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Several system administrators have contacted us regarding the necessity to upgrade production systems from CentOS6 to CentOS6-SCL when upgrading to OMERO 5.2, following some misleading sections in our documentation.</p>
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Our documentation suggested upgrading production systems to CentOS6-SCL, mainly to add support for Django version 1.8. However, there are currently no known Django 1.6 security issues and OMERO still supports Django 1.6 in its released versions.</p>
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Therefore, we do not suggest performing the non-trivial upgrade to CentOS6-SCL, even if it is possible.</p>
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Thanks again for your support and once again apologies for the confusion. The documentation will be clarified imminently <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">and
improved advice available with the 5.2.1 release before the end of the year.</span></p>
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If you have started this CentOS upgrade process and are struggling, please get in touch here or via the forums and we will endeavour to help you out.</p>
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Regards,</p>
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<div>The OME Team</div>
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<div>Dr Helen Flynn</div>
<div>OME Technical Writer</div>
<div>Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression</div>
<div>Open Microscopy Environment</div>
<div>University of Dundee</div>
<div><a href="http://openmicroscopy.org/">http://openmicroscopy.org</a></div>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;">The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096</span>
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