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Version	Minor release	CD and DVD ISO Images	Packages	Release Email	Release Notes	End-Of-Life
CentOS-7	7.0.1406	x86_64	RPMs	CentOS	CentOS RHEL	30 June 2024
CentOS-6	6.6	i386 x86_64	RPMs	CentOS	CentOS RHEL	30 Nov 2020
CentOS-5	5.11	i386 x86_64	RPMs	CentOS	CentOS RHEL	31 Mar 2017**
CentOS-4	4.9	i386 x86_64 ia64 s390 s390x alpha Note: The install media is CentOS-4.8, see the Release Notes for details	RPMs	CentOS	CentOS RHEL	29 Feb 2012
CentOS-3	3.9	i386 x86_64 ia64 s390 s390x	RPMs	CentOS	RHEL	31 Oct 2010
CentOS-2.1	-	i386	RPMs		CentOS RHEL	31 May 2009

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1. Release Notes

All CentOS release notes can be found here on the wiki.

You can get all the original Red Hat release notes for all versions at Red Hat's Documentation page.

2. Version Comparison

A comparison of the abilities and limitations of CentOS can be found here on the wiki.

3. 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 (beginning with CentOS-5, this period has been extended from 4 to approx. 7 and from 7 to 10 years {assuming the upstream sources remain available for ten years}).

For more information about the support life cycle of CentOS, take a look at Red Hat's Errata Support Policy page.

Basically, if source is released publicly upstream, the CentOS Project will build and release updates for as long as possible. We have done this for all previous versions and will for all future versions.

** Please note Red Hat's policy on Production Phase 3 for EL5 in the above support policy. Only those security updates deemed crucial are now being released upstream for EL5 (so also for CentOS-5) Please read this Mailing List post for more details. The CentOS team recommends that you start moving workloads from CentOS-5 to CentOS-6 or CentOS-7.

4. New releases

New major and minor releases are available about 2 to 6 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 a new upcoming release, we ask you to be patient or help out in the release process.

The CentOS project does not offer any of the various approaches to extended life for an earlier point release which its upstream occasionally does for its subscribing clientèle. Once a new point release is issued (say: 6.3, following 6.2), no further source packages (from which updates can be built) are released for the earlier version and therefore CentOS is no longer able to produce security or other updates. After a transition interval of a few weeks, the old point version binaries are moved to the vault. There is a longer discussion at item 15 in the FAQ for more details.

5. Variety of ISO images

Aside from the normal DVD and CD ISO images, the CentOS project occasionally releases special ISO images. Not all point releases get fresh spins of what is substantially unchanging content; if the latest and greatest refresh point spin does not have what you seek, you may wish to use the last version seen for a LiveCD or ServerCD, and as appropriate run updates in a post-install process:

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)