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CentOS Linux 6.8 Released (softpedia.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the major-changes dept.

An anonymous reader writes: CentOS team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS Linux 6.8 and install media for i386 and x86_64 Architectures. Release Notes for 6.8 are available here. Softpedia writes: "CentOS Linux 6.8 arrives today with major changes, among which we can mention the latest Linux 2.6.32 kernel release from upstream with support for storing up to 300TB of data on XFS filesystems. The VPN endpoint solution implemented in the NetworkManager network connection manager utility is now provided on the libreswan library instead of the Openswan IPsec implementation used in previous release of the OS, and it looks like the SSLv2 protocol has been disabled by default for the SSSD (System Security Services Daemon), which also comes with support for smart cards now." In addition, the new release comes with updated applications, including the LibreOffice 4.3.7 office suite and Squid 3.4 caching and forwarding web proxy, many of which are supporting the Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 protocol, including Git, YUM, Postfix, OpenLDAP, stunnel, and vsftpd. The dmidecode open-source tool now supports SMBIOS 3.0.0, you can now pull kickstart files from HTTPS (Secure HTTP) sources, the NTDp (Network Time Protocol daemon) package has an alternative solution as chrony, SSLv3 has been disabled by default, and there's improved support for Hyper-V.

4 of 91 comments (clear)

  1. Re:2.6 by Midnight_Falcon · · Score: 4, Informative

    Considering CentOS 7.x has been out for well over a year...this is just an extending support for the old CentOS 6 line.

  2. ignorant idiots on slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    2.6.32 differs so much from modern kernels that trying to cherry-pick fixes leads to anything but stability. I wouldn't touch such a kernel with a 0.015 furlong pole.

    rhel kernels are the most heavily tested kernels available, really you would trust a new kernel with your company's data?

  3. Re:Modernism and Stability by Phiz · · Score: 5, Interesting

    CentOS/RedHat major releases have a 10-year life span. Debian is 5 years for LTS and Ubuntu is 4 years. For my uses that is a significant difference.

  4. Re:2.6 by dbIII · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There are plenty of things not certified to run on CentOS7/RHEL7.
    Also, at the risk of massive flamage - systemd.

    Two very good reasons to keep on upgrading CentOS6.