Dear CAs, Relying Parties, Users, and all others interested,

In this announcement of the IGTF:

1. Updated IGTF distribution version 1.59 available 2. End of support for RPM yum version 2 (headers) distributions in 2015

========================================================================= 1. Updated IGTF distribution version 1.59 available =========================================================================

A new distribution of Accredited Authorities by the Interoperable Global Trust Federation, based on the IGTF Common Source, is now available. It includes the newly accredited Authorities and retires expiring trust anchors. This is version 1.59 release 1 and it is now available for download from the Repository (and mirrors) at

https://dist.igtf.net/distribution/igtf/current/

Changes from 1.58 to 1.59 ------------------------- (release date 2014-09-29)

* Added accredited mics HPCI CA (JP) * Updated crl_url for NCSA-slcs-2013 and NCSA-tfca-2013 (US) * Renamed QuoVadis classic grid issuing CA to QuoVadis-Grid-ICA (CH, BM) NOTE: although this appears to obsolete the SWITCH-QV intermediate trust anchor, it is merely a re-naming. The new QuoVadis-Grid-ICA provides the same trust anchor and will continue to support the Swiss subscriber base of QuoVadis without any change.

Next Release ------------ Releases are usually done on the last Monday of the month, only when the trust anchor distribution has been updated substantially. The currently-estimated next release date of the distribution is at the end of October 2014.

========================================================================= 2. End of support for RPM yum version 2 ("headers") distributions in 2015 ========================================================================= The IGTF distributes repositories of trust anchors packaged in the RPM Package Manager format as usd by many GNU/Linux distributions. These repositories come pre-populated with package meta-data used by the Yellowdog Updater, Modified (yum) in two formats: headers (used by yum versions 1 and 2, and XML repodata (yum version 3+). The main platform(s) supported by rpm and yum are Fedora Core, RHEL, and CentOS.

The versions of these distributions that depend on yum version 2 and the 'headers' meta-data are now no longer supported, and in the long term the IGTF will no longer be able to generate yum-2 'header' meta-data for these repositories. This affects Fedora Core 1, 2, and 3, CentOS 3.x, and RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 when used with yum. The last one (RHEL3) has reached end of extended life phase in January 2014.

Starting in January 2015, IGTF repositories may no longer contain the 'headers/' directory with meta-data and thus will no longer support yum version 2. Relying parties depending on the use of yum version 2 must thereafter (re)generate the relevant repository meta-data.

This change *does not* impact CentOS, nor RHEL4 (end of extended life foreseen for March 31, 2017), nor FC4, nor later versions of the listed operating system distributions.

========================================================================= REPEATED NOTICES =========================================================================

Use in coordinated-deployment infrastructures --------------------------------------------- If you are part of a coordinated-deployment infrastructure (such as a national e-Infrastructure, EGI, OSG, PRACE-RI, NAREGI and others) you may want to await your project announcement before installing this release.

The download repository is also mirrored by the APGridPMA at https://www.apgridpma.org/distribution/igtf/ and by the EUGridPMA at https://dist.eugridpma.info/distribution/igtf/

About this news letter ---------------------- This newsletter carries IGTF information intended for relying parties. For more information about this newsletter and how to subscribe, refer to the EUGridPMA web site at https://www.eugridpma.org/

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