[BlueOnyx:27072] BlueOnyx 5209R (CentOS 7) EOL

[Michael Stauber]

Hi all,

See: https://www.blueonyx.it/news/339/15/BlueOnyx-5209R-CentOS-7-EOL/

BlueOnyx 5209R (CentOS 7) EOL
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We bid a fond farewell to BlueOnyx 5209R.

CentOS Linux 7 has reached its end of life (EOL) on June 30, 2024. And 
with that our BlueOnyx 5209R also is now equally considered EOL.

It has been quite a ride and we got a hell of a lot of usage out of it 
over the last ten years. CentOS 7 was released on 7th July 2014. The 
initial BlueOnyx 5209R (BETA) release was on 4th February 2015 and ever 
since it has been a reliable work-horse that powered many of our own 
servers and services as well as thousands of servers of our users worldwide.

But of course it eventually began to show its age and like us many of 
you have since moved on to newer versions of BlueOnyx, including our 
latest BlueOnyx 5211R.

If you are still running a BlueOnyx 5209R server, then you will notice 
that the official CentOS 7 YUM repositories will stop or have stopped 
serving updates and won't connect anymore. The BlueOnyx 5209R YUM 
repositories will however remain around for quite a bit longer. But you 
won't be receiving any OS updates anymore and we also have stopped 
developing or publishing fixes or updated versions of software for 
BlueOnyx 5209R.

To migrate the data from your BlueOnyx 5209R to BlueOnyx 5211R (or our 
slightly older 5210R) you can use our free Easy-Migrate, which will make 
that part a seamless transition.

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With best regards

Michael Stauber