Hi Bruce and others,

We started a rather extensive push of data through the linux 5.2 release of free surfer. We also use OS X at times and I was hoping to get a R5.2 for MAC but I see it's not available. One of the guys that works in my lab — Jon Holt — also said that 5.2 was no longer available and indicated he heard there may be issues with 5.2

So two questions:

1) we have > 100 subjects pushed through R5.2 and still working inside 5.2, are we in trouble? What's the advice. We have many FTE hours on the editing and would be very painful to go back (we already did with with 5.0 to 5.2 change).

2) are we safe using 5.3 in conjunction with 5.2? 

Any other advice about versions etc. Given the amount of time it takes to push data through it is difficult to keep changing versions, plus from a publication view it would be a hard sale I think to reviewers to indicate we used multiple versions.

Thanks,

-Robert