Hey everyone,

I'd like to share our (CentOS Stream Team at Red Hat & CentOS Infrastructure SIG) plan for the CentOS Stream 8 end of life at the end of May 2024. [1]

This is the first time a CentOS Stream release reaches its end of life. So this is new to us. But we'll follow some of the established practices from previous CentOS Linux releases where we can.

Timeline: The end of life is at the end of May. We'll give all builds time to finish and get to the last release. So everything I'm describing below will happen at the beginning of June.

There are five major parts:

1. Released content — repositories, images, etc.

2. Builds in Koji

3. Websites

4. Buildroots in CBS

5. Sources - this part is weird, because sources will keep being updated for the life of RHEL 8, that means even after the CentOS Stream 8 end of life.

Released content will get moved to vault.centos.org.

Builds in Koji will remain accessible the same way. We'll just internally move them to a less highly available storage as we won't need that anymore for c8s.

We'll disable c8s builds entirely in Koji. However, since only RHEL engineers can build CentOS Stream, this will be invisible from a CentOS perspective.

Websites will get updated to no longer reference CentOS Stream 8 as available for download, etc.

CentOS Stream 8 buildroots in CBS will be disabled. However, SIGs are able to build against RHEL 8 instead.

Sources will keep being updated as mentioned.

And that's it. That will be the end of CentOS Stream 8. The first CentOS Stream that reaches its end. And from its ashes CentOS Stream 10 is gonna rise. Except it's software, so hopefully no ashes, and the timing might be a little out of sync on those as well.

Anyway! Thanks to everyone who used or even contributed to CentOS Stream 8!

Cheers,

Adam Samalik