Download CentOS 7 (1611)

CentOS is an open source operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux that is 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 within the top ten. A new version of CentOS appears every two years, which is then provided with updates for seven years. Version 7 (1611) of CentOS has now been released and the full release notes are here to find. In short, these are the main changes:

Major Changes

• Since release 1503 (abrt>= 2.1.11-19.el7.centos.0.1) CentOS-7 can report bugs directly to bugs.centos.org. You can find information about that feature at this page.
• Various new packages include among others: python-gssapi, python-netifaces, mod_auth_openidc, pidgin and Qt5.
• Support for the 7th-generation Core i3, i5, and i7 Intel processors and I2C on 6th-generation Core Processors has been added.
• Various packages have been rebased. Some of those are samba, squid, systemd, krb5, gcc-libraries, binutils, gfs-utils, libreoffice, GIMP,SELinux, firewalld, libreswan, tomcat and open-vm-tools.
  Note: Because of these rebases some 3rd party repositories (Like EPEL, ELRepo, nux!, etc.) may not have all their packages rebuilt to use the newer packages in this release. This may cause the inability to update to the new release until those repositories fix their dependencies. You should contact the 3rd party repository owner to get problems fixed, or remove problem packages from 3rd party repositories to complete the update to this release.
• SHA2 is now supported by OpenLDAP.
• ECC-support has been added to OPenJDK-8, PerlNet:SSLeay and PerlIO::Socket::SSL.
• Bluetooth LE is now supported.
• virt-p2v is now fully supported. virt-v2v and virt-p2v add support for the latest windows releases.
• Lots of updated storage, network and graphics drivers.
• Technology Preview: Among others support of Btrfs, OverlayFS, CephFS, DNSSEC, kpatch, the Cisco VIC and usNIC kernel driver, nested virtualization with KVM and multi-threaded xz compression with rpm-builds.
  More information can be found here.
• If you plan to use Security Profiles in Anaconda, please see this link.