Release announcement - 5.7.0

The XRootD 5.7.0 feature release has been tagged. Please follow the links below for the release notes and more details.

Important Information:

• XRootD now requires C++17 standard
• Support for Python 2.x is now deprecated
• Support for CentOS 7 is now deprecated (although official RPMs for 5.7.0 are available)
• RPMs for the XRootD Doxygen documentation will no longer be provided in the official RPM repositories (as a workaround, please access the docs directly on the website, or install xrootd-doc from EPEL)

• Official repositories are now provided for Debian 11, Debian 12, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04. For more instructions, please see: https://xrootd.web.cern.ch/dload.html#official-deb-repositories

• Source: https://xrootd.web.cern.ch/download/v5.7.0/xrootd-5.7.0.tar.gz
• RHEL RPMs: https://cern.ch/xrootd/xrootd.repo
• Fedora RPMs: https://cern.ch/xrootd/xrootd-fedora.repo
• Release Notes: https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/releases/tag/v5.7.0
• Release History: https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/blob/v5.7.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.txt

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