[CentOS] [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS Linux 7 (1503 ) on x86_64

Tue Mar 31 18:30:43 UTC 2015
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 03/31/2015 01:28 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 03/31/2015 12:31 PM, Greg Bailey wrote:
>> On 03/31/2015 09:53 AM, Ryan Qian wrote:
>>> As a CentOs newbie,  I'm not sure, will we still have CentOS 7.1 which
>>> derive from RHEL 7.1?
>>> or this is the new naming conversion for CentOS 7.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> -Ryan
>>
>>
>> That was going to be my question as well.  According to
>> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-July/020393.html
>> the convention (for the 7.0 release at least) says:
>>
>> "Numbering
>>
>> CentOS 7.0-1406 introduces a new numbering scheme that we want to
>> further develop into the life of CentOS-7. The 0 component maps to the
>> upstream realease, whose code this release is built from. The 1406
>> component indicates the monthstamp of the code included in the release
>> ( in this case, June 2014 ). By using a monthstamp we are able to
>> respin and reissue updated media for things like container and cloud
>> images, that are regularly refreshed, while still retaining a
>> connection to the base distro version."
>>
>> I would have assumed that this release would be "7.1.1503", and the URL
>> on at least one mirror has:
>>
>> http://mirror.fdcservers.net/centos/7.1.1503/
>>
>> Guess if that's the new convention, I'll need to keep my ISO files
>> sorted out somehow, as this progression isn't intuitive:
>>
>> CentOS-7.0-1406-x86_64-DVD.iso
>> CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1503.iso
> 
> Please take a look at the "Archived Versions", and the Release Announcement:
> 
> They both tell you that 7 (1503) is derived from Red Hat Enterprise
> Linux 7.1 Sources.  So, yes, this release, that you quoted in the
> Subject, is indeed exactly what you said.
> 
> And yes, this is how we are now numbering CentOS releases for 7 and
> greater.

OOPS:  Archived Versions, on this Page:

http://wiki.centos.org/Download




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