Please be advised that we will be upgrading most of our infrastructure machines in the next week or two (as some of you have already noticed, we already upgraded most of the consoles). While we will try to make this as transparent as possible, there is a chance that occasionally things will not work as advertised. Also, as part of this upgrade, we will retire all older versions of OMF (including OMF 5.1) during the maintenance period on Wednesday; if you are still using one of the old versions of OMF OEDL for your experimental scripts, please do let us know and we will help you transition them to OMF 5.2.

We've implemented new auto-approver service which is supposed to do a much better job in resolving conflicting slot reservations and to much more closely follow the official Orbit reservation policy including the automatic daily pre-approval of slots at 2 PM EDT. Please help us test it and let us know if you notice any problems with it.

node1-1@sb5 has been fixed (defective CM was replaced).

Sanboxes 5 and 8 have been fixed and are in full production