distribution release , which incorporates changes from . The distribution is fully binary compatible with RHEL 8.1, changes made to the packages, as a rule, come down to rebranding and replacing the artwork. 1911 CentOS (7 GB DVD and 550 MB netboot) for x86_64, Aarch64 (ARM64) and ppc64le architectures. The SRPMS packages from which the binaries were built and debuginfo are available via .
Parallel continuously updated edition , wherein access to packages being built for the next RHEL interim release (rolling RHEL).
In addition to the new features introduced in , the following changes can be noted in CentOS 1911:
- Removed RHEL-specific packages such as redhat-*, insights-client and subscription-manager-migration*;
- Changed the contents of 35 packages, including: anaconda, dhcp, firefox, grub2, httpd, kernel, PackageKit and yum. Changes made to packages are usually rebranded and replaced with art;
- A lot of work has been done on the processing of scripts for automatic rebuilding of the source texts of RHEL packages during the formation of CentOS Linux. Due to changes between the RHEL 7 and RHEL 8 branches, many scripts stopped working and needed to be adapted to the new buildroot. Building CentOS 8.2 on top of RHEL 8.2 is expected to run more smoothly and require significantly less manual work.
Known Issues:
- When installing in VirtualBox, you should select the "Server with a GUI" mode and use VirtualBox not older than 6.1, 6.0.14 or 5.2.34;
- RHEL 8 support for some hardware devices that may still be relevant. The solution may be to use the centosplus kernel and prepared by the ELRepo project with additional drivers;
- The automatic procedure for adding AppStream-Repo does not work when using boot.iso and installing over NFS;
- The installation media offers an incomplete dotnet2.1 component, so if you need to install the dotnet package, you must install it separately from the repository;
- PackageKit cannot define local DNF/YUM variables.
Source: opennet.ru