Reminder: CentOS 6 EOL On 30 November 2020

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All,

This is a friendly reminder.

CentOS 6.10 will EOL at the end of November 2020.

During the first week in December 2020, the 6.10 directory will move to vault.CentOS.org

Packages will still be available at:

http://vault.CentOS.org/CentOS/6.10/

However, once moved, there will be no more updates pushed to vault.CentOS.org.  Therefore, security issues will no longer be fixed, etc. 

You should take the rest of the month to either move to a newer versoin of CentOS Linux … or to procure Extended el6 support from Red Hat (EUS
RHEL 6).

Thanks, Johnny Hughes

3 thoughts on - Reminder: CentOS 6 EOL On 30 November 2020

  • As announced multiple times (on list[s], twitter, glog.CentOS.org and even https://c6eol.CentOS.org) , CentOS 6 is now EOL and so is being retired from mirror network. It’s currently being moved to (capped and limited bandwidth)
    vault.CentOS.org and will be removed from mirror.CentOS.org (and so external mirrors in the next hours/days). mirrorlist.CentOS.org will also (like we do for all outdated/unmaintained and unsecured releases) start answering “invalid release”

    Kind Regards,

  • Just to let you all know that starting from today, mirrorlist.CentOS.org nodes answer “Invalid release/repo/arch combination” and also that content was removed from mirrors. Johnny pushed the last updates yesterday, that went out to external mirrors .

    These mirrors will also delete all that content so if your *really* need to find such content, https://vault.CentOS.org is the only way to to go, but due to reduced bandwidth, capacity, we encourage you to use one of the external mirrors listed on vault.CentOS.org, with probably more resources/bandwidth that we currently have. Some of these mirrors also continue to offer rsync access.

    Cheers, and time to have a drink and celebrate 10 years of CentOS 6 :
    you served us all well !

  • How difficult is it to keep (a copy) the latest update online for a while? We have an internal mirror but I am sure there are others out there that might use it for a few more months. Kill the ISO and any other space taking non-updates.