Scientific Linux "SL 5.8" Beta 1 March 20, 2012
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Table of contents
DOWNLOAD INFO
CHANGES from last testing release
INFO
ERRATA
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DOWNLOAD INFO
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http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/i386/http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/x86_64/
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CHANGES from last testing release
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Intel wireless firmware (ucode)
Updated to a more current version
ipw2100-firmware-1.3-10.noarch.rpm
ipw2200-firmware-3.1-3.noarch.rpm
iwl1000-firmware-128.50.3.1-2.el5.noarch.rpm
iwl3945-firmware-15.32.2.9-4.el5.noarch.rpm
iwl5000-firmware-8.24.2.12-3.el5.noarch.rpm
Ralink wireless firmware
Updated to a more current version
rt61pci-firmware-1.2-5.el5.noarch.rpm
rt73usb-firmware-1.8-5.el5.noarch.rpm
OpenAFS
Correctly updated the 32 bit userspace tools.
Thanks to Stephan Wiesand for pointing out the oversight
sl-release
lsb_release -r now reports a minor version number
Was
$ lsb_release -r
5.rolling
Is now
$ lsb_release -r
5.8.rolling
Thanks to Stephan Wiesand for suggesting this change
Default bookmarks for firefox are now correctly deployed for
new profiles.
Thanks to Jon Peatfield for reporting this error.
xfs group in comps.xml i386
This group was returned to the i386 arch.
Thanks to Elena Korytko for pointing out this change
kmod-kvm
kmod-gfs
These modules have been rebuilt to link against the 5.8 kernel
and require the correct kernel symbols
Thanks to Elena Korytko and Akemi Yagi for reporting this.
We have returned the following tools for spacewalk clients at the
suggestion of Stephan Wiesand
rhn-check
rhn-client-tools
rhnlib
rhn-setup
rhn-setup-gnome
yum-rhn-plugin
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Web Site
https://www.scientificlinux.org
FTP
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/
Upstream release notes available at
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/i386/SL.documentation/
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ERRATA
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i386:
* cman-2.0.115-96.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
* cman-devel-2.0.115-96.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
* firefox-10.0.3-1.el5_8.i386.rpm
* glibc-2.5-81.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
* glibc-2.5-81.el5_8.1.i686.rpm
* glibc-common-2.5-81.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
* glibc-devel-2.5-81.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
* glibc-headers-2.5-81.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
* glibc-utils-2.5-81.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
* nscd-2.5-81.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
* thunderbird-10.0.3-1.el5_8.i386.rpm
* xulrunner-10.0.3-1.el5_8.i386.rpm
* xulrunner-devel-10.0.3-1.el5_8.i386.rpm
* ypserv-2.19-9.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
x86_64:
* cman-2.0.115-96.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm
* cman-devel-2.0.115-96.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
* cman-devel-2.0.115-96.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm
* firefox-10.0.3-1.el5_8.i386.rpm
* firefox-10.0.3-1.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
* glibc-2.5-81.el5_8.1.i686.rpm
* glibc-2.5-81.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm
* glibc-common-2.5-81.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm
* glibc-devel-2.5-81.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
* glibc-devel-2.5-81.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm
* glibc-headers-2.5-81.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm
* glibc-utils-2.5-81.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm
* nscd-2.5-81.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm
* thunderbird-10.0.3-1.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
* xulrunner-10.0.3-1.el5_8.i386.rpm
* xulrunner-10.0.3-1.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
* xulrunner-devel-10.0.3-1.el5_8.i386.rpm
* xulrunner-devel-10.0.3-1.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
* ypserv-2.19-9.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm
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Pat Riehecky
Scientific Linux Developer
