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CentOS Linux 8 (2111) Release Notes

Last updated: n/a

Contents

  1. Translations
  2. Introduction
  3. Install Media
  4. Verifying Downloaded Installation Images
  5. Major Changes
      1. Upstream changes
      2. Yum repo file and repoid changes
  6. Deprecated Features
  7. Known Issues
  8. Fixed Issues
  9. Packages and Applications
    1. Packages modified by CentOS
    2. Packages removed from CentOS that are included upstream
    3. Packages added by CentOS that are not included upstream
  10. Sources
  11. How to help and get help
    1. Special Interest Groups
    2. Mailing Lists and Forums
    3. Wiki and Website
    4. IRC Presence
  12. Further Reading
  13. Thanks

1. Translations

Translations of these release notes are available for the following languages:

2. Introduction

This will be the final release of CentOS Linux 8, which is going End Of Life (EOL) on December 31, 2021. We recommend that users of CentOS Linux 8 migrate to CentOS Stream 8.

The CentOS Project does not provide any verification, certification, or software assurance with respect to security for CentOS Linux. The Security Profiles provided in the CentOS Linux installers are a conversion of the ones included in RHEL Source Code. If certified / verified software that has guaranteed assurance is what you are looking for, then you likely do not want to use CentOS Linux.

Hello and welcome to the sixth CentOS Linux 8 release. The CentOS Linux distribution is a stable, predictable, manageable and reproducible platform derived from the sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

CentOS conforms fully with Red Hat's redistribution policy and aims to have full functional compatibility with the upstream product. CentOS mainly changes packages to remove Red Hat's branding and artwork.

We have decided not to follow Red Hat's usage of Installation Roles. In CentOS Linux all content from every distribution 'channel' is made available to the user at time of installation.

Please read through the other sections before trying an install or reporting an issue.

3. Install Media

Various installation images are available for installing CentOS. Which image you need to download depends on your installation environment. All of these images can either be burned on a DVD or dd'ed to a USB memory stick.

If you are unsure which image to use, pick the DVD image. It allows selecting which components you want to install and contains all packages that can be selected from the GUI installer.

The boot image can be used for doing installs over network. After booting the computer with this image, the installer downloads packages as needed based on selected components from the closest mirror.

Attention
At least 2 GB RAM are required to install and use CentOS-8 (2111). At least 4 GB RAM is recommended. Bug 8353

4. Verifying Downloaded Installation Images

Before copying the image to your preferred installation media you should check the sha256sum of the downloaded installation images. 

# CentOS-8.5.2111-aarch64-boot.iso: 745474048 bytes
SHA256 (CentOS-8.5.2111-aarch64-boot.iso) = ea75b9ab34f8fd636f8c32d5d7b56ede9c6a3b721cdf3057a15ab8927b996c60
# CentOS-8.5.2111-aarch64-dvd1.iso: 8215996416 bytes
SHA256 (CentOS-8.5.2111-aarch64-dvd1.iso) = 146e58624ef3b8842fc9576d9c5b9c046497601b1a0636f934484b0b1929ce21

# CentOS-8.5.2111-ppc64le-boot.iso: 789970944 bytes
SHA256 (CentOS-8.5.2111-ppc64le-boot.iso) = 1aab48198031ce8ea2fed9341fb9d28a5846bb1e25f0ffd480111a006fcdf374
# CentOS-8.5.2111-ppc64le-dvd1.iso: 9282007040 bytes
SHA256 (CentOS-8.5.2111-ppc64le-dvd1.iso) = 11998564c8f5d18b765c7eace6c02e5891417388ba379cec0ce360af7cea7c7c

# CentOS-8.5.2111-x86_64-boot.iso: 827326464 bytes
SHA256 (CentOS-8.5.2111-x86_64-boot.iso) = 9602c69c52d93f51295c0199af395ca0edbe35e36506e32b8e749ce6c8f5b60a
# CentOS-8.5.2111-x86_64-dvd1.iso: 10794041344 bytes
SHA256 (CentOS-8.5.2111-x86_64-dvd1.iso) = 3b795863001461d4f670b0dedd02d25296b6d64683faceb8f2b60c53ac5ebb3e

5. Major Changes

5.0.1. Upstream changes

Later versions of the following components are now available as new module streams:

The following components have been upgraded:

The following compiler toolsets have been updated:

See the Overview section of the upstream RHEL 8.5 release notes for more changes.

5.0.2. Yum repo file and repoid changes

During the 8.3.2011 release we changed our yum repo IDs and file names to make the process of migrating from CentOS Linux 8 to CentOS Stream 8 easier.

Repoid (8.2.2004 and before)

Repoid (8.3.2011 and later)

BaseOS

baseos

AppStream

appstream

PowerTools

powertools

centosplus

plus

HighAvailability

ha

base-debuginfo

debuginfo

Devel

devel

BaseOS-source

baseos-source

AppStream-source

appstream-source

centosplus-source

plus-source

base-debuginfo

debuginfo

If you are updating from 8.2.2004 or earlier and have local customizations to the repo files, check in /etc/yum.repos.d/ for any .rpmsave or .rpmnew files that need to be merged. You may also want to update any scripts or tools that you have that specify repo IDs using the --enablerepo or --disablerepo flags.

6. Deprecated Features

See upstream documentations for Deprecated functionality and Removed security functionality.

7. Known Issues

A list of known upstream issues can be found in the RHEL 8.5 release notes. Given that we build from the same sources, many, if not all, of those issues will likely also apply to CentOS Linux 8.

If you are planning to install CentOS Linux 8 in a VirtualBox guest, you should not select "Server with a GUI" (default) during the installation. See this Red Hat article for details.

Support for some adapters has been removed in CentOS Linux 8. You can find the device IDs of those adapters in this upstream documentation. ELRepo offers driver update disks (DUD) for some of those that are still commonly used. For the list of the device IDs provided by the ELRepo packages, please see here. Some more details are in this blog. Note also that, once CentOS Linux 8 is installed, you can use the centosplus kernel (kernel-plus) which has support for those devices.

If you are using the boot.iso and NFS to install, the automatic procedure for adding the AppStream-Repo will fail. You have to disable it and add the right NFS-path manually.

Installing the VirtualBox Addons will produce an error if your version is 6.0.12/5.2.32 or lower. This is fixed with versions 6.0.14 and 5.2.34

PackageKit is unable to resolve local DNF/YUM variables. As a result PackageKit will not function if these variables are in use. We are tracking this bug.

Installing CentOS 8 in VirtualBox 5.2.32 (maybe other versions too) will do weird things with the graphical install screen towards the end of the installation. This makes it impossible to see the install status or press the reboot button and you have to guess when the install is finished. The screen corruption can be cleared by switching to a different terminal and back using the vbox Host key + 2 to switch to VT 2 and then vbox Host key + 6 to switch back to the graphical install screen.

8. Fixed Issues

A list of known fixed issues upstream can be found in the RHEL 8.5 bug fix notes. Given that we build from the same sources, many, if not all, of those issues will likely also apply to CentOS Linux.

9. Packages and Applications

9.1. Packages modified by CentOS

9.2. Packages removed from CentOS that are included upstream

9.3. Packages added by CentOS that are not included upstream

10. Sources

All CentOS Linux 8 sources are hosted at git.centos.org. All code released into the distribution originated from git.centos.org.

Source RPMs will also be published once the release is done, in the usual location at http://vault.centos.org/centos/8/

From a CentOS machine you can easily retrieve sources using the yumdownloader --source <packagename> command.

11. How to help and get help

As a CentOS user there are various ways you can help out with the CentOS community. Take a look at our Contribute page for further information on how to get involved.

11.1. Special Interest Groups

CentOS consists of different Special Interest Groups (SIGs) that bring together people with similar interests. The following SIGs already exist (among others):

And we encourage people to join any of these SIGs or start up a new SIG, e.g.

11.2. Mailing Lists and Forums

Another way you can help others in the community is by actively helping and resolving problems that users come up against in the mailing lists and the forums.

11.3. Wiki and Website

Even as an inexperienced CentOS user we can use your help. Because we like to know what problems you encountered, if you had problems finding specific information, how you would improve documentation so it becomes more accessible. This kind of feedback is as valuable to others as it would have been to you so your involvement is required to make CentOS better.

So if you want to help out and improve our documentation and Wiki, register on the Wiki or subscribe to the centos-docs mailing list.

11.4. IRC Presence

The CentOS project maintains a presence on the Libera Chat IRC network as an additional venue for community support and interaction. Please see our IRC wiki article for more information.

12. Further Reading

The following websites contain large amounts of information to help people with their CentOS systems:

13. Thanks

We thank everyone involved for helping us produce this product and would like to specifically acknowledge the extra effort made by the QA Team. Without them working lots and lots of hours in evenings, nights, weekends and holidays, we couldn't have released this Release in the time we did. A special thanks also goes to the CentOS community. A more complete list of the contributors to this release can be found at /usr/share/doc/centos-release/Contributors of your new CentOS Linux 8 installation.

Copyright (C) 2021 The CentOS Project

2023-09-11 07:22