RHEL 5.5 is out.

We (the moderators) will try to update the status of the forthcoming CentOS 5.5 in this thread as the information becomes available to us. So stay tuned!

The QA team was asked to be ready.

If you wish to see what the new release will look like, here's the link to the upstream Release Notes and Technical Notes.

SRPMS are available. The build is in progress. The first complete tree for QA testing to start on should be available soon.

Another place worth watching is Planet CentOS. In fact, there is a post by Karanbir Singh asking for kickstart files. You can help, too. Please see his blog for further details.

There isn't any (externally visible) news today. If you are looking for something to read and if you were not around when 5.3 was being built, or if you are simply bored --

http://www.karan.org/blog/index.php/2009/02/26/r-v-m-routine

Karanbir explained the CentOS build process in there.

It may also be interesting to follow Karanbir's tweets.

The first tree for QA testing is not yet available. However it might be close. As of April 04 there were just 8 packages failing, according to Karanbir.

For general gossip, questions, speculation, and other wide-open 5.5 discussions, please see this CentOS Social thread.

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A few kickstart files have been submitted. You can see them here. Karanbir says many more needed.

There isn't much to report at this moment. Things are happening mostly internally. There were some kinks that had to be taken care of as far as package building is concerned, it seems. I have a feeling that the QA team will see some materials fairly soon...

... and yes, the first tree is now available to the QA team. It is not a complete set but provides something to start testing with.

Karanbir says, "We are now down to 2 failing packages". Also, the tree's for QA will be updated nightly.

Last night Karanbir pushed the first iteration of the 5.5 tree to the QA servers and the QA team are downloading them, so testing has now begun.

The trees are not quite complete, but there is enough there for the QA team to begin testing some 5.4 -> 5.5 upgrade scenarios.

We'll report more as it happens

A note about package updates available from the upstream vendor. They are currently put on hold pending the release of CentOS 5.5. However, some of them are security patches (Firefox is marked critical, for example). CentOS devs are considering making those updates available and trying to figure out the best way to deliver them to users.

No new development to report so far ...

According to the latest news from the developer, some problem was identified for the build process. This was rectified and a number of packages are being rebuilt.

The rebuild process is still on-going ...

Looks like refurbished trees might become available to the QA team very soon. But don't hold your breath (if you don't want to be suffocated).

Long time no news. Hope you are not holding your breath. The only thing I can tell is that the developers are still "working on it".

Still no news to pass on. What I heard yesterday was that there are just a few packages that need to be finished. Then the new trees will be installable (with Anaconda) and we will also have the ISOs to play with ...