CentOS 7.4 1708: Red Hat released it Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 on 1th August 2017. Of course, as I mentioned, since then I've been waiting (and probably all friends of the distro) for the upcoming CentOS 'Release Point', which means that the major version of a distribution (in this case CentOS Linux 7) is updated to version 4 by Red Hat source code.
As I mentioned in the release of Red Hat's new release, CentOS friends will have to wait around a month to update the distribution. 
Actually according to a CentOS blog post, the upcoming version of CentOS Linux 7 (1708) is already on the developers screens. Let's mention that the Red Hat source code has updated distribution in about 700 packages.
So the upcoming release of CentOS 7.4 1708 should have the corresponding updates. The process that CentOS follows Project for each new version is as follows:
When there is a new version of the RHEL 7 source code, the public version of the source code is uploaded to the CentOS git server (git.centos.org). They then use a published set of tools to creation RPM sources from git source. So the development of the updated version of CentOS Linux starts immediately. A program called mock is used to create binary RPM packages from SRPMs.
That's it functional CentOS system is developed by a community of open source partners. Typically CentOS users are companies and individuals who do not need strong commercial support for their operating system.
CentOS is a 100% compatible rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, fully compliant with Red Hat distribution requirements. CentOS is for those who need stability in one operating system business class without the cost of certification and support.
According to published on 4 August 2017, by that date they had completed 574 packages of the approximately 700 SRPM required for the update. Let's say it will be the largest number of updated packages to release after the official announcement.
Upon completion, a new repo will appear for the necessary beta tests. The address that will appear in the repository and the installation media will be: mirror.centos.org. It will be in a folder called 7.4.1708.
Package release announcements.
To add it CR (Continuous Release (CR) repository) use the command:
yum-config-manager --enable cr
After upgrade: yum update
