The distribution release has been released CentOS 2111, which incorporated changes from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5. The distribution is fully binary compatible with RHEL 8.5. Builds CentOS 2111 binaries have been prepared (8 GB DVD and 600 MB netboot) for the x86_64, Aarch64 (ARM64), and ppc64le architectures. The SRPMS packages used to build the binaries and debuginfo are available through vault.centos.org.
In addition to the new features introduced in RHEL 8.5, CentOS 2111 changed the contents of 34 packages, including anaconda, dhcp, firefox, grub2, httpd, kernel, PackageKit, and yum. The changes made to the packages generally consist of rebranding and cosmetic changes. RHEL-specific packages such as redhat-*, insights-client, and subscription-manager-migration* were removed. As in RHEL 8.5, CentOS 8.5 includes additional AppStream modules with new versions of OpenJDK 17, Ruby 3.0, nginx 1.20, Node.js 16, PHP 7.4.19, GCC Toolset 11, LLVM Toolset 12.0.1, Rust Toolset 1.54.0, and Go Toolset 1.16.7.
This is the final release of the 8.x branch, which will be replaced by a continuously updated edition of the distribution at the end of the year. CentOS Stream. Releasing updates for CentOS Linux 8 will be discontinued on December 31st. January 31st or earlier if critical vulnerabilities are identified related to the branch. CentOS Linux 8 content will be removed from mirrors and moved to the vault archive.centos.org.
Users are advised to migrate to CentOS Stream 8, by installing the package centos-release-stream("dnf install centos-release-stream") and running the "dnf update" command. Alternatively, users can also migrate to distributions that have continued the development of the branch. CentOS 8: AlmaLinux (migration script), Rocky Linux (migration script), VzLinux (migration script) or Oracle Linux (migration script). Red Hat has also made RHEL available for free use in open source organizations and individual developer environments with up to 16 virtual or physical systems.
Source: opennet.ru
