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[release-announce] IS&T Announces Final Release of Debathena Trusty
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan D Reed)
Fri Aug 8 09:52:10 2014
From: Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: "release-announce@mit.edu" <release-announce@MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 13:51:18 +0000
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Good morning,
The newest version of Debathena, based on Ubuntu 14.04 (“Trusty”)
is scheduled for Monday, August 11. IS&T-maintained public
workstations in Athena computing labs and elsewhere on campus
will automatically upgrade at that time.
Release notes, including additional information for locker maintainers and
private workstation owners, can be found in the MIT Knowledge Base at:
http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/x/9XIYCQ
We will continue to update them through the end of August, should any
new issues be discovered.
The athena.dialup.mit.edu remote login servers are scheduled to be
upgraded during the week of August 11, 2013. More information will
be posted on 3DOWN (http://3down.mit.edu) prior to the upgrade.
Note that after the upgrade, the dialup servers will no longer support
FTP with GSSAPI (Kerberized FTP). For more information, see:
http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/x/oXcYCQ
As with all Athena releases, a downgrade is not possible without
wiping and re-installing the workstation, so users who rely on
Athena for their daily work and/or use software not maintained or
installed by IS&T (including software installed in course
lockers) are strongly encouraged to fully test all software and
courseware before upgrading their personal workstation.
If you are receiving this e-mail, but are no longer responsible
for Athena workstations or software in your department, lab, or
center, please forward this message to your colleagues and
encourage them to sign up for this list at
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/release-announce
Cordially,
Jonathan Reed
for the Athena Release Team
The Athena Release Team would like to thank all its members for their contributions, including Ben Kaduk, Sean Preston, Joyce Gomes, Sar Haidar, Alex Prengel, Oliver Thomas, Heather Anne Harrison, Alex Chernyakhovsky ’13, and Victor Vasiliev ’16. We would also like to thank all the members of the community who contributed to the release over the past year.
