Am 11.12.20 um 23:53 schrieb Pete Biggs:
On Fri, 2020-12-11 at 22:05 +0100, Gionatan Danti wrote:
Il 2020-12-11 19:26 Walter H. ha scritto:
with CentOS Stream there are only updates till 2024(!) not 2029 as it be expected ...
Is that officially confirmed? If RHEL 8 is expected to have an 8.10 release sometime in the 2028-2029 timeframe, and if any updates should really hit Stream-8 before, the latter should have the same EOL date.
Somewhere in amongst the vast number of posts, someone said that the release cadence for point releases was 6 months with the final release being 8.10 in 2024. After that RHEL 8 goes into maintenance mode and there will be no more content added to 8-stream (because it had reached the end of it's useful life as a pre point release distro).
I think it's still not clear what exactly will be the fate of 8-stream after 2024. The implication is that 9-stream will be active by then and 8-stream will just disappear. In some ways it would be nice if it was frozen but kept, but it won't receive any bug/security fixes, so it may be deemed too "dangerous" to allow people access to it. I suppose it's natural home would be vault.centos.org, but we will have to see what RH think of that.
"CentOS Stream 8 will be retired from build servers, community build systems, primary mirror sites (copies will remain on vault.centos.org), and other places within our ecosystem."
https://centos.org/distro-faq/#q13-can-i-start-up-a-sig-that-will-maintain-c...
-- Leon