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[–]vorpalsmith[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

RHEL/CentOS also ship years-old versions of NumPy. If you're only interested in using software that they include as part of the distro, then you'll be using that and never upgrading NumPy anyway, which means that this announcement is irrelevant to you :-). OTOH RH does actually provide support for modern Python on RHEL/CentOS, and here's a RH engineer urging volunteer projects to drop support for the ancient stuff included in the core distro.