Download CentOS 7.1

CentOS is an open source operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and designed for use in enterprise environments. The name is an abbreviation of Community Enterprise Operating System. Unlike RHEL, CentOS is free to use. When looking at popularity, CentOS falls just outside the top ten† A new version of CentOS appears every two years, which is then provided with updates for seven years. Version 7.1 of CentOS has now been released and the full release notes are here to find. In short, these are the main changes:

Major Changes

• As of March 2015 ABRT (>= 2.1.11-19.el7.centos.0.1) can report bugs directly to bugs.centos.org. You can find information about that feature at this page
• Support for new processors (Intel Broadwell) and graphics (AMD Hawaii)
• Full support for LVM cache
• Ability to mount ceph block devices
• Updated Hyper-V network drivers
• New libguestfs features
• Full support for OpenJDK-1.8.0
• Improved clock stability (for PTP and NTP)
• Updated Networkmanager packages to version 1.0
• Updated docker to 1.4.1
• Updated OpenSSH to 6.6.1
• New package: Mozilla Thunderbird
• Update to numerous storage, network and graphics drivers
• Technology Preview: Support of the Btrfs file system, OverlayFS and the Cisco VIC kernel driver