Season’s Greetings:
Form all of us at Empire Hosting as we prepare to celebrate the New Year with family, friends and colleagues, we want to express our sincere gratitude to all of you for being a part of our family and allowing us to provide you with the services you need.
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Oct 17 2020, MariaDB 10.1 or Feb 5 2021, MySQL 5.6 will Be END OF LIFE.
- cPanel, L.L.C. will no longer provide support for systems running MariaDB 10.1 or MySQL 5.6 after they reach End of Life status. System administrators who do not upgrade their servers to newer supported versions of those databases are at risk of not receiving essential patches to security vulnerabilities and running into compatibility issues with other software components. In some instances, upgrading to the next higher cPanel version may not be possible.
- For all other panels & Plain Linux you may run the older Versions of MySQL Or MariaDB if you wish without issue but you are still at risk of not receiving essential patches to security vulnerabilities and running into compatibility issues with other software components.
Nov 30, 2020, CentOS/CloudLinux 6 Has reached End of life.
- If you are currently running CentOS/CloudLinux 6 or earlier your Operating system has reached END OF LIFE.
- There will be no more security updates for CentOS/CloudLinux 6 it is highly suggested you upgrade your operating system to Centos7, cloud Linux 7, or Centos 8.
- If you are Running cPanel on CentOS 6/CloudLinux 6 your will receive security updates until March 31, 2021
Dec 9, 2020, CentOS Changing their scope “RIP” Centos
· The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which tracks just ahead of a current RHEL release. CentOS Linux 8, as a rebuild of RHEL 8, will end at the end of 2021. CentOS Stream continues after that date, serving as the upstream (development) branch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
· For those of you who have been waiting for cPanel to Support Centos 8 Do not bother Centos 7 life cycle is longer.
· The Good News if you are all ready using Centos 8 CloudLinux is releasing its own open source Based off RedHat Enterprise in early 2021. It will have one command conversion for inbox OS switch.
cPanel users waiting for CloudLinux 8 it will be supported to EOL 2029 as CloudLinux is based of RedHat Linux not Centos.
Friday, December 18, 2020