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[release-announce] Status of Debathena on Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Sun May 1 20:33:14 2011
From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 20:32:27 -0400
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Good morning,
On Thursday, April 28, the latest version of Ubuntu (11.04, "Natty Narwhal") was released. The Debathena project is still finalizing our package support for Natty Narwhal, and it is not yet installable at this time. Within a week or two, we expect to have packages available for alpha testing, with beta testing to follow in June, and a final release and deployment to the public Athena clusters tentatively scheduled for mid-July. We will send another e-mail to this list once we have a final date for deployment has been set.
At this time, we do not recommend that users upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04. If you are interested in participating in alpha or beta testing, please visit http://debathena.mit.edu/testing to learn more about the testing process. In addition, please add yourself to the "testers" mailing list. Once packages are available for testing, we will send e-mail to that list. You can do this on Athena with the command "blanche testers -a $USER", or using WebMoira: https://groups.mit.edu/webmoira/list/testers
With the release of Ubuntu 11.04, vendor support has ended for Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala). Debathena has also ended all support for Ubuntu 9.10 -- existing installations will continue to function, but will not receive security or bugfix updates. We estimate the impact of this to be minimal, as IS&T never formally supported Ubuntu 9.10, and it was never deployed to the public Athena clusters.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.
Jonathan Reed
for the Athena Release Team
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Jonathan Reed
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