After CentOS under the wing of Red Hat announced all kinds of assistance to the project, but the current status of work on CentOS 8 lags behind ... Despite status updates, only the download page and the build server were made, on which, judging by , something is going once a week.
The zero assembly cycle has not yet been completed, although according to the plan it should have been completed in May. On the zero cycle, a set of packages is formed, the minimum necessary for the further assembly of other packages. Then this set is gradually expanded within the framework of subsequent assembly cycles. Kernel builds are currently running without vulnerability fixes (Microarchitectural Data Sampling), when the kernel with patches for blocking MDS will be ready is not clear. Also, work on the assessment has not been completed. packages, preparing patches to remove elements of the Red Hat brand, and selecting .
Previously, major new releases of CentOS were released one or two months after the corresponding release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. At the same time, CentOS developers that when preparing a new significant branch, unforeseen difficulties cannot be ruled out, which may require additional development time.
Source: opennet.ru