is represented Production of the distribution CentOS 2105 , which made changes from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4. The distribution is fully binary compatible with Rhel 8.4. build Centos 2011 Prepared (8 GB DVD and 605 MB NetBoot) for architectures X86_64, AARCH64 (ARM64) and PPC64LE. SRPMS packets, based on binary files being built, and debuginfo are available via vault.centos.org .
In addition to the new features that appeared in RHEL 8.4, in CentOS 2105 Changed 34 packet contents, including Anaconda, DHCP, Firefox, Grub2, Httpd, Kernel, PackageKit and Yum. Changes made to packages are usually reduced to rebranding and replacing decoration. Rhel-specific packages such as RedHat- *, Insights-Client and Subscription-Manager-Migration *.
As in Rhel 8.4 For CentOS 8.4 Additional AppStream modules are formed with new versions of Python 3.9, SWIG 4.0, Subversion 1.14, Redis 6, PostgreSQL 13, MariaDB 10.5, LLVM Toolset 11.0.0, Rust Toolset 1.49.0 and GO Toolset 1.15.7. In the boot ISO images, a problem was solved, due to which the user was forced to manually enter the rosary URL to load packets. In a new release, the installer now chooses the nearest mirror to the user.
In the continuously updated editorial board of the CentOS Stream distribution, which at the end of the year will replace the classic CentOS 8, implemented the ability to roll back to past versions of the package using the DNF DOWNGRADE command, if there are several versions of one application in the repository. The development of opportunities for migration with CENTOS 8 on Centos Stream is continued. The unification of the names of repositories (repoid), which are shown to the lower case (for example, the “AppStream” name is replaced by “AppStream”). To go to Centos Stream, it is enough to change the names of some files in the /etc/yum.repos.Repos.d directory, update Repoid and correct the use of the “–NableRepo” and “–DisableRepo” flags in your scripts.
Famous problems:
- When installing in VirtualBox, select “Server With A GUI” mode and use VirtualBox not older 6.1, 6.0.14 or 5.2.34;
- in Rhel 8 stopped Support for some hardware devices that can be more relevant. The exit can be the use of the CentOSPLUS kernel and the ELREPO of the ISO images
- AUTOMATIC APPSTREAM-REPO procedure does not work when using boot.iso and settings for NFS;
- PackageKit cannot define local variables DNF / YUM.
with additional drivers;