CentOS 4.3 Release Notes
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Introduction

     * CentOS 4 offers both yum and up2date to do updates of the operating
       system. You can use either or both of these to manage your updates. Yum
       is recommend because of the new update system, see the note concerning
       it below.

   The following files are changed from the upstream RPMS. All changes are
   trademark and look/feel related unless otherwise noted under the specific
   RPM.
     * anaconda
       Path of the Distribution changed from RedHat to CentOS on the install
       CDs.
     * anaconda-help
     * anaconda-product
     * anaconda-runtime
     * apr
     * apr-devel
     * centos-release
       File name changed from redhat-release in the upstream product.
     * dhclient
     * dhcp
       This file had to be compiled on an older version of gcc than ships with
       CentOS-4  and  was  modified  to  accomplish  this. See bug#861 at
       [1]bugs.centos.org
     * dhcp-devel
     * firefox
       In  addition  to  numerous  shortcut changes, added the CACert.org
       certificate as a trusted Certificate Authority. See [2]CentOS.org for
       details.
     * firstboot
     * glade2
       Corrected a race condition. See bug#855 at [3]bugs.centos.org.
     * gnome-desktop
     * gnome-desktop-devel
     * gnome-session
     * httpd
     * httpd-devel
     * httpd-manual
     * httpd-suexec
     * indexhtml
     * initscripts
     * libtool
     * libtool-libs
       libtool and libtool-libs require a rebuild when used with a new version
       of gcc.
     * mod_perl
     * mod_perl-devel
     * mod_ssl
     * mozilla
       In  addition  to  numerous  shortcut changes, added the CACert.org
       certificate as a trusted Certificate Authority. See [4]CentOS.org for
       details.
     * mozilla-chat
     * mozilla-devel
     * mozilla-dom-inspector
     * mozilla-js-debugger
     * mozilla-mail
     * mozilla-nspr
     * mozilla-nspr-devel
     * mozilla-nss
     * mozilla-nss-devel
     * redhat-artwork
     * redhat-logos
     * rhn-applet
       Modified  to  not use the RHN and to instead use the CentOS Mirror
       Network.
     * squirrelmail
     * up2date
       Modified  to  not use the RHN and to instead use the CentOS Mirror
       Network.
     * up2date-gnome
     * ypserver
       ypserver  on  the install discs was modified to fix a problem that
       rendered it non-functional, see bug #1253 at [5]bugs.centos.org.

Note:

   The following packages are added to CentOS and are not in the upstream
   product to allow the use of yum for updates:
     * createrepo
     * centos-yumconf
     * sqlite
     * sqlite-devel
     * python-elementtree
     * python-sqlite
     * python-urlgrabber
     * yum

New Update System:

   A new update system for CentOS has been released that issues geographically
   based, fresh mirrors and provides for mirror failover. Please see this
   article on the [6]new update system for details.

More Information:

   For more Information, see the [7]CentOS-4 Documentation at CentOS.org, or
   the /NOTES directory on CD-1 of this distribution. The documentation is
   provided {and copyrighted} by Red Hat®,Inc. The CentOS Project redistributes
   these original works (in their unmodified form) as a reference for CentOS-4.
   CentOS-4 is built from publicly available, open source SRPMs.

References

   1. http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=861
   2. http://www.centos.org/
   3. http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=855
   4. http://www.centos.org/
   5. http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1253
   6. http://www.centos.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=118
   7. http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/docs/