Last week, a new version of CentOS was released. Version 5.4 includes various improvements, bug fixes and security fixes. If you’re running CentOS on your server, you may be interested in updating.

CentOS contains numerous updated packages and new packages. If you’re interested in learning more about the changes in CentOS 5.4, you can view the release notes. To update from an earlier version of CentOS, login to your server as a root user via SSH and run the following command:

yum update

You will then need to confirm that you want to update by typing y and hitting the enter key. If you want to see the package changes before updating, you can do so by running the following command:

yum list updates

As previously mentioned, you can stay up-to-date on CentOS updates by subscribing to their announcement mailing list.