All, We are pleased to announce the release of OCFS2 1.2.6 and OCFS2 Tools 1.2.6 for EL5. Apart from the changes required to build OCFS2 on EL5, the main difference between this and the previous release relates to the default cluster timeouts. We have updated the defaults in this release. Please refer to the FAQ for more. http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/dist/documentation/ocfs2_faq.html#TIMEOUT http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/dist/documentation/ocfs2_faq.html#EL5 The complete list of changes post OCFS2 1.2.5 are listed here: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/news/article_12.html The complete list of changes post OCFS2 Tools 1.2.4 are listed here: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools/news/article_4.html Packages for OCFS2 and its tools for Enterprise Linux 5 are bundled with the isos and are available for download from http://edelivery.oracle.com/linux. Packages for OCFS2 and its tools for Red Hat's RHEL5 for the 2.6.18-8.el5 and the 4 errata kernels for the x86 and the x86_64 architectures are available here: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/files/RedHat/RHEL5/ http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools/files/RedHat/RHEL5/ The packages for the other architectures will be made available in the coming weeks. Certification for Oracle 10gR2 on EL5 is ongoing. For the latest, see under "Certify & Availability" in metalink (http://metalink.oracle.com/). As always, we look forward to hearing from you on the ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com mailing list. The OCFS2 Team OCFS2: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2 TOOLS: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools/ FAQ: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/dist/documentation/ocfs2_faq.html GUIDE: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/dist/documentation/ocfs2_users_guide.pdf