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Johnny Hughes, developer at CentOS, officially announces the release of CentOS 5.11 with new features for both i386 and x86_64 architectures. As you all know that CentOS 5.11 is based on source code which is released by Red Hat and includes packages from all variants including server and client. All upstream repositories have been combined into one to make it easier for end users to work with.

According to official announcement, CentOS 5.11 comes with LSI MegaRAID SAS 9360/9380 controllers are no longer a Technology Preview and format of Trivial Database Files gets changed during upgrade when someone tries to use samba3x. There are no new addition of packages in this release, but some of the packages are upgraded from older version to newer version. Also, review recent Linux Distro News on our website.

The packages which are upgraded to newer version includes autofs, automake, bind97, clusterman, cman, conga, coolkey, cpuspeed, e2fsprogs, e4fsprogs, gcc, firefox, gimp, glibc, gnupg, grub, java 1.7.0 openjdk, kernel, krb5 and many other packages. Well good is that this release doesn't remove any existing package. You might also like to check out other latest Software News to know what's new in them ?

How to Upgrade from CentOS 5.10 to CentOS 5.11

If you are using previously released CentOS 5.10 and want to upgrade to CentOS 5.11 then you have to update your machine via yum. For this, run the following commands one by one in terminal.

The "yum list updates" must be execute first so that CentOS will receive a list of packages which are going to be updated. After updating to CentOS 5.11, you can verify your distro version by running the following command in terminal.

You will get a output like "centos-release-5-11.el5.centos".

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