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<div>Dear All,</div>
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<div>One of the efforts of the OMERO 5.3.0 development work is on separating OMERO.web from the OMERO.server package.</div>
<div>This effort will enable, among other things, more flexibility in dependencies management and improve deployment.</div>
<div>As part of this work, we are considering dropping support for Apache, mainly to balance resources to maintain our Continuous Integration system with core development work. There is always a tension between rapid development of new functionality and robust,
reliable testing.</div>
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<div>Unfortunately, for technical reason, we do not have any statistics for Web server usage. From the information</div>
<div>we managed to collect, Nginx has been the chosen option.</div>
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<div>So please do let us know if dropping support for Apache will be a major blocker for deploying OMERO at your site.</div>
<div>If your organisation's policies only allow Apache to be used as the external-facing web-server you should configure Apache to proxy connections to an Nginx instance running on your OMERO server i.e. use Apache as a reverse proxy. For more details see https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_proxy.html.</div>
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<div>In OMERO 5.3, we will no longer test the server deployment on Mac OS X version 10.9.</div>
<div>This version no longer has security support. The deployment will be tested on version 10.10, 10.11 and 10.12.</div>
<div>The change should have a limited impact since it is not recommended to use MacOS X for server deployment other that for development.</div>
<div>Mac OS X version 10.9 will still be supported for client use.</div>
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<div>Thanks for your constant support.</div>
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<div>Regards</div>
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<div>The OME team</div>
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