perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Andrew Lake <>]

When it’s ready :) Historically beta testing in particular has been a highly variable length of time depending on things go, so first half of year is about a s specific as I’ll get at this point. 

If you are planning to move to EL9, I would recommend updating as soon as is reasonable since it is currently supported in perfSONAR 5.0.X and CentOS 7 becomes EOL in June no matter what the perfSONAR project does. 

On December 18, 2023 at 1:26:10 PM, Contardo, Gianni Carlo () wrote:

For planning purposes, is “first half of next year” likely to be around March or more like June?

 

Thank you.

 

 

Gianni

 

 

 

From: <> On Behalf Of Andrew Lake
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2023 8:55 AM
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Subject: [perfsonar-user] perfSONAR 5.0.7 now available

 

All,

 

A new bug fix release of perfSONAR is now available. It fixes multiple issues users have reported and thanks to all those in the community that worked closely with us to track some of these down. You can find full release notes here: https://www.perfsonar.net/releasenotes-2023-12-12-5-0-7.html

 

Also a few other notes:

 

- We have noticed quite a few users may have services down on their perfSONAR boxes that have been hit with bugs fixed in previous 5.0.X releases. If your box has been having issues for awhile, we recommend you upgrade to 5.0.7 and then do a reboot of the system just to get everything back to square one.

 

- We also notice there are still a lot of CentOS 7 hosts out there. CentOS 7 will be end-of-life by RedHat in June 2024. perfSONAR EL9 packages are fully supported and encourage everyone on older RedHat-based operating systems to upgrade as soon as possible. EL7 and EL8 packages will not be supported by the perfSONAR project when we release perfSONAR 5.1.0 in the first half of next year. 

 

As always, please let us know if you have any questions.

 

Thank you,

The perfSONAR Development Team