CentOS 6.5 Enterprise Linux has been officially released yesterday(December 1st, 2013). CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by their Upstream OS Provider Red Hat. CentOS-6.5 is based on the upstream release RHEL 6.5 and includes packages from all variants.
– The Precision Time Protocol – previously a technology preview – is now fully supported. The following drivers support network time stamping: bnx2x, tg3, e1000e, igb, ixgbe, and sfc.
– OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.0.1.
– OpenSSL and NSS now support TLS 1.1 and 1.2.
– KVM received various enhancements. These include improved read-only support of VMDK- and VHDX-Files, CPU hot plugging and updated virt-v2v-/virt-p2v-conversion tools.
– Hyper-V and VMware drivers have been updated.
– Updates to Evolution (2.32) and Libre Office (4.0.4).
Download CentOS 6.5
You can download CentOS 6.5 from the following links.
Torrents:
Download Mirrors:
– Download CentOS 6.5 32/64 bit ISO’s
Upgrade from CentOS 6.x to 6.5
Upgrade from any CentOS 6.x version to 6.5 is quite easy and straight forward. Please backup your important files before upgrading to 6.5.
Just run the following command to upgrade 6.x to 6.5.
# yum update
Sample outputs:
 [...] sudo                      i686  1.8.6p3-12.el6             base      696 k  systemtap                 i686  2.3-3.el6                  base       26 k  systemtap-client          i686  2.3-3.el6                  base      3.4 M  systemtap-devel           i686  2.3-3.el6                  base      1.4 M  systemtap-runtime         i686  2.3-3.el6                  base      186 k  sysvinit-tools            i686  2.87-5.dsf.el6             base       58 k  udev                      i686  147-2.51.el6               base      356 k  util-linux-ng             i686  2.17.2-12.14.el6           base      1.5 M  xorg-x11-drv-ati-firmware noarch 7.1.0-3.el6                base      109 k Installing for dependencies:  gdbm-devel                i686  1.8.0-36.el6               base       25 k  p11-kit                   i686  0.18.5-2.el6               base       93 k  p11-kit-trust             i686  0.18.5-2.el6               base       68 k  shared-mime-info          i686  0.70-4.el6                 base      208 k Transaction Summary ================================================================================ Install      6 Package(s) Upgrade    135 Package(s) Total download size: 248 M Is this ok [y/N]:
Hit Y and continue upgrading process. The above command will download all packages and automatically upgrade the current version to 6.5 version.
Upgrade process will take some time depending upon your internet speed. You can view the current version using the following command:
# cat /etc/redhat-release
Sample Output:
CentOS release 6.5 (Final)
For more information check out the release notes. Cheers!