[CentOS-devel] new CS8 module streams

Mon Feb 15 23:33:30 UTC 2021
James Cassell <fedoraproject at cyberpear.com>

On Mon, Feb 15, 2021, at 6:28 PM, Carl George wrote:
> Howdy everyone,
> 
> I want to call attention to some new modular content that we are
> shipping in CentOS Stream 8 that is not yet available for RHEL 8.
> We've added the following optional (non-default) module streams to
> existing modules.  You have to explicitly enable these streams to get
> this content.  If you don't, dnf will still use the respective default
> stream, or a stream that you previously enabled.
> 
> mariadb:10.5
> postgresql:13
> redis:6
> subversion:1.14
> swig:4.0
> 
> We also recently added a new python39 module.  Similar to python38,
> this module can be installed in parallel with other Python modules.
> You can use the alternatives system to set it as the default python3
> command if you wish.
> 
> This new modular content is planned to be included in RHEL 8.4, but
> you can get it now in CS8.  Please try it out and share your feedback.

Thanks for the announcement! Glad to see the latest Postgres.

V/r,
James Cassell