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 . ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- THIS IS NOT FOR PRODUCTION. This is for testing. Please report back any issues to [log in to unmask] . 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOWNLOAD INFO ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES WE MADE SINCE PREVIOUS RELEASE ITEMS MARKED with a ** are changes since last ALPHA/BETA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- **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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RPMS ADDED IN THIS RELEASE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** A number of minor multilib issues were corrected ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- MAJOR CHANGES TUV MADE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Xorg has been updated to 1.15 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- POSSIBLE UPGRADE PROBLEMS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/