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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 announced
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 has been
released.
"Today we released the second update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. As with earlier minor releases, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 comes with a broad set of bug fixes, updated hardware support capabilities, quality improvements, and a set of new software features that have been backported from upstream open source projects to the Enterprise Linux 5 code base."
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Release notes Posted May 23, 2008 7:03 UTC (Fri) by Milan (guest, #26716) [Link] Release notes are here: https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/
Release notes Posted May 29, 2008 8:39 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link] Wait wait wait, this is an *Enterprise* distro, they should not be packaging Firefox 3 (which is not FF3 either, it's FF 3.x-RC!). Also, they seem to have missed the most important thing on their pages: the kernel version.
Firefox Posted May 29, 2008 14:40 UTC (Thu) by dowdle (subscriber, #659) [Link] The consensus opinion seems to be that FF2 has always been pretty poor. In fact at one point, prior to the release of any FF3 code... Fedora was claiming that they were going to skip FF2 completely and wait for FF3. They ended up adding FF2 to Fedora. RHEL is going from FF 1.5.x to 3beta. They will certainly update the beta to the production version when it becomes available. You have to ask if FF3beta is more stable than FF1.5.x or 2. Many people seem to think so.
Release notes Posted May 30, 2008 15:09 UTC (Fri) by Tet (subscriber, #5433) [Link] The fact that it's an enterprise distribution is *precisely* why they should be packaging it. They have to support this for the next N years (I can't remember the current value of N for RHEL). FF3 is presumably sufficiently close to release, and sufficiently stable that they deemed it worthwhile having a short period of relatively minor pain caused by shipping a release candidate. The alternative could have caused much more pain. Besides, version numbers are arbitrary anyway.
Release notes Posted May 31, 2008 9:14 UTC (Sat) by chema (subscriber, #32636) [Link] Just some dates... According to current value of N, FF3 (and the whole distro) will be receiving bug fix errata till Sep 30, 2010. RH will be shipping "Security errata and select mission critical bug fixes" for the distro (5.x) till Mar 31, 2014.
Release notes Posted Jun 1, 2008 10:09 UTC (Sun) by bockman (guest, #3650) [Link] This is right, from distributors POV. And Ubuntu seems to use the same policy for its LTS. But it means that smart users should not migrate to a new LTS release of a distribution until some time after the initial release, so that all the new almost-ready packages will have their major bugs ironed out. Unless they want to contribute to the beta testing, that is.
CentOS contribs? Posted May 27, 2008 1:45 UTC (Tue) by NightMonkey (subscriber, #23051) [Link] I'm just curious, but has RH ever accepted patches (fix or feature) from CentOS?
CentOS contribs? Posted May 27, 2008 23:36 UTC (Tue) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link] As far as I know, yes. CentOS members have opened bugs in bugzilla with patches or similar items, and Red Hat has taken what ones they can in a next release factor.
Redhats Developments Posted May 29, 2008 10:13 UTC (Thu) by alex (subscriber, #1355) [Link] It's interesting to see some interesting RedHat sponsored stuff in there that the other distros haven't picked up yet. I wonder how much of an edge this gives RedHat over Ubuntu who have much more limited development resources and are more beholden to upstream to add the cool new features?
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