Jos Vos wrote:
RHEL (and thus CentOS) are conservative "enterprise" distros and thus do *not* include the newest ("bleeding edge") release of everything as soon as it comes out. They want to stay compatible through the 7 (!) years of support time. This is how it is and this is, in principle, a good idea (for that purpose). Exceptions are made (Firefox 3 is included now) and security bugs are fixed via backports. But if FreeRADIUS would be bumped to a higher release, there will probably be incompatibilities that are, in principe, not acceptable.
It should be easier for *new* installs to use 2.x. Otherwise, they install the "latest" RHEL version, and then get told to upgrade. The RedHat FAQ page on the Wiki should help a lot. Alan DeKok.