CentOS: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for CentOS from CentOS

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2025-12-08

What is CentOS?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementCentOS (Community Enterprise Operating System) is a discontinued Linux distribution that provides a free and open-source community-supported computing platform, functionally compatible with its upstream source, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
 

The entire lifecycle of CentOS

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of CentOS. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
CentOS (CentOS) release, version and end-of-life information
XCentOS (CentOS) release, version and end-of-life information
Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product CentOS (CentOS)
 

Facts and figures about CentOS

Product
CentOS
Vendor
CentOS
Latest version
8.5.2111
Number of releases
6
Number of versions
24
Number of unstable versions
0
Number of versions affected by CVE
1
Licence
GNU General Public License v2
Version command
cat /etc/*-release
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentOS#cite_note-centos-life-cycle-dates-41
 
 

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