Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 5 Availability Announcement

[taroon-list redhat com]

Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of Update 5
for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 family of products, 
including:

 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 3) for x86, AMD64/EM64T, 
    Itanium, POWER, S/390 and zSeries
 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 3) for x86, AMD64/EM64T, Itanium
 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 3) for x86, AMD64/EM64T, Itanium
 - Red Hat Desktop (v. 3) for x86 and AMD64/EM64T

This update includes the following enhancements:

  - Availability of a full set of updated installable CD ISO
     images via Red Hat Network, with OS package updates and
     install-time support for new hardware.

  - Availability of updated Extras ISO images via Red Hat
     Network, with third party package updates.

  - Support for 2 terabyte partitions on block devices.

  - Support for new disk, network, and USB devices.

  - Support for clustered APIC mode on AMD64 NUMA systems.

  - Network kernel crashdump support on AMD64, Intel EM64T, 
    Itanium, and POWER systems.

  - Local disk kernel crashdump support on sym53c8xx and
    SATA piix/promise adapters.

  - NMI switch support on the x86_64 architecture.

  - Driver updates including 3c59x, 3w-xxxx, 8139too, 
    b44, cciss, e100, e1000 and tg3.

  - New drivers including 3w-9xxx and lpfcdfc.

  - Security updates, bug fixes, and feature enhancements to
     numerous system packages.

Errata Advisories describing specific changes in Update 5 are 
available online at:
  https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel3as-errata.html (AS)
  https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel3es-errata.html (ES)
  https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel3ws-errata.html (WS)
  https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh-desktop-3-errata.html (Desktop)

Release notes for this update are available on the Red Hat 
documentation site at:
  http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/

This update is available immediately to all current
Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscribers via Red Hat Network.  
Simply run 'up2date' to retrieve the latest packages,
or visit the following URL to download ISO images for
new installations:
  https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/download_isos.pxt

Regards,

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team