Developers and end users looking to inspect and contribute patches to the CentOS Linux distribution you will find the code hosted on much simpler to work with.įinally, users are advised to migrate to CentOS Stream installing the centos-release-stream package.
The source RPMs are signed with the same key that is used to sign their binary counterpart. Reposync command available in the yum / dnf-utils package. If users want to mirror this content, they can do so using the Since there is much less traffic towards CentOS source RPMs compared to the binary RPMs, we are not going to put this content in the main mirror network. The sources will be available at in their own dedicated directories to match the Corresponding binary RPMs. On or before January 31, in case of critical vulnerabilities, content related to the CentOS Linux 8 branch will be removed from the mirrors and moved to the archive.Īs with all CentOS Linux 8 components, this release was built from
The release of updates for CentOS Linux 8 will be discontinued on December 31. We will only update as detailed above.Īs we mentioned at the beginning, this is the latest version of the 8.x branch, which will be superseded by the continuously updated edition of the distribution CentOS Stream by the end of the year. Remember, it is not advisable to use CentOS Linux 8 in production or you should have a plan to migrate to a different operating system before December 31, 2021. ** PLEASE NOTE: ** CentOS Linux 8 will end on December 31, 2021. Effective immediately, this is theĬurrent version for CentOS Linux 8 and is labeled 2111, derived of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 source code. We are pleased to announce the general availability of the latest CentOS Linux version 8. As in RHEL 8.5 for CentOS 8.5, additional AppStream modules are built with new versions of OpenJDK 17, Ruby 3.0, nginx 1.20, Node.js 16, PHP 7.4.19, GCC Toolset 11, LLVM Toolset 12.0.1, Rust Toolset 1.54. In total, RHEL-specific packages such as redhat- *, insights-client, and subscription-manager-migration * were removed.
Plus the new features introduced in RHEL 8.5, the content of 34 packages has been changed in CentOS 2111, including anaconda, dhcp, firefox, grub2, httpd, kernel, PackageKit, and yum.Ĭhanges made to packages are generally limited to rebranding and replacement of Red Hat Related Names (RHEL).
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