James A. Peltier wrote: > 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? Wrong tense. I have before me the CentOS 5.1 Release Notes, 8 pages of goodness printed 12/3/2007.