On 6/17/20 3:53 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Noam Bernstein <noam.bernstein at nrl.navy.mil> said: >> Of course. My only question is whether the observation that the gap for CentOS 8 is indeed larger than we have come to be used to for CentOS 7. > > So, I took a look... and the answer is "it's not" (with a small sample > set). I took dates from Wikipedia for RHEL and the archived release > notes for CentOS. I didn't bother with the .0 releases (since that's a > lot of new work anyway). Right now, CentOS 8 is far faster than CentOS > 7 and 6 were at this stage. > > release RHEL date CentOS date days > 6.1 2011-05-19 2011-12-12 207 > 6.2 2011-12-06 2012-07-24 231 > 6.3 2012-05-20 2012-09-30 133 > 6.4 2013-02-21 2013-05-21 89 > 6.5 2013-11-21 2014-02-26 97 > 6.6 2014-10-13 2014-11-15 33 > 6.7 2015-07-22 2015-09-05 45 > 6.8 2016-05-10 2016-07-28 79 > 6.9 2017-03-21 2017-04-05 15 > 6.10 2018-06-19 2018-07-03 14 > > 7.1 2015-03-05 2015-10-11 220 > 7.2 2015-11-19 2016-02-19 92 > 7.3 2016-11-03 2016-12-21 48 > 7.4 2017-08-01 2018-03-21 232 > 7.5 2018-04-10 2018-10-30 203 > 7.6 2018-10-30 2019-01-28 90 > 7.7 2019-08-06 (didn't find release notes) > 7.8 2020-03-31 2020-04-27 27 > > 8.1 2019-11-05 2020-01-15 71 > 8.2 2020-04-28 2020-06-15 48 > Your dates are significantly off Wikipedia has a delay listed in a table: It is, for CentOS-7, For example: 7.0 27 7.1 26 7.2 25 7.3 39 7.4 43 7.5 31 7.6 34 7.7 42 7.8 28 For 6 .. since 6.2, it has bee3n between 10 and 18 days. For 8: 8.0 140 8.1 71 8.2 48 And EL8 is exponentially harder with an entirely new build system and the requirement to build modules.