The release of CentOS Stream 9 has been carried out before CentOS Linux 8 expires at the end of this year. CentOS Stream 9 was summarized as a continuous delivery release in today’s announcement about RHEL9, as the next release point for RHEL. Before a software package is officially introduced into CentOS Stream, it has to go through a series of tests and checks-including automatic and manual, to ensure that it meets the strict standards of RHEL software packages.
Updates posted to CentOS Stream are the same as those posted to RHEL’s unreleased minor version. Its purpose is to make CentOS Stream have the same basic stability as RHEL itself. In order to achieve this stability, each major version of CentOS Stream starts from the stable version of Fedora.
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For example, the CentOS Stream 9 released today starts with Fedora 34, which is also the code base of RHEL 9. When the updated packages pass the test and meet the stability standards, they will be pushed to CentOS Stream and the nightly build of RHEL, so it can be said that what you see in CentOS Stream now is what RHEL will look like in the future.
In other words, this visualization of the CentOS project shows the trajectory of CentOS Stream 9 from the branch of Fedora 34 to becoming the forefront of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 development in the future. CentOS Stream 9 can be downloaded from CentOS.org.