We will only be doing updates as detailed in the above EOL link. Remember, you should not be using CentOS Linux 8 in production or you should have a plan to migrate to a different Operating System before 31 December 2021. These notes are updated constantly to include issues and incorporate feedback from users.
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We will handle the EOL as directed by the CentOS Project Board of Directors and detailed here:Īs always, read through the Release Notes at: **PLEASE NOTE:** CentOS Linux 8 will EOL on 31 December 2021. Effectively immediately, this is the current release for CentOS Linux 8 and is tagged as 2111, derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 Source Code. We are pleased to announce the general availability of the latest version of CentOS Linux 8. Announcing the latest release of CentOS Linux 8 (2111).If you still need a CentOS 6 image with MAAS a Packer template as part of packer-maas. If you are no longer using CentOS 6 you must manually delete it. MAAS does not delete images which have been downloaded but no longer exist in a SimpleStream.
CentOS 6 RemovedĬentOS 6 is going end of life November 30th and will no longer be receiving bug fixes or security updates. These images will go into the MAAS candidate stream to be tested before being promoted to the stable stream. We now have an automated Jenkins job which produces new CentOS images whenever there are updates available. Note: CentOS 8 has changed the default username to cloud-user packer-maas generated CentOS imagesĬentOS images hosted on are now generated using packer-maas. We have happy to announce that CentOS 8 has been added to the default MAAS images stream! You can start using CentOS 8 by adding centos/8 as a boot a boot source selection in the UI or CLI.