIRACLE LINUX V3.0 - Asianux Inside SP1 | Koumei | 2.4.21-20.19AX | RHEL 3 Update 3 |
| 2006-02-24 | MIRACLE LINUX V3.0 - Asianux Inside SP2 | Koumei | 2.4.21-37.18AX | RHEL 3 Update 6 |
| 2006-12-12 | MIRACLE LINUX V3.0 - Asianux Inside SP3 | Koumei | 2.4.21-47.22AX | RHEL 3 Update 8 |
| 2007-09-18 | MIRACLE LINUX V4.0 - Asianux Inside | Trinity | 2.6.9-11.19AX | RHEL4 Update 1 |
| 2006-07-12 | MIRACLE LINUX V4.0 - Asianux Inside SP1 | Trinity | 2.6.9-34.21AX | RHEL4 Update 3 |
| 2007-03-02 | MIRACLE LINUX V4.0 - Asianux Inside SP2 | Trinity | 2.6.9-42.7AX | RHEL4 Update 4 |
| 2009-01-30 | MIRACLE LINUX V4.0 - Asianux Inside SP3 | Trinity | 2.6.9-78.8AXS2 | RHEL4 Update 7 |
| 2010-01-20 | MIRACLE LINUX V4.0 - Asianux Inside SP4 | Trinity | 2.6.9-89.5AXS2 | RHEL4 Update 8 |
| 2007-09-18 | Asianux Server 3 == MIRACLE LINUX V5 | Quartet | 2.6.18-8.10AX | RHEL5.0 |
| 2008-10-07 | Asianux Server 3 == MIRACLE LINUX V5 SP1 | Quartet | 2.6.18-53.11AX | RHEL5.1 |
| 2009-09-07 | Asianux Server 3 == MIRACLE LINUX V5 SP2 | Quartet | 2.6.18-128.7AXS3 | RHEL5.3 |
| 2010-07-06 | Asianux Server 3 == MIRACLE LINUX V5 SP3 | Quartet | 2.6.18-194.1.AXS3 | RHEL5.5 |
| 2011-09-02 | Asianux Server 3 == MIRACLE LINUX V5 SP4 | Quartet | 2.6.18-238.2.AXS3 | RHEL5.6 |
| 2012-01-17 | Asianux Server 4 == MIRACLE LINUX V6 SP1 | Hiranya | 2.6.32-131.12.1.el6 | RHEL6.1 |
| 2012-12-13 | Asianux Server 4 == MIRACLE LINUX V6 SP2 | Hiranya | 2.6.32-279.2.1.el6 | RHEL6.3 |
| 2014-01-30 | Asianux Server 4 == MIRACLE LINUX V6 SP3 | Hiranya | 2.6.32-358.14.1.el6 | RHEL6.4 |
| 2014-10-02 | Asianux Server 4 == MIRACLE LINUX V6 SP4 | Hiranya | 2.6.32-431.20.3.el6 | RHEL6.5 |
| 2015-09-16 | Asianux Server 4 == MIRACLE LINUX V6 SP5 | Hiranya | 2.6.32-696.1.1.el6 | RHEL6.7 |
| 2016-07-21 | Asianux Server 4 == MIRACLE LINUX V6 SP6 | Hiranya | 2.6.32-642.el6 | RHEL6.8 |
| 2017-05-26 | Asianux Server 4 == MIRACLE LINUX V6 SP7 | Hiranya | 2.6.32-696.1.1.el6 | RHEL6.9 |
| 2015-10-27 | Asianux Server 7 == MIRACLE LINUX V7 | Lotus | 3.10.0-229.4.2.el7 | RHEL7.1 |
| 2016-02-18 | Asianux Server 7 == MIRACLE LINUX V7 SP1 | Lotus | 3.10.0-327.3.1.el7 | RHEL7.2 |
| 2017-10-24 | Asianux Server 7 == MIRACLE LINUX V7 SP2 | Lotus | 3.10.0-693.2.2.el7 | RHEL7.4 |
| 2019-03-07 | Asianux Server 7 == MIRACLE LINUX V7 SP3 | Lotus | 3.10.0-957.1.3.el7 | RHEL7.6 |
| 2020-08-04 | Asianux Server 7 == MIRACLE LINUX V7 SP4 | Lotus | 3.10.0-1127.8.2.el7 | RHEL7.8 |
| 2021-04-26 | Asianux Server 7 == MIRACLE LINUX V7 SP5 | Lotus | 3.10.0-1160.15.2.el7 | RHEL7.9 |
| 2020-03-19 | MIRACLE LINUX 8 Asianux Inside | Peony | 4.18.0-147.5.1.el8 | RHEL8.1 |
| 2021-10-04 | MIRACLE LINUX 8.4 | Peony | 4.18.0-305.el8 | RHEL8.4 |
| 2022-11-01 | MIRACLE LINUX 8.6 | Peony | 4.18.0-372.el8 | RHEL8.6 |
| 2023-10-05 | MIRACLE LINUX 8.8 | Peony | 4.18.0-477.el8 | RHEL8.8 |
| 2022-11-01 | MIRACLE LINUX 9 | Feige | 5.14.0-70.el9 | RHEL9.0 |
| 2023-10-05 | MIRACLE LINUX 9.2 | Feige | 5.14.0-284.el9 | RHEL9.2 |