A CentOS Linux 7 Rolling media update has been released
I am pleased to announce general availability of the Feb 2015 snapshot
for CentOS Linux. Todays release includes CentOS Linux 7 iso based
install media, Generic Cloud images, Atomic Host and Docker containers.
CentOS Linux rolling builds are point in time snapshot media rebuild
from original release time, to include all updates pushed to
mirror.centos.org's repositories. This includes all security, bugfix,
enhancement and general updates for CentOS Linux. Machines installed
from this media will have all these updates pre-included and will look
no different when compared with machines installed with older media
that have been yum updated to the same point in time. All rpm/yum
repos remain on mirror.centos.org with no changes in either layout or
content.
Files marked as 20150228_01 indicate that it includes all content
released to mirror.centos.org upto ( and including ) the 28th of Feb
2015.
Since there is a need to test these images, the release will always
lag few days behind the datestamp ( and therefore content included )
in the release. My aim is to automate as much of this as possible
going forward to reduce this time lag as much as possible, however we
might not be able to remove the lag completely.
Other content formats like containers and vendor specific images will
aim to start with the same cycle as the main CentOS Linux media, but
might move to a more frequent build and release cycle if needed.
Special Interest Groups ( http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup)
wanting to do media and installer releases should also consider using
the rolling timelines to sync with.
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CentOS Linux distro installer media:
File: CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-20150228_01.iso
Sha256sum:
8e1195b922def89f4d5846726f3bb1eaecd8bbfcb7a6e415d54a1ed6260ac21d
File: CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-20150228_01.iso
Sha256sum:
09f76128a9d613ebc2ec0c6ad1313e78f0ce349dc669b2714e4e9f694c5c569b
File: CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-20150228_01.iso
Sha256sum:
c4da447eba9806d50d8a6369f44d5f847f0da4fd49144e5900227e0ca66ae3b2
Symlinks are provided that will always map to the latest released
builds, as follows ( including their current mapping )
http://buildlogs.centos.org/rolling/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD.iso
- -> CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-20150228_01.iso
http://buildlogs.centos.org/rolling/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything.iso
- -> CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-20150228_01.iso
http://buildlogs.centos.org/rolling/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal.iso
- -> CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-20150228_01.iso
These symlinks are updated to point at the latest tested and
released media and make for a good target in automation that requires
CentOS Linux media.
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For more information and comments please join us on the centos-devel
mailing list ( http://lists.centos.org/ )
Enjoy!
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Karanbir Singh,
Project Lead, The CentOS Project
