The second release candidate for Scientific Linux 5.7 has been released. This release has all the new updated packages from The Upstream Vendors Update 7, as well as the security and fastbugs up to today except for the kernel that was released a few days ago. We have network install images. The DVD/CD images will be available soon. If there are not any bugs reported by late Tuesday September 13 , 2011 against this release then it will be released as 5.7 on Wednesday September 14 , 2011 . Thanks for all the testing. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATES Since RC 1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- sl-release-notes-5.7-1.noarch.rpm Updated the SL.releasenote to show "released" firefox-3.6.22-1.el5_7 openais-0.80.6-30.el5_7.1 openais-devel-0.80.6-30.el5_7.1 thunderbird-2.0.0.24-25.el5 xulrunner-1.9.2.22-1.el5_7 xulrunner-devel-1.9.2.22-1.el5_7 Security updates. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOWNLOAD INFO ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Network Install Images http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/57/i386/images/boot.iso http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/57/x86_64/images/boot.iso Network install tree locations http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/57/i386 http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/57/x86_64 The Scientific Linux Development Team