CentOS 4.6

Johnny Hughes has announced the release of CentOS 4.6, a newly updated version of the distribution's legacy 4.x branch.

The CentOS development team is pleased to announce the release of CentOS 4.6 for i386, x86_64, s390, s390x and ia64. This release corresponds to the upstream vendor 4.6 release. Also released in the updates repository for CentOS 4.6 are all updates through December 15th, 2007. Major changes for this version are: Samba has been updated to version 3.0.25b; Autofs5 is included in this release as a Technology Preview, it resolves several long-standing interoperability issues in multi-vendor environments; there is a technology preview of OpenOffice.org 2.0 included in the updates directory; a new yum included in CentOS 4.6 requires the installation of a metadata parser for yum.

See the complete release announcement for additional information. Download (mirror list) the installation DVD images from here: CentOS-4.6-i386-binDVD.iso (2,303MB, MD5, torrent), CentOS-4.6-x86_64-binDVD.iso (2,559MB, MD5, torrent).