The CentOS development team is pleased to announce the availability of CentOS-3.7 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.
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Current CentOS 3 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/3/os/i386/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html
Documentation for CentOS 3 (including upstream release notes) is available here:
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3/docs/
You may download the installation CD or DVD ISOs via bittorrent from this link:
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3.7/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. Added Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) functionality to CentOS-3. IPMI is a standard for controlling intelligent devices that monitor a system. It provides for dynamic discovery of sensors in the system and the ability to monitor the sensors and be informed when the sensor's values change or go outside certain boundaries.
To use IPMI, you need an interface to an IPMI controller in your system (called a Baseboard Management Controller, or BMC) and the IPMI software.
2. An improved NUMA-friendly page allocation policy is included in CentOS-3.7 for x86_64 processors. The default behavior is the same as CentOS-3.6, which does not use this policy. To enable the policy, see the CentOS-3.7 release notes for details.
3. Several hardware kernel modules have been added and updated, see the CentOS-3.7 release notes for details.
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Thanks,
The CentOS Development Team
