[mattdm]

I think there might be some confusion about "rolling" in the context of CentOS Stream. The updates are continuous and there's not released minor versions, but all changes are changes that are intended to _very shortly_ land in the next every-six-months minor release of RHEL. So you aren't going to suddenly see more "environment changing out from under me" than you would on RHEL or CentOS Linux.

[donmcronald]

Minor version updates in CentOS usually mean a new kernel ABI and things like ZFS break. I always have to wait to do minor version updates until a new ZFS version lands. Any idea how that’ll work?

[cesarb]

Yeah, to me this whole thing sounds like a failure of communication.

Most people (including me) never looked closely at "CentOS Streams"; from what you said, it seems like it's "a preview of the next RHEL 8.x". The announcement today made it appear as if it were "a preview of RHEL 9.0", which is a much bigger change for those who (like me) expect to install a CentOS 8 box somewhere and keep it mostly untouched (just applying the updates) for ten years.

[pnutjam]

OpenSuse, and Suse give you more control over minor release version changes. You have to manually change your repos with some scripts before you patch. The RH way of just rolling you from minor release to minor release invisibly has always kind of irritated me.

[GrayShade]

Thank you for the answers in this thread.

I haven't tried CentOS Stream, but out of curiosity: if it's similar to the RHEL patch releases, how will major (like from RHEL 8 to 9) changes be handled?