Release for CentOS Linux 7 (2003) on the x86_64 Architecture
We are pleased to announce the general availability of CentOS Linux 7 (1908) for the x86_64 architecture. Effectively immediately, this is the current release for CentOS Linux 7 and is tagged as 1908, derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 Source Code.
As always, read through the Release Notes at : http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS7 - these notes contain important information about the release and details about some of the content inside the release from the CentOS QA team. These notes are updated constantly to include issues and incorporate feedback from the users.
---------- Updates, Sources, and DebugInfos
Updates released since the upstream release are all posted, across all architectures. We strongly recommend every user apply all updates, including the content released today, on your existing CentOS Linux 7 machine by just running 'yum update'.
As with all CentOS Linux 7 components, this release was built from sources hosted at git.centos.org. In addition, SRPMs that are a byproduct of the build (and also considered critical in the code and buildsys process) are being published to match every binary RPM we release. Sources will be available from vault.centos.org in their own dedicated directories to match the corresponding binary RPMs. Since there is far less traffic to the CentOS source RPMs compared with the binary RPMs, we are not putting this content on the main mirror network. If users wish to mirror this content they can do so using the reposync command available in the yum-utils package. All CentOS source RPMs are signed with the same key used to sign their binary counterparts. Developers and end users looking at inspecting and contributing patches to the CentOS Linux distro will find the code hosted at git.centos.org far simpler to work against. Details on how to best consume those are documented along with a quick start at : http://wiki.centos.org/Sources
Debuginfo packages are also being signed and pushed. Yum configs shipped in the new release file will have all the context required for debuginfo to be available on every CentOS Linux install.
This release supersedes all previously released content for CentOS Linux 7, and therefore we highly encourage all users to upgrade their machines. Information on different upgrade strategies and how to handle stale content is included in the Release Notes.
Note that older content, obsoleted by newer versions of the same applications are trim'd off from repos like Extras/ and Plus/ However this time we have also extended this to the SIG content hosted at mirror.centos.org, and some older End of Life content has been dropped. Everything we ever release, is always available on the vault service for people still looking for and have a real need for it.
---------- Download
In order to conserve donor bandwidth, and to make it possible to get the mirror content sync'd out as soon as possible, we recommend using torrents to get your initial installer images:
Details on the images are available on the mirrors at http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/0_README.txt - that file clearly highlights the difference in the images, and when one might be more suitable than the others.
sha256sum x86_64: 087a5743dc6fd6706d9b961b8147423ddc029451b938364c760d75440eb7be14 CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-2003.iso
4120aff542c2f9a30bcf90d4d79e39511e5d9eabdf202566a94ff24ea7f0974c CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-2003.iso
659691c28a0e672558b003d223f83938f254b39875ee7559d1a4a14c79173193 CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-2003.iso
101bc813d2af9ccf534d112cbe8670e6d900425b297d1a4d2529c5ad5f226372 CentOS-7-x86_64-NetInstall-2003.iso
3febddab1498f940e3127f2f5e1056d6fef57fcd559d5b70ff1bfa55a444f176 CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveGNOME-2003.iso
92be566a5b1d2aa62acf2e4ab01ba91420e7170cdb21e2e190dd1dafcb6a8c94 CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveKDE-2003.iso
Information for the torrent files and sums are available at http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64
-------- Additional Images The Cloud images are posted here: https://cloud.centos.org/centos/7/images/
The container, Vagrant, and Atomic Host images are being prepared and will be released in the next few days. Look for an announcement posted to the centos-announce list for more information on availability for these in the coming days.
---------- Getting Help
The CentOS ecosystem is sustained by community driven help and guidance. The best place to start for new users is at http://wiki.centos.org/GettingHelp
We are also on social media, you can find the project: on Twitter at : http://twitter.com/CentOSProject on Facebook at : https://www.facebook.com/groups/centosproject/ on LinkedIn at : https://www.linkedin.com/groups/22405
And you will find the core team and a majority of the contributors on irc, on freenode.net in #centos ; talking about the finer points of distribution engineering and platform enablement.
---------- Contributors
This release was made possible due to the hard work of many people, foremost on that list are the Red Hat Engineers for producing a great distribution and the CentOS QA team, without them CentOS Linux would look very different. Many of the team went further and beyond expectations to bring this release to you, and I would like to thank everyone for their help.
We are also looking for people to get involved with the QA process in CentOS, if you would like to join this please introduce yourself on the centos-devel list ( http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel ).
Finally, please join me in thanking the donors who all make this possible for us.
Enjoy the fresh new release!
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
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