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CentOS Announcements : CentOS-4.2 is Released for i386, x86_64, ia64, s390, s390x and alpha

Posted by hughesjr on 2005/10/12 12:00:00 (194517 reads)

The CentOS development team is pleased to announce the availability of CentOS-4.2 in the following architectures:

i386 - This distribution supports AMD (K6, K7, Thunderbird, Athlon, Athlon XP, Sempron), Pentium (Classic, Pro, II, III, 4, Celeron, M, Xeon), VIA (C3, Eden, Luke, C7) processors.

x86_64 - This distribution supports AMD (Athlon 64, Opteron) and Intel Pentium (Xeon EM64T) processors.

ia64 - This distribution supports Intel Itanium2 processors.

s390 - This distribution supports IBM S/390 processors.

s390x - This distribution supports IBM Z-Series servers.

alpha - This distribution supports the DEC Alpha processor.

There may be a separate release announcement for individual architectures.

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Current CentOS 4 users may upgrade by using up2date or yum and the normal upgrade process using the following commands:

yum upgrade

or

up2date -u

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The CentOS specific release notes for this upgrade are available here:
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html

Documentation for CentOS 4 (including upstream release notes) is available here:
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/docs/

You may download the installation CD or DVD ISOs via bittorrent from this link:

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/isos/

CD ISOs may also be downloaded via publicly available external mirrors:
http://www.centos.org/mirrors/

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Major changes in this version of CentOS include:

1. Upgraded yum. Yum has been upgraded to version 2.4.x, which adds a sqlite database backend for local metadata storage. This allows yum updates to be much faster than they were previously. The following packages are added or upgraded to facilitate the new yum: createrepo, centos-yumconf, sqlite, sqlite-devel, python-elementtree, python-sqlite, python-urlgrabber, yum.

2. SystemTap. CentOS-4.2 contains a technology preview release of SystemTap. SystemTap is a dynamic system profiling framework. SystemTap is only included as a preview, and should not be used in production at this time. Please see the SystemTap website for more information:
http://sourceware.org/systemtap/

3. Updated and added packages. There is a list of all packages either added or upgraded since CentOS 4.1 in the upstream release notes, please see the upstream release notes for your architecture for CentOS-4.2 on the CentOS documentation page:
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/docs/

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ISSUES:

There is a known issue upstream when upgrading x86_64 servers. The issue seems to be related to the new audit and kernel packages when performing an upgrade. If you first install the new kernel and audit packages, then reboot and upgrade the rest of the packages, it seems to minimize this problem. Please see this bug report:
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1037

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ericespela	Posted: 2005/10/14 3:44 Updated: 2005/10/14 3:44
Newbie Joined: 2005/10/14 From: philippines Posts: 2	Re: CentOS-4.2 is Released for i386, x86_64, ia64, s390, ... i want to know how to use gaim,can somebody help me plssssss.

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rnieuweboer	Posted: 2005/10/15 10:12 Updated: 2005/10/15 10:12
Newbie Joined: 2005/6/12 From: Netherlands Posts: 1	Re: CentOS-4.2 is Released for i386, x86_64, ia64, s390, ... I switched from fedora to centos, because of the longer support cycle and because i didn't want to install a new version every six months. But now 3 months after i installed centos 4.1, i must download 587 MB of data to keep everything current. Not what I anticipated :(

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hughesjr	Posted: 2005/10/22 2:09 Updated: 2006/3/5 18:03
WebMaster Joined: 2004/12/5 From: Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Posts: 401 Online!	Re: CentOS-4.2 is Released for i386, x86_64, ia64, s390, ... but ... it installs as an update and you don't need to reinstall. The upstream provider releases security updates all the time, but does not require you to reinstall. There is also an update set released 2-4 times per year. Surely you are not suggesting that you don't want us to release security updates to the packages ... or that you would rather that we not release updates provided by the upstream vendor. IN your comparison to FC, you don't get to maintain it up2date after a year ... and you have to reinstall. In this case, you get to run "yum update" and it works for 7 years.