14 DAY TRIAL // The CentOS development team, through Karanbir Singh, announced at the end of March 2015 that a new build for the stable CentOS 7 Linux operating system is available for download and update.
The CentOS 7 build 1503 is based on the upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 operating system and adds a great number of new features and improvements, such as support for Intel Broadwell processors, support for AMD Hawaii graphics cards, and support for the Btrfs file system.
“We would like to announce the general availability of CentOS Linux 7 (1503) for 64 bit x86 compatible machines,” says Karanbir Singh on behalf of the CentOS development team. “This is the second major release for CentOS-7 and is tagged as 1503. This build is derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1.”
Here’s what’s new in CentOS 7 build 1503
According to the release notes for CentOS 7 build 1503, the developers implemented full support for LVM (Logical Volume Manager) cache, support for mounting Ceph block devices, support for updating Hyper-V network drivers, as well as full support for OpenJDK 1.8.0.
In addition, the latest stable update for CentOS 7 brings improved clock stability for NTP and PTP, adds new features to the libguestfs library, updates the NetworkManager packages to version 1.0.0, updates Docker to version 1.4.1, and updates OpenSSH to version 6.6.1.
Last but not least, the Mozilla Thunderbird email and news client software has been added to CentOS 7 through the 1503 update. Numerous network, graphics, and storage drivers have been updated as well in this release.
The Cisco VIC kernel driver has also been added in CentOS 7 built 1503, along with support for OverlayFS. You can download the new CentOS 7 ISO images right now from Softpedia or via the CentOS website.