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As announced by CentOS.org the CentOS Linux 8 has reached End Of Life (EOL) on December 31st, 2021.
This means that since 1st of January 2022 CentOS 8 will not doesn't receive any updates, either nomal bug fixes or fixes for security vulnerabilities.
Since 31 January 2022 also CentOS 8 official repositories were closed, and are no more available from any of the known mirrors. The CentOS archive was moved to vault.centos.
Instructions to convert from the CentOS Linux 8 distribution to CentOS Stream 8 published at Q7: How do I migrate my CentOS Linux 8 installation to CentOS Stream? DO NOT WORK as the repositories for CentOS 8 where moved to vault.centos.org.
Additionally, with this deadline (31 Dic. 2021) falling during a time when many of our team, as well as many of our users, will be out of the office, we intend to bend the usual EOL process by keeping this content available until January 31st.
At that time, or in the event of a serious security bug in this time window (Defined as anything with a VCSS v3 score of 9 or greater), this content will be removed from our mirrors, and moved to vault.centos.org where it will be archived permanently, since we will not be able to provide updates to the content after the EOL date. Source: https://www.centos.org/centos-linux-eol/
Possible solutions:
- migrate your VM from CentOS 8 to CentOS Stream 8
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In case you choose to migrate from CentOS 8 to CentOS Stream 8 we We are advising you to use the following comands:
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Due to the high number of packages that will be updated or installed during the migration it is not guaranteed the correct functioning of previously configured services. You have to check them and ensure they are working properly. |