OSG Software version 3.0.8 has been released

We're pleased to announced OSG Software version 3.0.8. This is the new OSG

Software distributed via RPMs for Scientific Linux 5, CentOS 5, and Red

Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This release also includes the worker node

client packages for Scientific Linux 6, CentOS 6, and Red Hat Enterprise

Linux 6.



The RHEL 5-compatible packages have the following changes:



1. The Oracle JDK has been updated to version 1.6.0_31. *Note:* This

version fixes critical security flaws and we recommend upgrading

to it as soon as you can.

2. glite-ce-monitor, osg-configure, osg-cert-scripts, rsv-consumer

bugfixes.

3. gratia-probes bugfixes for PBS and Condor probes; can be

started/stopped as a service.

4. More logging has been added to osg-system-profiler.

5. glideinwms packages have been upgraded to 2.5.5.



Release notes and pointers to documentation can be found at:

https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release308



Also, we have found a critical bug in the

globus-gram-job-manager-13.14-1.2.osg.el5 package that was distributed

as part of the previous release. We do not have a fix ready yet, so we

currently recommend that if you have that version of the package (which

you can verify by typing "rpm -q globus-gram-job-manager" and comparing



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the versions), that you downgrade to the previous version of that

package by typing "yum downgrade globus-gram-job-manager". The highest

working version is 13.5-14.osg.



You can ask support via the usual channels. We look forward to your

feedback on this new release.