CentOS Stream 10: Rolling release with current software and without Xorg
CentOS Stream 10 is now available and brings many packages up to date. Xorg also has to make way for Wayland.
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Red Hat and the CentOS team have released CentOS Stream 10. The rolling release Linux distribution brings the basis up to date and cuts out old habits. CentOS Stream serves as the basis for future Red Hat releases.
CentOS Stream 10 supports the x86_64, ARM 64-bit, IBM Power and IBM Z processor architectures, which CentOS Stream 9 also supports. However, the developers point out that microarchitecture level v3 is supported for x86_64, which makes it possible to use some vector instruction set extensions, for example.
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In the version announcement, the developers write that the kernel is included in the current version 6.12. Programming languages are also up to date, including Python 3.12, GCC 14, Go 1.23, Rust 1.82, LLVM 19, Ruby 3.3, Node.js 22, PHP 8.3 and OpenJDK 21. Centos Stream 10 includes the web servers Apache HTTP Server 2.4.62 and nginx 1.26 as well as the databases PostgreSQL 16, MariaDB 10.11, MySQL 8.4 and Valkey 7.2. The Valkey database replaces the previously supplied Redis database as a fork. Gnome version 47 is available as a desktop, the Qt libraries are included in version 6.7.
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Package management is handled by DNF 4.20 or RPM 4.19. CentOS Stream had previously relied on "modularity" to provide alternative versions of selected programs. In version 10, traditional, non-modular RPM packages are used for this purpose. Desktop apps such as Firefox, GIMP, LibreOffice, Inkscape and Thunderbird have been removed – for this, the developers recommend relying on flatpaks because RHEL is also switching to them; CentOS users should therefore install the apps from the flathub.
Another major change is the removal of Xorg. CentOS Stream 10 relies on Wayland by default. The compatibility layer for outdated X11 apps is provided by Xwayland. A known problem with CentOS Stream 10 is that it cannot currently start with Secureboot enabled. The necessary shim is still undergoing the review process.
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