Upcoming EPEL 10.0 retirement

Howdy EPEL packagers,

In accordance with the EPEL policy for minor version end-of-life, EPEL 10.0 will be retired once RHEL 10.1 is released. Based on historical RHEL release dates, this is expected to occur sometime this month. After the retirement, MirrorManager will direct RHEL 10 users to the EPEL 10.1 repo instead.

Similar to a Fedora release end-of-life, any EPEL 10.0 updates that have not been pushed to stable by the time of the retirement will be marked as obsolete and will not be promoted to stable. Additionally, any outstanding epel10.0 side tags will be removed during the retirement.

This is the first time an EPEL minor version will be retired, so thanks in advance for your patience as we establish the process for this. If you have any questions, feel free to reply here or stop by the EPEL Matrix channel.

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Hello EPEL packagers

Since RHEL 10.1 is starting to be available through several channels, we are going to start the retirement of the 10.0 branch and the archival of the 10.0 content. Also we are going to prepare the infrastructure so that EPEL 10.1 content will start being built from RHEL 10.1. All these changes will be done in accordance to the defined SOP [0]

If you have any questions, feel free to reply here or stop by the EPEL Matrix channel [1].

[0] EPEL Minor Version End of Life :: Fedora Docs

[1] https://matrix.to/#/#epel:fedoraproject.org

RHEL 10.1 was released earlier today, so as planned EPEL 10.0 has been retired. There is some remaining clean up work in the infrastructure remaining, but all the user and maintainer facing changes have been completed.