Scientific Linux 4.2 Release Notes


Introduction

The following topics are covered in this document:

  • Changes to the Scientific Linux installation program (Anaconda)

  • General information

  • Kernel Notes

  • Changes to drivers and hardware support

  • Changes to packages

Installation Related Notes

The following section includes information specific to installation of Scientific Linux and the Anaconda installation program.

Note

In order to upgrade an already-installedScientific Linux 4.x system to 4.2, you must use yum or apt to update those packages that have changed.

You may use Anaconda to perform a fresh installation of Scientific Linux 4.2 or to perform an upgrade from the latest updated version of Scientific Linux 3.0.x to Scientific Linux 4.x.

This section contains general information not specific to any other section of this document.

Kernel Notes

This section contains notes relating to the Scientific Linux 4.2 kernel.

Changes to Drivers and Hardware Support

This update includes bug fixes for a number of drivers. The more significant driver updates are listed below. In some cases, the original driver has been preserved under a different name, and is available as a non-default alternative for organizations that wish to migrate their driver configuration to the latest versions at a later time.

Note

The migration to the latest drivers should be completed before the next Scientific Linux update is applied, because in most cases only one older-revision driver will be preserved for each update.

The following device drivers are updated in Scientific Linux 4.2:

Changes to Packages

This section contains listings of packages that have been updated or added from Scientific Linux 4.x as part of 4.2.

Note

These package lists include packages from all variants of RScientific Linux 4.x. Your system may not include every one of the packages listed here.

The following packages have been updated from the release of Scientific Linux 4.1:

The following new packages have been added to Scientific Linux 4.2:

The following packages have been removed from Scientific Linux 4.2:

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