On Fri, 2020-12-11 at 22:05 +0100, Gionatan Danti wrote:> Il 2020-12-11 19:26 Walter H. ha scritto: > > with CentOS Stream there are only updates till 2024(!) not 2029 as it > > be expected ... > > Is that officially confirmed? If RHEL 8 is expected to have an 8.10 > release sometime in the 2028-2029 timeframe, and if any updates should > really hit Stream-8 before, the latter should have the same EOL date. >Somewhere in amongst the vast number of posts, someone said that the release cadence for point releases was 6 months with the final release being 8.10 in 2024. After that RHEL 8 goes into maintenance mode and there will be no more content added to 8-stream (because it had reached the end of it's useful life as a pre point release distro). I think it's still not clear what exactly will be the fate of 8-stream after 2024. The implication is that 9-stream will be active by then and 8-stream will just disappear. In some ways it would be nice if it was frozen but kept, but it won't receive any bug/security fixes, so it may be deemed too "dangerous" to allow people access to it. I suppose it's natural home would be vault.centos.org, but we will have to see what RH think of that. P.
Am 11.12.20 um 23:53 schrieb Pete Biggs:> On Fri, 2020-12-11 at 22:05 +0100, Gionatan Danti wrote: >> Il 2020-12-11 19:26 Walter H. ha scritto: >>> with CentOS Stream there are only updates till 2024(!) not 2029 as it >>> be expected ... >> >> Is that officially confirmed? If RHEL 8 is expected to have an 8.10 >> release sometime in the 2028-2029 timeframe, and if any updates should >> really hit Stream-8 before, the latter should have the same EOL date. >> > Somewhere in amongst the vast number of posts, someone said that the > release cadence for point releases was 6 months with the final release > being 8.10 in 2024. After that RHEL 8 goes into maintenance mode and > there will be no more content added to 8-stream (because it had reached > the end of it's useful life as a pre point release distro). > > I think it's still not clear what exactly will be the fate of 8-stream > after 2024. The implication is that 9-stream will be active by then and > 8-stream will just disappear. In some ways it would be nice if it was > frozen but kept, but it won't receive any bug/security fixes, so it may > be deemed too "dangerous" to allow people access to it. I suppose it's > natural home would be vault.centos.org, but we will have to see what RH > think of that. >"CentOS Stream 8 will be retired from build servers, community build systems, primary mirror sites (copies will remain on vault.centos.org), and other places within our ecosystem." https://centos.org/distro-faq/#q13-can-i-start-up-a-sig-that-will-maintain-centos-stream-8-after-rhel8-reaches-the-end-of-full-support -- Leon
Il 2020-12-11 23:53 Pete Biggs ha scritto:> Somewhere in amongst the vast number of posts, someone said that the > release cadence for point releases was 6 months with the final release > being 8.10 in 2024. After that RHEL 8 goes into maintenance mode and > there will be no more content added to 8-stream (because it had reached > the end of it's useful life as a pre point release distro).From what I can read here [1], the latest 8.10 release (due in 2024) will be supported for other 5 years, bringing RHEL 8 to the 10 years total support we know. So the question is: will Stream-8 follow the same support cycle? Or any Extended life cycle support patch to the RHEL 8.10 release will be considered private? This is a very important question and I sincerely hope someone can answer. Thanks. [1] https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata -- Danti Gionatan Supporto Tecnico Assyoma S.r.l. - www.assyoma.it email: g.danti at assyoma.it - info at assyoma.it GPG public key ID: FF5F32A8