CentOS 8 officially released based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

The CentOS Project, a 100% compatible rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux that fully complies with Red Hat's redistribution requirements, has released a new version: CentOS 8.0.1905 for all supported architectures.

Hot on the heels of the CentOS Linux 7.7 release, CentOS Linux 8 is now officially released. The new version is based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 source, which means it has all the great new features and enhancements for the hybrid cloud era.

Highlights include support for Application Streams, a rapidly evolving collection of frameworks, programming languages, and developer tools that are updated frequently and make it easier for system administrators to automate complex tasks, as well as built-in support for the OpenSSL 1.1.1 and TLS 1.3 cryptographic standards.

CentOS Linux 8 also offers support for ARM and POWER architectures, a DNF-based YUM package manager, Python 3 by default, updated version control systems including Git 2.18, Mercurial 4.8, and Subversion 1.10, support for the GNOME 3.28 desktop environment, and more. And LUKS2 disk encryption support in the Anaconda installer.

Other notable features of the CentOS Linux 8 distribution are the BPF Compiler Collection (BCC), new tools for creating efficient kernel tracing and manipulation programs, extended Berkeley Packet Filtering (eBPF) capabilities in the kernel, and the Image Builder tool for creating custom system images.

Updated components

Under the hood, CentOS Linux 8 comes with a lot of updated components, among which we can mention PHP 7.2, Ruby 2.5, Perl 5.26, SWIG 3.0, MariaDB 10.3, MySQL 8.0, PostgreSQL 10, PostgreSQL 9.6, Redis 5, Apache 2.4, nginx 1.14, Squid 4.4, and Varnish Cache 6.0.

You can download CentOS Linux 8 for 64-bit (x86_64) architecture right now through the official website. CentOS Linux 8 can also be downloaded for AArch64 (ARM64) and PPC64le (PowerPC 64-bit Little Endian) architectures from the following links. Also today, and surprisingly for Red Hat, they announced the release of CentOS Stream, their new forward-looking rolling distribution for developers and early adopters.

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