June 23, 2011 The second alpha release for Scientific Linux 6.1 has been released. All of the packages have gone through much more testing. There are still a couple of packages we are investigating, so we are still in Alpha stage and not Beta stage. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOWNLOAD INFO ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- DVD and Net Install downloads are at http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/i386/iso/ http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/x86_64/iso/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes since SL 6.1 Alpha 1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- * redhat-logos - Updated anaconda/syslinux-splash.png and bootloader/splash.xpm.gz - Added the svg files into the source tar ball. * yum-autoupdate - Fix a security issue with the tmp configuration files. Patch provided by Juergen Salk * report - Added our changes to the updated report package * plymouth - Added our changes to the updated plymouth package * mksh - We got it to compile. * libguestfs-winsupport - Added. This is for x86_64 only. * fence-virt - Had to be recompiled with the old qmf packages removed from the repository. - Passes our tests now. * elrepo-release - Updated to their latest version * apr-util - The version we had in Alpha 1 was newer that TUV released with Update 1. We downgraded it to the version they released with. * alpine - Updated to version 2.02-2 * Removed packages that are not in Update1 - The qmf packages were renamed with Update 1. We removed the old packages, which were qmf, qmf-devel and ruby-qmf - gfs-pcmk and ldm-pcmk were removed. * i686 packages in x86_64 - Added several i686 packages that are supposed to be in x86_64, into the x86_64 release. * comps.xml - Updated to reflect changes associated with Update 1. - Added groups for client-mgmt-tools, identity-server, high-availability(ha), ha-management, load-balancer, and resilient-storage. - Added categories for high-availability, resilient-storage, and load-balancer. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN Issues ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Packages that built but we're still testing for one reason or another. - qemu-kvm DVD Install - high-availability, resilient-storage, and load-balancer are automatically selected on desktop installs. -- already fixed on network installs, will be fixed with next alpha or beta release. The Scientific Linux Development Team