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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOWNLOAD INFO ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/i386 ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/x86_64 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES by Scientific Linux ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- **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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- comps.xml changes ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.