From rhelv6-announce at redhat.com Wed Jul 21 15:04:33 2010 From: rhelv6-announce at redhat.com (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) announcement mailing-list) Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:04:33 -0400 Subject: [rhelv6-announce] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Beta 2 refresh is now available Message-ID: <4C470C81.5080803@redhat.com> The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Beta 2 refresh is now available for download. This milestone updates the functionality delivered in Beta 2 last month by providing updated packages and associated media kits containing fixes to issues reported by our partners, Beta and upstream community members and internal Red Hat testing. Our intent in providing an update is to ensure that users are testing with the most current packages and are validating issues that have been fixed since prior builds. Kernel and user-space components have undergone some updates since the last Beta milestone was released last month. Kernel The kernel includes many updates to address improvements in networking, virtualization, file-system, storage and security. Includes fixes for Transparent Huge Pages usage when running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, and backported KVM fixes in vhost-net, virtio ballon driver to address memory leak and incorrect ioctl return values. Many updates to networking and storage drivers and fixes to address performance issues. User-space improvements include: Documentation man page updates for a significant portion of updated packages. Installer Better handling of error conditions, improvements to IPv6 configuration and general networking improvements; Support for multiple iSCSI disks and the ability to boot from LVM snapshot root volume is now available in dracut. Networking NetworkManager includes many improvements for wireless networking and fixes to many error conditions that impacted stability. Clustering Cluster schema additions made along with improvements to the quorum calculation algorithm. corosync has undergone heavy updates to address stability. Many user interface improvements and fixes made to luci for better usability. Storage lvm2 updates include the ability to remove volume groups with missing physical volumes (vgremove); changes to the startup script; changes to clvmd. Error reporting Updates to the ABRT UI and better support for plugins; many internal improvements to report. Security kerberos support improvments (krb5); connectivity improvements in SSSD; kernel keyring working as expected (also SSSD); SELinux updates; better handling of client certificates (certmonger); many fixes to openswan. Compiler/ debugger Numerous performance updates in gcc; improvements in gdb for supporting typedefs in classes; stability improvements. Virtualization Virt-Manager updates include ability to re-connect to serial console after reboot; Better support for NUMA; Fixed pool building for LVM/disk pools; fixes in device assignment; live migration improvements; ability to handle 16-bit color depth in spice; libvirt improvements include better configuration of storage and guests. Printing Improved lookup logic in cups; SNMP integration improvements. Desktop Many updates to X and dependencies; Ability to save GNOME sessions; better bluetooth support; support for media repositories; OpenOffice improvements; better support for UTF8 and general stability in Evolution client. Please note that this list is intended to highlight the scope of changes since Beta 2. Please refer to the changelog for details on all changes since Beta 2. Packages and installable images (ISOs) are available via Red Hat Network (RHN) for active subscribers. In addition to RHN, this refresh is also available via FTP (details below). Current Beta users are strongly encouraged to do a fresh installation to help validate newer functionality that has been incorporated into the installer since the earlier Beta. Please note that this is still early access software and is not for use in production environments. The Beta packages and installation images are intended for testing purposes only. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is still in active development, and the contents of the media kit and the implemented features are subject to change. The release is not formally supported and it will not be possible to upgrade from the Beta to the final production version. Due to the incorporation of debugging features, this Beta cannot be used for performance benchmarking and platform certification. To learn more about this release or to download the installation kits, please visit the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Beta portal at: http://www.redhat.com/rhel/beta The portal also provides details on how to report issues and feedback to Red Hat. Please be sure to periodically check the Red Hat blog for articles on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The blog can be accessed at: http://press.redhat.com/ If you'd like to stay current with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 updates, we encourage you to subscribe to the following mailing lists: 1. Mailing list that provides general announcements related to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-announce 2. Mailing list to serve as a discussion list for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 beta(s). https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-beta-list Thank you for your continued support of Red Hat and your interest in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Beta. Your participation is critical in ensuring that we deliver a high-quality release. Sincerely, The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team