When will CentOS 5.5 be released?

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When will CentOS 5.5 be released?

Post by toracat » 2010/03/30 14:09:56

RHEL 5.5 is out.

We (the moderators) will try to update the status of the forthcoming CentOS 5.5 in this thread as the information becomes available to us. So stay tuned! :-)

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Re: When will CentOS 5.5 be released?

Post by toracat » 2010/03/30 23:02:47

The QA team was asked to be ready.

If you wish to see what the new release will look like, here's the link to the upstream [url=http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.5/html-single/Release_Notes/]Release Notes[/url] and [url=http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.5/html-single/Technical_Notes/]Technical Notes[/url].

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Re: When will CentOS 5.5 be released?

Post by pschaff » 2010/03/31 10:40:01

SRPMS are available. The build is in progress. The first complete tree for QA testing to start on should be available soon.

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Re: When will CentOS 5.5 be released?

Post by toracat » 2010/03/31 17:09:37

Another place worth watching is [url=http://planet.centos.org/]Planet CentOS[/url]. In fact, there is a post by Karanbir Singh asking for kickstart files. You can help, too. Please see [url=http://www.karan.org/blog/index.php/2010/03/30/autmated-install-testing-for-centos]his blog[/url] for further details.

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Re: When will CentOS 5.5 be released?

Post by toracat » 2010/04/01 21:49:48

There isn't any (externally visible) news today. If you are looking for something to read and if you were not around when 5.3 was being built, or if you are simply bored --

http://www.karan.org/blog/index.php/2009/02/26/r-v-m-routine

Karanbir explained the CentOS build process in there.

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Re: When will CentOS 5.5 be released?

Post by pschaff » 2010/04/02 18:02:51

It may also be interesting to follow Karanbir's [url=http://twitter.com/centOS]tweets[/url].

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Re: When will CentOS 5.5 be released?

Post by toracat » 2010/04/04 21:06:52

The first tree for QA testing is not yet available. However it might be close. As of April 04 there were just 8 packages failing, according to [b]Karanbir[/b].

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Re: When will CentOS 5.5 be released?

Post by pschaff » 2010/04/05 12:19:12

For general gossip, questions, speculation, and other wide-open 5.5 discussions, please see [url=https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=25592&forum=14]this CentOS Social thread[/url].

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Re: When will CentOS 5.5 be released?

Post by toracat » 2010/04/06 19:41:11

[quote]
toracat wrote:
Another place worth watching is [url=http://planet.centos.org/]Planet CentOS[/url]. In fact, there is a post by Karanbir Singh asking for kickstart files. You can help, too. Please see [url=http://www.karan.org/blog/index.php/2010/03/30/autmated-install-testing-for-centos]his blog[/url] for further details.[/quote]
A few kickstart files have been submitted. You can see them [url=https://nazar.karan.org/cgit/bluecain/tree/]here[/url]. Karanbir says many more needed.

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Re: When will CentOS 5.5 be released?

Post by toracat » 2010/04/07 16:08:18

There isn't much to report at this moment. Things are happening mostly internally. There were some kinks that had to be taken care of as far as package building is concerned, it seems. I have a feeling that the QA team will see some materials fairly soon...

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