February 12, 2009
The secpmd beta release for Scientific Linux 5.3 i386 has been released
for both i386 and x86_64.

We do not have CD or DVD images, but we will hopefully have them soon.

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DOWNLOAD INFO
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   ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/i386
   ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/x86_64

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CHANGES by Scientific Linux
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**ALPINE
**  Updated to the latest version
**  Our version of alpine 2.00 has the following changes compared to
**  our 1.0 version
**  An /etc/alpine/pine.conf.sample file is installed, no longer
**    overwriting an existing pine.conf  Therefore an existing pine.conf
**    in /etc/alpine will be left untouched even after the upgrade. For
**    an installation from scratch it is advantageous to copy the sample
**    conf file to pine.conf, but alpine works also without it.
**    Users are now able to use a .alpine.passfile
   i386:
**	alpine-2.00-1.el5.i386.rpm
   x86_64:
**	alpine-2.00-1.el5.x86_64.rpm

**AUFS
**  Aufs is a stackable unification filesystem such as Unionfs,
**  which unifies several directories and provides a merged single
**  directory. Aufs is an entirely re-designed and re-implemented
**  Unionfs.
   i386:
**aufs-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5.i686.rpm
**kernel-module-aufs-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5.i686.rpm
**kernel-module-aufs-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5PAE-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5.i686.rpm
**kernel-module-aufs-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5xen-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5.i686.rpm
   x86_64:
**aufs-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5.x86_64.rpm
**kernel-module-aufs-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5.x86_64.rpm
**kernel-module-aufs-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5xen-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5.x86_64.rpm
**kernel-module-fuse-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5-2.6.3-1.sl5.x86_64.rpm
**kernel-module-fuse-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5xen-2.6.3-1.sl5.x86_64.rpm

**ICEWM
**  Updated to latest version
**  Added OpenOffice to the menu and toolbar
   i386:
**	icewm-1.2.37-1.i386.rpm
**	icewm-l10n-1.2.37-1.i386.rpm
   x86_64:	  	
**	icewm-1.2.37-1.x86_64.rpm
**	icewm-l10n-1.2.37-1.x86_64.rpm

**INTEL wireless firmware (ucode)
**  Added iwlwifi-3945-ucode (firmware)
**    With the new driver in the kernel, and this new firmware,
**    the old ipw3945 daemon and firmware are not needed.
**  Updated iwlwifi-4965-ucode (firmware)
**  Added iwlwifi-5000-ucode (firmware)
**  These packages contains all releases of the firmware up
**    to the version stated.
**
**	iwlwifi-3945-ucode-15.28.2.8-1.el5.noarch.rpm
**	iwlwifi-4965-ucode-228.57.2.23-7.el5.noarch.rpm
**	iwlwifi-5000-ucode-5.4.A.11-1.el5.noarch.rpm

**NUMPY
**  numpy updated to latest version to correspond with scipy
   i386:
**	numpy-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm
   x86_64:
**	numpy-1.2.1-1.x86_64.rpm

**INSTALLER (anaconda)
**  Removed code to verify that timezone is correct in kickstart
**  as it had bugs
   i386:
**	anaconda-11.1.2.168-2.SL.i386.rpm
**	anaconda-runtime-11.1.2.168-2.SL.i386.rpm
   x86_64:
**	anaconda-11.1.2.168-2.SL.x86_64.rpm
**	anaconda-runtime-11.1.2.168-2.SL.x86_64.rpm


**PYTHON-VIRTINST
**  python-virtinst would understand a plain Scientific Linux install,
**  but it didn't understand sites.  We have added a patch to allow it
**  to understand and install paravirtualized SL Sites.
**
**	python-virtinst-0.300.2-12.sl.1.noarch.rpm



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comps.xml changes
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comps.xml

BASE
   Added: iwlwifi-3945-ucode - default, iwlwifi-5000-ucode - default
   Removed: ipw3945-firmware

IPW3945
   Whole group removed

Note:  The ipw3945 packages were not removed from the release.  They 
were only taken out of the comps.xml to avoid confusion during installation.