On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 10:19:56AM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 12/10/20 2:53 PM, edward via CentOS wrote:
after reading some info on centos stream is a rolling release. i'm wondering applying
It's not a "rolling release" in the most commonly used sense. There just isn't a minor number for releases. CentOS Stream 8 will always be CentOS Stream 8, and never 8.1 or 8.2, etc. Just one ten-year long release. At any given point in time, a fully updated system should be backward-compatible with any applications that have run earlier in the release cycle.
Yeah, the words "rolling release" ended up in the announcement without anyone really catching that it's going to have strong implications of something that _wasn't_ meant. It's hard to make an announcement like this without having some phrasing that ends up causing confusion of some sort. This one is definitely costing us in extra confusion, but please believe that there's no hidden messaging here. We're just all trying to figure out how to best communicate the concepts. I hope the blog posts from Stef and Brendan on the CentOS blog today help clear things up!
https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/centos-stream-is-continuous-delivery/
https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/how-rhel-is-made/