CentOS Linux End Of Life, CentOS Stream And The New Red Hat Enterprise Linux Landscape
Red Hat News, Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
On June 30, 2024, CentOS Linux 7 reached its end of life - as highlighted by numerous articles across the IT world, this means that there are no more security patches, feature updates or bug fixes delivered to any versions of CentOS Linux.
Red Hat has provided numerous mechanisms for migration, but if you're reading the Red Hat blog, you already know about these options. Instead, I want to talk about the future of the CentOS Project, which remains a foundational catalyst of the entire Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) ecosystem
To be clear, CentOS Linux no longer exists. CentOS Stream was created to enable participation in changes to mainstream RHEL and as a base for the work done in CentOS Project special interest groups (SIGs), providing a faster feedback loop into RHEL engineering as well as a crystal ball into RHEL's future.