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I am pleased to announce the general availability of CentOS Linux 7 (1611) for 64 bit x86 compatible machines.
Effectively immediately, this is the current release for CentOS Linux 7 and is tagged as 1611, derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3
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 we froze the iso and install media content are posted in the updates repo along with the release. This will include content from late November 2016 and December 2016, therefore anyone running a new install is highly encouraged to run a 'yum update' operation immediate on install completion. You can apply all updates, including the content released today, on your existing CentOS Linux 7/x86_64 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.
- ---------- 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.
The sizes, sha256 sums and torrents for the ISO files:
========================================== * CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1611.iso Size: 713031680 Torrent: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-16 11.torrent Sha256Sum: 27bd866242ee058b7a5754e83d8ee8403e216b93d130d800852a96f41c34d86a
* CentOS-7-x86_64-NetInstall-1611.iso Size: 395313152 Torrent: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-NetInstall - -1611.iso.torrent Sha256Sum: f2f7367deb90a25822947660c71638333ca0eceeabecc2d631be6cd508c24494
* CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1611.iso Size: 4379901952 Torrent: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1611.i so.torrent Sha256Sum: c455ee948e872ad2194bdddd39045b83634e8613249182b88f549bb2319d97eb
* CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1611.iso Size: 8280604672 Torrent: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything - -1611.iso.torrent Sha256Sum: af4969ebbdc479d330de97c5bfbb37eedc64c369f009cb15a97f9553ba441c88
* CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveGNOME-1611.iso Size: 1245708288 Torrent: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveGNOME- 1611.iso.torrent Sha256Sum: 8af6ad70c35c9b65e7ca88b38d18bed14598eb122169c1a22fc3f5b1c2de7d87
* CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveKDE-1611.iso Size: 1774190592 Torrent: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveGNOME- 1611.iso.torrent Sha256Sum: b584dd3cf2e287756aa6f6ec0f287500470b7e588b605211981b3b9ad09abac9
The iso files are also available for direct download from http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64
- -------- Additional Images
The Docker container, Vagrant images, Cloud images 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.
- ---------- Dojo
We try and organise Dojos in various parts of the world as a one day event, to bring together people who use CentOS and others who are keen to learn about CentOS. The day's focus is on sharing technical knowledge and success stories. It's also a great place to meet and talk about upcoming technologies and learn how others are using them on CentOS Linux.
Our next Dojo coming up is in Brussels, on the 3rd Feb 2017. Details are being posted at https://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/Brussels2017
If you would like to help organise a Dojo in your area, do drop by the centos-promo list at http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-pro mo
- ---------- 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
- ---------- 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.
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 ).
- ---------- Thanks
I would also like to thank our donors and sponsors for their continued support for the project. And to everyone who contributed with ideas, code, test feedback, and promoting CentOS Linux into the ecosystem.
Enjoy!
- -- Karanbir Singh, Project Lead, The CentOS Project +44-207-0999389 | http://www.centos.org/ | twitter.com/CentOS GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc