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Red Hat has announced
an end to the CentOS distribution as we know it. CentOS will be replaced
by “CentOS Stream”, which looks like a sort of beta test for changes going
into Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Support for CentOS 7 will continue as
scheduled, but support for CentOS 8 will go away at the end of 2021.
“When CentOS Linux 8 (the rebuild of RHEL8) ends, your best option
will be to migrate to CentOS Stream 8, which is a small delta from CentOS
Linux 8, and has regular updates like traditional CentOS Linux releases. If
you are using CentOS Linux 8 in a production environment, and are concerned
that CentOS Stream will not meet your needs, we encourage you to contact
Red Hat about options.”

More information can be found in this FAQ. “CentOS Stream
will be getting fixes and features ahead of RHEL. Generally speaking, we
expect CentOS Stream to have fewer bugs and more runtime features than RHEL
until those packages make it into the RHEL release.”

Update: see also this
blog post from Chris Wright.