[CentOS] CentOS-4.2 is Released for i386, x86_64, ia64, s390, s390x and alpha architectures

[Colht, Charles]

Will PPC support follow? Specifically P5?

Thanks for the hard work. 

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From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
Behalf Of Johnny Hughes
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 4:15 AM
To: CentOS-Announce
Cc: CentOS ML
Subject: [CentOS] CentOS-4.2 is Released for i386, x86_64, ia64,
s390,s390x and alpha architectures

The CentOS development team is pleased to announce the availability of
CentOS-4.2 in the following architectures:

i386 - This distribution supports AMD (K6, K7, Thunderbird, Athlon,
Athlon XP, Sempron), Pentium (Classic, Pro, II, III, 4, Celeron, M,
Xeon), VIA (C3, Eden, Luke, C7) processors.

x86_64 - This distribution supports AMD (Athlon 64, Opteron) and Intel
Pentium (Xeon EM64T) processors.

ia64 - This distribution supports Intel Itanium2 processors.

s390 - This distribution supports IBM S/390 processors.

s390x - This distribution supports IBM Z-Series servers.

alpha - This distribution supports the DEC Alpha processor.

There may be a separate release announcement for individual
architectures. 

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Current CentOS 4 users may upgrade by using up2date or yum and the
normal upgrade process using the following commands:

yum upgrade

or

up2date -u

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The CentOS specific release notes for this upgrade are available here:
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html

Documentation for CentOS 4 (including upstream release notes) is
available here:
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/docs/

You may download the installation CD or DVD ISOs via bittorrent from
this link:

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/isos/

CD ISOs may also be downloaded via publicly available external mirrors:
http://www.centos.org/mirrors/

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Major changes in this version of CentOS include:

1.  Upgraded yum.  Yum has been upgraded to version 2.4.x, which adds a
sqlite database backend for local metadata storage.  This allows yum
updates to be much faster than they were previously.  The following
packages are added or upgraded to facilitate the new yum:  createrepo,
centos-yumconf, sqlite, sqlite-devel, python-elementtree, python-sqlite,
python-urlgrabber, yum.

2.  SystemTap.  CentOS-4.2 contains a technology preview release of
SystemTap.  SystemTap is a dynamic system profiling framework.
SystemTap is only included as a preview, and should not be used in
production at this time. Please see the SystemTap website for more
information:
http://sourceware.org/systemtap/

3. Updated and added packages.  There is a list of all packages either
added or upgraded since CentOS 4.1 in the upstream release notes, please
see the upstream release notes for your architecture for CentOS-4.2 on
the CentOS documentation page:
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/docs/

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ISSUES:

There is a known issue upstream when upgrading x86_64 servers.  The
issue seems to be related to the new audit and kernel packages when
performing an upgrade.  If you first install the new kernel and audit
packages, then reboot and upgrade the rest of the packages, it seems to
minimize this problem.  Please see this bug report:
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1037

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Note: It may take a couple days for some of the mirrors to catch up.

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Enjoy,

The CentOS Team


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