CentOS 6 discontinued prematurely when CentOS 8 is not yet supported?!
Hi,
We have been waiting for cPanel to support CentOS 8 before we upgrade as it is recommended to carry out a full reinstall to upgrade which is a ridiculous amount of work for a web hosting company with multiple servers.
We made this decision last year after CentOS 8 was released in September, and you had the 'On November 30, 2020, CentOS will stop supporting CentOS 6 on all systems' message on the dashboard.
This was fine, however we have received surprise 'Update Failed' emails today, stating that you have discontinued CentOS 6 and will no longer provide any updates.
I see that CentOS 7 will stop providing full updates in August. Do you really expect us to reinstall your software now and then again in three months time because you are behind in supporting CentOS 8?
When is your release date for CentOS 8 support?
Will cPanel 'work' on CentOS 8, albeit not officially endorsed yet?
Best,
James
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This is pretty widely detailed on our announcements for example: CentOS 6 Blocking Version 88 Upgrade | cPanel cPanel v88 is not available for CentOS 6 the options you right now are - Switch to CloudLInux 6
- Move to CentOS 7 (not recommended at this point)
- Use the LTS version of cPanel & WHM v86 until CentOS 8 is supported
I see that CentOS 7 will stop providing full updates in August
Per the wiki here: About/Product - CentOS Wiki they will continue receiving updates through Q4 of 2020 Per redhat full support ended last year Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle - Red Hat Customer Portal when the product entered maintenance support 1 but support for this distribution is 10 years and Maintenance support 2 doesn't end until 2024 even with that information if you look at the LifeCycle Maintenance Support 1 is not much different than full support and you wouldn't be lacking anything on existing servers using CentOS 7. See the chart below: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life CycleDescription Full Support Maintenance Support 1 (RHEL 5, 6, & 7)13 Maintenance Support 2 (RHEL 5, 6, & 7)7 Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS) Add-On8 Access to Previously Released Content through the Red Hat Customer Portal Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Technical Support9 Unlimited Unlimited Asynchronous Security Errata (RHSA)11 Yes Yes Yes No Yes8 Asynchronous Bug Fix Errata (RHBA)11 Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Minor Releases Yes Yes Yes No No No Refreshed Hardware Enablement4 Native Using Virtualization Using Virtualization Using Virtualization Using Virtualization Software Enhancements6 No No No No No Updated Installation Images Yes Yes Yes No No No When is your release date for CentOS 8 support?
There is not a release date for this right now but when there is information it'll be added here first: Up Next | cPanelWill cPanel 'work' on CentOS 8, albeit not officially endorsed yet?
Not only do I believe you're unable to install it on CentOS 8 but there are so many things changed your server would be most likely unusable if you attempted to do so.0 -
Thank you for clearing that up, Lauren. I am less worried about this after learning of the LTS version which can be changed to from the /scripts2/updateconf WHM page. I will switch to LTS and hope that CentOS 8 is supported by November. For the record, I do not believe this has been well communicated at all. The blog post you linked to recommends CentOS 7 which was released 6 years ago now and will be short lived for anyone to upgrade to it now. Best wishes, James 0
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