Topic: 5.5 or 5.6 . . That is the question . . .

[Ben Morrisson]

Thought I would just start a new thread for comment on choosing 5.5 or 5.6 for your new installs>

Any comments here . . .
How are the contribs holding up against the new version and new kernel?
Any concerns with 5.6 that need addressing?
Stuff like that I am interested in  . . .  comments from users .. . etc

[Bill Talcott]

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=7398.msg27141#msg27141

Bill Talcott wrote:
>
> Check out the Bugs page for 5.6
> before you do upgrade. There seem to be a few little problems
> yet, VPN being the most common.
>
> Most of the benefits of 5.6 seem to be "behind the scenes"
> stuff. For all the stuff we do, 5.5 and 5.6 seem to be
> identical feature-wise. For now, I'm sticking with 5.5.

[Ben Morrisson]

my purpose for this thread was mainly to consolidate opinion about 5.6 I am about to deploy it across 30 sites so am interested in non documented experiences or as Bill did post some links to reduce the evaluation process for other users  . . .

Few additonal bits to mention . . .
Check bugs page for recently reported bugs and workaround for 5.6
http://www.e-smith.org/bugs/

Few people are reporting external access problems with MYSQL
Charlie Brady proposed a fix in :
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=6523.msg23456#msg23456

Plus multi internal VPN nat probs - workaround reduces VPN functionality equivalent to 5.5 so shouldnt bother too many people in an upgrade path.
http://www.e-smith.org/bugs/index.php3?op=showBug&bugID=93
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=6523.msg23456#msg23456