CentOS 5.8相对于5.7的改变：
新的软件包：
binutils220;iotop;mysql-connector-odbc64;pixman;postgresql-odbc64;python-ctypes;spice-client;spice-protocol;virt-who;unixODBC64
升级的包：
acl;acpid;alsa-utils;anaconda;aspell;aspell-sr;audit;autofs;bind;bind97;binutils;boost;bootparamd;busybox;cdparanoia;certmonger;Cluster_Administration;clustermon;cman;cmirror;comps-extras;conga;crash;cups;curl;cvs;cyrus-imapd;dapl;dbus;Deployment_Guide;device-mapper;device-mapper-multipath;dhcp;dovecot;ecryptfs-utils;esound;fcoe-utils;fetchmail;file;firefox;firstboot;foomatic;freeipmi;freeradius2;freetype;gamin;gawk;gcc;gcc44;gdb;gdm;gfs-kmod;gfs-utils;gfs2-utils;ghostscript;glibc;Global_File_System;gnome-screensaver;gnome-system-monitor;gpart;groff;gtk2;hmaccalc;httpd;hwdata;ibutils;icu;ifd-egate;ImageMagick;initscripts;ipa-client;iproute;iptables;iscsi-initiator-utils;java-1.6.0-openjdk;kdelibs;kernel;kexec-tools;krb5;ksh;kudzu;kvm;less;lftp;libcxgb3;libdhcp;libexif;libhbaapi;libmlx4;libpng;libusb;libvirt;libvorbis;libX11;libXcursor;libXfont;libxml2;lsof;ltrace;lvm2;lvm2-cluster;man-pages;man-pages-ja;man-pages-overrides;mesa;microcode_ctl;mkinitrd;mod_auth_kerb;mod_revocator;mrtg;mysql;mysql-connector-odbc;MySQL-python;net-snmp;net-tools;netpbm;nfs-utils;nfs-utils-lib;nfs4-acl-tools;nss;nss_ldap;ntp;oddjob;openais;openCryptoki;OpenIPMI;openldap;openmotif;openscap;openssh;openssl;openswan;oprofile;pam_krb5;pam_pkcs11;pango;parted;pciutils;pdksh;perl;perl-XML-SAX;php;php53;piranha;poppler;postgresql;postgresql84;procinfo;procps;python;python-rhsm;python-virtinst;PyXML;qt4;rdesktop;rgmanager;rhpl;rng-utils;rpm;rsh;rsync;rsyslog;ruby;sabayon;samba;samba3x;sblim;scsi-target-utils;selinux-policy;sendmail;setroubleshoot;setup;shadow-utils;smartmontools;sos;spice-client;spice-usb-share;spice-xpi;squirrelmail;sssd;sudo;syslinux;system-config-bind;system-config-cluster;system-config-date;system-config-display,;system-config-network;system-config-printer;system-switch-mail;systemtap;tog-pegasus;tomcat5;udev;unixODBC;util-linux;virt-manager;virtio-win;Virtualization_Guide;vixie-cron;vsftpd;xen;xenpv-win;xinetd;xkeyboard-config;xmlrpc-c;xorg-x11-drv-i810;xorg-x11-drv-mga;xorg-x11-drv-sis;xorg-x11-server;xulrunner;yp-tools;ypserv;yum;yum-utils;zsh
删除的包：
redhat-release-5Client;redhat-release-5Server;redhat-release-notes;rhel-instnum;rhn-check;rhn-client-tools;rhnlib;rhnsd;rhn-setup;rhn-setup-gnome;subscription-manager;subscription-manager-firstboot;subscription-manager-gnome;subscription-manager-migration;subscription-manager-migration-data;yum-rhn-plugin
更多关于CentOS 5.8的信息请查阅：http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.8
CentOS 5.8下载列表：http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/5.8/isos/
CentOS-5.8-i386-bin-DVD.torrent md5sum:9c5cbfede46d547c939e635458bc7695
CentOS-5.8-x86_64-bin-DVD.torrent md5sum:4d16c9883cedbd969424c409332a0ae5