Project (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux), which maintains a repository of additional packages for RHEL and CentOS, on the readiness of the EPEL 8 repository for release. The repository was ready two weeks ago and is now recognized as ready for implementation. Through EPEL, users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux-compatible distributions are offered an additional set of packages from Fedora Linux, supported by the Fedora and CentOS communities. Binary builds are produced for the architectures x86_64, aarch64, ppc64le, and s390x.
Currently, 310 binary packages (179 srpm) are available for download.
Notable updates include the creation of an additional channel, epel8-playground, which serves as an equivalent of Rawhide in Fedora and offers the latest versions of actively updated packages, without guarantees of stability and support. Compared to previous branches, EPEL 8 also adds support for the new architecture s390x, for which packages are now being built. In the future, support for s390x in EPEL 7 is also not ruled out. Modules are not yet supported, but their support is planned to be integrated by the time the EPEL-8.1 branch is formed in the repository, which will allow them to be used as dependencies when building other packages in EPEL.
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