In 2021, CentOS 8 will effectively cease to exist as a separate corporate rebuild distribution and will become CentOS Stream, serving as a 'gateway' between Fedora and RHEL. This means it will contain newer packages compared to RHEL. However, CVEs will first be fixed for RHEL and then ported to CentOS, as is currently the case.
According to the maintainers, this does not mean that CentOS will become a beta version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It is expected to include fresher packages with fewer bugs. Binary compatibility with RHEL will be lost.
What this will give us or take away will be revealed over time. For binary compatibility with RHEL remains OL.
Source: linux.org.ru
