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 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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