Release of CentOS 7.7 distributions

Available the release of CentOS 7.7 (1908), which incorporates changes from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7. The distributions are fully binary compatible with RHEL 7.7, and the modifications included in the packages generally amount to rebranding and changes in the artwork.

CentOS 7.7 builds are currently are for architectures x86_64, Aarch64 (ARM64), i386, ppc64le, Power9 and
ARMv7 (armhfp). For the x86_64 architecture are prepared installation DVD builds (4.5 GB), NetInstall image for network installation (570 MB), minimal server build (980 MB), full image for USB Flash (11 GB), and Live builds with GNOME (1.5 GB) and KDE (2 GB). Builds for containers, Vagrant, Cloud, and Atomic Host are expected to be prepared within a few days. The SRPMS packages, based on which the binary files were built, and debuginfo are available via vault.centos.org.

Key changes in CentOS 7.7:

  • The package includes Python 3 (Python 2.7 is still offered by default);
  • The DNS server Bind has been upgraded to branch 9.11, and the precise time synchronization system chrony to version 3.4;
  • The contents of 37 packages have been changed, including: yum, PackageKit, ntp, httpd, dhcp, firefox, glusterfs, grub2, anaconda.
  • Specific RHEL packages such as redhat-*, insights-client, and subscription-manager-migration-data have been removed;
  • In the ARM build, the kernel has been updated to version 4.19 and preliminary support for the Raspberry Pi 4 board has been provided.

Source: opennet.ru

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