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Just two weeks after reaching the official end of life, something broke spectacularly, leaving CentOS 8 users at major risk of a severe attack - and with no support from CentOS. You'd think that this issue no longer affects a significant number of organizations because by now, companies would have migrated away from CentOS 8 to an OS that is actively supported by vendors. Just the same with Red Hat, which backs CentOS. But, with CentOS 8 now no longer officially supported, a CentOS 8 patch for the LUKS flaw is not going to appear.
With CentOS 8 coming out in September 2019, it gave enterprise users a long time frame to test and switch to CentOS 8. Some CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 users moved quickly and adopted CentOS 8, but these users were in for a surprise.
Worse, the fact that stable releases of CentOS were discontinued in exchange for the rolling-release CentOS Stream means that to secure their workloads most CentOS 8 users have to opt for an entirely different Linux distribution, with just a year to choose, evaluate and implement an alternative. CentOS is not dead. Red Hat will continue to release new versions of CentOS through CentOS Stream, but it is a rolling release: updates can come at any time, and it will inevitably mean that CentOS Stream is quickly out of sync with the most recent RHEL release.
The AlmaLinux OS Foundation announced availability of AlmaLinux OS 8.4 just one week after the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4. "This is our second stable release, since the project was announced in December," said Jack Aboutboul, community manager of AlmaLinux.
CloudLinux announced the general availability of AlmaLinux OS, the open source enterprise-grade Linux distribution created as a replacement for CentOS. The new operating system is released in a stable version and is ready for production workloads. The AlmaLinux project named Jack Aboutboul as community manager of AlmaLinux.
AlmaLinux, the open source enterprise-level Linux distribution created as an alternative to CentOS, is released in beta with most RHEL packages and is ready for community testing. AlmaLinux is a 1:1 binary fork of RedHat Linux Enterprise Linux, backed with a $1 million annual sponsorship by CloudLinux, with support provided until at least 2029.
Jack Wallen walks you through the process of installing an identity and authorization platform on CentOS 8. FreeIPA is an open source identity and authorization platform that provides centralized authorization for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
If you have CentOS servers in your data center, you'll want to make sure to patch them against BootHole. Jack Wallen shows you how.
If you have CentOS servers in your data center, you'll want to make sure to patch them against BootHole. I ran two different updates on two different CentOS machines and neither updated the necessary packages.
Learn how to enable SSH session recording in CentOS 8.