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/ CentOS 6.8 发布下载地址
