The polkit patch has arrived in CentOS Stream 9: polkit-0.117-8.el9.x86_64.rpm <http://mirror.stream.centos.org/9-stream/BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/polkit-0.117-8.el9.x86_64.rpm> 2022-01-28 14:02 On Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 1:27 PM Steven Rosenberg <passthejoe at gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 3:12 PM Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com> wrote: > >> >> CentOS Stream addresses CVE fix policy in the FAQ. That policy will >> not change with the release of RHEL 9. >> >> > I had to look this up. > > From https://centos.org/distro-faq/: > Q4: How will CVEs be handled in CentOS Stream? > > *A:* Security issues will be updated in CentOS Stream after they are > solved in the current RHEL release. Obviously, embargoed security releases > can not be publicly released until after the embargo is lifted. While there > will not be any SLA for timing, Red Hat Engineers will be building and > testing other packages against these releases. If they do not roll in the > updates, the other software they build could be impacted and therefore need > to be redone. There is therefore a vested interest for them to get these > updates in so as not to impact their other builds and there should be no > issues getting security updates. > Q5: Does this mean that CentOS Stream is the RHEL BETA test platform now? > > *A:* No. CentOS Stream will be getting fixes and features ahead of RHEL. > Generally speaking we expect CentOS Stream to have fewer bugs and more > runtime features as it moves forward in time but always giving direct > indication of what is going into a RHEL release > --------------------------------------------------- > > I don't have my eye on RHEL 9 at this point, so I can't say how that > distro handled the polkit update. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20220203/739870c1/attachment.html>