Once upon a time, Alessandro Baggi alessandro.baggi@gmail.com said:
As reported in my previous message I'm not worried about how much time is required to build the new (major/minor) release, it will be ready when it will be. My major concern is about the "security update blackout" that take long as the build process.
I'm not involved in building CentOS, but the issue is that it is a rebuild of upstream. When RHEL 8.2 is released, there are no more upstream updates released for RHEL 8.1; they are all on top of the RHEL 8.2 release. So, until the time that CentOS can rebuild RHEL 8.2 and make a new CentOS release, there can't be any updates for CentOS 8.1.
RHEL 8 introduced modules, which complicated the build system and required new tooling, so CentOS has had a bunch of "under the hood" work to catch up. Hopefully, once that's ironed out, the gap between a RHEL 8.x release and the corresponding CentOS release will drop.