Scientific Linux 6.6 RC 1 i386/x86_64              Oct 31, 2013

These are notes of the "Alpha/Beta" releases for Scientific Linux 6.6 .

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THIS IS NOT FOR PRODUCTION.

This is for testing.  Please report back any issues to
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There should be no expectation that a "yum" upgrade to SL 6.6 will work.
A new install is the recommended method to move from
"sl6rolling"(this alpha/beta release) and the released "SL 6.6".

Items marked with * are changes from the last release
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Network Install Images:

http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.6/i386/images/boot.iso
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.6/x86_64/images/boot.iso

DVD Install Images:

http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.6/i386/iso/
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.6/x86_64/iso/

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CHANGES WE MADE SINCE PREVIOUS RELEASE
ITEMS MARKED with a ** are changes since last ALPHA/BETA
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**sl-release-6.6-1
-    Updated to point at correct location for release

*OpenAFS
-    OpenAFS has been updated to version 1.6.10 from openafs.org

** at-3.1.10-44.el6_6.2
-    Merged directly into the tree to resolve upstream bug 1147043

** mingw32
-    The mingw32 packages were correctly retired in this release.
-    This follows upstream behavior.

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RPMS ADDED IN THIS RELEASE
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** A number of minor multilib issues were corrected

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MAJOR CHANGES TUV MADE
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Xorg has been updated to 1.15

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POSSIBLE UPGRADE PROBLEMS
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Users of proprietary drivers may experience issues with the X server
loading due to changes between Xorg 1.13 and Xorg 1.15.

Users of the 32bit iscsi utilities on x86_64 systems may experience
multilib complaints.  The 32bit iscsi utilities are not provided by
upstream on x86_64 platforms.  We have removed them from 6.6 to follow
their behavior.


-- 
Pat Riehecky

Scientific Linux developer
http://www.scientificlinux.org/