We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS Linux
6.7 and install media for i386 and x86_64 Architectures. Release Notes for 6.7 are available at http://wiki.CentOS.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.7 – we recommend everyone review these release notes.

CentOS Linux 6.7 is derived from source code released by Red Hat, Inc. for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7. All upstream variants have been placed into one combined repository to make it easier for end users. Workstation, server, and minimal installs can all be done from our combined repository. All of our testing is only done against this combined distribution.

There are many fundamental changes in this release, compared with the past CentOS Linux 6 releases, and we highly recommend everyone study the upstream Release Notes as well as the upstream Technical Notes about the changes and how they might impact your installation. (See the ‘Further Reading’ section if the CentOS release notes link above).

All updates since the upstream 6.7 release are also on the CentOS
mirrors as zero day updates. When installing CentOS-6.7 (or any other version) from any of our media, you should always run ‘yum update’
after the install to apply these.

Users consuming our CentOS-cr repositories will already be running all the packages that make up CentOS-6.7, and all updates released since. They will notice only the CentOS-release rpm update today when moving to CentOS Linux 6.7. For more information on the CR repository for future updates, see this link:
http://wiki.CentOS.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CR

Release Announcements for all updated packages are available here:
http://lists.CentOS.org/pipermail/CentOS-cr-announce/

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Upgrading From Prior Major CentOS Versions:

We recommend everyone perform a fresh reinstall rather than attempt an i n place upgrade from other major CentOS versions (CentOS-2.1, CentOS-3.x, CentOS-4.x, CentOS-5.x).

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Upgrading from CentOS-6.0 / 6.1 / 6.2 / 6.3 / 6.4 / 6.5 or 6.6

CentOS Linux is designed to automatically upgrade between releases within a major version (in this case, CentOS-6). Unless you have edited your yum default configuration, a ‘yum update’ should move your machines seamlessly from any previous CentOS Linux 6.x release to 6.7. We also test this in our QA cycles and have noticed no problems, any issues would be mentioned in the Release Notes.

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Downloading CentOS Linux 6.7 for new installs:

When possible, consider using torrents to obtain our ISOs. Usually it is also the fastest means to download the distro.

The install media is split into various formats. We have made efforts to ensure that most install types and roles can be done from DVD-1
itself, and the minimal install ISO is only tested to deliver a minimal install set, when used as an ISO format ( either on cd or usb
). While other forms of installs ( eg. pxe delivered ) might work from the minimal ISO, they are neither tested not supported. The only format where we support the entire set of install options and delivery mechanisms is via the complete CentOS Linux 6.7 tree, wihch can also be created by consolidating all content from DVD1 and DVD2.

We no longer produce CD size images for the entire CentOS Linux 6
distribution, however the minimal install and netinstall iso images are small enough to fit on all CD grade media.

Torrent files for the DVD’s are available at :
http://mirror.CentOS.org/CentOS/6.7/isos/i386/CentOS-6.7-i386-bin-DVD1to
2.torrent http://mirror.CentOS.org/CentOS/6.7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.7-x86_64-bin-DV
D1to2.torrent

You can also use a mirror close to you to get any of our ISOs:
http://mirror.CentOS.org/CentOS/6.7/isos/

If you need to update a local mirror, you can choose from our mirror network http://www.CentOS.org/download/mirrors/ Most mirrors will allow downloads over http, ftp and rsync.

Note: Some UEFI machines can not use the ‘netinstall’ ISOs, but either the DVD or minimal ISOs will work with UEFI. Secure Boot must be disabled to install CentOS 6

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sha1sum for the CentOS-6.7 ISOS:

i386:
f3aa74fd6ddc7b14ed4cf81db8135aee57814791 CentOS-6.7-i386-bin-DVD1.iso eb5c85158903968f8655c5e8fc6b8b537a6e27ad CentOS-6.7-i386-bin-DVD2.iso
1860eb4d69c39ca274c6e2e9670d9e4fa77ea29c CentOS-6.7-i386-minimal.iso
710c24a02b8ff8fd9783defbc13a43c6b6877027 CentOS-6.7-i386-netinstall.iso

x86_64:
7bb8c1c23a4fdef93e6f0a6347d570e5764d0b38 CentOS-6.7-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso
79f58df5723f723fc62d5e8831ada38072096a46 CentOS-6.7-x86_64-bin-DVD2.iso
2ed5ea551dffc3e4b82847b3cee1f6cd748e8071 CentOS-6.7-x86_64-minimal.iso c3678c6b72cbf2ed9b4e8a1ddb190fd262db8b7f CentOS-6.7-x86_64-netinstall.i so

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Cloud Images:

Images for various on-premise and off-premise Cloud environments are currently under development for CentOS Linux 6.7 and will be released in the coming days. Everyone looking to join and help with the CentOS
Cloud efforts is encouraged to join the CentOS-devel list where such issues are discussed (
http://lists.CentOS.org/mailman/listinfo/CentOS-devel ).

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Getting Help:

The best place to start when looking for help with CentOS is at the wiki ( http://wiki.CentOS.org/GettingHelp ) which lists various options and communities who might be able to help. If you think there is a bug in the system, do report it at http://bugs.CentOS.org/ – but keep in mind that the bugs system is *not* a support mechanism. If you need supported software with Support Level Agreements, people to call and response times then we recommend Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

If you have questions you would like to field at us in real time, come join the office hours on Wed or Thu of every week. You can find details on these at http://wiki.CentOS.org/OfficeHours

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Meet-ups and Events:

If you would like to get involved in helping organize, run, present or sponsor a CentOS Dojo or even just want more details then join the CentOS Promo list:
http://lists.CentOS.org/mailman/listinfo/CentOS-promo and drop an email introducing yourself. We are very keen to find help to run events around the world, and also to find people who can represent CentOS at various community events around the world.

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Contributing and joining the project:

We are always looking for people to join and help with various things in the project. If you are keen to help out a good place to start is the wiki page at http://wiki.CentOS.org/Contribute . If you have questions or a specific area you would like to contribute towards that is not covered on that page, feel free to drop in on #CentOS-devel at irc.freenode.net for a chat or email the CentOS-devel list
(http://lists.CentOS.org).

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Thanks to everyone who contributed towards making CentOS Linux 6.7, especially the effort put in, as always, by the QA
(http://wiki.CentOS.org/QaGroup) and Build teams.

A special shout out to all the donors who have contributed hardware, network connectivity, hosting and resources over the years. The CentOS
project now has a fairly well setup resource pool, solely thanks to the donors.

Enjoy!

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