Software Updates: New PIT and Ending of Solaris Support

A new 2014A Phase I Tool, PIT 2014A-SV 2014.1.2, has been released to support 2014A poor weather, director's time, and GPI early science proposals. This PIT must be used to submit all 2014A poor weather and director's time proposals.
 
Use of the Solaris operating system in astronomy has decreased significantly in the last 10 years, and user feedback has not identified a continuing need for Solaris binaries for the PIT and Observing Tool. Therefore, Solaris binaries will no longer be provided starting with the 2014B Observing Tool that will be released in June 2014. OSX, Linux, and Windows binaries will continue to be provided. This change will simplify software development and testing. Also, this will allow us to migrate these tools from Java 6, which is no longer supported, to the latest Java 7 in June 2014. This will require Mac users to run OSX 10.7.3 (Lion) or newer. Please send any comments or questions to Bryan Miller via email <bmiller@gemini.edu>. 

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