All existing bugs reported will be automatically closed

Mar 29, 2017 17:10 GMT  ·  By

Koozali Foundation, through Terry Fage, announced the availability of a final set of updates for the Koozali SME Server 8.2 operating system, which will reach end of life this week.

Patching some of the reported bugs, the new packages released today for Koozali SME Server 8.2 are e-smith-ibays-2.2.0-16.el5.sme.noarch.rpm, e-smith-manager-2.2.0-14.el5.sme.noarch.rpm, smeserver-clamav-2.2.0-15.el5.sme.noarch.rpm, smeserver-locale-*-2.2.0-56.el5.sme.noarch.rpm, and smeserver-yum-2.2.0-26.el5.sme.noarch.rpm.

"These will be the final updates released for SME Server 8.2," said Terry Fage on the mailing list announcement, where he noted the fact that the operating system is reaching end of life at the end of the month, on March 31, 2017. As such, starting April 1, Koozali Foundation will no longer release updates for Koozali SME Server 8.2, which was based on the CentOS 5 series.

Users are urged to upgrade to Koozali SME Server 9

Those who are using Koozali SME Server 8.2 on their infrastructure are urged to take all the necessary steps to upgrade their machines to the stable branch of the CentOS/Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based operating system, specifically the Koozali SME Server 9 series. There will be no security updates released for Koozali SME Server 8.2 anymore, so if you don't upgrade now, your systems will become vulnerable to attacks.

With that in mind, it's important here to notice the fact that the Koozali SME Server 8.2 release will be moved into the "obsolete" tree on the official SME Server mirrors, and existing Koozali SME Server 8.x bugs will be closed with the "WONTFIX" flag, along with the entire bug category for this series. If you haven't already upgraded to Koozali SME Server 9, do it immediately!