On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 06:03 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> I would like to take the time to inform people that CentOS-4.4 will
> contain some major changes. The changes are significant enough that I
> would like to spell out some of them now, probably at least a month
> before the release of the upstream "EL4 update 4" is released.
>
> The Mozilla Suite (Browser, Mail, Chat clients) will be replaced by
> SeaMonkey. This is due to Mozilla's change in policy and support for
> older versions.
>
> The Firefox 1.0.x (currently 1.0.8) web browser will be replaced by
> Firefox 1.5.x (currently 1.5.0.3). We currently have a version of
> Firefox 1.5.x in the CentOSPlus repo. That version will be replaced by
> the EL4 version after some more testing ... and the new version will be
> rolled into CentOS-4.4 in the Base repository when CentOS-4.4 is
> released.
>
> The Thunderbird 1.0.x (currently 1.0.8) will be upgraded to Thunderbird
> 1.5.x (currently 1.5.0.2).
>
> The OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 will be replaced by OpenOffice 1.1.5. This
> allows better sharing of files between OpenOffice.org 2.0 and CentOS
> clients.
>
> -------------------------------
>
> All these changes will be implemented upstream and rolled out in the
> released source code, so they will be incorporated into CentOS as well.
> We will fully test these packages prior to release of the CentOS-4.4
> ISOs, however these changes are fairly substantial.
>
> I would also like to remind people who are more cautious that CentOS has
> a vault that will contain CentOS-4.3 after we shift the main mirrors to
> CentOS-4.4. The vault is available at:
>
> http://vault.centos.org/
>
> I am not suggesting that people don't upgrade (as security updates would
> require one to maintain the current version), but I am just providing
> information so that if the updates break something, you can easily get
> back to a known previous version.
>
> We have not had any problems so far with the new packages in our
> testing, and they will be deemed STABLE by upstream when they are
> released, however these changes are by far the most significant since
> the release of CentOS-4 and I think they deserve some special attention.
>
> Thanks,
> Johnny Hughes
> CentOS-4 Lead Developer
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Is there any information as of yet of other packages to be updated in
the update 4 release? I am hoping for updates to NetworkManager and
alsa.
Regards
Phil
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