[ome-devel] Release of OMERO 5.2.0

[Josh Moore]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 5:37 PM, Mark Carroll <m.t.b.carroll at dundee.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear Christophe,

Hi Christophe,


>> Since we run pSQL 8.4 on CentOS 7, I think I won’t be able to upgrade so
>> quickly…
>
>
> I assume you mean CentOS 6? OMERO 5.2 does support that; you can get a
> newer PostgreSQL for it from their yum repository at
> http://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/redhat/ -- the main issue would
> be that Django 1.6 no longer receives security support and Django 1.8
> needs Python 2.7 so if you want to stick with CentOS 6 /and/ safely
> offer a web client, you'd probably have other sysadmin work to do.
> Upgrading to CentOS 7 would make good choice of other prerequisites
> easier to provide, and will probably also work fine with OMERO 5.3 someday.
>
> Those who have been deeper into CentOS 6 / OMERO 5.2 / Django for our
> internal testing may follow up with more detail and correct any
> impressions I give above. Good luck,

I'd only just add that the PostgreSQL database can also run on another
server if that would simplify matters for you. Let us know if you'd
like more details on any of the possible scenarios.

Cheers,
~Josh.


> Cheers,
> Mark