CentOS Linux 7.9 Officially Released, Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 | Linux Today

CentOS Linux 7.9 Officially Released, Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9

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Marius Nestor
Nov 13, 2020

More than six months in development, CentOS Linux 7.9 is here packed with great enhancements, including support for the Python 3.6 interpreter, redesigned desktop layout, improvements to Security Profiles in the Anaconda graphical installer, as well as the ability to report bugs directly to bugs.centos.org. As expected, many packages received important updates. Among the most important ones, there’s FreeRDP 2.1.1, Linux kernel 3.10.0-1160, MariaDB 5.5.68, Pacemaker 1.1.23, and SSSD (System Security Services Daemon) 1.16.5. And the new installation media also comes with all the security patches from upstream.

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Marius Nestor

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