CentOS 5.6 is out

I ran the Yellowdog Update (yum) to upgrade my system the other day and found that I would have to download over 230MB of software. That probably meant one thing: there was a new release of CentOS!

Sure enough, after the system was upgraded, a look at the file, /etc/redhat-release, revealed that CentOS 5.6 was out.

The CentOS support site carried the distro reelease announcement. LinuxDevices also posted this story on the release.

The significant changes include:

ext4 is now a fully supported file system
libvirt was updated to 0.8.2
bind was updated to 9.7 and supports NSEC3 now.
ebtables was added
php53 is available as a php replacement.
System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) has been added.

I can’t wait for the CentOS team to release their version of RHEL 6! It should be in the works now.

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