As the title says, why did they stop updating it? Its final version stays at chromium-133.0.6943.141-1.el8: Overview - rpms/chromium - src.fedoraproject.org
EL8 is a redhat product and supported by redhat.
I expect you should contact redhat directly about your question.
I believe that the current version of RHEL is 9 and they are working on a newer release.
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Yes, but the EPEL is a community driven repository under the Fedora Project umbrella.
So, probably, the package maintainer lost interest in supporting EL8 since, as you say, the 8 version is end of life (at least CentOS and companions, Alma, Rocky).
Maybe ask the question to the maintainer.
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Did you consider that EL8 is to old to build chromium due to unfulfilled build deps , use the flatpak instead.
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The issue as stated by @leigh123linux is that the compilers and tools needed to build chromium after that release are ‘too new’ for EL8. With the release of 8.9, there are no updated compilers, toolkits and other items in the main release which would be needed for the newer versions to compile. At this point I believe the only workable solutions are:
- Building all the tools needed and then building it yourself.
- Use a container solution like flatpak where it is built and contains the newer libraries and tooling to work.
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There are other considerations to do #1, you need at least 16Gb of RAM or the build will fail.
I wouldn’t recommend #1 as it will be a weekly task to maintain security.
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Thank you all for your replies! Can you tell me how to contact this maintainer:than? I didn’t find any way to contact maintainers in the Fedora repository.
Unless you have build fixes for the el8 build I would bother trying to contact Than.
Sending direct email to maintainers is considered rude, use redhat bugzilla instead.
I got it, thanks