We established a new Testing team , and they’ve been busy putting the RC through its paces. We’re pleased that we’ve encountered so few bugs, which is a testament to the hard work our release engineering team did in putting it together.
We also saw Red Hat release RHEL 8.4 on May 18, and are very excited about preparing our release candidate of 8.4. As soon as it’s ready and testing is completed, we anticipate being able to announce the general availability of Rocky Linux 8.4 for production use. Keep a close eye out for the announcement of the 8.4 release candidate, which should be coming soon.
AFAIK Rocky Linux is only available for 8.x and the update tool will only cover CentOS 8.x to Rocky Linux 8.x and there is no upgradepath for CentOS 7 to Rocky Linux. Which is more or less understandable.
I am not surprised that installing NS packages on RL failed.
Likely because many people see it as a good candidate to replace CentOS8, even if the Neth devs don’t currently seem convinced that CentOS8 is such a bad thing.
Whatever. Many folks here (including me) think CentOS as a whole is going in a very bad direction for our needs, and we’d be better served with a stable enterprise OS, which CentOS used to be, but isn’t any more. Rocky seems to be a popular candidate. I might be inclined to favor Oracle, but I understand concerns about them.
