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CentOS 6.7 Release Notes

Last updated: September 5, 2015

Contents

  1. Translations
  2. Introduction
  3. Install Media and sha256sum
  4. Major changes
  5. Deprecated Features
  6. Known Issues
  7. Packages and Applications
    1. Packages modified by CentOS
    2. Packages removed from CentOS that are included upstream
    3. Packages added by CentOS that are not included upstream
    4. Packages released as 6.6 updates with older packages on the 6.7 install media
  8. Sources
  9. How to help and get help
    1. Special Interest Groups
    2. Mailinglists and Fora
    3. Wiki and Website
  10. Further Reading
  11. Thanks

1. Translations

Translations of these release notes are available for the following languages :

2. Introduction

Welcome to the CentOS 6.7 release. CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by Red Hat1.

CentOS conforms fully with Red Hat's redistribution policy and aims to be functionally compatible. CentOS mainly changes packages to remove upstream vendor branding and artwork.

Similar to the practice of the upstream vendor, there is no supported path to 'upgrade' an installation of a prior major CentOS release (presently CentOS 5) to a new major release. This is not a CentOS imposed limitation, but rather reflects the upstream's approach on this matter. People who feel adventuresome and want to experiment are reminded to take and test backups first. As a note to people who attempt the upgrade in spite of this warning, such as by the unsupported upgradeany option from the media install command line, please note that you will need to manually retrieve the current centos-release package, manually do a rpm -e --nodeps removal of the prior centos-release package, and then manually install the CentOS 6 centos-release package, before yum can have any chance of working properly.

The Continuous Release (CR) repository makes generally available packages that will appear in the next point release of CentOS, on a testing and hotfix basis until formally released.

Please read through the other sections before trying an install or reporting an issue.

3. Install Media and sha256sum

sha256sum x86_64:
c0c1a05d3d74fb093c6232003da4b22b0680f59d3b2fa2cb7da736bc40b3f2c5  CentOS-6.7-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso
f973ac2453af9815d2db944f3c7383bb3061b6b0c12fb58dadf843e1cad67ab6  CentOS-6.7-x86_64-bin-DVD2.iso
9d3fec5897be6b3fed4d3dda80b8fa7bb62c616bbfd4bdcd27295ca9b764f498  CentOS-6.7-x86_64-minimal.iso
411da8c3f66839eef9ae47bf4515cc0b82f2a1dfc7b2d5bde2d203ca7e3220f3  CentOS-6.7-x86_64-netinstall.iso

sha256sum i386:
2ef003dd0a0b7e810928da9508d5551d8d51943434d4eb634a783f1fc3cb0252  CentOS-6.7-i386-bin-DVD1.iso
e767a67fe9f7b2c9d30ed6ac56623d5acb4b57246d46187f13bbf5fcf4fb1014  CentOS-6.7-i386-bin-DVD2.iso
fc4bfb9f94668e4d0fa14b3108de1fdc8b6d2096a95e6c2b14f595f1bad57bbf  CentOS-6.7-i386-minimal.iso
a1a9d1c0ffc62416b37ea1ee5150d76278b823a44c6f4ab5e749ec7ce071e38d  CentOS-6.7-i386-netinstall.iso

4. Major changes

5. Deprecated Features

The following packages have been deprecated and may get removed in future releases. They will no longer receive updates:

6. Known Issues

7. Packages and Applications

7.1. Packages modified by CentOS

7.2. Packages removed from CentOS that are included upstream

7.3. Packages added by CentOS that are not included upstream

7.4. Packages released as 6.6 updates with older packages on the 6.7 install media

8. Sources

All CentOS sources are now hosted at vault.centos.org:

9. How to help and get help

As a CentOS user there are various ways you can help out with the CentOS community. Take a look at our Contribute page for further information on how to get involved.

9.1. Special Interest Groups

CentOS consists of different Special Interest Groups (SIGs) that bring together people with similar interests. The following SIGs already exist:

And we encourage people to join any of these SIGs or start up a new SIG, e.g.

9.2. Mailinglists and Fora

Another way you can help others in the community is by actively helping and resolving problems that users come up against in the mailing lists and the fora.

9.3. Wiki and Website

Even as an inexperienced CentOS user we can use your help. Because we like to know what problems you encountered, if you had problems finding specific information, how you would improve documentation so it becomes more accessible. This kind of feedback is as valuable to others as it would have been to you so your involvement is required to make CentOS better.

So if you want to help out and improve our documentation and Wiki, register on the Wiki or subscribe to the centos-docs mailing list.

10. Further Reading

The following websites contain large amounts of information to help people with their CentOS systems :

11. Thanks

We thank everyone involved for helping us produce this product and would like to specifically acknowledge the extra effort made by the QA Team. Without them working almost 24/7 we couldn't have released this as fast as we did.

Copyright (C) 2015 The CentOS Project

  1. Visit http://www.redhat.com/rhel/ (1)

2023-09-11 07:22