End of Life for SME Server 6.X ------------------------------ December 31, 2006 With the release today of SME Server 7.1, the SME Server updates team is announcing the immediate End of Life for SME Server Releases 6.5, 6.0.1 and 6.0 We are no longer able to provide any support for these releases and they are now considered obsolete. - No further updates will be released - No security updates will be released - These releases will be moved into an "obsolete" tree on the mirrors - Existing SME Server 6.X bugs will be closed with WONTFIX or moved to the 7.X category - The SME Server 6.X bug category will be closed for bug entry If you have not already upgraded to SME7, you should do so immediately. We consider the ongoing use of SME 6.X (or SME 5.X) to be unsafe without an ongoing updates stream. Thank you to Fedora Legacy project ---------------------------------- The updates team have relied upon the Fedora Legacy project for security updates, and that project is no longer supporting RedHat 7.3: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legacy-list/2006-July/msg00028.html In fact, the Fedora Legacy project is in the process of shutting down: http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2320 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legacy-list/2006-December/msg00049.html The updates and development team consider ongoing support of SME Server 6.X without the Fedora Legacy project to be impossible. We would like to publicly thank the efforts of the members of that project team. Call for sponsorship and donations ---------------------------------- The SME Server project needs your help in order to survive. If you haven't donated, please do so. If you sell the SME Server as part of your business you should consider sponsoring the project: http://www.smeserver.org/donate Gordon Rowell on behalf of the SME Server updates team