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Status

 Healthy

 Could be improved

 Needs attention

 Likely to be an issue in the future

Patch State

- : No patch

: Minor patch

: Functionality patch 

: Major changes

Core External Tools

Name	Current	Release Date	Status	Patch	Comment	Latest	Release Date	RHEL/CentOS 7	RHEL/CentOS 8	Upgrade Release
Boost [1]	1.66	2017-12		-		1.78	2021-12	1.53	1.66	-
Swig [1]	3.0.12	2017-01		-		4.0.2	2020-06	2.0.10	3.0.12	-
Tcl/Tk [1][2]	8.6.8	2016-02		-		8.6.11	2020-12	8.5.13	8.6.8	-
Maven [1]	3.6.0	2018-10		-		3.8.4	2021-11	3.0.5	3.5.4	2022JUN
Ant [1]	1.10.5	2018-07		-		1.10.12	2021-10	1.9.4	1.10.5	-
Eclipse [1]	4.11	2019-03		-		4.22	2021-12	4.5.2*	4.19*	2022JUN
PyEnv [1]	2.2.4-1	2020-10		-		2.2.4-1	2021-12	-	-	-

History (Since 2020OCT)

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: Candidate (ACS Medium/Long Term Plan)

: Proposed (SCCB Created)

: Approved (SCCB Approved)

: Done (Implemented in Release)

: Rejected (SCCB Rejected / Technical Issues Prevented Change)

Changes

Name Release Original New Status Ticket Comment Boost 2020OCT 1.60 1.66 Upgrading to same version as RHEL 8. Aiming to depend on O.S. version in the future. PyEnv 2020DEC Latest 1.2.21 Change open version to use latest available at the time (2020-10-20). Boost 2022FEB 1.66 1.66 Use O.S. package if available. Swig 2022FEB 3.0.12 3.0.12 Use O.S. package if available. Tcl/Tk 2022APR 8.5.19 8.6.8 Upgrading to same version as RHEL 8. Aiming to depend on O.S. version in the future. May require additional libraries and/or scripts to be installed with ACS. PyEnv 2022APR 1.2.21 >=2.1.0 Obsolescence Management (2020) Maven 2022JUN 3.6.0 >=3.8.3 Obsolescence Management (2018) Eclipse 2022JUN 4.11 >=4.22 Obsolescence Management (2019)