Once upon a time, Alessandro Baggi <alessandro.baggi at gmail.com> said: > As reported in my previous message I'm not worried about how much time is > required to build the new (major/minor) release, it will be ready when it > will be. My major concern is about the "security update blackout" that take > long as the build process. I'm not involved in building CentOS, but the issue is that it is a rebuild of upstream. When RHEL 8.2 is released, there are no more upstream updates released for RHEL 8.1; they are all on top of the RHEL 8.2 release. So, until the time that CentOS can rebuild RHEL 8.2 and make a new CentOS release, there can't be any updates for CentOS 8.1. RHEL 8 introduced modules, which complicated the build system and required new tooling, so CentOS has had a bunch of "under the hood" work to catch up. Hopefully, once that's ironed out, the gap between a RHEL 8.x release and the corresponding CentOS release will drop. -- Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net>