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IS Software Update for December 2003
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deb Bowser)
Fri Dec 19 14:32:33 2003
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Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 14:30:09 -0500
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From: Deb Bowser <bowser@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Friday December 19, 2003
To: Members of the MIT Community: itpartners@mit.edu, macpartners@mit.edu,
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From: Software Release Team <swrt@mit.edu>
Subj: IS Software Update for December 2003
Cc: infosys@mit.edu, itag@mit.edu, kakapo@mit.edu
Spotlight:
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On September 22, an announcement was sent that contained a proposed list of
applications targeted for desupport during FY2004. The list below reflects
changes based on feedback that was received.
Windows applications slated for desupport on December 31, 2003:
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Acrobat Reader 4.0
BrioQuery 5.5
Dreamweaver 4.0
FileMaker Pro 5
FileZilla 1.9.7
Internet Explorer 5.5
Kerberized Line Printer 1.0
Kerberos for Windows 2.1
Tivoli Storage Management 4.1.3
VirusScan 4.5.1 SP1
Macintosh applications slated for desupport on December 31, 2003:
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Acrobat Reader 4.0
BrioQuery 5.5
Dreamweaver 4.0
Fetch 4.0.2
FileMaker Pro 5.0
Kerberos for Macintosh 3.5
Kerberized Line Printer 2.1.1
Virex 7.0
For a complete list of software to be desupported during FY2004, please
read the following:
http://web.mit.edu/swrt/announcements/de-support-fy04.html
Recent Releases (Macintosh)
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Dreamweaver MX 2004 - December 18, 2003
MIT TechTime on Oracle Calendar 9.0.4 (OS X) - December 4, 2003
Recent Releases (Windows)
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Dreamweaver MX 2004 - December 18, 2003
MIT TechTime on Oracle Calendar 9.0.4 - December 4, 2003
Volume Site License Distribution
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IS is accepting online requests for Windows XP Professional from students
who are currently running Windows 95, 98, NT 4, or ME. To request a
license for Windows XP Professional follow the Windows link
from http://web.mit.edu/is/products/vsls/.
As of December 18, 2003, the maximum number of licenses for Mac OS X 10.3
have been distributed. Please check back in January 2004 for an update. We
continue to ramp up support for Mac OS X 10.3 and recommend that clients
that rely on support not upgrade to 10.3 at this time, especially if they
use Eudora 5.2.3.
Licenses for Matlab will expire at the end of January. To purchase
licenses for next year, visit
https://web.mit.edu/is/products/vsls/speceng/matlab.html [certificate
required].
Software Release Efforts Underway (Linux)
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OpenAFS - Release Effort Underway - January 2004
Software Release Efforts Underway (Macintosh)
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TSM 5.1.5 (OS 9) - December 2003
TSM 5.2 (OS X) - December 2003
Eudora 5.2.3 - Fixing installer - January 2004
Eudora 6.0.2 for Mac OS X - Release Effort Ramping Up - TBD 2004
Mac OS X 10.3 - Release Effort Underway - January 2004
Software Release Efforts Underway (Windows)
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Eudora 5.2.1 - Fixing installer - January 2004
Office 2003 - February 2004
To view any of the product release notebooks, please visit our page:
http://web.mit.edu/swrt
Contact Us
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How are we doing? Please take a moment to let us know and provide valuable
feedback to the team:
http://web.mit.edu/swrt/feedback.html
If you prefer to send e-mail, we would appreciate any questions and
comments you may have. Please send them to the Software Release Team at
<swrt@mit.edu>.
Deb Bowser
IS Software Release Team
