CentOS 6.8 发布了，CentOS是一个开源软件贡献者和用户的社区。典型的CentOS用户包括这样一些组织和个人，他们并不需要专门的商业支持就能开展成功的业务。 CentOS是Red Hat Enterprise Linux的100%兼容的重新组建，并完全符合Red Hat的再发行要求。CentOS面向那些需要企业级操作系统稳定性的人们，而且并不涉及认证和支持方面的开销。

主要改进记录：

• libreswan replaces openswan as VPN endpoint solution (support added in NetworkManager)

• sssd has a number of new capabilities and now supports smart cards, support for SSLv2 has been disabled

• XFS support increased to a maximum file system size of 300TB

• various applications now support TLSv1.2, i.e. OpenLDAP, yum, stunnel, vsftpd, git, postfix and others. Also TLSv1.2 has been enabled by default in various packages

• various applications now support elliptic-curve parameters, i.e. Perl Net:SSLeay or Perl IO::Socket::SSL

• dmidecode now supports SMBIOS 3.0.0

• kickstart files can now be pulled from https sources

• chrony has been added as an alternative to NTPd

• squid 3.4 is available as a replacement to squid 3.1

• enhancements have been made for guests running Hyper-V i.e. reporting kernel crashes to the hypervisor or running as a generation 2 guest

• New package rear can be used to continuously create recovery images

• SSLv3 and older insecure protocols are disabled by default, and various packages now have more configuration options to select the desired protocols

• libreoffice has been rebased to 4.3.7.2

• various packages have been rebased to more current version i.e. elfutils, SystemTap, ipmitool, memtest86+, icedtea-web, various hardware drivers, shadow utils, virt-who and others

完整发布说明，可以在这里查看。

下载地址：https://www.centos.org/download/