Hi Folks,

Tl;dr: centos-release and centos-release stream are now consolidated in a new package: centos-stream-release

Note: Throughout this email, pay close attention to mentions of centos-release-stream (the old package) and centos-stream-release (the new package).  These are different packages.

Our mission with CentOS Stream is to provide an early preview of what will make it into the next minor release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. To give us a jump-start on this goal at the beginning, we took CentOS Linux 8 and added some content in extra repositories, providing that preview for a select set of packages.

Over the past few months we’ve been adding more and more content; you’ve likely seen more regular content updates to CentOS Stream especially now that our automated push tooling (thanks James and Siteshwar) and lots of package build and compose work (thanks Carl, Johnny, and Mohan) has kept us up to date with nightly RHEL development.

To continue with our work to make CentOS Stream stand on its own, we’ve made the following changes to the CentOS Stream compose that is on its way out to the mirrors now: * centos-stream-release now provides  redhat-release, centos-release, and system-release * centos-stream-repos controls the Stream yum repositories and is now exclusive to the repos from CentOS Linux

What this means if you’re currently running CentOS Stream: Please perform a `dnf update` to get the latest system-release packages

What this means if you’re running CentOS Linux, and would like to convert to CentOS Stream: For now, the previous method for upgrading to CentOS Stream still applies (`dnf install centos-release-stream && dnf distro-sync`).  This will change in the future as we plan out our future centos-linux-release package.  Stay tuned to the mailing list for more details.

At the next CentOS Linux minor release we intend to make changes to match. CentOS Linux would see: * centos-linux-release will provide redhat-release, centos-release, and system-release * centos-linux-repos will control the Linux yum repositories

As always if you have questions or comments, feel free to chat here on the centos-devel mailing list.

On behalf of the CentOS Stream Team,

-- Brian Stinson