While we are working on the next CentOS-7 release (tag: 1503), a majority of rpms to be included in this release have completed an initial QA cycle and we feel they are ready to be deployed on machines already running CentOS-7. While there might still be some small changes in the content of these packages, typically we see a very low churn. However, we do highly recommend that you try the package set before deploying it into your production workloads.

In CentOS 7, the CR repo definitions are already included in the latest CentOS-release file. You can check you have this by running
“rpm -q CentOS-release”, this should give you a single line of output
“CentOS-release-7-0.1406.el7.CentOS.2.6.x86_64”. If you have an older release, you can update via “yum update”. At this point you should be able to run “yum –enablerepo=cr list updates” and then “yum
– –enablerepo=cr update” etc. The CR repo is disabled by default, In order to enable it permanently, please refer to the wiki article on the CR repo, mentioned below.

A typical usecase where this has proven helpful in the past, is where people were to use this content as a preview of the release that follows.

This is also a great place for the wider audience to help us shape the release notes into our next release, provide feedback and help with warnings and changes that might not be communicated well enough already.

Update announcements for these packages are pushed to http://lists.CentOS.org/pipermail/CentOS-cr-announce/2015-March/thread.html
– – since these are not updates into the regular channel, we wont announce them to the -announce list at this point.

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