The GT development team is pleased to make a new stable release of the Globus Toolkit available for download. This version retains binary and protocol compatibility with the previous major versions (GT 5.0 and GT 5.2) of the Globus Toolkit.
The main thrust of development for GT6 was to reduce the complexity of building, testing, and distributing the Toolkit and to merge the various operating system ports into one source distribution. This release contains native RPM and Deb packages for Linux and a Mac OS X Installer.app package, as well as binary tarball/zipfile distributions for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Download links: http://www.globus.org/toolkit/downloads/6.0/ Quickstart and Detailed installation instructions: http://www.globus.org/toolkit/docs/6.0/admin/ If you've already installed one of the 6.0 alpha or beta repository packages, you can get the new packages via an apt, zypper, yum update without installing a new repo. You can disable the "unstable" or "testing" repositories to ensure that only stable, tested packages are installed. The main highlights of this release are: - Retain source (API), binary (ABI), and protocol compatibility with GT 5.0 and GT 5.2 - Migrate from CVS to Git for version control: https://github.com/globus/globus-toolkit - Simplified build by eliminating GPT and library flavors - Integrate testing into the native package build process - Add support for el7 (CentOS 7, RHEL 7) - Add binary distribution for windows -- mingw (client only) and cygwin - Add binary package and tarball for Mac OS X - Make binaries and scripts more easily relocatable (don't need to set GLOBUS_LOCATION for most cases) - Globus Connect Server compatibility with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 GridFTP - Wider support for UDT MyProxy - Updated to MyProxy v6.0rc3. GSI-Enabled OpenSSH - Updates for building on windows Supported with native RPM or Debian Packages: - CentOS 5, 6, 7; - Fedora 19; 20 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7; - Scientific Linux 5, 6; - Debian 6, 7 - Ubuntu 10.04, 12.04, 14.04 - SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 The toolkit is also tested on the following platforms: Solaris 11 (OmniOS), MacOS (10.6+), Windows 7+ Binary tarballs are available for Linux, MacOS X, and Windows (32- and 64-bit)
