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CentOS 5.4 Release Notes

Contents

  1. Translations
  2. Introduction
  3. Install Media and sha1sum
  4. Known Issues
  5. Resolved Issues
  6. Changes
    1. New packages in 5.4 that were not present in 5.3
    2. Packages that have been upgraded in 5.4 since the 5.3 release
    3. Packages removed by upstream in 5.4 that were present in 5.3
    4. Packages released as 5.3 updates with older packages on the 5.4 install media
  7. Changes done by CentOS
    1. Packages modified by CentOS
    2. Packages removed from CentOS that are included upstream
    3. Packages added by CentOS that are not included upstream
  8. How to help and get help
    1. Special Interest Groups
    2. Mailinglists and Forums
    3. Wiki and website
  9. Further Reading
  10. Thanks

1. Translations

Translations of these release notes are available for the following languages:

2. Introduction

Welcome to the CentOS 5.4 release. CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by our Upstream OS Provider (UOP)1.

CentOS conforms fully with the upstream vendors redistribution policy and aims to be 100% binary compatible. (CentOS mainly changes packages to remove upstream vendor branding and artwork.) CentOS is a Free Operating System.

CentOS 5.4 is the fourth update to the CentOS 5 distribution series. It contains a lot of bugfixes, updates and new functionality. Before reading any further we advise you to read the UOP Release Notes (or Single Page Release Notes) and Technical Notes (or Single Page Technical Notes). The rest of this document is an addendum, and primarily covers CentOS-specific issues.

3. Install Media and sha1sum

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i386 media and their sha1sums are:
2c3e2d6ca38e3549d47d5f74529193ed68d838cc  CentOS-5.4-i386-bin-1of6.iso
9f8b829bd7d39dec4c25d3f7815391323ea462d4  CentOS-5.4-i386-bin-2of6.iso
aa9db29f2524894599a5d948b58593782da9adcc  CentOS-5.4-i386-bin-3of6.iso
44d72f7b9f889e0278a1718061606b48d10975bf  CentOS-5.4-i386-bin-4of6.iso
88ff6bd1abe194dc4b2d77d779dac28d914276bf  CentOS-5.4-i386-bin-5of6.iso
0dd39bd0ca1420b78be630f2a1d0fa7301e00db4  CentOS-5.4-i386-bin-6of6.iso
d2b36d3f017b2684ac920fab87aaf741bba16ca8  CentOS-5.4-i386-bin-DVD.iso
f52e34da5570fd4eec0f3688c6f03c7686e8ad08  CentOS-5.4-i386-LiveCD.iso
94ddb89f24be9330efc2595a1ba76c4ce9aea22f  CentOS-5.4-i386-netinstall.iso
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x86_64 media and their sha1sums are:
2a283f28adea32481b057bec0fcabba37b4e2d75  CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-1of7.iso
aa5b7a5a03746024555a8aa4c17cdb1e51798480  CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-2of7.iso
ab7c6e8ad67f426cfb046478f1669b3f8c925433  CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-3of7.iso
02e411338b6c693e483b152f72fe93fddfb9588e  CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-4of7.iso
a91ecff0ebb6e216ac96887e6e325f9c7b7eef32  CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-5of7.iso
9ab5f1d20cd81c3ebdc6a22d22e9dc7111646199  CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-6of7.iso
3b00f16ed097f2bd189395edde6834e33f73cdb4  CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-7of7.iso
9069eadfc3a8727ed7abe472effae5b9bbbda8a1  CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso
da508b248ab2d18deb42e2ec0ec7061b1fbf4568  CentOS-5.4-x86_64-LiveCD.iso
98287aff19e8e4b4d19c5d714cc189fe08f38521  CentOS-5.4-x86_64-netinstall.iso
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4. Known Issues

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  Identifier "Videocard0"
  Driver "intel"
  Option "DDC" "false"
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yum clean all
yum update glibc\*
yum update yum\* rpm\* python\*
yum clean all
yum update
shutdown -r now

5. Resolved Issues

6. Changes

6.1. New packages in 5.4 that were not present in 5.3

6.2. Packages that have been upgraded in 5.4 since the 5.3 release

6.3. Packages removed by upstream in 5.4 that were present in 5.3

6.4. Packages released as 5.3 updates with older packages on the 5.4 install media

These packages are now in the updates repository for CentOS 5.3.

7. Changes done by CentOS

7.1. Packages modified by CentOS

Note: Details of changes can be found in the package changelog. It's also important to keep in mind that most of these packages are only changed to remove upstream branding, as required by their terms of use.

7.2. Packages removed from CentOS that are included upstream

7.3. Packages added by CentOS that are not included upstream

8. How to help and get help

As a CentOS user there are various ways you can help out with the CentOS community. Take a look at our Contribute page for further information on how to get involved.

8.1. Special Interest Groups

CentOS consists of different Special Interest Groups (SIGs) that bring together people with similar interests. The following SIGs already exist:

And we encourage people to join any of these SIGs or start up a new SIG, eg.

8.2. Mailinglists and Forums

Another way you can help out others in the community is by actively helping and resolving problems that users come up against in the mailinglists and forums.

8.3. Wiki and website

Even as an inexperienced CentOS user we can use your help. Because we like to know what problems you encountered, if you had problems finding specific information, how you would improve documentation so it becomes more accessible. This kind of feedback is as valuable to others as it would have been to you so your involvement is required to make CentOS better.

So if you want to help out and improve our documentation and wiki, register on the wiki or subscribe to the centos-docs mailinglist.

9. Further Reading

The following websites contain large amounts of information to help people with their CentOS systems :

10. Thanks

We thank everyone involved for helping us produce this product.

Copyright (C) 2009 CentOS

  1. Visit http://www.redhat.com/rhel/ (1)

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