The following describes the EGI Capabilities and the expected implementations from available EGI Technology Provider. The UMD Release Schedule describes the planned release schedule for UMD major and minor releases. UMD major releases (such as UMD 1.x, UMD 2.x, etc.) will be supported and updated while EGI is provided with updates from it technology providers for at most two consecutive years from the date of their initial release. UMD major releases will be made when non-backwards compatible changes need to be made to the software components within it. Minor releases within a major series (i.e. UMD 1.0.x and UMD 1.1.y) may introduce new functionality but existing interfaces and behaviours will remain.

Note: While EGI aspires to follow this plan as closely as possible, the UMD Release Plan is dependent on the software provided by our external technology providers and the quality of information (if provided) and their ability to meet their announced release dates. Therefore there will be no guarantee on release dates and contents other than the timely communication of changes as they become apparent. In particular, the time taken to include a product into a certain UMD release greatly depends on diligent and volunteer based StagedRollout activity [R 4]. If no volunteer picks up this Product and exposes it to the Production Infrastructure then that given Product is in danger of not being included in the planned UMD release and will be shipped later.

Unified Middleware Distribution 4

The following provides a planned schedule of UMD 4.The architecture of UMD4 is x86_64 only.

Unified Middleware Distribution 3

The following provides a planned schedule of UMD 3. All the product released in UMD-3 will be supported until May 2014, further support will depend on the plans of the single product teams.

Unified Middleware Distribution 2

UMD 2 will expand the number of supported platforms to SL5, SL6 and Debian 6, all on 64 bit architectures. It will be based on EMI-2 and IGE-3 (which will be included in October 2012).

Please not that although UMD-2 will support three different OS platforms, not all services included in UMD-2 will be available on every platform!

The following provides a planned schedule of UMD 2. UMD-2 will reach end of support at 30 April 2014.

Unified Middleware Distribution 1

The following provides a planned schedule of UMD 1. For the major, and each minor release, more detailed release plans are provided in subsequent sections.

Note:Starting from 30 April 2013 UMD-1 products are not anymore supported for security updates. Only StoRM and dCache are still under security support. Please, install your services from UMD-2 or UMD-3.

UMD release status

UMD Dashboard

UMD release timeline

The following proposed deadlines determine in ultimo which Product version will be included in the next upcoming UMD release (as opposed to being planned for inclusion - that's the release schedule's purpose). The timeline is defined relative to a UMD release publication date as defined in the UMD release schedule:

The UMD Release Schedule is updated as required: Changes in Technology Provider Release Schedules may trigger changes in the UMD Release Schedule.