[CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS Linux 7 (1511) on x86_64

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We would like to announce the general availability of CentOS Linux 7

(1511) for 64 bit x86 compatible machines.

 

This is the third major release for CentOS Linux 7 and is tagged as

1511, derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2

 

As always, read through the Release Notes at :

http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS7 - these notes

contain important information about the release and details about some

of the content inside the release from the CentOS QA team. These notes

are updated constantly to include issues and incorporate feedback from

the users.

 

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Updates, Sources, and DebugInfos

 

Updates released since we froze the iso and install media content are

posted in the updates repo along with the release. This will include

content from late November 2015 and December 2015, therefore anyone

running a new install is highly encouraged to run a 'yum update'

operation immediate on install completion. You can apply all updates,

including the content released today, on your existing CentOS Linux

7/x86_64 machine by just running 'yum update'. Note that it might be

upto 24 hrs from this announcement before the entire mirror network

has got the updated content.

 

As with all CentOS Linux 7 components, this release was built from

sources hosted at git.centos.org. In addition, SRPMs that are a

byproduct of the build (and also considered critical in the code and

buildsys process) are being published to match every binary RPM we

release. Sources will be available from vault.centos.org in their own

dedicated directories to match the corresponding binary RPMs. Since

there is far less traffic to the CentOS source RPMs compared with the

binary RPMs, we are not putting this content on the main mirror

network. If users wish to mirror this content they can do so using the

reposync command available in the yum-utils package. All CentOS source

RPMs are signed with the same key used to sign their binary

counterparts. Developers and end users looking at inspecting and

contributing patches to the CentOS Linux distro will find the code

hosted at git.centos.org far simpler to work against. Details on how

to best consume those are documented along with a quick start at :

http://wiki.centos.org/Sources

 

Debuginfo packages are also being signed and pushed. Yum configs

shipped in the new release file will have all the context required for

debuginfo to be available on every CentOS Linux install.

 

This release supersedes all previously released content for CentOS

Linux 7, and therefore we highly encourage all users to upgrade their

machines. Information on different upgrade strategies and how to

handle stale content is included in the Release Notes.