Download CentOS ISO images
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Version |
Minor release |
CD and DVD ISO Images |
Packages |
Release Email |
Release Notes |
End-Of-Life |
CentOS-5 |
5.4 |
31 Mar 2014 |
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CentOS-4 |
4.8 |
29 Feb 2012 |
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CentOS-3 |
3.9 |
31 Oct 2010 |
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CentOS-2.1 |
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31 May 2009 |
Bittorrent links are also available from the above links.
Release Notes
You can get all the original Red Hat release notes for all versions at Red Hat's Update Release Notes page.
End-Of-Life
In general every release receives bugfixes, feature enhancements and new hardware support until 4 years after general availability. And security fixes until 7 years after general availability.
For more information about the support life cycle of CentOS, take a look at Red Hat's Errata Support Policy page.
New releases
New major and minor releases are available about 4 to 8 weeks after upstream (Red Hat) publishes the SRPMs (source packages) of their product. This time is needed to rebuild, validate, test (QA), translate and integrate new artwork. Please see The CentOS Rebuild and Release Process for further details. Although we understand that some of our users are excited about new upcoming release, we ask you to be patient or help out in the release process.
Variety of ISO images
Aside from the normal DVD and CD ISO images, the CentOS project releases special ISO images:
- LiveCD - Bootable CD image with a working environment directly from CD
- ServerCD - Installable CD image with a limited package-set for server installations
netinstall - Minimal CD image to start network installations (<10M)
