The CentOS team is pleased to announce the availability of CentOS 5.3. Major changes in CentOS 5 compared to CentOS 4 include:
These updated software versions: Apache-2.2, php-5.1.6, kernel-2.6.18, Gnome-2.16, KDE-3.5, OpenOffice.org-2.3, Evolution-2.12, Firefox-3.0, Thunderbird-2.0, MySQL-5.0, PostgreSQL-8.
Better desktop support with compiz and AIGLX.
Virtualization provided by the Xen hypervisor with Virtual Machine Manager and libvirt.
Sabayon to simplify the construction of user profiles.
New packages in 5.3 that were not present in 5.2
Packages that have been upgraded in 5.3 since the 5.2 release
Packages removed by upstream in 5.3 that were present in 5.2
Packages released as 5.2 updates with older packages on the 5.3 install media
