CentOS 5.1 has been released, as announced by Karanbir Singh. CentOS 5.1 is a Linux distribution, constructed by recompiling the source RPM packages of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1.

The new version is available for i386 and x86_64 architectures, with packages from all variants, including Server and Client. All upstream repositories have been combined into one, so the users' work with it will be a lot easier. If one wants to enable external repositories, this can be done through the installer, during the setup process.

A special netinstall ISO will be published along with this release and it will be useful for beginning a remote install. Further Arch support, for PowerPC, IA64 and Sparc platforms, is planned and will be released soon.

Here is a list with the fixes, the updates and the new additions available in CentOS 5.1:

￭ A security issue related to yum-cron has been fixed, by updating and cleaning up the code of the package.
￭ Rhgb displays correctly the right branding on all screen sizes.
￭ The Conga cluster configuration tool will work from now on without making changes to /etc/redhat-release.
￭ Packages that were not included on 5.0 made their way into 5.1. Some of them are: cpufreq-utils, crash-devel, kernel-debug, crypto-utils, finch, finch-devel, and watchdog.
￭ gaim, gaim-devel, netconfig and pump-devel packages have been removed by upstream in 5.1.
￭ CentOS has modified some of the applications, like the Anaconda installer, yum-priorities, conga, bluez-utils and much more. A detailed overview of the changes can be found in every package's changelog.
￭ The yum-metadata-parser is a metadata parser for yum, written in C, for speeding up the metadata parsing phase. It is installed by default on all CentOS-5 releases as a dependency for yum.
￭ The following packages, which are included upstream: redhat-release-5Client, redhat-release-5Server, rhel-instnum, rhn-setup and some others, have been removed from CentOS.

CentOS will also have the following packages that are not included upstream: centos-release, yum-cron, perl.i386 (on x86_64), centos-release-notes and yum-repolist (plugin).

You can download CentOS 5.1 right now from Softpedia!