CentOS 8.2 (2004)

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The CentOS community edition from the sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is described as a "stable, predictable, manageable, and reproducible platform".

The CentOS community edition from the sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is described as a "stable, predictable, manageable, and reproducible platform" [1]. With this release, the updates repo disappears: All updates land either in BaseOS, AppStream, or both, as they are built and tested and then pushed to the mirrors [2]. Also new in release 8:

OS and Kickstart directories for each architecture
System-wide cryptographic policy customization
Supports OpenSSL 1.1.1 and TLS 1.3
nftables, chrony, and updated software throughout
Centralized logging with the systemd journald daemon

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