Karanbir Singh has announced the release of 6.1, a new version of the popular distribution built from source code for Enterprise Linux 6.1: "We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS 6.1 install media for i386 and x86_64 architectures. CentOS 6.1 is based on the upstream release EL 6.1 and includes packages from all variants. All upstream repositories have been combined into one, to make it easier for end users to work with. All machines running CentOS-Release-CR on 6.0 would already be running code that is included in the 6.1 install media. We highly recommend everyone use the CR repository in order to get all bug-fix and security updates as soon as possible." See the and read the detailed for information about known issues and upgrade instructions. : (3,645MB, ,), (4,190MB, , , ). CentOS 6.1 live CD, live DVD, minimal and "netinstall" images are also available from the project's.