CentOS 7.2 has recently Released. All the CentOS clients can upgrade their framework to most recent discharge. Clients running with WHM/cPanel don’t have to do anything. WHM/cPanel will consequently update their working system on next planned upgrade. On the off chance that you are utilizing CentOS without cPanel, you can follow this article to update your current CentOS 7.x to most recent CentOS 7.2
You can check your current version by using below command:
cat /etc/redhat-release
Before upgrading your CentOS version make sure to have backup of all your data to remote location.
- Backup all databases ( MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.. )
- Backup all configuration files ( Apache, PHP, MySQL, DNS and Other services )
- Backup all websites data running in webserver
Now following steps help you to upgrade CentOS to latest version:
yum clean all yum update
On the successful completion of above command reboot your system:
Reboot
Now to verify that your system has been successfully upgraded, check the following:
# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)