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When will CentOS 6 be out?
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RHEL 6 beta was released today. Just starting this forum thread but we have no news from the CentOS developers regarding the CentOS 6 beta.
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  •  toracat
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Re: When will CentOS 6 be out?
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The "official" words about CentOS beta ... Karanbir Singh's article on Planet CentOS

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The first thing that everyone will want to know is : when will centos-6-beta come out. Well, it wont be for a while. The reason is - this is a public beta, you can get it directly from Red Hat, and we want you to do that. Beta test the Red Hat builds, report issues and bugs at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/ and make sure you follow their rhel-6-beta list. And do this because, we all want a better upstream product.

So where does this leave CentOS and CentOS-6-beta ? We will setup a build process for CentOS-6-Beta, and we will go through the process of putting out a new release, across a restricted number of machines so that people can also test our builds, however we want the focus of this testing around CentOS-6-beta to be the packages we need to change, modify and adapt for CentOS. The core packages and testing should still be focused on RHEL-6, since a better upstream product helps all of us, and a large number of issues reported against CentOS-6-beta will almost certainly be pushed upstream.

- KB

There will not be CentOS-6-beta based on the current (beta1) version.
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  •  toracat
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Re: When will CentOS 6 be out?
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RHEL 6 beta2 was announced today.

http://www.redhat.com/rhel/beta/

It is publicly available.
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  •  AlanBartlett
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Re: When will CentOS 6 be out?
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As we are all aware, RHEL 6 was released today (Wednesday 10th November, 2010).

Here is a snippet from the #centos-devel IRC channel, earlier today --

Quote:

<@z00dax> and since this is a major release, remember that there will
be a centos6-beta release first

Please do not pester the CentOS developers with queries regarding the beta release. Details will be made available at the appropriate time.
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  •  AlanBartlett
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Re: When will CentOS 6 be out?
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For those persons who are not subscribers to the CentOS-devel mailing list, reproduced below is a recent posting to that list by Karanbir Singh --

Quote:

I am sure lots of people want to know - so here is a quick status update
about 6.0 build.

Over the next 2 days, we are going to clear out all patches and ensure
all patched packages build and link correctly. That would then complete
the package 'tree'. As soon as that is done ( good place to check is
look at the AuditStatus page in the wiki, but I am hopeful we can get
this done for Monday the 17th close of play ). The only major time
consuming process is getting the anaconda patches in, including the
language and url remapping stuff; most of the rest should be fairly
quick working through if its a few people working on it.

The actual distro build process has already been tested, although with a
smaller and incomplete tree. With the complete tree in place, we can
then get the package policy in place ( as in what rpm makes it to which
media disk etc ), and fire up a distro build.

What happens at this point is that the QA team get access to the output
from the distro-build process; and they need to go through the motions
of making sure its-all-good. This is also the stage where the release
notes get setup, and the translation teams goto work on their stuff.

A thumbs up from the QA team means the content is then passed onto the
infra team and we move to release.
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  •  AlanBartlett
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Re: When will CentOS 6 be out?
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I begin this announcement with my personal apology to all who are reading this. A while ago, I had a short conversation with Karanbir [Singh] with regards to the current status of the CentOS 5.6 build. He provided me with some information in relation to both the C-5.6 & C-6.0 build processes and asked me to write it up for public consumption via the Announcement forum. Due to various personal issues, coupled with the need to replace the main disk drive in my usual (desktop) workstation, the posts to the Announcement forum slid down the ToDo list. I aim to rectify that now.

In the (boxed) text that follows, KB's words appear in italics. My linking works are bracketed in the normal font: [thus].

[Although the CentOS 5.6 build is taking priority, CentOS] 6.0 is slowly moving along. 
Many people consider it [to be] paused [but] it's not. It's not moving [at] full steam
[ahead] but ticking along nicely. [It may be available to the QA team] within three weeks
[but] as you know, slippage can happen at any stage. So we try not to commit to a schedule
[because people will undoubtedly plan around it. The time-frame for CentOS] 6.0 might
slip with even minor issues.

[In conclusion, I would not expect to see CentOS 6.0 released until late March or early April.
So the advice is not to formulate plans based on my guestimate but, instead, hope for the
best whilst being prepared for the worst.]
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  •  AlanBartlett
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Re: When will CentOS 6 be out?
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Yesterday (Tuesday February 22, 2011), I received a status update from Karanbir regarding the progress of CentOS 6.0 and he has asked me to post it to this thread.

Quote:

6.0: Due to time issues, I'm not updating the Audit Status page [1] at the
moment. However there has been movement on the CentOS 6 build-front.
I think I'll leave updating that page until 4.9 and 5.6 are out of the door.

---------------------------------------------

[1] http://wiki.centos.org/QaWiki/6/AuditStatus
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  •  AlanBartlett
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Re: When will CentOS 6 be out?
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My current understanding is that the ongoing build of CentOS 6.0 is still running in minimal mode. I expect it to pick up speed once all the current CentOS 5.6 updates have been built and pushed to the update queue.

I will be discussing the 6.0 build status with Karanbir in the next few days and hopefully will have something a little less tenuous to report early-ish next week.

I think it is fair to say that as CentOS 6.0 is a new entry into the product line, it may spend somewhat more time in QA whilst the critical eyes give it close scrutiny.
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  •  AlanBartlett
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Re: When will CentOS 6 be out?
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I begin with another personal apology for my delay in posting here. Let me just say that I have lost 36 hours as a result of a health issue.

- - - - - - -

Some of you will know that there has been a CentOS developer's meeting and one topic on the list was the CentOS 6 build. Quite obviously, I was not part of that meeting nor am I privy to the outcome of any discussions.

What I can tell you, as a result of my recent communication with Karanbir, is that the last few packages are now being worked on and it is hoped that both trees (32- and 64-bit) will be with the QA team by about 10th May. Please remember, any date mentioned is just an estimate and is not set in stone.

This is, so I am led to believe, a new approach. In the past, the 32-bit tree was built and was then given to QA. Corrections were made, as appropriate, and the loop re-iterated. Once the 32-bit tree was declared satisfactory, the 64-bit tree was fairly quickly built with the knowledge so gained. The 64-bit tree then went into QA and it too was verified, rebuilt, etc.

It can be said that this newer procedure will concentrate the work for QA into a shorter period of time. However the observant of you will recall that there was a request for kickstart files, so as to be able to automate some of the testing / verifying process that is currently undertaken as a manual process. This automation will hopefully reduce the pressure come future updates.
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  •  AlanBartlett
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Re: When will CentOS 6 be out?
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Here is a little bit of information that arises from my latest communication with Karanbir . . .

Out of all the packages in both the 32- & 64-bit trees, currently 36 are still being worked upon. Please remember, that number could temporarily go up before it comes down again. Why do those packages require slow, methodical work? To bring them as close as possible to being binary compatible with TUV's product, RHEL 6.0.

At present, there is nothing to suggest that both trees will not be with the QA team by the proposed date.
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Re: When will CentOS 6 be out?
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Missed the May 10 target by a bit, but the initial set of packages should be to the QA team later today, May 11.
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  •  AlanBartlett
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Re: When will CentOS 6 be out?
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As everyone is aware by now, "slippage" can occur at any time.

Further to Phil's recent update, above, Karanbir started to collect together all the packages (both 32- & 64-bit) on Mon May 9th 2011 [1], ready for the push to the private QA server. It was that push which "slipped" and it should be finished later today, Wed May 11th 2011 [2]. When complete, we expect the QA team to commence their duties.

[1] http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/qa/node/67
[2] http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/qa/node/69
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  •  AlanBartlett
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Re: When will CentOS 6 be out?
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The current status of CentOS 6 should now be available from the QA Web Community Site.

For further insight, users may also consult the CentOS 6 Package Audit page.
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Re: When will CentOS 6 be out?
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CentOS 6.0 has now been released. Here is the official announcement [1] --

Quote:

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-6.0 for
i386 and x86_64 Architectures.

CentOS-6.0 is based on the upstream release EL 6.0 and includes packages
from all variants. All upstream repositories have been combined into
one, to make it easier for end users to work with.

There are some important changes to this release compared with the
previous versions of CentOS and we highly recommend reading this
announcement along with the Release Notes at
http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.0

There are no CD images being released with CentOS-6, however we have
some CD variants in the pipeline. Details for these are mentioned below.

Since upstream has a 6.1 version already released, we will be using a
Continous Release repository for 6.0 to bring all 6.1 and post 6.1
security updates to all 6.0 users, till such time as CentOS-6.1 is
released itself. There will be more details about this posted within the
next 48 hours.

+++++++++++++++++++++++
Upgrading from CentOS-4 or CentOS-5:

We recommend everyone run through a reinstall rather than attempt an
inplace upgrade from CentOS-4 or CentOS-5

+++++++++++++++++++++++
LiveCD and LiveDVD

LiveCDs and LiveDVDs for i386 and x86_64 will be released within the
next few days. These will bring in the ability to directly install from
the livemedia.

+++++++++++++++++++++++
Minimal Install CD

We have also created a minimal install CD, that would bring up a base
machine with just enough content to have a usable platform. This CD
image will be released in the next few days.

+++++++++++++++++++++++
The LightWeightServer (LWS) CD

In order to bring back the CentOS-4 Server CD style single iso image, we
are creating a LWS varient of the main distro. Details for this will be
posted in the next few days with release happening after the live media
and the minimal cd editions.

+++++++++++++++++++++++
Downloading CentOS-6.0 for new installs:

When possible, consider using torrents to run the downloads. In most
cases you will find its also the fastest means to download the distro.
There are currently over a thousand people seeding CentOS-6 and it's
possible to get upto 100mbps downloads via these torrents.

Torrent files for the DVD's are avilable at :
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.0/isos/i386/CentOS-6.0-i386-bin-DVD.torrent
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.0/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.0-x86_64-bin-DVD.torrent

You can also use a mirror close to you :
http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=30

Most mirrors will allow direct DVD downloads over http, ftp and rsync.

Please keep in mind that not all mirrors are currently updated, some
might take upto another 24 hours before they have all the content.

+++++++++++++++++++++++
sha1sum for the CentOS-6.0 ISOS:

i386:
fcf49e875cd4494f2af68cf257ab9e93523c9427 CentOS-6.0-i386-bin-DVD.iso
862815623d2e7990207dd78a281837c7eb719e83 CentOS-6.0-i386-netinstall.iso

x86_64:
9de87b0c696ebd72b952edb4cc06c24cbdc37d81 CentOS-6.0-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso
5e3834621f11fbcca78cf7d70625c647045f45f5 CentOS-6.0-x86_64-bin-DVD2.iso
23f9e606cbcbd52d2e5df3716a85cdde336f7bfe CentOS-6.0-x86_64-netinstall.iso

+++++++++++++++++++++++
Sources and Debuginfo packages:

SRPMS and debuginfo packages are still making their way to the CentOS
mirrors and should be available within the next 24 to 48 hours. We are
prioritising the centos modified packages.

+++++++++++++++++++++++
Getting Help:

The best place to start when looking for help with CentOS is at the wiki
( http://wiki.centos.org/GettingHelp ) which lists various options and
communities who might be able to help. If you think there is a bug in
the system, do report it at http://bugs.centos.org/ - but keep in mind
that the bugs system is *not* a support mechanism.

+++++++++++++++++++++++
Contributing and joining the project:

We are always looking for people to join and help with various things in
the project. If you are keen to help out a good place to start is the
wiki page at http://wiki.centos.org/Contribute . If you have questions
or a specific area you would like to contribute towards that is not
covered on that page, feel free to drop in on
#centos-devel at irc.freenode.net for a chat or email the centos-devel list
(http://lists.centos.org).

+++++++++++++++++++++++
Thanks to everyone who contributed towards making 6.0


Enjoy!

--
Karanbir Singh <kbsingh at centos.org>
The CentOS Project {http://www.centos.org}
irc: z00dax at irc.freenode.net ( #centos, #centos-devel )

[1] http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2011-July/017645.html
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Re: When will CentOS 6 be out?
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Just for the record, CentOS 6.0 was announced July 10, 2011.
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