[CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS Linux 7 (1511) on x86_64

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 We would like to announce the general availability of CentOS Linux 7 (1511) for 64 bit x86 compatible machines. This is the third major release for CentOS Linux 7 and is tagged as 1511, derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 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 2015 and December 2015, 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'. Note that it might be upto 24 hrs from this announcement before the entire mirror network has got the updated content. 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. As discussed in the mailing list thread https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2015-November/014035.htm l there are no LiveCD images included due to space constraints. - ---------- 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-NetInstall-1511.iso Size: 394264576 Torrent: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-NetInstall - -1511.torrent Sha256Sum: 9ed9ffb5d89ab8cca834afce354daa70a21dcb410f58287d6316259ff89758f5 * CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1511.iso Size: 632291328 Torrent: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-15 11.torrent Sha256Sum: f90e4d28fa377669b2db16cbcb451fcb9a89d2460e3645993e30e137ac37d284 * CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1511.iso Size: 4329570304 Torrent: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1511.t orrent Sha256sum: 907e5755f824c5848b9c8efbb484f3cd945e93faa024bad6ba875226f9683b16 * CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1511.iso Size: 7769948160 Torrent: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything - -1511.torrent Sha256Sum: 148449e661535f52aa846aa4a0112798f9153df8526b83e76075560a1de3accf * CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveGNOME-1511.iso Size: 1211105280 Torrent: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveGNOME- 1511.torrent Sha256Sum: 10dccb7c028d7afafbe1ade59dacf809edb3af2f24b1b69bafce9e6ec3c6ee17 * CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveKDE-1511.iso Size: 1784676352 Torrent: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveKDE-15 11.torrent Sha256Sum: ba9fed39d7e5398f4cd6b96497ba28da9979be12a4e0424d3030277d716c9e3f The iso files are also available for direct download from http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64 - ---------- 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. - ---------- Special Interest Groups The CentOS Linux distribution is built, managed, and released by the CentOS Core SIG. In addition, we also have the following SIGs that are doing an amazing job expanding and building on the base Linux platform: * CentOS Alternative Architectures SIG is working on and testing CentOS Linux 7 for ARMv7 ( armhfp ), Aarch64 and i686 architectures to sync with the core CentOS Linux 7 (1511), derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2. We hope to have these released in the coming days. Further to this work has been ongoing for PowerPC8 Little Endian and PowerPC Big Endian - we hope to have a Tech Preview installable tree available in the coming days for these as well. If you are interested in joining these efforts and helping with the larger community, please come and talk to us in the centos-devel list ( https://lists.centos.org/ ). * Cloud SIG @ http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Cloud is working to deliver various cloud controller infrastructure including OpenStack. They have a fully functional, feature complete RDO stack now available for CentOS Linux 7/x86_64. You can enable OpenStack Liberty on your machine by running 'yum install centos-release-openstack-liberty'. This is a completely tested end to end content, as curated by the RDO Project. * Cloud Instance SIG @ http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/CloudInstance aims to deliver VM images for use in various cloud and virtualised ecosystems including AWS (https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/seller-profile?id=16cb8b03-256e-4dde - -8f34-1b0f377efe89 ) and Docker ( https://registry.hub.docker.com/_/centos/ ). We are working to add support for Microsoft Azure Cloud in the near future. * Virtualization SIG @ http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Virtualization includes upstream virtualization and hypervisor related projects including Xen http://www.xenproject.org ), oVirt ( http://www.ovirt.org/ ), and Docker ( http://docker.io ). They also work to build and release support tools around these virtualization technologies. You can get started with oVirt node by running 'yum install centos-release-ovirt36' and the ev version of KVM is available via 'yum install centos-release-qemu-ev'. * Storage SIG @ http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Storage includes the Gluster Project ( http://www.gluster.org/ ), Ceph (http://ceph.com ), OpenAFS ( http://www.openafs.org ) and the SCST project ( http://scst.sourceforge.net/ ). Gluster builds for CentOS are now released into the main repos, and can be enabled with 'yum install centos-release-gluster37' * Software Collections SIG @ http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/SCLo is working on documenting and then delivering software collections built for newer versions of in-distro content. Their aim is to deliver a community and contributor friendly mechanism for SCL's in an easy to consume format. A large number of SCL's are now released and available on CentOS Linux 7, you can get started with 'yum install centos-release-scl'. * Atomic SIG @ http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Atomic is working on building, maintaining, and delivering a CentOS Atomic host ( http://projectatomic.io ). Stable, testing and development builds including AWS EC2 instances and Vagrant boxes are now available at http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Atomic/Download. In addition to these, the CentOS Artwork and CentOS Promo SIGs help with promo content and helping organise Dojos around the world. SIGs are a great way for people to come together and deliver content around a specific area into the wider CentOS ecosystem and we welcome groups to come together with low barriers to entry and plenty of resources to offer the groups. Details on the process can be found at http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup - ---------- 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 29th Jan 2016. Details are posted at https://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/Brussels2016 - note that only people who have registered for the event will be allowed to attend, and we have a limited number of slots open. In the coming months we hope to host events in London, Bangalore, Sweden, Germany, Spain, and in many parts of the USA. If you would like to help organise a Dojo, do drop by the centos-promo list at http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-promo - ---------- 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, 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 +44-207-0094455 | http://www.centos.org/ | twitter.com/CentOS -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJWbtPVAAoJEI3Oi2Mx7xbtuzoH/1zmoLQxPUMCzLhUVvtuBamQ rKg4orfcOIjYkENomQThpMUPLy2iX3CvnzcEKiUYIMOpiVQXfC+rAswT45ufHbnc 0RkCoqwKBDEr+c1hzP5F8AAhQ3Ea1h8SLbYT81UZlw3VRQZt1lQdam/9YzDQojtk s2kczqLZpnCWRIApv8QcDlAcuau05xqcfP/EVMNja2lBS4m57v9aAswZ1eSt7TQX XegCDbWht1iP+lQBfB6BFtTHEe3V2Tf0dxsNBXm4Kn0DOS6UIHVpDS69ZSkpmhve 6fHFGWYW9FUPP+/w5ShyUtCN4Cjtiy7FfFSXSBJMSDQqHVxtnMpK/C5ekOD+vKk= =bZjx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----