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：
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libreswan replaces openswan as VPN endpoint solution (support added in NetworkManager)
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ssd has a number of new capabilities and now supports smart cards, support for SSLv2 has been disabled
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XFS support increased to a maximum file system size of 300TB
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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
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various applications now support elliptic-curve parameters, i.e. Perl Net:SSLeay or Perl IO::Socket::SSL
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dmidecode now supports SMBIOS 3.0.0
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kickstart files can now be pulled from https sources
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chrony has been added as an alternative to NTPd
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squid 3.4 is available as a replacement to squid 3.1enhancements have been made for guests running Hyper-V i.e. reporting kernel crashes to the hypervisor or running as a generation 2 guest
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New package rear can be used to continuously create recovery images
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SSLv3 and older insecure protocols are disabled by default, and various packages now have more configuration options to select the desired protocols
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libreoffice has been rebased to 4.3.7.2
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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/
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