On behalf of the Globus Toolkit development team I am pleased to announce that a new stable release of the Globus Toolkit is now available.
Most components of GT5 are incremental updates (numerous bug fixes and new features) over their GT4 counter-parts (e.g. GridFTP, RLS, MyProxy, GSI-OpenSSH). Some components of GT4 are not included in GT5 (e.g. GT4 Java Core, WS-GRAM4, RFT), to be replaced by new software under development (e.g. Crux, Globus.org Service). And GRAM has been vastly improved by returning to the pre-ws GRAM2 code base and making substantial backward-compatible improvements. Details about each component are available in the release notes. GT4.x releases will continue to be maintained and supported at least through the end of 2010. New users should immediately adopt 5.0.0. Existing users are encouraged to begin evaluating and migrating to GT5. Please contact us if you have questions or problems along the way. We look forward to and encourage your feedback on GT5. Relevant 5.0.0 links: - Release notes: http://www.globus.org/toolkit/docs/5.0/5.0.0/rn/ - Software: http://www.globus.org/toolkit/downloads/5.0.0/ - Documentation: http://www.globus.org/toolkit/docs/5.0/5.0.0/ - Support: http://dev.globus.org/wiki/Globus_Toolkit#Mailing_Lists - Background: http://lists.globus.org/pipermail/announce/2009-March/000054.html http://lists.globus.org/pipermail/gt-user/2009-October/008578.html. Thanks for your support of Globus software. Viva Globus! -Stu Martin
