
The function determining beta versions is not 100% reliable due to a wide variety of versioning schemes.

CentOS team answers questions from the public.

CentOS to gain optional real-time packages.CentOS Linux being phased out in favour of Stream.CentOS Linux 8 reaches its end of life.Releases announcements with download links and checksums: Heitor Augusto Murari Cardozo (Portuguese) In 2020 it was announced CentOS Linux is being discontinued and replaced with CentOS Stream, a developer-focused distribution which acts as a middle-stream between Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

CentOS Linux versions up to CentOS Linux 8 are 100% compatible rebuilds of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, in full compliance with Red Hat's redistribution requirements. CentOS as a group is a community of open source contributors and users which started in 2003 and has been sponsored by Red Hat since 2014.
