CentOS is dead, long live CentOS Stream

Red Hat has announcedan end to the CentOS distribution as we know it. CentOS will be replacedby "CentOS Stream", which looks like a sort of beta test for changes goinginto Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Support for CentOS 7 will continue asscheduled, but support for CentOS 8 will go away at the end of 2021."When CentOS Linux 8 (the rebuild of RHEL8) ends, your best optionwill be to migrate to CentOS Stream 8, which is a small delta from CentOSLinux 8, and has regular updates like traditional CentOS Linux releases. Ifyou are using CentOS Linux 8 in a production environment, and are concernedthat CentOS Stream will not meet your needs, we encourage you to contactRed Hat about options."

More information can be found in this FAQ. "CentOS Streamwill be getting fixes and features ahead of RHEL. Generally speaking, weexpect CentOS Stream to have fewer bugs and more runtime features than RHELuntil those packages make it into the RHEL release."

Update: see also thisblog post from Chris Wright.