Grid Engine 5.3p6 is ready. Grid Engine 5.3p6 is a maintenance patch release which is fully compatible with version 5.3. This release is available as a courtesy binary distribution from Sun Microsystems at the project download page.
This patch release changes the binaries and the architecture independent files ("common" package). The unchanged PDF documentation set for SGE and SGEEE is provided by Sun Microsystems as a courtesy contribution for users of the Grid Engine open source software.
This release also fixes multiple vulnerabilites of the OpenSSL library 0.9.7c. This fix only affects users who run Grid Engine with OpenSSL support enabled ("CSP mode").
For more information about the the openSSL vulnerabilites see the CERT® Advisory from March 17, 2004
http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20040317.txtUsers who make a new installation of SGE need to follow the directions at the project download page. Users who install SGE 5.3p6 as a patch for any previous SGE 5.3 release can find directions how to install the patch at
install53patchA list of bugfixes for this release can be found at
53patchesUsers who want to access the corresponding source code need to checkout the CVS tag
V53p6_TAGin the branch of the CVS repository
V53_beta2_BRANCHA snapshot of the Grid Engine 5.3p6 sources is available as a source tarball at the File Exchange Tool as file sge-V53p6_TAG-src.tar.gz.