I am pleased to announce the general availability of CentOS Linux 7 (2009) for across our alternative architectures. Effectively immediately, this is the current release for CentOS Linux 7 and is tagged as 2009, derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9.

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 trimmed 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.

---------- Special notes

Altarch kernel: After RedHat's decision to deprecate power9 and aarch64 releases during the 7.7 cycle, and our decision to keep building them with the others (using the kernel from RHEL8), we decided to keep down this road. As 7.x and 8.x releases are not in sync, released kernel is 4.18.0-193.28.1 (8.2), but we're working on updating it to 4.18.0-240 (8.3) soon.

---------- 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 in a file called 0_README.txt next to the isos. That file clearly highlights the difference in the images, and when one might be more suitable than the others.

Altarch images can be downloaded at : http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/

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sha256sum for i386: dd238357e1750cfb25fc87e5c21891598599bf5df3ee2a749a6fd1a8fe5ec937 CentOS-7-i386-Everything-2009.iso 96c3ae101f200cac2c0d6d03a1642d69cc8f501a568ce2cc3e5ffdfdc090145f CentOS-7-i386-NetInstall-2009.iso bcbde5d345c5013fa618c38380765547be01a354883b3055f32d7067dd7b5bca CentOS-7-i386-Minimal-2009.iso

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-------- Additional Images

The container, Vagrant, Cloud 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!