When will CentOS 4.9 be out?

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When will CentOS 4.9 be out?

Post by pschaff » 2011/02/17 14:45:47

RHEL 4 U9 has been released.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/nahant-list/2011-February/msg00001.html

CentOS status:
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2011-February/006648.html

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Karanbir Singh wrote on Thu Feb 17 01:16:57 EST 2011
...
Johnny is going to refocus and work with Tru on 4.9; and work on that
has started already ( and should not really impact work on 6 )
...
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Re: When will CentOS 4.9 be out?

Post by pschaff » 2011/02/22 18:51:15

Recent [url=https://twitter.com/CentOS/status/39708892069888000]tweet[/url]:

7:31 AM Feb 21st via web
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CentOS-4.9 and CentOS-5.6 working their way through QA [/quote]

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Re: When will CentOS 4.9 be out?

Post by AlanBartlett » 2011/02/23 01:44:40

Yesterday (Tuesday February 22, 2011), I received a status update from [b]Karanbir[/b] regarding the progress of [i]CentOS 4.9[/i] and he has asked me to post it to this thread.

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[b][i]4.9: is in QA. Apart from QA, we are also working on how to handle the way
upstream did a no-media point release. The threads falling out from there, in
terms of corner case implications, are running into many dozens. Ideally we
want to do something with the 4.9 release that has the least possible impact
on the installed base.[/i][/b]
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As users of [i]CentOS 4[/i] are aware, its EOL is approaching (Feb 29, 2012) and, thus, this point update [i]could[/i] be the last. In view of the approaching EOL, the [b]Upstream Vendor[/b] [1] has not created the ISO-image media for this release. It is this latter fact that the [i]CentOS[/i] development team are currently resolving, as indicated in the last two sentences of [b]KB[/b]'s status update, above.

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[1] https://www.redhat.com

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When will CentOS 4.9 be out?

Post by toracat » 2011/02/27 18:16:03

From Karanbir's twitter ( http://twitter.com/kbsingh ) earlier today:

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the paln seems to be : seed 4.9 and follow up with 5.6. There should be a more formal announce soon
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Re: When will CentOS 4.9 be out?

Post by toracat » 2011/02/28 16:02:55

Johnny Hughes wrote today on the CentOS mailing list:

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4.9 is ready for release (Already tested by QA).
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Re: When will CentOS 4.9 be out?

Post by AlanBartlett » 2011/03/01 16:00:35

From my latest status update discussion with [b]Karanbir[/b], this is the current situation --

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[i]We should have 4.9 out either today or tomorrow and then 5.6 immediately after
that, as the mirror traffic clears out. Should not be too long given that the actual
update delta from 4.8 -> 4.9 is exceptionally small. ( It's under 300 MB per mirror! )[/i]
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I'm sure that I do not have to remind readers that "slippage" can still occur. So [b]my[/b] "guestimate" is [i]CentOS 4.9[/i] by the end of this week and [i]CentOS 5.6[/i] at the beginning of next week.

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Re: When will CentOS 4.9 be out?

Post by toracat » 2011/03/02 22:26:05

CentOS 4.9 [url=http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2011-March/017255.html]announced[/url]. :-)

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