[[!meta title="Announcement: server upgrade and URL changes"]]
We have just completed an upgrade to Fedora 9 from Fedora 7; this
brings us in line with the latest feature, stability, and security
upgrades to the software installed on the scripts.mit.edu servers.
Most software did transfer, but some was unavailable in the Fedora
9 repository.

For example, we do not have Python 2.4 installed because it is not
in the Fedora repository, and we haven’t installed the
compat-python24 package from a third-party repository since we
believe it is not used (in favor of Python 2.5). If you would like
us to install Python 2.4, or any packages that are not currently
installed, please e-mail
[scripts@mit.edu](mailto:scripts@mit.edu).

We also recently announced a planned URL change from the form  
**http://scripts.mit.edu/\~geofft/detect.php**  
to  
**http://geofft.scripts.mit.edu/detect.php**  
The new URLs are cleaner and provide improved security isolation
(cookies, etc.) between sites. Don’t worry; the old URLs will
continue to work until the end of fall term, and even then we will
redirect them to the new URLs.

More information is available in
[the full announcement](http://web.mit.edu/geofft/Public/scripts-announcement-20080807)
.

We are planning an autoupgrade in the fall (well in advance of the
cutoff) to provide support for the new URL style for
scripts.mit.edu sites from the [autoinstallers](/start/).