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CentOS Linux Version | Minor release | CD and DVD ISO Images | Packages | Release Email | Release Notes | End-Of-Life |
8-Stream | N/A | DVD and NetInstall images (including checksums) are available on mirrors | N/A | |||
8 | 0 (1905) | DVD and NetInstall x86_64 images are available on mirrors (checksums). | 31 May 2029 | |||
7 | 7 (1908) | DVD, Minimal, Everything, LiveGNOME, LiveKDE and NetInstall x86_64 images are available on mirrors (checksums). | 30 June 2024 | |||
6 | 10 | 30 Nov 2020** |
sha256sum information via an https source is provided in the Release Email or Release Notes link above. You can also use the sha256sum.txt.asc file located in any CentOS directory with ISO or Cloud images. You should always verify your downloads before using.
Bittorrent links are also available from the above links.
Of course, many of the differences also depend of your goals (i.e. Punch software home design.
Rolling builds are updated monthly.
** Please note Red Hat's policy on Production Phase 3 for EL6 in the above support policy (Begins on May 10th, 2017, for EL6). Only those security updates deemed crucial are released upstream for EL6 (so also for CentOS Linux 6) during Production Phase 3. Please read this Mailing List post for more details. The CentOS team recommends that you start moving workloads from CentOS Linux 6 to CentOS Linux 7.
AltArch Releases
The releases listed here are part of the Alternative Architecture Special Interest Group (AltArch SIG). More information is available HERE. You can also download the files from a nearby mirror.
CentOS Linux Version | Minor release | Arch | Images | Packages | Release Email | Release Notes |
7 | 7 (1908) | aarch64 | Everything (ISO), Minimal (ISO), NetInstall (ISO) | OS, Updates | ||
7 | 7 (1908) | armhfp (Arm32) | Gnome image for Raspberrypi2/3, KDE image for RaspberryPi2/3 , Minimal image for RaspberryPi 2/3, Gnome Generic image, KDE Generic image, Minimal generic image | OS, Updates | ||
7 | 7 (1908) | i386 | Everything (ISO), Minimal (ISO), NetInstall (ISO) | OS, Updates | ||
7 | 7 (1908) | ppc64le | Everything (ISO), Minimal (ISO), NetInstall (ISO) | OS, Updates | ||
7 | 7 (1908) | ppc64 | Everything (ISO), Minimal (ISO), NetInstall (ISO) | OS, Updates | ||
7 | 7 (1908) | power9 | Everything (ISO), Minimal (ISO), NetInstall (ISO) | OS, Updates |
Cloud / Containers
Image Type | CentOS Linux Version | Arch | Images | Tree |
Generic | 7 | x86_64 | raw.tar.gz, qcow2, qcow2.xz, qcow2c | |
Generic | 7 | aarch64 | ||
Docker | All | x86_64 | Official Base Containers , Application Containers | |
Amazon | All | x86_64 i386 | ||
Vagrant | 7 | x86_64 | ||
Vagrant | Atomic Host | x86_64 | CentOS/atomic-host, atomic-host-aws | |
Vagrant | 6 | x86_64 |
CentOS Atomic Host
CentOS Atomic Host is a lean operating system designed to run Docker containers, built from standard CentOS 7 RPMs, and tracking the component versions included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host.
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Please see this for more info concerning Atomic on CentOS.
Release Notes
All CentOS Linux release notes can be found here on the wiki.
You can get all the original Red Hat release notes for all versions at Red Hat's Documentation page.
Version Comparison
A comparison of the abilities and limitations of CentOS Linux can be found here on the wiki.
End-Of-Life
In general every release receives bugfixes, feature enhancements and new hardware support until 4 years after general availability, and security fixes until 7 years after general availability (beginning with CentOS Linux 5, this period has been extended from 4 to approx. 7 and from 7 to 10 years {assuming the upstream sources remain available for ten years})
For more information about the support life cycle of CentOS Linux, take a look at Red Hat's Errata Support Policy page.
Basically, if source is released publicly upstream, the CentOS Project will build and release updates for as long as possible. We have done this for all previous versions and will for all future versions.
Please note Red Hat's policy on Production Phase 3, which normally starts at the 7 year point. In that phase, only those security updates deemed crucial are released in this phase. It is recommended that you plan to upgrade before this point whenever possible.
New releases
New major and minor releases are available about 2 to 6 weeks after upstream (Red Hat) publishes the SRPMs (source packages) of their product. This time is needed to rebuild, validate, test (QA), translate and integrate new artwork. Please see The CentOS Rebuild and Release Process for further details. Although we understand that some of our users are excited about a new upcoming release, we ask you to be patient or help out in the release process.
The CentOS project does not offer any of the various approaches to extended life for an earlier point release which its upstream occasionally does for its subscribing clientèle. Once a new point release is issued (say: 6.3, following 6.2), no further source packages (from which updates can be built) are released for the earlier version and therefore CentOS is no longer able to produce security or other updates. After a transition interval of a few weeks, the old point version binaries are moved to the vault. There is a longer discussion at item 15 in the FAQ for more details.
Variety of ISO images
Aside from the normal DVD and CD ISO images, the CentOS project occasionally releases special ISO images. Not all point releases get fresh spins of what is substantially unchanging content; if the latest and greatest refresh point spin does not have what you seek, you may wish to use the last version seen for a LiveCD or ServerCD, and as appropriate run updates in a post-install process:
- LiveCD - Bootable CD image with a working environment directly from CD
- ServerCD - Installable CD image with a limited package-set for server installations
netinstall - Minimal CD image to start network installations (<10M)
The netinstall iso will only work with the corresponding point release, eg one cannot use the netinstall from CentOS Linux 6.2 to install CentOS Linux 6.3.
Base Distribution
CentOS 8 was released on September 24th, 2019. It is derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux which was released on May 7th, 2019.
As you are aware, CentOS is a community-supported enterprise operating system, compatible with its upstream source Red Hat Enterprise Linux, from the CentOS Project.
Architecture
The build release would be available for:
x86_64
ppc64le (Little Endian
aarch64 (ARM 64, ARMv8)
New Features
There are notable differences between EL-8 and EL-7 in Kernel, package repository format, and lots of new features that EL-7 do not have.
Since CentOS 8 is derived from RHEL 8, you would get the features of RHEL 8.
- The Cockpit is now available by default
- CentOS 8 comes with a new version of the YUM version which is based on DNF. This new version is compatible with YUM v3 (CentOS 7)
- RPM v4.14 is distributed in CentOS 8. RPM now validates the whole package contents before starting the installation
- CentOS 8 contents are available through the two main repositories: BaseOS and Application Stream (AppStream)
- It supports up to 4PB of physical memory
- Wayland is the default display server instead of the Xorg server in CentOS 8
- XFS now supports shared copy-on-write data extents
- nftables replaces iptables as the default network filtering framework
- Python 3.6 is the default Python version in CentOS 8
- PHP 7.2 comes with CentOS 8
- Nginx 1.14 is available in core repository in CentOS 8
You can read detailed information about the new features here.
Download CentOS 8
The CentOS Project offers two distribution in this new release, namely CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream.
CentOS Linux
CentOS Linux is a stable release, derived from the source of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It is fully compatible with its upstream product.
This release is the regular one we use for a production environment.
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CentOS Stream
CentOS Stream is a rolling release which acts as a midstream between upstream development in Fedora Linux and the downstream development for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In simple words, this release is a testing or development release for the next minor release of RHEL.
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Install CentOS 8
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READ:Step by Step Guide To Install CentOS 8 (With ScreenShots)
Upgrade From CentOS 7 to CentOS 8
Soon, this section will be updated with a link to the step by step guide to upgrade from CentOS 7 to CentOS 8.
READ:How To Upgrade From CentOS 7 To CentOS 8
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Conclusion
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