CentOS 4.4 Release Notes

Introduction

  • CentOS 4 offers both yum and up2date to do updates of the operating system. You can use either or both of these to manage your updates.

    Note

    Prior to using yum, you must import the RPM-GPG-KEY for CentOS-4 like this

    rpm --import /usr/share/doc/centos-release-4/RPM-GPG-KEY

The following files are changed from the upstream RPMS. All changes are trademark and look/feel related unless otherwise noted under the specific RPM.

  • anaconda

    • Path of the Distribution changed from RedHat to CentOS on the install CDs.

  • anaconda-help

  • anaconda-product

  • anaconda-runtime

  • apr and apr-devel

    • These packages required a rebuild due to an upgrade gcc. Nothing is changed, as it is an automatically generated requirement.

  • centos-release

    • File name changed from redhat-release in the upstream product.

  • desktop-backgrounds-basic

  • desktop-backgrounds-extra

  • devhelp and devhelp-devel

    • These packages required a rebuild due to an moving from mozilla to seamonkey. Nothing is changed, as it is an automatically generated requirement.

  • dhcp-devel

  • firefox

    • In addition to numerous shortcut changes, added the CACert.org certificate as a trusted Certificate Authority. See CentOS.org for details.

  • firstboot

  • fontconfig and fontconfig-devel

    • Required rebuilding to fix an issue with i386 and x86_64 man pages so that they can both be installed on x86_64.

  • glade2

    • Corrected a race condition. See bug#855 at bugs.centos.org.

  • gnome-desktop

  • gnome-desktop-devel

  • gnome-session

  • httpd

  • httpd-devel

  • httpd-manual

  • httpd-suexec

  • indexhtml

  • initscripts

  • libtool and libtool-devel

    • These packages required a rebuild due to an upgrade gcc. Nothing is changed, as it is an automatically generated requirement.

  • mod_perl

  • mod_perl-devel

  • mod_ssl

  • redhat-artwork

  • redhat-logos

  • redhat-release and rpmdb-redhat

    • These packages are replaced by centos-release and rpmdb-CentOS.

  • rhgb

  • rhn-applet

    • Modified to not use the RHN and to instead use the CentOS Mirror Network.

  • seamonkey

    • In addition to numerous shortcut changes, added the CACert.org certificate as a trusted Certificate Authority. See CentOS.org for details.

  • seamonkey-chat

  • seamonkey-devel

  • seamonkey-dom-inspector

  • seamonkey-js-debugger

  • seamonkey-mail

  • seamonkey-nspr

  • seamonkey-nspr-devel

  • seamonkey-nss

  • seamonkey-nss-devel

  • squirrelmail

  • thunderbird

    • In addition to numerous shortcut changes, added the CACert.org certificate as a trusted Certificate Authority. See CentOS.org for details.

  • up2date

    • Modified to not use the RHN and to instead use the CentOS Mirror Network.

  • up2date-gnome


Note:

The following packages are newer on the CentOS-4.4 ISO than the upstream ISO due to security updates released after the upstream ISO:

  • firefox-1.5.0.5-0.el4.1.centos4

  • freetype-2.1.9-4.el4

  • freetype-demos-2.1.9-4.el4

  • freetype-devel-2.1.9-4.el4

  • freetype-utils-2.1.9-4.el4

  • gnupg-1.2.6-6

  • httpd-2.0.52-28.ent.centos4

  • httpd-devel-2.0.52-28.ent.centos4

  • httpd-manual-2.0.52-28.ent.centos4

  • httpd-suexec-2.0.52-28.ent.centos4

  • iproute-2.6.9-3.EL4.3

  • irb-1.8.1-7.EL4.6

  • krb5-devel-1.3.4-33

  • krb5-libs-1.3.4-33

  • krb5-server-1.3.4-33

  • krb5-workstation-1.3.4-33

  • libtiff-3.6.1-12

  • libtiff-devel-3.6.1-12

  • mod_ssl-2.0.52-28.ent.centos4

  • ruby-devel-1.8.1-7.EL4.6

  • ruby-docs-1.8.1-7.EL4.6

  • ruby-libs-1.8.1-7.EL4.6

  • ruby-mode-1.8.1-7.EL4.6

  • ruby-tcltk-1.8.1-7.EL4.6

  • thunderbird-1.5.0.5-0.el4.2.centos4

  • tzdata-2006g-1.EL4

  • wireshark-0.99.2-EL4.1

  • wireshark-gnome-0.99.2-EL4.1


The kernel version is the same as the upstream ISO for 3rd pary driver compatibility; however, there is a security update to kernel-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL. We highly recommend updating the kernel as soon as possible after installing CentOS-4.4.

Note:

The following packages are added to CentOS and are not in the upstream product to allow the use of yum for updates:

  • createrepo

  • centos-yumconf

  • sqlite

  • sqlite-devel

  • python-elementtree

  • python-sqlite

  • python-urlgrabber

  • yum


For more Information, see the CentOS-4 Documentation at CentOS.org, or the /NOTES directory on CD-1 of this distribution. The documentation is provided {and copyrighted} by Red Hat®,Inc. The CentOS Project redistributes these original works (in their unmodified form) as a reference for CentOS-4. CentOS-4 is built from publicly available, open source SRPMs.

Major changes this upgrade cycle include replacing etherreal with wireshark, replacing mozilla with seamonkey, upgrading firefox and thunderbird from the 1.x series to the 1.5 series, and upgrading OpenOffice.org from the 1.1.2 to the 1.1.5 series. See the U4 notes in the /NOTES directory for more details.