On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 11:08 PM Peter <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 17/01/20 8:06 am, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > On 1/16/20 6:49 AM, Peter wrote:
> >> On 16/01/20 4:14 am, Brian Stinson wrote:
> >>> Release for CentOS Linux 8 (1911)
> >>>
> >>> We are pleased to announce the general availability of CentOS Linux 8.
> >>
> >> CentOS 8 was released in September 2019. Don't you mean 8.1?
> > No, they mean CentOS 8 (1911). This was hashed to death back in early
> > CentOS 7 days, so shouldn't need rehashing again......
>
> No, the hashing ove back then had nothing to do with dropping the minor
> release number. Doing that now is just making things way too confusing.
>
> Back then the vast majority of the community showed disapproval for even
> that new naming scheme, but the wishes of the community were ignored and
> the new naming scheme went ahead anyways. I doubt anything different
> will happen now.
>
> > Yeah, I know most people are going to call it 8.1,
>
> That's because it *is* 8.1 and calling it 8 (1911) is just confusing and
> ridiculous.
>
>
> Peter
>
I think that the e-mail subject of the announcement could be a bit
misleading.
Also for 7.x the subject for the latest one, posted by Johnny, was:
"Release for CentOS Linux 7 (1908) on the x86_64 Architecture"
Actually at CentOS 7 time, after some discussions, developers accepted to
have both "numbers" inside release information.
For example on running systems you have
- for 7.x
On 7.6:
# cat /etc/centos-release
CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core)
# lsb_release -r
Release: 7.6.1810
On 7.7:
# cat /etc/centos-release
CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908 (Core)
# lsb_release -r
Release: 7.7.1908
And this has been maintained in 8.x too:
On 8.0:
# cat /etc/centos-release
CentOS Linux release 8.0.1905 (Core)
# lsb_release -r
Release: 8.0.1905
On the just released 8.1
# cat /etc/centos-release
CentOS Linux release 8.1.1911 (Core)
# lsb_release -r
Release: 8.1.1911
This is acceptable in my opinion from a final user point of view
I'm not sure but possibly the origin of the loooong discussion thread was
this one from Karanbir, if interested:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2014-June/010444.html
HIH,
Gianluca
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