Dear all, I’m new here, and new to AlmaLinux. Found that the ppp package is but outdated. Fedora already has version 2.5.0, Version 2.4.9 contains several bugs and misses features. How to get the 2.5.0 or 2.5.1 version without compiling it myself? Thanks!
AlmaLinux is compatible with RHEL. Red Hat backports fixes and features to RHEL packages. See What is backporting and how does it affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux? - Red Hat Customer Portal
In other words, AlmaLinux 9 has ppp 2.4.9-5.el9 that may differ from upstream 2.4.9.
So no updates for packages at all? And next option to an update is waiting for release AlmaLinux 10? Am trying to understand AlmaLinux here… 
You are trying to understand Enterprise Linux here (as RHEL has been).
There is still RHEL 7 out there, for paying customers. The RHEL 7 was released 2014.
It has, for example, kernel from 2013 and Python 2.7. Both are maintained by Red Hat;
the kernel in RHEL 7 has features that did not exist in 2013.
The idea is that Enterprise Linux is a “stable” platform. Stable as in you could install
a server in 2014 and it should still run – your service not broken by updates over the
years. There are updates, first more regularly and later on need. First five years receive
new features and necessary security&bug fixes come for a decade.
The core packages, like kernel, remain steady in order to avoid installed systems breaking. Less essential packages can occasionally get rebase. For example, Firefox was based on version 91 (ESR) in AlmaLinux 9 initially. Firefox in 9.4 is already based on version 128.
The ppp package is in repository baseos and has not changed during lifetime of AlmaLinux 9, so presumably it is more on the “core” and clearly Red Hat has had no reason to touch it. You should ask them about ppp.
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Thanks, I will try a connection using openvpn als check if that works better… Rgds, -Huibert.