The CentOS Project has announced several significant changes to its normal roadmap that may affect infrastructure and deployment plans for online businesses, data centers, and end-users.
These are the major changes announced by CentOS:
- Accelerated end-of-life for CentOS 8; no further operating system updates will be available after December 31, 2021.
- CentOS 8 will be transformed into an upstream (development) branch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) named CentOS Stream. The previous CentOS versions will remain part of the stable branch. This means that CentOS 8 should not be considered for use in production environments.
- The CentOS 7 lifecycle will remain unchanged as of this writing, with updates and security patches continuing to be available through June of 2024. Though this timeline could potentially change in the future.
Announcement from cPanel
As of now, there is no official production release of cPanel is available for Centos8 OS due to this EOL announcement. Also, we can expect cPanel support for more operating systems such as Ubuntu by the end of 2021.
