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ELevate is a project aimed to provide the ability to upgrade between major versions of RHEL-based distributions. First announced by AlmaLinux in 2021, ELevate combines two key components: updates to the open source LEAPP project and a data library called leapp-data. These together allow users to upgrade in-place from an unsupported operating system to a modern operating system, and then from 8 to 9 and 9 to 10 of that operating system.

Individuals and organizations that require an enterprise-grade linux distribution, without the need for a commercial license agreement. AlmaLinux OS is also a perfect replacement for anyone who has historically relied on the CentOS Linux releases to achieve computing objectives, and for whom CentOS Stream is not the right solution.

ELevate has been used to migrate production environments across industries and across the world, but we still advise caution. Every environment is different and unique based on applications and configurations. To avoid any surprises, we highly recommend that you test upgrade scenarios in a virtual machine or sandbox before running upgrades in production.

Yes, and yes! All your data, applications and settings will be kept. Migrations will require your system to reboot twice.

Our contributors have been part of the RHEL ecosystem for a very long time, and we recognized that the CentOS ecosystem is a very large and diverse community. We've developed this project in good faith in the hope that everyone in the community can use and contribute to, no matter which distro you prefer. That's the open source way.

Yes! For the first four years of ELevate, we did support using ELevate to upgrade out of date CentOS installations to Rocky Linux, and migrating between major versions of Rocky Linux. As of the update to ELevate on 2025-11-03, that is no longer supported.

With the release of leapp-repository 0.23.0, two big things changed. First, LEAPP now supports CentOS Stream natively, and the LEAPP team accepted a pull request to add AlmaLinux support as well. That significantly reduces the amount of work that we have to maintain in ELevate. Second, the format of the migration data (the data the describes the package upgrade paths) was changed. That meant that all supported OSes needed to have their migration data updated to retain supporting upgrades. You can read more in this blog post,

To date, the migration data required for Rocky Linux support has not been contributed. To help contributors get started, we have the ELevate contribution guide.