CentOS Stream

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CentOS Stream
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CentOS Stream 9 in the Workstation configuration, showing its desktop environment, GNOME 40.
Developer The CentOS Project
(affiliated with Red Hat)
OS family Linux (Unix-like)
Working stateCurrent
Source model Open source
Initial release24 September 2019;5 years ago (2019-09-24) [1]
Latest release 10 / December 12, 2024;1 day ago (2024-12-12). [2]
Repository gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/
Marketing target Servers, desktop computers, workstations, supercomputers
Update method Release Candidate
Package manager dnf (command line); PackageKit (graphical); .rpm (binaries format)
Platforms x86-64, ARM64, ppc64le and IBM Z
Kernel type Monolithic (Linux kernel)
Default
user interface 		Bash, GNOME Shell
License GNU GPL and other licenses
Preceded by CentOS
Official website centos.org

CentOS Stream is a community enterprise Linux distribution that exists as a midstream between the upstream development in Fedora Linux and the downstream development for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. [3] CentOS Stream is being used by Meta Platforms (known for Facebook and WhatsApp) [4] [5] and Twitter. [6]

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History

The initial release, CentOS Stream 8, was released on 24 September 2019, at the same time as CentOS 8. [3] As CentOS 8 became unsupported, the CentOS Project provided a simple means of converting from CentOS Linux 8 to CentOS Stream 8. [7] On 13 January 2021, CentOS board approved the creation of Hyperscale SIG proposed by Meta Platforms, Twitter, and Verizon engineers, [6] [8] which focus on enabling CentOS Stream deployment on large-scale infrastructures and facilitating collaboration on packages and tooling.

CentOS Stream 9 was released on 3 December 2021, [9] with support of IBM Z architecture.

In 2023, Red Hat announced that CentOS 7 and CentOS Stream 8 will be discontinued in 2024 in order to focus on Red Hat Enterprise Linux development. CentOS Stream 9 was given as one possible migration path. [10]

CentOS Stream 10 was released on 12 December 2024. [2]

Release history

Releases of CentOS Stream
VersionRelease dateEnd-Of-LifeKernelArchitectures
Old version, no longer maintained: 82019-09-24May 31, 2024;6 months ago4.18.0x86-64, ARM64, ppc64le
Old version, yet still maintained: 92021-12-03May 31, 2027;2 years' time [11] 5.14.0x86-64, ARM64, ppc64le, s390x
Current stable version:102024-12-12January 1, 2030;5 years' time [12] 6.12.0x86-64, ARM64, ppc64le, s390x
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  2. 1 2 "Introducing CentOS Stream 10". blog.centos.org.
  3. 1 2 "Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOSStream". wiki.centos.org. 2019-09-24. Archived from the original on 2021-08-12. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
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