AIX Open Source

Hi All,

We (AIX Toolbox team) are moving to AIX 7.1 as the build environment for AIX toolbox packages. Because of this, new versions of packages built on AIX 7.1 may not work on AIX 6.1 or earlier AIX releases.
Today our build environment for most of the packages is AIX 6.1. AIX 6.1 is already out of support, and we cannot continue this version forever. As a start we will just move the packages those we are upgrading to new version as per regular updates. The updates due to security vulnerabilities will continue to be built on AIX 6.1 (if vulnerable package was built on AIX 6.1)but in future we will move to AIX 7.1 for those packages as well.
This should not impact anyone who is using AIX 7.1 or later releases of AIX. The packages those are already built on AIX 6.1 will continue to be available on AIX toolbox repository. The AIX release name is part of package name where package was built. For example, python3-3.7.12-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm is built on AIX 6.1 and can be installed on AIX 6.1 or later AIX releases whereas python3.9-3.9.6-1.aix7.1.ppc.rpm is built on AIX 7.1 and can be installed on AIX 7.1 or later releases.

This will also benefit in taking advantages of new features available in AIX 7.1 releases.

 
Thanks
Sanket