Issue: Dnf/yum Repository for CentOS 8 is not updated

General
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Hello Docker Community,

We are currently utilizing RockyLinux 8 in our environment and have added the following repository for installing docker-ce:
https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo

Issue:
We have observed that the packages in the https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/8/x86_64/stable/Packages/
repository have not been updated for approximately two months, with the most recent update being the release of docker-ce-26.1.3-1.el8.x86_64.rpm on May 21, 2024.
In contrast, it appears that the repositories for RHEL 8, CentOS 7, and CentOS 9 have received updates during this period, suggesting that the deployment for the CentOS 8 repository may have been halted.

Questions:

  1. Does anyone have any information or insights into why the CentOS 8 repository has not been updated recently?
  2. Have there been any official announcements regarding this matter from Docker that we might have missed?

Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

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Only Centos 9 stream is supported currently

I can’t tell you why the Centos 7 repository was updated, but I would not rely on it. Maybe the new packages were important only for Centos7 and the Docker 26.1 could still be supported, but not the current latest, 27.0.

RHEL 8 is still supported though

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Thank you for your prompt reply and for providing the valuable information that only CentOS Stream 9 is currently supported for CentOS repository.

We have conducted a test by switching our repository to the RHEL one and performing a dnf update in our staging environment. It appears to be working fine so far.
However, since the x86_64 architecture packages for RHEL are considered Experimental, we need to deliberate further before deploying this in our production environment.

Thank you once again for your assistance!