Scientific Linux "SL 5.8" Beta 1 March 20, 2012 See SL.documentation for Upstream vendor release notes. Send comments/issues/test reports to [log in to unmask] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of contents DOWNLOAD INFO CHANGES from last testing release INFO ERRATA _____________________________________________________________________________ DOWNLOAD INFO _____________________________________________________________________________ http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/i386/ http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/x86_64/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES from last testing release ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- INFO ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ERRATA ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -- Pat Riehecky Scientific Linux Developer