14 DAY TRIAL // The CentOS Project, through Karanbir Singh, had the great pleasure of announcing the release and immediate availability for download of the seventh maintenance version of the long-term supported CentOS 6 Linux operating system.
Based on the source code provided by Red Hat, Inc. for its recently released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 operating system, CentOS 6.7 is here to include all the upstream updates for core components, tools, and graphical applications, as well as updates for the graphical desktop environment.
Prominent features of CentOS 6.7 include the addition of new functionalities to the sssd tool, the LibreOffice 4.2.8.2 office suite, support for udev rules, which can be used to protect the privacy of the user by limiting the mounting of removal media to read-only, as well as support for handling up to 240 virtual processors per VM (virtual machine) in the KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) hypervisor.
Additionally, there's a new package clufter, which can be used for parsing and converting cluster configuration formats, various older protocols, including SSLv3, were disabled by default, multiple packages received extra configuration options that allow the user to select desired protocols, and Vim was updated to version 7.4, a release that brings improvements to regular expressions and the undo functionality.
"We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS Linux 6.7 and install media for i386 and x86_64 Architectures," says Project Lead, The CentOS Project. "Thanks to everyone who contributed towards making CentOS Linux 6.7, especially the effort put in, as always, by the QA and Build teams."
CentOS 6.7 is available for 64-bit and 32-bit architectures
In addition to the new features mentioned above, CentOS 6.7 updates Squid to version 3.1.23, a release that adds support for HTTP/1.1 PUT and POST responses that have no message body, updates mdadm to version 3.3.2, a release that adds better support for RAID level automatic array rebuilding and migrations, removes the yum-plugin-downloadonly package, and allows IPv6 IP sets in firewall rules.
Users are being informed by the CentOS developers that the python-qmf, python-qpid, qpid-cpp, qpid-qmf, qpid-tests, qpid-tools, ruby-qpid, and saslwrapper packages were deprecated and will no longer receive updates, and urged to inspect the known issues section of the official release notes for workarounds and warnings. Download CentOS 6.7 for 64-bit and 32-bit architectures right now from Softpedia.