As you download and use CentOS Linux, the CentOS Project invites you to be a part of the community as a contributor. There are many ways to contribute to the project, from documentation, QA, and testing to coding changes for SIGs, providing mirroring or hosting, and helping other users.
ISOs are also available via Torrent.
How to verify your iso
The ISO image setup is intended to be launched from a USB stick (see the SlackWiki for some tips). First downloads are here: zenwalk-current-15.0-200703a.iso (direct download, MD5 ). The Oracle Linux team is pleased to announce the availability of Oracle Linux 6.4, the fourth update release for Oracle Linux 6. The individual RPM packages have already been published from our public yum repository and ISO images will soon be available from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud. The Red Hat Customer Portal delivers the knowledge, expertise, and guidance available through your Red Hat subscription. Neptune 6.0 is available as 2.4 GiB 64-Bit ISO you can grab from the Download page. Neptune 5.x users either can upgrade with the help of an Upgrade Script to version 6.0,or can stay on Neptune 5.x as long as Debian Stretch is supported.
If you plan to create USB boot media, please read this first to avoid damage to your system.
If the above is not for you, alternative downloads might be.
The CentOS Linux 8 release notes and CentOS Stream release notes are continuously updated to include issues and incorporate feedback from users.
Cloud and container images
We build, maintain and update Cloud images that you can find on our Cloud Images server.
These images are built and made available for all the architectures that corresponding version supports.
People interested in importing ‘GenericCloud’ images into their own cloud solution can find corresponding images on the link above.
Worth knowing that you can also import (through Skopeo or other methods) container images the same way, and such .tar.xz files can be found on the same mirror.
Parallel to that, we have also official images that are available directly to be deployed for the following solutions:
If the above is not for you, alternative downloads might be.
Geographical mirrors
If you’re looking for a specific (or geographically local) mirror, please check out our list of current mirrors.
To check the status of a mirror, please visit mirror-status.centos.org.
Sources
In order to help ease the workload for our primary mirror network, the sourcerpms are not kept in the same tree as the binary packages. If you need thesource packages used to build CentOS, you can find them in our vault vault.centos.org.
Older Versions
Legacy versions of CentOS are no longer supported. For historical purposes,CentOS keeps an archive of older versions. If you’re absolutely sure you needan older version then click here.
Export Regulations
By downloading CentOS software, you acknowledge that you understand all of thefollowing: CentOS software and technical information may be subject to the U.S.Export Administration Regulations (the “EAR”) and other U.S. and foreign lawsand may not be exported, re-exported or transferred (a) to any country listedin Country Group E:1 in Supplement No. 1 to part 740 of the EAR (currently,Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan & Syria); (b) to any prohibited destination orto any end user who has been prohibited from participating in U.S. exporttransactions by any federal agency of the U.S. government; or (c) for use inconnection with the design, development or production of nuclear, chemical orbiological weapons, or rocket systems, space launch vehicles, or soundingrockets, or unmanned air vehicle systems. You may not download CentOS softwareor technical information if you are located in one of these countries orotherwise subject to these restrictions. You may not provide CentOS software ortechnical information to individuals or entities located in one of thesecountries or otherwise subject to these restrictions. You are also responsiblefor compliance with foreign law requirements applicable to the import, exportand use of CentOS software and technical information.
Base Distribution
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CentOS is available free of charge. We do accept (non-financial) donations for improving, hosting and promoting CentOS. If CentOS is important to you, please support the long-term viability of the CentOS project.
Please use one of our many mirrors to download CentOS.
CentOS Linux Version | Minor release | CD and DVD ISO Images | Packages | Release Email | Release Notes | End-Of-Life |
8-Stream | N/A | DVD and NetInstall images (including checksums) are available on mirrors | N/A | |||
8 | 3 (2011) | DVD and NetInstall x86_64 images are available on mirrors (checksums). | 31 December 2021** | |||
7 | 8 (2003) | DVD, Minimal, Everything, LiveGNOME, LiveKDE and NetInstall x86_64 images are available on mirrors (checksums). | 30 June 2024 |
sha256sum information via an https source is provided in the Release Email or Release Notes link above. You can also use the sha256sum.txt.asc file located in any CentOS directory with ISO or Cloud images. You should always verify your downloads before using.
Bittorrent links are also available from the above links.
Rolling builds are updated monthly.
** https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/
AltArch Releases
The releases listed here are part of the Alternative Architecture Special Interest Group (AltArch SIG). More information is available HERE. You can also download the files from a nearby mirror.
CentOS Linux Version | Minor release | Arch | Images | Packages | Release Email | Release Notes |
7 | 7 (2003) | aarch64 | Everything (ISO), Minimal (ISO), NetInstall (ISO) | OS, Updates | ||
7 | 7 (2003) | armhfp (Arm32) | Gnome image for Raspberrypi2/3, KDE image for RaspberryPi2/3 , Minimal image for RaspberryPi 2/3, Gnome Generic image, KDE Generic image, Minimal generic image | OS, Updates | ||
7 | 7 (2003) | i386 | Everything (ISO), Minimal (ISO), NetInstall (ISO) | OS, Updates | ||
7 | 7 (2003) | ppc64le | Everything (ISO), Minimal (ISO), NetInstall (ISO) | OS, Updates | ||
7 | 7 (1908) | ppc64 | Everything (ISO), Minimal (ISO), NetInstall (ISO) | OS, Updates | ||
7 | 7 (2003) | power9 | Everything (ISO), Minimal (ISO), NetInstall (ISO) | OS, Updates |
Cloud / Containers
Image Type | CentOS Linux Version | Arch | Images | Tree |
Generic | 7 | x86_64 | raw.tar.gz, qcow2, qcow2.xz, qcow2c | |
Generic | 7 | aarch64 | ||
Docker | All | x86_64 | Official Base Containers, Application Containers | |
Amazon | All | x86_64 aarch64 | ||
Vagrant | 7 | x86_64 | ||
Vagrant | Atomic Host | x86_64 | CentOS/atomic-host, atomic-host-aws | |
Vagrant | 6 | x86_64 |
CentOS Atomic Host
CentOS Atomic Host is a lean operating system designed to run Docker containers, built from standard CentOS 7 RPMs, and tracking the component versions included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host.
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Please see this for more info concerning Atomic on CentOS.
Release Notes
All CentOS Linux 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.
Version Comparison
A comparison of the abilities and limitations of CentOS Linux can be found here on the wiki.
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 Linux 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 Linux, 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, which normally starts at the 7 year point. In that phase, only those security updates deemed crucial are released in this phase. It is recommended that you plan to upgrade before this point whenever possible.
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.
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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.
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)
The netinstall iso will only work with the corresponding point release, eg one cannot use the netinstall from CentOS Linux 6.2 to install CentOS Linux 6.3.
Base Distribution
Archived Versions | ||
CentOS Linux 7 | ||
Release | Based on RHEL Source (Version) | Archived Tree |
7 (1908) | 7.7 | |
7 (1810) | 7.6 | |
7 (1804) | 7.5 | |
7 (1708) | 7.4 | |
7 (1611) | 7.3 | |
7 (1511) | 7.2 | |
7 (1503) | 7.1 | |
7 (1406) | 7.0 | |
CentOS Linux 6 | ||
Release | Based on RHEL Source (Version) | Archived Tree |
6.10 | 6.10 | |
6.9 | 6.9 | |
6.8 | 6.8 | |
6.7 | 6.7 | |
6.6 | 6.6 | |
6.5 | 6.5 | |
6.4 | 6.4 | |
6.3 | 6.3 | |
6.2 | 6.2 | |
6.1 | 6.1 | |
6.0 | 6.0 | |
CentOS Linux 5 | ||
Release | Based on RHEL Source (Version) | Archived Tree |
5.11 | 5.11 | |
5.10 | 5.10 | |
5.9 | 5.9 | |
5.8 | 5.8 | |
5.7 | 5.7 | |
5.6 | 5.6 | |
5.5 | 5.5 | |
5.4 | 5.4 | |
5.3 | 5.3 | |
5.2 | 5.2 | |
5.1 | 5.1 | |
5.0 | 5.0 | |
CentOS Linux 4 | ||
Release | Based on RHEL Source (Version) | Archived Tree |
4.9 | 4.9 | |
4.8 | 4.8 | |
4.7 | 4.7 | |
4.6 | 4.6 | |
4.5 | 4.5 | |
4.4 | 4.4 | |
4.3 | 4.3 | |
4.2 | 4.2 | |
4.1 | 4.1 | |
4.0 | 4.0 | |
CentOS Linux 3 | ||
Release | Based on RHEL Source (Version) | Archived Tree |
3.9 | 3.9 | |
3.8 | 3.8 | |
3.7 | 3.7 | |
3.6 | 3.6 | |
3.5 | 3.5 | |
3.4 | 3.4 | |
3.3 | 3.3 | |
3.1 | 3.1 | |
CentOS Linux 2.1 | ||
Release | Based on RHEL Source (Version) | Archived Tree |
2.1 | 2.1 |