[CentOS-devel] [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 8:14 AM Scott Dowdle <dowdle at montanalinux.org> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > If "Stream" is the base for the next RHEL8.x where are the updates until
> > 2029 coming from, when CentOS Stream 8 will be shutdown at 2024?
>
> If you look at this chart (
> https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/#RHEL8_Planning_Guide)
> you'll see that in 2024, RHEL 8.10 should be released... and at that point
> RHEL 8 would hit 5 years old and switch from "Full Suport" mode into
> "Maintenance Support" mode which lasts for another 5 years.  Once RHEL goes
> into "Maintenance Mode", it doesn't need an upstream for new developments
> because there won't be any.  What will happen to stream?  One would presume
> that between now and 2024, RHEL 9 would be released... and a CentOS 9
> Stream would in operation.
>
>
Yup, I can confirm that.  We plan on releasing RHEL about every 3 years.
With a 5 year cycle, that would mean about 2 years of overlap between
CentOS Stream 8 and CentOS Stream 9.  I'm expecting a CentOS Stream 9 soon
as we've already started to bootstrap 9 in Fedora's ELN.

            -Mike


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