[CentOS-devel] CentOS Stream 8 kernel

Mon Feb 1 21:07:01 UTC 2021
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 1/26/21 5:04 PM, redbaronbrowser via CentOS-devel wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 26, 2021 2:56 PM, Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro> wrote:
> 
>> On 1/26/21 9:50 PM, Phil Perry wrote:
>>
>>> On 26/01/2021 19:44, Rainer Traut wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Am 14.01.21 um 20:50 schrieb Gena Makhomed:
>>>>
>>>>> This bug is critical for me, because currently I try to use
>>>>> systemd-nspawn for containers virtualization in production.
>>>>> If future CentOS 8.4 will contain this bug - it will be disaster.
>>>>
>>>> There will be no CentOS 8.4 anymore, right?
>>>
>>> RHEL8 is supposed to be on a 6 month release schedule for minor releases, so I'd expect RHEL8.4 April/May and RHEL8.5 around beginning of Nov. Given CentOS 8 continues until end of 2021, I'd expect CentOS 8.4 and even 8.5 depending when RHEL8.5 ships and how quickly the team can turn around that release.
>>
>> Based on past experience, I am willing to bet on no CentOS 8.5. Even the last updates for EL6 were not properly distributed before completely retiring CentOS 6 despite being much easier to build and push and no one would have been hurt if mirrors kept C6 another week.
>>
>> I am 99% sure that even if RH releases 8.5 in nov, CentOS 8.5 will not be ready before CentOS 8 being EOLed. Maybe, just maybe we might see a CentOS 8.5 in Dec if RHEL 8.5 sees the light in Oct. But I doubt that, too.
>>
>> @GenaMakhomed:  If possible, you'd better take advantage of the new subscriptions from RH and switch to using RHEL proper. CentOS 8 is dead, it's just kept on life support for another 11 months.
> 
> The legacy C6 updates are still up on vault.centos.org.  Several of the final updates were released November 9th.  Terminating the mirrors and replacing them with the readme provided a strong message that people needed to migrate off C6.
> 
> In terms of there possibly never being a CentOS 8.5, I kind of agree and disagree.  I think it is very likely there will be no install media update for 8.5.  But I think CR will get the critical package updates fromn RHEL 8.5.

I will work on 8.5 as long as i am allowed to do so.  Certainly and 8.4
will be done.