1Red Hat EnterpriseLinux 5.3Release NotesRelease Notes for all architectures.Ryan LerchCopyright © 2008 Red Hat, Inc.. This material may only be distr
Release Notes10echo eth6 > /sys/module/fcoe/parameters/destroyFor further information on software based FCoE refer to: http://www.open-fcoe.org/ope
Release Notes100• Description:The filesystem package is one of the basic packages that is installedon a Red Hat Linux system. Filesystem contains the
Updated Packages101• Removed Dependencies:• cairo-devel >= 0.5• libjpeg-devel• libpng-devel• nspr-devel >= 4.6• nss-devel >= 3.11.1• zlib-de
Release Notes102• Summary: Font configuration and customization library• Description:Fontconfig is designed to locate fonts within thesystem and sele
Updated Packages103also RADIUS clients available for Web servers, firewalls, Unix logins, andmore. Using RADIUS allows authentication and authorizati
Release Notes104• Summary: Various compilers (C, C++, Objective-C, Java, ...)• Description:The gcc package contains the GNU Compiler Collection versi
Updated Packages105• Removed Dependencies:• /lib/libc.so.6• /lib64/libc.so.6• /usr/lib/libc.so• /usr/lib64/libc.sogdm-2.16.0-31.0.1.el5 - gdm-2.16.0-
Release Notes106gfs - The Global File System is a symmetric, shared-disk, cluster filesystem.• Added Dependencies:• kernel-devel-ia64 = 2.6.18-128.el5
Updated Packages107• Description:Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScript(TM)interpreter, a set of C procedures (the Ghostscript l
Release Notes108library and the standard math library. Without these two libraries, aLinux system will not function.• No added dependencies• No remove
Updated Packages109features for the GNOME desktop.• No added dependencies• No removed dependenciesgnome-power-manager-2.16.0-8.el5 - gnome-power-mana
All Architectures11• Creating or using encrypted software RAID member disks (i.e. software RAID partitions) is notsupported. However, creating encrypt
Release Notes110The gnome-python-extra package contains the source packages for additionalPython bindings for GNOME. It should be used together with g
Updated Packages111GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set ofGUI applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction
Release Notes112capabilities and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internetstandard described in RFC2440. Since GnuPG doesn't use any patent
Updated Packages113• Description:GRUB (Grand Unified Boot Loader) is an experimental boot loadercapable of booting into most free operating systems -
Release Notes114• openjade• python2• tetex-dvips• transfig• xfig• No removed dependenciesgstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.9-6.el5 - gstreamer-plugins-base-
Updated Packages115• Description:GStreamer is a streaming media framework, based on graphs of filters whichoperate on media data. Applications using
Release Notes116gtkhtml3-3.12.0-1.fc6 - gtkhtml3-3.16.3-1.el5• Group: System Environment/Libraries• Summary: gtkhtml library• Description:GtkHTML is
Updated Packages117list through D-BUS.• Added Dependencies:• gperf >= 3.0.1• No removed dependencieshal-cups-utils-0.6.2-5 - hal-cups-utils-0.6.2-
Release Notes118the need for powerful internet-wide search systems like Lycos, Infoseek,Webcrawler and AltaVista. Instead it is meant to cover the sea
Updated Packages119• No removed dependencieshwbrowser-0.30-1.el5 - hwbrowser-0.30-2.el5• Group: Applications/System• Summary: A hardware browser.•
Release Notes12• If your system has yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.2-5.el5_1.2 (or an earlier version) installed, youwill be unable to upgrade to Red Hat Enterpri
Release Notes120• opensm-devel >= 3.0.3icu-3.6-5.11 - icu-3.6-5.11.1• Group: System Environment/Libraries• Summary: International Components for
Updated Packages121Protocol) server, and nnrpd, a newsreader that is spawned for eachclient. Both innd and nnrpd vary slightly from the NNTP protocol
Release Notes122This is the IPsec-Tools package. You need this package in order toreally use the IPsec functionality in the linux-2.5+ kernels. Thispa
Updated Packages123irqbalance is a daemon that evenly distributes IRQ load acrossmultiple CPUs for enhanced performance.• No added dependencies• No r
Release Notes124The introduction of the Collections API by Sun in JDK 1.2 has been aboon to quick and effective Java programming. Ready access to powe
Updated Packages125• No removed dependencieskdeadmin-3.5.4-2.fc6 - kdeadmin-3.5.4-3.el5• Group: User Interface/Desktops• Summary: Administrative to
Release Notes126KDE/DCOP bindings to non-C++ languages• Added Dependencies:• libutempter-devel• perl >= 5.8.8• Removed Dependencies:• perl >= 5.
Updated Packages127• Description:The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of anyLinux operating system. The kernel handles th
Release Notes128• Description:KSH-93 is the most recent version of the KornShell by David Korn ofAT&T Bell Laboratories.KornShell is a shell progr
Updated Packages129the hooks to allow a snapshot of a process and message status to betaken at any time during an application run. The status include
ia64 Architecture13• Installation on a machine with existing Linux or non-Linux filesystems on DASD block devices maycause the installer to halt. If t
Release Notes130• No removed dependencieslibchewing-0.3.0-7.el5 - libchewing-0.3.0-8.el5• Group: System Environment/Libraries• Summary: Intelligent
Updated Packages131• libdhcp6client-develliberation-fonts-0.2-2.el5 - liberation-fonts-1.0-1.el5• Group: User Interface/X• Summary: Fonts to replac
Release Notes132• Summary: Printing library for GNOME.• Description:GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set ofapplication
Updated Packages133• libtool• No removed dependencieslibnl-1.0-0.10.pre5.4 - libnl-1.0-0.10.pre5.5• Group: Development/Libraries• Summary: Convenie
Release Notes134the Linux 1394 subsystem's raw1394 user space interface.• Added Dependencies:• autoconf• automake• libtool• No removed dependenci
Updated Packages135decisions. Required for any applications that use the SELinux API.• No added dependencies• No removed dependencieslibtiff-3.8.2-7.
Release Notes136This library provides interface for terminal emulators such asscreen and xterm to record user sessions to utmp and wtmp files.• No add
Updated Packages137• No removed dependencieslibxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2 - libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2.7• Group: Development/Libraries• Summary: Library providing
Release Notes138documentation for configuring and running Wacom tablets under theLinux operating system. It contains diagnostic applications as well a
Updated Packages139logwatch-7.3-5 - logwatch-7.3-6.el5• Group: Applications/System• Summary: A log file analysis program• Description:Logwatch is a
Release Notes14Improvements in Driver Disk SupportA driver disk, supplied by an OEM, is a single image file (*.img), containing potentially multipledr
Release Notes140multiple devices (MD), see mdadd(8) or even loop devices, seelosetup(8)), creating volume groups (kind of virtual disks) from oneor mo
Updated Packages141• Description:This package contains multilingualization (m17n) datafiles for m17n-libwhich describe input maps, encoding maps, and
Release Notes142make-3.81-1.1 - make-3.81-3.el5• Group: Development/Tools• Summary: A GNU tool which simplifies the build process for users.• Descri
Updated Packages143mcstrans-0.2.6-1.el5 - mcstrans-0.2.11-3.el5• Group: System Environment/Daemons• Summary: SELinux Translation Daemon• Descriptio
Release Notes144Mesa• No added dependencies• No removed dependenciesmetacity-2.16.0-8.el5 - metacity-2.16.0-12.el5• Group: User Interface/Desktops• S
Updated Packages145kernel needs to read those modules, but in this case it isn't able toaddress the SCSI adapter, an initial ramdisk is used. Th
Release Notes146• No removed dependenciesmod_perl-2.0.2-6.3.el5 - mod_perl-2.0.4-6.el5• Group: System Environment/Daemons• Summary: An embedded Perl
Updated Packages147The Mozilla LDAP C SDK is a set of libraries thatallow applications to communicate with LDAP directoryservers. These libraries are
Release Notes148• Summary: An HTTP and WebDAV client library• Description:neon is an HTTP and WebDAV client library, with a C interface;providing a h
Updated Packages149• No added dependencies• No removed dependenciesnewt-0.52.2-9 - newt-0.52.2-12.el5• Group: System Environment/Libraries• Summary:
Feature Updates15TTY Input AuditingTTY input auditing is now supported. If a process is marked for TTY input auditing, the data itreads from TTYs is a
Release Notes150• No removed dependenciesnotification-daemon-0.3.5-8.el5 - notification-daemon-0.3.5-9.el5• Group: System Environment/Libraries• Summ
Updated Packages151• zlib-devel• Removed Dependencies:• nspr-devel >= 4.6.2nss_db-2.2-35.1 - nss_db-2.2-35.3• Group: System Environment/Libraries
Release Notes152ntp-4.2.2p1-7.el5 - ntp-4.2.2p1-9.el5• Group: System Environment/Daemons• Summary: Synchronizes system time using the Network Time P
Updated Packages153oddjob is a D-BUS service which performs particular tasks for clients whichconnect to it and issue requests using the system-wide
Release Notes154implementation of the SA Forum's Hardware Platform Interface (HPI). HPIprovides an abstracted interface to managing computer hard
Updated Packages155• Summary: The configuration files, libraries, and documentation forOpenLDAP.• Description:OpenLDAP is an open source suite of LD
Release Notes156• Added Dependencies:• compat-dapl-devel• Removed Dependencies:• dapl-devel• libsysfs-developenssh-4.3p2-24.el5 - openssh-4.3p2-29.el5
Updated Packages157• Added Dependencies:• fipscheck• No removed dependenciesopenssl097a-0.9.7a-9 - openssl097a-0.9.7a-9.el5_2.1• Group: System Envir
Release Notes158PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is a system security tool thatallows system administrators to set authentication policy without
Updated Packages159• No removed dependenciesparted-1.8.1-12.el5 - parted-1.8.1-23.el5• Group: Applications/System• Summary: The GNU disk partition
Release Notes16http://sources.redhat.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=systemtap.git;a=blob_plain;f=NEWS;hb=rhel53Cluster Manager UpdateThe Cluster Manager utility
Release Notes160• No added dependencies• No removed dependenciespcre-6.6-1.1 - pcre-6.6-2.el5_1.7• Group: System Environment/Libraries• Summary: Per
Updated Packages161Perl is a high-level programming language with roots in C, sed, awkand shell scripting. Perl is good at handling processes and fil
Release Notes162• perl-DBI >= 1.38perl-DBI-1.52-1.fc6 - perl-DBI-1.52-2.el5• Group: Development/Libraries• Summary: A database access API for per
Updated Packages163non-commercial database management systems, so writing adatabase-enabled webpage with PHP is fairly simple. The most commonuse of
Release Notes164pirut (pronounced "pirate") provides a set of graphical tools for managingsoftware.• No added dependencies• No removed depen
Updated Packages165• No added dependencies• No removed dependenciespolicycoreutils-1.33.12-12.el5 - policycoreutils-1.33.12-14.2.el5• Group: System
Release Notes166Postfix is a Mail Transport Agent (MTA), supporting LDAP, SMTP AUTH (SASL),TLS• No added dependencies• No removed dependenciespostgres
Updated Packages167• librtas-devel >= 1.3.3• libstdc++-devel• libtool• sg3_utils-devel• zlib-devel• Removed Dependencies:• librtas-develppp-2.4.4-
Release Notes168• Summary: Privoxy - privacy enhancing proxy• Description:Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities forprotecting p
Updated Packages169psacct-6.3.2-41.1 - psacct-6.3.2-44.el5• Group: Applications/System• Summary: Utilities for monitoring process activities.• Desc
Feature Updates17• ibsim• ibutils• infiniband-diags• libcxgb3• libehca• libibcm• libibcommon• libibmad• libibumad• libibverbs• libipathverbs• libmlx4•
Release Notes170in python with PyGTK (within reason), but with all the benefits of python.• No added dependencies• No removed dependenciespykickstart-
Updated Packages171python-pyblock-0.26-1.el5 - python-pyblock-0.26-3.el5• Group: System Environment/Libraries• Summary: Python modules for dealing
Release Notes172virtinst in a command line mode.• Added Dependencies:• gettext• python• Removed Dependencies:• python-develquota-3.13-1.2.3.2.el5 - qu
Updated Packages173Windows 2000 & 2003 Terminal Services, capable of natively speakingRemote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user&
Release Notes174redhat-rpm-config-8.0.45-22.el5 - redhat-rpm-config-8.0.45-29.el5• Group: Development/System• Summary: Red Hat specific rpm configur
Updated Packages175• Description:Red Hat Network Client Tools provides programs and libraries to allow yoursystem to receive software updates from Re
Release Notes176verifying, querying, and updating software packages. Each softwarepackage consists of an archive of files along with information about
Updated Packages177straight-forward, and extensible.• No added dependencies• No removed dependenciess390utils-1.5.3-10.el5.14 - s390utils-1.5.3-21.el
Release Notes178Sabayon is a tool to help sysadmins and user change and maintain thedefault behaviour of the GNOME desktop. This package contains theg
Updated Packages179sblim-1-29.EL5 - sblim-1-31.el5_2.1• Group: Applications/System• Summary: Standards Based Linux Instrumentation for Manageabilit
Release Notes18• qlvnictools• qperf• rds-tools (future)• srptools• tvflashNet-SNMP Re-BaseNet-SNMP has been re-based to upstream version 5.3.2.2. This
Release Notes180Scim-anthy is a SCIM IMEngine module for anthy to support Japanese input.• No added dependencies• No removed dependenciesscim-bridge-0
Updated Packages181• Description:The SCSI target package contains the daemon and tools to setup a SCSI targets.Currently, software iSCSI targets are
Release Notes182setup-2.5.58-1.el5 - setup-2.5.58-4.el5• Group: System Environment/Base• Summary: A set of system configuration and setup files.• De
Updated Packages183The shadow-utils package includes the necessary programs forconverting UNIX password files to the shadow password format, plusprog
Release Notes184failure.• Added Dependencies:• libselinux-devel• No removed dependenciessos-1.7-9.1.el5 - sos-1.7-9.16.el5• Group: Development/Librar
Updated Packages185• Added Dependencies:• perl-HTML-Parser >= 3.43• No removed dependenciesspeex-1.0.5-4 - speex-1.0.5-4.el5_1.1• Group: System E
Release Notes186• Description:The strace program intercepts and records the system calls called andreceived by a running process. Strace can print a r
Updated Packages187• neon-devel >= 0:0.25.5-6.el5• Removed Dependencies:• neon-devel >= 0:0.24.7-1sudo-1.6.8p12-10 - sudo-1.6.9p17-3.el5• Group
Release Notes188• No removed dependenciessysstat-7.0.0-3.el5 - sysstat-7.0.2-3.el5• Group: Applications/System• Summary: The sar and iostat system m
Updated Packages189• No removed dependenciessystem-config-date-1.8.12-1.el5 - system-config-date-1.8.12-3.el5• Group: System Environment/Base• Summa
Feature Updates19certificates failing verification. In order for certificates to pass verification, the -CAfile /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt optio
Release Notes190• Summary: A graphical interface for making kickstart files.• Description:Kickstart Configurator is a graphical tool for creating kic
Updated Packages191supporting Ethernet, Wireless, TokenRing, ADSL, ISDN and PPP.• No added dependencies• No removed dependenciessystem-config-printer
Release Notes192system-config-users-1.2.51-1.el5 - system-config-users-1.2.51-4.el5• Group: Applications/System• Summary: A graphical interface for
Updated Packages193• Description:The tcp_wrappers package provides small daemon programs which canmonitor and filter incoming requests for systat, fi
Release Notes194• No added dependencies• No removed dependenciestelnet-0.17-38.el5 - telnet-0.17-39.el5• Group: Applications/Internet• Summary: The
Updated Packages195• Description:When paired with the Tcl scripting language, Tk provides a fast and powerfulway to create cross-platform GUI applica
Release Notes196• No removed dependenciestomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5 - tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_2.1• Group: Networking/Daemons• Summary: Apache S
Updated Packages197The traceroute utility displays the route used by IP packets on theirway to a specified network (or Internet) host. Traceroute dis
Release Notes198• Description:The unzip utility is used to list, test, or extract files from a ziparchive. Zip archives are commonly found on MS-DOS s
Updated Packages199vim-7.0.109-3.el5.3 - vim-7.0.109-4.el5_2.4z• Group: Applications/Editors• Summary: The VIM editor.• Description:VIM (VIsual edi
Release Notes25.1. All Architectures ... 245.2
Release Notes20For more information on IBS refer to the paper: Instruction-Based Sampling: A New PerformanceAnalysis Technique for AMD Family 10h Proc
Release Notes200vnc-4.1.2-9.el5 - vnc-4.1.2-14.el5• Group: User Interface/Desktops• Summary: A remote display system.• Description:Virtual Network C
Updated Packages201documentation for wireshark. A graphical user interface is packagedseparately to GTK+ package.• Added Dependencies:• bison• flex•
Release Notes202• dbus-devel• No removed dependenciesx3270-3.3.4p7-3.el5.1 - x3270-3.3.4p7-3.el5.4• Group: Applications/Internet• Summary: An X Wind
Updated Packages203xfig-3.2.4-21.2.el5 - xfig-3.2.4-21.3.el5• Group: Applications/Multimedia• Summary: An X Window System tool for drawing basic ve
Release Notes204• Added Dependencies:• xorg-x11-server-randr-source >= 1.1.1-48.46.el5• No removed dependenciesxorg-x11-drv-keyboard-1.1.0-2.1 - xo
Updated Packages205• Description:X.Org X11 nv video driver.• Added Dependencies:• xorg-x11-server-randr-source >= 1.1.1-48.46.el5• No removed depe
Release Notes206xsane-0.991-4.el5 - xsane-0.991-5.el5• Group: Applications/Multimedia• Summary: An X Window System front-end for the SANE scanner in
Updated Packages207yelp-2.16.0-15.el5 - yelp-2.16.0-22.el5• Group: Applications/System• Summary: A system documentation reader from the Gnome proje
Release Notes208• Description:The Network Information Service (NIS) is a system that providesnetwork information (login names, passwords, home directo
Updated Packages209• No removed dependenciesyum-rhn-plugin-0.5.2-3.el5 - yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.3-30.el5• Group: System Environment/Base• Summary: RHN
All Architectures21• The following Wacom graphics tablets are now supported through the linuxwacom drivers:• Cintiq 20WSX• Intuos3 4x6• the lpfc drive
Release Notes210analogous to a combination of the UNIX tar and compress commands andis compatible with PKZIP (a compression and file packaging utility
Configuration Changes From Previous Release211 fi@@ -112,7 +113,7 @@ fi fi echo- selinux_off+ #selinux_off return $RETVAL } udev
Release Notes212bind-9.3.4-6.P1.el5.i386.rpm: /etc/rc.d/init.d/named--- +++ @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ fi [ "$RETVAL" -eq 0 ] &&
Configuration Changes From Previous Release213 function log_isdnctrl() {- logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-ippp isdnctrl $*+ /usr/bin/logger -p d
Release Notes214- [ -z "${SECURE_NFS_MODS}" ] && SECURE_NFS_MODS="des rpcsec_gss_krb5" # Make sure the daemon is not alr
Configuration Changes From Previous Release215+fi RETVAL=0 prog="Dovecot Imap"+exec="/usr/sbin/dovecot"+config="/etc/doveco
Release Notes216 ;;- condrestart)- if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/dovecot ]; then+ condrestart|try-restart)+ if [ -f $lockfile ]; then stop sta
Configuration Changes From Previous Release217+if [ -d "slaves" ]; then+for slave in slaves/*;+do+ if [ "$slave" = "slaves/*
Release Notes218++UMOUNT="umount"+[ ! -w /etc ] && UMOUNT="umount -n" action() { echo -n "$1 "@@ -131,7 +134
Configuration Changes From Previous Release219+defaults.pcm.dmix.format "unchanged" defaults.pcm.dmix.card defaults.pcm.card defaults.pcm.d
Release Notes22• igb: driver for Intel Gigabit Ethernet Adapters has been updated to version 1.2.45-k2, addingsupport for 82576 based devices.• the ix
Release Notes220+ } } type file slave.pcm null file $FILE format $FORMAT+ truncate {+ @func refer+ name defaults.pcm.file_truncate+ } } pcm.n
Configuration Changes From Previous Release221 @@ -107,8 +108,15 @@ #check to see if config file or kdump post has been modified #since last build
Release Notes222+ local COUNTER="0"++ for DRIVE in ${IDE_DRIVES[@]}+ do+ if ! $(echo "$KDUMP_COMMANDLINE" |grep -q "$DRIVE=&
Configuration Changes From Previous Release223--- +++ @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ stop) # Don't shut the network down if root is on NFS or a netw
Release Notes224@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ [ -x /usr/sbin/dip ] || { echo $"/usr/sbin/dip does not exist or is not executable" echo $"ifup-s
Configuration Changes From Previous Release225+++ @@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ # See how we were called. case "$1" in start)+ # Let udev handle any
Release Notes226 fi # Unaccessible TLS configuration files.- tlsconfigs=`LANG=C egrep '^(TLSCACertificateFile|TLSCertificateFile|TLSCertificate
Configuration Changes From Previous Release227- rw_mount_dev=$(blkid -t LABEL="$RW_LABEL" -o device | awk '{ print ; exit }')+ rw
Release Notes228+ mount -f /sys >/dev/null 2>&1+ mount -f /dev/pts >/dev/null 2>&1+ mount -f /proc/bus/usb >/dev/null 2>&
Configuration Changes From Previous Release229-# connections to the best available connection. \+# connections to the bes
All Architectures23• The irq handler is now freed when __tw_shutdown() is initiated. This prevents a possible nullpointer de-reference if an interrupt
Release Notes230initscripts-8.45.19.EL-1.i386.rpm: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions-ipv6--- +++ @@ -138,14 +138,14 @@ ;; &apo
Configuration Changes From Previous Release231 # Don't fail if /etc/exports doesn't exist; create a bare-bones # version and continue.@
Release Notes232 fi; return $r;initscripts-8.45.19.EL-1.i386.rpm: /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/S01halt--- +++ @@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ NOLOCALE=1 . /etc/init.d
Configuration Changes From Previous Release233 if [ -x /sbin/halt.local ]; theninitscripts-8.45.19.EL-1.i386.rpm: /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt--- +++ @@ -
Release Notes234nfs-utils-1.0.9-33.el5.i386.rpm: /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfslock--- +++ @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ RETVAL=0 start() { # Check that networking is up
Configuration Changes From Previous Release235--- +++ @@ -15,10 +15,16 @@ <type>system</type> <!-- Run as special user -->-
Release Notes236 [ -x /sbin/pppd -o -x /usr/sbin/pppd ] || { echo $"pppd does not exist or is not executable" echo $"ifup-ppp for $
Configuration Changes From Previous Release237+PIDFILE=/var/run/tog-pegasus/cimserver.pid . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions [ -e /etc/sysconfig/tog-pegas
Release Notes238-# Section for zaptel device-KERNEL=="zapctl", NAME="zap/ctl"-KERNEL=="zaptimer", NAME="z
Revision History239+ <includedir>session.d</includedir> <!-- This is included last so local configuration can override what's
Release Notes245. Kernel-Related Notes5.1. All Architectures• relayfs previously had a buffer size limit of 64MB. In this update, the limitation of th
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x86 Architectures25• oprofile did not correctly identify processors based on the Next-Generation IntelMicroarchitecture (Nehalem). Consequently, the p
Release Notes265.3. PowerPC Architectures• CPUFreq, the kernel subsystem that scales CPU frequency and voltage, has been updated withimproved support
ia64 Architecture27To resolve this issue, parameters should be enclosed with single quotes inside of double quotes (ieparameters="vmhalt='LO
Release Notes28• Fully virtualized Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 guests encountered suboptimal performance whenusing emulated disk and network devices. I
Resolved Issues29• the crash utility could not analyze x86_64 vmcores from systems running kernel-xen becausethe Red Hat Enterprise Linux hypervisor w
Feature Updates3• a sample STIG rules file, named "stig.rules", is newly provided in these updated packages. Thisfile contains the auditctl
Release Notes306.3. Known Issues6.3.1. All Architectures• Diskette drive media will not be accessible when using the virtualized kernel. To work aroun
Known Issues31• When running multiple guest domains, guest networking may temporarily stop working, resulting inthe following error being reported in
Release Notes32When this occurs, add the boot parameter console=tty to the kernel boot options in /boot/efi/elilo.conf.• On some Itanium systems (such
Technology Previews33For more information about T10, refer to http://www.t10.org.ext4The latest generation of the ext filesystem, ext4, is available i
Release Notes34mount -t ecryptfs /mnt/secret /mnt/secretThe secured portion of the file system should not be exposed, i.e. it should not be mounted to
Technology Previews35• non-exclusive access to storage devicesIn addition, the following issues still exist in FireWire:• a memory leak in the SBP2 dr
Release Notes368. Resolved Issues8.1. All Architectures• The data for TTY device activity reports was not generating correctly. Consequently, the comm
All Architectures37• smartmontools has been re-based to version 5.38. This update improves autodetection ofhardware devices, improves support for CCIS
Release Notes38• Because the xterm binary had the set group ID (setgid) bit configured, certain environmentalvariables (such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH and TM
x86_64 Architectures39NoteThis flaw did not allow the attacker to acquire the contents of the SSL key. Thepassword has no value without the key file w
Release Notes4NetworkManager re-baseNetworkManager has been updated to version 0.7.0. This update provides the following fixes andenhancements:• Netwo
Release Notes40Stopping disk encryption [FAILED]This message can safely be ignored, the shutdown process will complete successfully.• When using an en
All Architectures41# yum updateYou will also see this error if you downgrade glibc to an earlier version on an installed 5.3 system.• mvapich and mvap
Release Notes42To avoid this, set no_path_retry [N] in /etc/multipath.conf (where [N] is thenumber of times the system should retry a path). When you
All Architectures43kernel: pcie_portdrv_probe->Dev[005d:10de] has invalid IRQ. Check vendor BIOSThese messages indicate that certain PCI-E ports ar
Release Notes44This is caused by the cleanup code, which waits until the path checker request either completes orfails. To display the current multipa
All Architectures45• If your system uses the TSC timer, the gettimeofday system call may move backwards. This isbecause of an overflow issue that caus
Release Notes46• If the edac module is loaded, BIOS memory reporting will not work. This is because the edacmodule clears the register that the BIOS u
x86 Architectures47• Using the swap --grow parameter in a kickstart file without setting the --maxsize parameter atthe same time makes anaconda impose
Release Notes48This message can safely be ignored.9.3. x86_64 Architectures• Some machines that use NVIDIA graphics cards may display corrupted graphi
s390x Architectures494. To verify that recording is enabled, the text above the ADCMux field should display L RCAPTUR.• The size of the PPC kernel ima
Feature Updates5background. The window was therefore not obvious to the user. The applet now opens in theforeground, alerting the user to take action.
Release Notes509.6. ia64 Architecture• Some Itanium systems cannot properly produce console output from the kexec purgatory code.This code contains in
Added Packages51cmirror - Cluster Mirroringcmirror-kmod-0.1.21-10.el5• Group: System Environment/Kernel• Summary: cmirror kernel modules• Descripti
Release Notes52• Summary: Versatile resource statistics tool• Description:Dstat is a versatile replacement for vmstat, iostat, netstat and ifstat.Dst
Added Packages53• Summary: The eCryptfs mount helper and support libraries• Description:eCryptfs is a stacked cryptographic filesystem that ships in
Release Notes54The gcc43 package contains preview the GNU Compiler Collection version 4.3.gtk-vnc-0.3.2-3.el5• Group: Development/Libraries• Summary:
Added Packages55Fibre Channel devices (using iFCP gateways) on a TCP/IP network.java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-0.25.b09.el5• Group: Development/Language
Release Notes56library. This driver enables Chelsio iWARP capable ethernet devices.libehca-1.2-2.el5• Group: System Environment/Libraries• Summary:
Added Packages57• Summary: OpenFabrics Alliance InfiniBand umad (user MAD) library• Description:libibumad provides the user MAD library functions wh
Release Notes58libmthca-1.0.5-1.el5• Group: System Environment/Libraries• Summary: Mellanox InfiniBand HCA Userspace Driver• Description:Mellanox ha
Added Packages59$(sysconfdir) (usually /usr/local/etc or /etc).libsmi-0.4.5-2.el5• Group: System Environment/Libraries• Summary: A library to acces
Release Notes61.2. Resolved Issues• system-config-network requires the fonts provided with xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 in orderto display. However, this font
Release Notes60default for which MPI implementation is to be used, but also allowusers to set their own default MPI implementation, thereby overriding
Added Packages61This is an MPI-2 implementation which includes all MPI-1 features. It isbased on MPICH2 and MVICH.nedit-5.5-21.el5• Group: Applicati
Release Notes62OpenSM is the OpenIB project's Subnet Manager for Infiniband networks.The subnet manager is run as a system daemon on one of the m
Added Packages63read, and write Zip archive files.Zip archives can be created, or you can read from existing zip files.Once created, they can be writ
Release Notes64passwd, telnet, etc. It can be used to automate setup scripts for duplicatingsoftware package installations on different servers. And i
Added Packages65VNIC ULP serviceqperf-0.4.1-2.el5• Group: Networking/Diagnostic• Summary: Measure socket and RDMA performance• Description:Measure
Release Notes66Intel SGPIO enclosure management utilityThis package contains (part of) a Technology Preview forApplication for AHCI driver with SGPIO
Added Packages67TrouSerS is an implementation of the Trusted Computing Group's Software Stack(TSS) specification. You can use TrouSerS to write
Release Notes68• Description:Configuration utility to bind Wacom tablet's ExpressKeys and Touch Strips togenerate other input events.wdaemon-0.14
Dropped Packages69The cachefilesd daemon manages the caching files and directory that arethat are used by network filesystems such a AFS and NFS todo
Virtualization71.4. Virtualization• A bug in the IDE/ATA driver stack that could prevent a system using kernel-xen from booting intothe kdump environm
Release Notes7012. Updated PackagesCluster_Administration-5.1.0-7 - Cluster_Administration-5.2-1• Group: Documentation• Summary: Red Hat Cluster fo
Updated Packages71• No removed dependenciesImageMagick-6.2.8.0-3.el5.4 - ImageMagick-6.2.8.0-4.el5_1.1• Group: Applications/Multimedia• Summary: An
Release Notes72• dbus-devel >= 1.1• dbus-glib-devel >= 0.73-6• dhclient• doxygen• gtk-doc• intltool• libdaemon-devel• libnotify-devel >= 0.4.
Updated Packages73send requests and receive replies from other programs, regardlessof the locations of the two programs. CORBA is an architecture tha
Release Notes74• Summary: Virtualization Guide• Description:The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtualization Guide containsinformation on installation, co
Updated Packages75• Summary: ACPI Event Daemon• Description:acpid is a daemon that dispatches ACPI events to user-space programs.• No added dependen
Release Notes76amtu-1.0.4-4 - amtu-1.0.6-1.el5• Group: System Environment/Base• Summary: Abstract Machine Test Utility (AMTU)• Description:Abstract
Updated Packages77apr-util-1.2.7-6 - apr-util-1.2.7-7.el5• Group: System Environment/Libraries• Summary: Apache Portable Runtime Utility library• D
Release Notes78authconfig-5.3.12-2.el5 - authconfig-5.3.21-5.el5• Group: System Environment/Base• Summary: Command line tool for setting up authenti
Updated Packages79• Added Dependencies:• autoconf• gettext• No removed dependenciesbind-9.3.3-10.el5 - bind-9.3.4-10.P1.el5• Group: System Environme
Release Notes8semanage fcontext -a -t textrel_shlib_t '/usr/lib/ooo-1.1(/.*)?'semanage fcontext -a -t textrel_shlib_t '/usr/lib64/ooo-1
Release Notes80• Summary: Bluetooth libraries• Description:Libraries for use in Bluetooth applications.The BLUETOOTH trademarks are owned by Bluetoot
Updated Packages81• No removed dependenciesbusybox-1.2.0-3 - busybox-1.2.0-4.el5• Group: System Environment/Shells• Summary: Statically linked bina
Release Notes82Cairo is a vector graphics library designed to provide high-qualitydisplay and print output. Currently supported output targets include
Updated Packages83of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to addmandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linuxker
Release Notes84cman-2.0.73-1.el5 - cman-2.0.98-1.el5• Group: System Environment/Base• Summary: cman - The Cluster Manager• Description:cman - The Cl
Updated Packages85• No added dependencies• No removed dependenciescoolkey-1.1.0-5.el5 - coolkey-1.1.0-6.el5• Group: System Environment/Libraries• Su
Release Notes86• Summary: CPU frequency adjusting daemon• Description:cpuspeed is a daemon that dynamically changes the speedof your processor(s) dep
Updated Packages87• No removed dependenciescrypto-utils-2.3-1 - crypto-utils-2.3-2.el5• Group: Applications/System• Summary: SSL certificate and ke
Release Notes88• No removed dependenciescyrus-imapd-2.3.7-1.1.el5 - cyrus-imapd-2.3.7-2.el5• Group: System Environment/Daemons• Summary: A high-perf
Updated Packages89D-BUS is a system for sending messages between applications. It isused both for the systemwide message bus service, and as aper-use
Technology Previews9attempt to install the libcmpiutil-devel package on a system that does not have a Subscriptionincluding the Workstation option or
Release Notes90• Description:An API document browser for GNOME 2.• Added Dependencies:• gecko-devel-unstable >= 1.9• Removed Dependencies:• gecko-d
Updated Packages91• Summary: DHCP D-BUS daemon (dhcdbd) controls dhclient sessions with D-BUS, stores and presents DHCP options.• Description:dhcdbd
Release Notes92Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6). Consists of dhcp6s(8), the serverDHCP daemon, and dhcp6r(8), the DHCPv6 relay agent.Install t
Updated Packages93changes and warnings about conflicts. The sdiff command can be usedto merge two files interactively.Install diffutils if you need t
Release Notes94dosfstools-2.11-6.2.el5 - dosfstools-2.11-7.el5• Group: Applications/System• Summary: Utilities for making and checking MS-DOS FAT fi
Updated Packages95e2fsprogs-1.39-10.el5 - e2fsprogs-1.39-20.el5• Group: System Environment/Base• Summary: Utilities for managing the second and thi
Release Notes96• Description:Ed is a line-oriented text editor, used to create, display, and modifytext files (both interactively and via shell script
Updated Packages97• No removed dependenciesemacs-21.4-19.el5 - emacs-21.4-20.el5• Group: Applications/Editors• Summary: GNU Emacs text editor• Desc
Release Notes98GNU enscript is a free replacement for Adobe's Enscriptprogram. Enscript converts ASCII files to PostScript(TM) and spoolsgenerate
Updated Packages99The evolution-data-server package provides a unified backend for programsthat work with contacts, tasks, and calendar information.I
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