Engineering are aiming to have it released this quarter.

Did anyone know when PP 5 will be released?

Powerpath 5.0 for Linux will be GA on 9th March 2007.

Release Notes: http://powerlink.emc.com/km/live1/en_US/Offering_Technical/Technical_Documentation/300-004-437_a01_elccnt_0.pdf?mtcs=ZXZlbnRUeXBlPUttQ2xpY2tDb250ZW50RXZlbnQsZG9jdW1lbnRJZD0wOTAxNDA2NjgwMjI2NTYzLG5hdmVOb2RlPVNvZndhcmVEb3dubG9hZHM

Fixed problems:

230036
SCSI-3 PGR-based I/O fencing does not work on a PowerPath host in a VCS cluster.
PowerPath 4.5.x does not work correctly with any application that uses SCSI-3 persistent
register/reserve/preempt commands. Found in 4.5.0 Fix: 5.0.0
212485
Removing the QLA2300 driver while PowerPath is running may cause the host to crash.
Found in 4.4.0 Fix: EMC/QLogic document updated.
211431
Manually editing the /etc/emc/mpaa.lams file (that is, for generic LAM support) to
change the status of a LAM that has configured devices causes the powermt config
command to return an error. Found in 4.4.0 Fix: 5.0.0
204464
Running powermt after reconfiguring the QLogic driver without failover support causes a
segmentation fault. Found in 4.4.0 Fix: Updated QLogic installer package.


New features and changes:

PowerPath 5.0.x has the following new features and changes.
PowerPath 5.0 for Linux supports:

PowerPath Migration Enabler with Open Replicator.
Note: Invista¿ encapsulation with Migration Enabler is not supported
on Linux hosts.
PowerPath Migration Enabler is a host-based migration tool that
requires a separate product license. For more information about
PowerPath Migration Enabler, refer to the PowerPath Migration
Enabler Release Notes and the PowerPath Migration Enabler User¿s
Guide, available on the Powerlink® website
(http://Powerlink.EMC.com).

SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES 10) (32 bit and 64 bit).
Note: PowerPath 5.0 on SLES 10 does not support storage systems
connected through iSCSI; only Fibre Channel connections are supported.

R1/R2 boot failover. Refer to the PowerPath 5.0 for Linux
Installation Guide.

XEN environments. For more information, refer to the PowerPath
5.0 for Linux Installation Guide.

Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) Version 5.0.