# Grid Engine 5.3p4 is ready for download

Regensburg, Germany -- July 15, 2003

Grid Engine (SGE) 5.3p4 is ready. SGE 5.3p4 is a maintenance patch release which is fully compatible with SGE 5.3. This release is available as a courtesy binary distribution from Sun Microsystems at the project download page.

This patch release changes the binaries and the architecture independent files ("common" package). The unchanged PDF documentation set for SGE and SGEEE is provided by Sun Microsystems as a courtesy contribution for users of the Grid Engine open source software.

Users who make a new installation of SGE need to follow the directions at the project download page. Users who install SGE 5.3p4 as a patch for any previous SGE 5.3 release can find directions how to install the patch at

> install53patch

A list of bugfixes for this release can be found at

> 53patches

Users who want to access the corresponding source code need to checkout the CVS tag

> V53p4_TAG

in the branch of the CVS repository

> V53_beta2_BRANCH

A snapshot of the Grid Engine 5.3p4 sources is available as a source tarball at the File Exchange Tool as file sge-V53p4_TAG-src.tar.gz.