The initial release, CentOS Stream 8, was released on 24 September 2019, at the same time as CentOS 8. On 13 January 2021, CentOS board approved the creation of Hyperscale SIG proposed by
Meta Platforms,
Twitter, and
Verizon engineers, which focus on enabling CentOS Stream deployment on large-scale infrastructures and facilitating collaboration on packages and tooling. CentOS Stream 9 was released on 3 December 2021, with support of
IBM Z architecture. In 2023, Red Hat announced that CentOS 7 and CentOS Stream 8 will be discontinued in 2024 in order to focus on Red Hat Enterprise Linux development. CentOS Stream 9 was given as one possible migration path. CentOS Stream 10 was released on 12 December 2024. == Release history ==