CentOS Stream Begins Seeing RHEL 8.3 Bits, Real-Time Repository

Introduced alongside CentOS 8 last year was CentOS Stream as a developer-focused, rolling-release of CentOS/RHEL. With those processes getting squared away and CentOS recently debuting its RHEL 8.2 rebuild, CentOS Stream is beginning to see new and interesting material.

In particular, early work from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 development is beginning to hit CentOS Stream. There is also an updated installer for CentOS Stream, new modules are coming, and perhaps most significant is the introduction of a real-time/RT repository. These RT packages are optimized for latency-sensitive workloads. The repository can be optionally enabled for those interested in optimizing their software stack for RT workloads.

Details on the new RT repository and more of the RHEL 8.3 pieces beginning to flow into CentOS Stream was mentioned as part of this month's CentOS community newsletter. RHEL 8.3 should be out around the end of this year.