is presented Production of the distribution CentOS 2111 , which made changes from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5. The distribution is fully binary compatible with Rhel 8.5. build centos 2111 Prepared (8 GB DVD and 600 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 8.5, in CentOS 2111 Changed the contents of 34 packets, including Anaconda, DHCP, Firefox, Grub2, Httpd, Kernel, PackageKit and Yum. Changes made in packages are usually reduced to rebranding and replacing decoration. Rhel-specific packages such as Redhat- *, Insights-Client and Subscription-Manager-Migration * are deleted. As in Rhel 8.5 for CentOS 8.5 Formed 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 last release of the branch 8.x, which at the end of the year will replace the continuously updated editors of the CentOS Stream distribution. The release of updates for CentOS Linux 8 will stopped December 31. January 31 or earlier, in case of identifying critical vulnerabilities associated with the CentOS Linux 8 branch content, the contents will be removed from the mirrors and moved to the archive vault.centos.org.
Users recommended migrate on centos stream 8 or alternative distributions, such as VZlinux (prepared by Virtuozzo), Almalinux (develops Cloudlinux, together with the community), Rocky Linux (develops by the community under the guidance CENTOS founder with the support of a specially created CTRL IQ) and Oracle Linux. In addition, Red Hat has provided the possibility of free use of RHEL in organizations developing open software, and in the environment of individual developers with up to 16 virtual or physical systems.