Stuart: Maybe you could comment more specifically on what you intend for admins of OSes such as Debian 7 Wheezy which appear to include GT 5.2 based libraries but also promise security support through 201X, X>5?
I have not always found the globus.org repositories to be Debian-friendly so I'm not sure 5.2.X from debian.org to 6.X from globus.org is a clean upgrade path. Tom On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Stuart Martin <smar...@mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > Dear GT users, > > We are announcing an end-of-life date for GT 5.2.5. Starting November 1, > 2015, we will no longer support or maintain GT 5.2.5 or earlier versions of > the Globus Toolkit. We believe this is sufficient notice for users of GT > 5.2.5 to plan and complete their upgrade to GT6. > > GT 6 was released in September 2014 and we are encouraging all users to > move to this version as it provides multiple benefits over past releases. > In particular, GT 6 has significantly simplified the building, testing, and > distributing of the Toolkit, making it much easier for the developers to > generate updates with bug fixes and new features, and for admins to install > and maintain. We are currently working with package maintainers for EPEL, > Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu to ensure that the latest updates to GT6 are > available quickly and included in these distributions. The latest GT > release may be downloaded from: > http://toolkit.globus.org/toolkit/downloads/6.0/. > > Note that a GT release that is at end of life is: not supported, not > receiving any updates (no minor, major, security fixes of any kind), and is > not being built or tested on new OS versions. As with most open source > projects, we have limited resources and many competing priorities so it is > not possible for us to cost-effectively maintain multiple past releases if > we are to continue delivering new features and improvements. > > Thanks for your continued support of Globus.
