14 DAY TRIAL // The CentOS project announced today the release and general availability of the CentOS Linux 8.0 open-source operating system for all supported architectures.
Coming hot on the heels of the CentOS Linux 7.7 release, CentOS Linux 8 is now officially available, based on the sources of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 operating system, which means that it comes with all of its great new features and enhancements for the hybrid cloud era.
Highlights include support for Application Streams, which consists of fast-moving frameworks, programming languages, and developer tools that are frequently updated, the ability for systems administrators to automate complex tasks more easily, as well as built-in support for the OpenSSL 1.1.1 and TLS 1.3 cryptographic standards.
CentOS Linux 8 also ships with improvements to support for ARM and POWER architectures, DNF-based YUM package manager, Python 3 by default, updated version control systems, including Git 2.18, Mercurial 4.8, and Subversion 1.10, support for the GNOME 3.28 desktop environment, and LUKS2 disk encryption support in the Anaconda installer.
Other noteworthy features of CentOS Linux 8 release are BPF Compiler Collection (BCC), a new tool for creating efficient kernel tracing and manipulation programs, extended Berkeley Packet Filtering (eBPF) feature in the kernel, and an Image Builder tool to create customized system images.
Updated components
Under the hood, CentOS Linux 8 comes with many updated components, among which we can mention PHP 7.2, Ruby 2.5, Perl 5.26, SWIG 3.0, MariaDB 10.3, MySQL 8.0, PostgreSQL 10, PostgreSQL 9.6, Redis 5, Apache 2.4, nginx 1.14, Squid 4.4, and Varnish Cache 6.0.
You can download CentOS Linux 8 for 64-bit (x86_64) architectures right now through our free Linux software portal. CentOS Linux 8 is also available to download for AArch64 (ARM64), and PPC64le (PowerPC 64-bit Little Endian) architectures from the official website. Also today, the CentOS Project announced CentOS Stream.