On 03/31/2015 12:31 PM, Greg Bailey wrote: > On 03/31/2015 09:53 AM, Ryan Qian wrote: >> As a CentOs newbie, I'm not sure, will we still have CentOS 7.1 which >> derive from RHEL 7.1? >> or this is the new naming conversion for CentOS 7. >> >> Thanks! >> -Ryan > > > That was going to be my question as well. According to > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-July/020393.html > the convention (for the 7.0 release at least) says: > > "Numbering > > CentOS 7.0-1406 introduces a new numbering scheme that we want to > further develop into the life of CentOS-7. The 0 component maps to the > upstream realease, whose code this release is built from. The 1406 > component indicates the monthstamp of the code included in the release > ( in this case, June 2014 ). By using a monthstamp we are able to > respin and reissue updated media for things like container and cloud > images, that are regularly refreshed, while still retaining a > connection to the base distro version." > > I would have assumed that this release would be "7.1.1503", and the URL > on at least one mirror has: > > http://mirror.fdcservers.net/centos/7.1.1503/ > > Guess if that's the new convention, I'll need to keep my ISO files > sorted out somehow, as this progression isn't intuitive: > > CentOS-7.0-1406-x86_64-DVD.iso > CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1503.iso Please take a look at the "Archived Versions", and the Release Announcement: They both tell you that 7 (1503) is derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 Sources. So, yes, this release, that you quoted in the Subject, is indeed exactly what you said. And yes, this is how we are now numbering CentOS releases for 7 and greater.
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