Release of CentOS 7.8 (2003), incorporating changes from . The distribution is fully binary compatible with RHEL 7.8 (the changes made in the packages generally boil down to rebranding and redesign).
CentOS 7.8 builds for architectures , . For the x86_64 architecture there are installation DVD builds (4.7 GB), a NetInstall image for network installation (595 MB), a minimal server build (1 GB), a full image for USB Flash (11 GB), and Live builds with GNOME (1.5 GB) and KDE (2 GB). SRPMS packages, which the binary files are built from, and debuginfo are available via .
Key in CentOS 7.8:
- Included are packages with Python 3, with Python 3.6 offered upon installing the package python3;
- The Bind NS server has been updated to branch 9.11, and the time synchronization system chrony to version 3.4;
- ImageMagick has been updated from release 6.7.8 to 6.9.10;
- The interface for switching virtual desktops in the GNOME Classic environment has been changed, with the switch button moved to the bottom right corner and designed as a strip with thumbnails;
- 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 release 5.4.
- After updating the iptables package (iptables-1.4.21-33.el7.x86_64) the iptables-restore fails when there are ‘-‘ and ‘t’ characters in the comment field (e.g., ‘-A FORWARD -m comment --comment "-t foo bar" -j ACCEPT’).
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