For Release: January 10, 2005
The CentOS Team is pleased to announce the official release of CentOS
3.4 for i386.
This release includes all RHEL 3 updates (for U4) and errata up to
January 5th, 2005. New ISO images are available as well as an
installable DVD edition with source. In addition this release is
available via BitTorrent.
Downloading -- Bittorrent
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Bittorrents of a DVD image , binary iso's, and source iso's are
available as follow:
dvd iso
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3.4/isos/i386/CentOS-3.4-i386-dvd.iso.torrent
3 binary iso's
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3.4/isos/i386/CentOS-3.4-i386-discs1-3.torrent
3 source iso's
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3.4/isos/i386/CentOS-3.4-i386-src1-3.torrent
Please use bittorrent and keep your downloader running for others to use
even after the download completes.
If you need to install bittorrent for CentOS, rpms are available from
Dag's repository.
http://dag.wieers.com/packages/bittorrent/bittorrent-3.4.2-1.1.el3.rf.noarch.rpm
An earlier version of bittorrent is also available in the CentOS 3.3
<contrib> repo - which may be installed using 'yum install bittorrent' -
a gui version is also available - 'yum install bittorrent-gui'
Then execute btdownloadcurses.py <url to .torrent file> in a shell. (or
btdownloadgui.py for the gui) You may need to open ports 6881-6889 and
6969 if you have tight firewall restrictions.
The .torrent files are also available on all caosity mirrors.
Once again - please leave your downloader running after the download is
complete (with ports 6881-6889 open) as your downloader will become part
of the peer to peer bittorrent network and reduce the load on our mirror
servers.
Further information on bittorrent is available at http://bittorrent.com
Downloading -- .iso images
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iso images are available from your favorite CentOS mirror as well. A
current list of mirrors can be obtained from
http://www.centos.org/mirrors
Purchasing
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isos are available to purchse from www.cheeplinux.com (UK) and should
also be available from a number of other online vendors.
Upgrade Notes
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Initially CentOS 3.3 systems will not be automatically upgraded to
CentOS 3.4. However in 72-96 hours from this announcment the
centos-release rpm for 3.4 will be added to the 3.3 tree and that will
force automatic upgrades when using yum.
If you do NOT want to upgrade then exclude centos-release from updates
in your yum.conf. We will try to maintain security updates for CentOS
3.3 for as long as there are no issues that mean they cant be used (eg
3.4 specific dependency issue) -- but as soon as that happens we will
have to close the CentOS 3.3 tree.
