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/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > All previous released CentOS versions are available at: > http://vault.centos.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To stay current with CentOS: > > Visit our website at http://www.centos.org/ > > Join the CentOS mailing list at: > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > HowTos and other items on the wiki: > http://wiki.centos.org/ > > Join various team members on IRC at irc.freenode.net #centos > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Note: It may take a couple days for some of the external mirrors to > catch up. > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Enjoy, > > The CentOS Development Team > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-announce mailing list > CentOS-announce at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce > There will still be a CentOS 5.1 release soon to though right?