The CentOS Project he said today the release of CentOS Linux 8.3, the third maintenance update to the latest CentOS Linux 8 operating system.
After six months of development, CentOS Linux 8.3 is derived from the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3, which means it has many improvements, new possibilities, bug fixes and security updates.
Among them, there is a new level of security settings, improved consistency and repeatability when encrypting, improved corporate network configuration and renewal of security certificates.
Additionally, CentOS Linux 8.3 facilitates the migration from CentOS Linux to CentOS Stream by implementing some changes to Yum repo, such as renaming some Yum repo files to /etc/yum.repos.d and updating repoids.
CentOS developers recommend that you compare any changes you make to your local / etc files, including .repo files, with .rpmnew generated before attempting to update your CentOS Linux 8.3 installation
Additionally, you should update the scripts that you have to use the –enablerepo= or –disablerepo= flags.
CentOS Linux 8.3 is available for λήψη from the official website for 64-bit (x86_64), ARM64 (AArch64) and PowerPC (ppc64le) architectures.
However, these new images are only useful for fresh installations, so that you don't have to download hundreds of updates from the repositories after installing from a oldest ISO.
If you are already using CentOS Linux 8.2 or an earlier version (8.x), all you have to do is update your system and you will have the latest version.