[CentOS] Re: [CentOS-announce] CentOS 4.6 is released for i386, x86_64, s390, s390x and ia64

Sun Dec 16 18:21:55 UTC 2007
James A. Peltier <jpeltier at cs.sfu.ca>

Johnny Hughes wrote:
> The CentOS development team is pleased to announce the release of CentOS
> 4.6 for i386, x86_64, s390, s390x and ia64.
>
> It is available on all CentOS.org mirrors and via bittorrent, see this
> link to download ISOs:
>
> http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/4.6/isos/
>
> This release corresponds to the upstream vendor U6 release.  Also
> released in the updates repository for CentOS-4.6 are all updates
> through December 15th, 2007.
>
> The work for the i386 and x86_64 ServerCDs is in progress.
>
> If you are currently using another version CentOS-4 version, using this
> command will upgrade you to CentOS-4.6:
>
> yum update
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Major changes for this version are:
>
>  * samba has been updated to version 3.0.25b. This addresses several
> critical issues affecting interoperability with Windows 2003™ and
> Windows Vista™ (resolved in recent upstream releases).
>
>  * autofs5 is included in this release as a Technology Preview. This new
> version of autofs resolves several long-standing interoperability issues
> in multi-vendor environments.
>
>  * There is a technology preview of OpenOffice-2.0 included in the
> updates directory.  You can install this OOo2 preview alongside the
> current OOo-1.1.5 version, or you may install the OOo2 preview alone.
> We apologize that this was not included on the ISOs, however it was not
> on the upstream ISOs and we followed that layout.  To List the new
> OpenOffice-2.0 RPMS with yum use this command:
>
>        yum search openoffice.org2 | grep i386 | grep -v langpack
>
>    For finding Language Packs (if you want other than English) do:
>
>        yum search openoffice.org2 | grep langpack
>
>    Use "yum install <pkg_name1> <pkg_name2>" to install the packages
> that you want, or "yum info <pkg_name1> <pkg_name2>" to obtain more
> information about them.
>
> * A new yum included in CentOS-4.6 requires the installation of
> yum-metadata-parser.  The yum-metadata-parser package contains a
> metadata parser for yum written in C. It speeds up the metadata parsing
> phase of yum considerably and does not change yum behavior in any other way.
>
> Please see the CentOS specific release notes here (or in the main
> directory on your install media):
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4.6/os/i386/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html
>
> detailed upstream release notes here (and in the /NOTES directory on
> your install media):
> http://www.centos.org/docs/4/html/release-notes/as-x86/RELEASE-NOTES-U6-en.html
>
> CentOS-4 Documentation is here:
> http://www.centos.org/docs/4/
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> All previous released CentOS versions are available at:
> http://vault.centos.org/
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>
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>
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>
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>
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> Note: It may take a couple days for some of the external mirrors to
> catch up.
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>
> Enjoy,
>
> The CentOS Development Team
>
>
>
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There will still be a CentOS 5.1 release soon to though right?