On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 06:03 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > I would like to take the time to inform people that CentOS-4.4 will > contain some major changes. The changes are significant enough that I > would like to spell out some of them now, probably at least a month > before the release of the upstream "EL4 update 4" is released. > > The Mozilla Suite (Browser, Mail, Chat clients) will be replaced by > SeaMonkey. This is due to Mozilla's change in policy and support for > older versions. > > The Firefox 1.0.x (currently 1.0.8) web browser will be replaced by > Firefox 1.5.x (currently 1.5.0.3). We currently have a version of > Firefox 1.5.x in the CentOSPlus repo. That version will be replaced by > the EL4 version after some more testing ... and the new version will be > rolled into CentOS-4.4 in the Base repository when CentOS-4.4 is > released. > > The Thunderbird 1.0.x (currently 1.0.8) will be upgraded to Thunderbird > 1.5.x (currently 1.5.0.2). > > The OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 will be replaced by OpenOffice 1.1.5. This > allows better sharing of files between OpenOffice.org 2.0 and CentOS > clients. > > ------------------------------- > > All these changes will be implemented upstream and rolled out in the > released source code, so they will be incorporated into CentOS as well. > We will fully test these packages prior to release of the CentOS-4.4 > ISOs, however these changes are fairly substantial. > > I would also like to remind people who are more cautious that CentOS has > a vault that will contain CentOS-4.3 after we shift the main mirrors to > CentOS-4.4. The vault is available at: > > http://vault.centos.org/ > > I am not suggesting that people don't upgrade (as security updates would > require one to maintain the current version), but I am just providing > information so that if the updates break something, you can easily get > back to a known previous version. > > We have not had any problems so far with the new packages in our > testing, and they will be deemed STABLE by upstream when they are > released, however these changes are by far the most significant since > the release of CentOS-4 and I think they deserve some special attention. > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes > CentOS-4 Lead Developer > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Is there any information as of yet of other packages to be updated in the update 4 release? I am hoping for updates to NetworkManager and alsa. Regards Phil