On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 11:08 PM Peter <peter at pajamian.dhs.org> wrote: > On 17/01/20 8:06 am, Lamar Owen wrote: > > On 1/16/20 6:49 AM, Peter wrote: > >> On 16/01/20 4:14 am, Brian Stinson wrote: > >>> Release for CentOS Linux 8 (1911) > >>> > >>> We are pleased to announce the general availability of CentOS Linux 8. > >> > >> CentOS 8 was released in September 2019. Don't you mean 8.1? > > No, they mean CentOS 8 (1911). This was hashed to death back in early > > CentOS 7 days, so shouldn't need rehashing again...... > > No, the hashing ove back then had nothing to do with dropping the minor > release number. Doing that now is just making things way too confusing. > > Back then the vast majority of the community showed disapproval for even > that new naming scheme, but the wishes of the community were ignored and > the new naming scheme went ahead anyways. I doubt anything different > will happen now. > > > Yeah, I know most people are going to call it 8.1, > > That's because it *is* 8.1 and calling it 8 (1911) is just confusing and > ridiculous. > > > Peter > I think that the e-mail subject of the announcement could be a bit misleading. Also for 7.x the subject for the latest one, posted by Johnny, was: "Release for CentOS Linux 7 (1908) on the x86_64 Architecture" Actually at CentOS 7 time, after some discussions, developers accepted to have both "numbers" inside release information. For example on running systems you have - for 7.x On 7.6: # cat /etc/centos-release CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core) # lsb_release -r Release: 7.6.1810 On 7.7: # cat /etc/centos-release CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908 (Core) # lsb_release -r Release: 7.7.1908 And this has been maintained in 8.x too: On 8.0: # cat /etc/centos-release CentOS Linux release 8.0.1905 (Core) # lsb_release -r Release: 8.0.1905 On the just released 8.1 # cat /etc/centos-release CentOS Linux release 8.1.1911 (Core) # lsb_release -r Release: 8.1.1911 This is acceptable in my opinion from a final user point of view I'm not sure but possibly the origin of the loooong discussion thread was this one from Karanbir, if interested: https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2014-June/010444.html HIH, Gianluca