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

[Mike Kercher]

centos-bounces at centos.org <> scribbled on Thursday, October 13, 2005 7:15
AM:

> 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.
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 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
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 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/
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 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/
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 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
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> To stay current with CentOS:
> 
> Visit our website at http://www.centos.org
> 
> Join the CentOS mailing list at:
> http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
> 
> Join various team members on IRC at irc.freenode.net #centos
> 
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> 
> Note: It may take a couple days for some of the mirrors to catch up.
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Enjoy,
> 
> The CentOS Team

MANY, many thanks to the CentOS team!!

Mike