The RC version of CentOS7 will be released within 72 hours.

According to Viz Zhao wenxuan, CentOS, as a derivative version of popular Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), is coming soon! A few days ago (December June 10), the Popular RHEL7 was released and users can download it. That is to say, its free derivative version CentOS7 will also be released in the near future. At first, CentOS software engineer JohnnyHughes was released in the near future as a popular derivative version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), according to Viz Zhao wenxuan in June 1! A few days ago (December June 10), the Popular RHEL7 was released and users can download it. That is to say, its free derivative version CentOS 7 will be released in the near future. At first, CentOS software engineer Johnny Hughes mentioned in a reply to CentOS 7's official blog in June 11 that Our "Goal" is 2-4 weeks. Our "Goal" is 2 ~ 4 weeks (release ).

It is inferred that CentOS 7 is likely to be released on December 7, early July.

Soon afterwards, the official blog of CentOS 7 published the QA Release, test Live CD image and Docker image.

Earlier today, CentOS Project Leader Karanbir Singh posted a message on official Twitter (@ CentOS) saying that users who want to test CentOS 7 should complete the test within 72 hours, that is to say, it is likely that a relatively stable version will be released in 72 hours.

This guess is confirmed in the reply in the following article. Karanbir Singh confirmed that at least the RC version of CentOS 7 will be released within 72 hours if there is no accident.

It is worth noting that, even if it is not officially released this time, the software package will be signed different from the previous QA Release and Beta versions.

RC is coming. Will the official version be far away?

Author: Viz

This article was originally published in Linux China.