Grid Engine 5.3p7 is ready for download

Regensburg, Germany -- Jan  24, 2006

Grid Engine 5.3p7 is ready. Grid Engine 5.3p7 is a maintenance patch release which is fully compatible with version 5.3. This release is available as a courtesy binary distribution from Sun Microsystems at the project download page.

This patch release changes the binaries and the architecture independent files ("common" package). The unchanged PDF documentation set for SGE and SGEEE is provided by Sun Microsystems as a courtesy contribution for users of the Grid Engine open source software.

This release also fixes multiple vulnerabilites of the OpenSSL library 0.9.7c. This fix only affects users who run Grid Engine with OpenSSL support enabled ("CSP mode").

For more information about the the openSSL vulnerabilites see the CERT® Advisory from March 17, 2004

http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20040317.txt

Users who make a new installation of SGE need to follow the directions at the project download page. Users who install SGE 5.3p7 as a patch for any previous SGE 5.3 release can find directions how to install the patch at

install53patch

A list of bugfixes for this release can be found at

53patches

Users who want to access the corresponding source code need to checkout the CVS tag

V53p7_TAG

in the branch of the CVS repository

V53_beta2_BRANCH

A snapshot of the Grid Engine 5.3p7 sources is available as a source tarball at the  Documents & files as file sge-V53p7_TAG-src.tar.gz.