CentOS Linux 7 Lifecycle Ends, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Also in EOM

TapTechNews on June 30th. Today, the lifecycle of CentOS Linux 7 (EOL) has ended. Enterprises or institutions using it must migrate to a new solution in order to continue to receive updates and security patches.

TapTechNews Note: CentOS 7 was officially released in 2014, and the latest version is 7.9 launched in 2020, and officially EOL on June 30, 2024.

In addition, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (RHEL 7), which is homologous to CentOS 7, has also entered the EOM (End of Maintenance) stage today. Enterprises can obtain additional 4 years of extended support through ELS subscription and payment.

According to the introduction, the CentOS project and Red Hat ended the CentOS Linux development in 2020 and redirected all investments to CentOS Stream:

Before the release of a new version of RHEL, Red Hat will continue to release the source code on CentOS Stream as the upstream open source development platform of RHEL.

The founder of CentOS, Gregory Kurtzer, launched the Rocky Linux project to develop a downstream binary compatible version of RHEL.