We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-6.4

install media for i386 and x86_64 Architectures. Release Notes for 6.4 are available at http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.4 - we recommend everyone looks through those once.

CentOS-6.4 is based on the upstream release EL 6.4 and includes packages from all variants. All upstream repositories have been combined into one, to make it easier for end users to work with.

There are many fundamental changes in this release, compared with the past CentOS-6 releases, and we highly recommend everyone stufy the Release Notes as well as the upstream Techical Notes about the changes and how they might impact your installation.

All updates released since upstream 6.4 release are also released to the CentOS-6.4 mirrors.

Everyone who has centos-cr repositories enabled and in use, would already be running CentOs-6.4 as of two weeks ago and will notice only the centos-release rpm update with this release.

+++++++++++++++++++++++ Upgrading from CentOS-4 or CentOS-5:

We recommend everyone run through a reinstall rather than attempt an inplace upgrade from CentOS-4 or CentOS-5.

+++++++++++++++++++++++ Upgrading from CentOS-6.0 / 6.1 / 6.2 or 6.3

Unless you have edited your yum configs, a 'yum update' should move your machine seamlessly from any previous CentOS-6.x release to CentOS-6.4

+++++++++++++++++++++++ Downloading CentOS-6.4 for new installs:

When possible, consider using torrents to run the downloads. Usually its also the fastest means to download the distro.

Torrent files for the DVD's are available at :http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.4/isos/i386/CentOS-6.4-i386-bin-DVD1to2.to...

You can also use a mirror close to you :http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=30

Most mirrors will allow direct DVD downloads over http, ftp and rsync.

Please keep in mind that not all mirrors are currently updated, some might take upto another 24 hours before they have all the content.

We have also made efforts to try and ensure that most install types and roles can be run from DVD-1 itself.

+++++++++++++++++++++++ sha1sum for the CentOS-6.3 ISOS:

i386: 4bd3a1de6f6dfcd7a2199487abf5a9304d696cae CentOS-6.4-i386-bin-DVD1.iso fb096cd6ac88959a287256c76c7292ae2ef53f32 CentOS-6.4-i386-bin-DVD2.iso ddb63a0af2c1d63b8e9b7342c7f52a86b1842689 CentOS-6.4-i386-minimal.iso 6ffc9f3a5f4332b55cc35f1eb3ebb39f5aa8edb6 CentOS-6.4-i386-netinstall.iso

x86_64: 8672dc087f1b0eda60b9efaa41b82f034f185e24 CentOS-6.4-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso db16ec15897dcb7a01e7434486075f43ca982c4b CentOS-6.4-x86_64-bin-DVD2.iso 6232efa014d9c6798396b63152c4c9a08b279f5e CentOS-6.4-x86_64-minimal.iso 77817ed6e879da155b6f3dc98e0698e8993e28f8 CentOS-6.4-x86_64-netinstall.iso

+++++++++++++++++++++++ LiveCD and LiveDVD

We will be releasing the LiveCD and LiveDVD images in the next few days for both i386 and x86_64.

*Aland Laines Calonge* Twitter: @lainessolutions http://about.me/aland.laines