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 and before

All the product released in UMD-3 have been supported until May 2014. You can find UMD3 and UMD2 releases on the EGI Repository