NorduGrid ARC v0.4.5 Release Notes

April 1, 2005

Release 0.4.5 is tagged and binary packages are available from:

ftp://ftp.nordugrid.org/nordugrid/releases/0.4.5/

and through the yum and apt repositories.

This is mainly a bugfix release. Changes and fixes with respect to 0.4.4
includes:

- Fix bug in nordugridmap where curl was never invoked (Bug #467)
- Remove perl-perl-ldap dependency in RPM (not needed on FC3)
- Fix permission on cron files (Bug #474)
- Update the Debian control file to be in sync with RPM spec file
- Various fixes for gcc 3.4 
- Fix certificate DN handling in user interface to support UTF8 (Bug #440)
- Fix SySV init scripts to use correct daemon process names (Bug #454 and #463)
- Fix scan-pbs-job to support many jobs 
- Fix typo in pbs info provider to provide correct number of queued jobs (Bug #462)
- Fix problem when info provider attribute value is empty (Bug #448)
- Fix signal problem in thread handling where grid-manager and gridftpd leave
  a lot of <defunct> children
- Make ngacl accept root ACL for SSE
- Fix grid-manager to make sure root can not run jobs
- Fix (Bug #414)
- Backporting cache changes (keep cache file claimed if download failed)
- Have gridftpd properly report directory in response to CWD.
- Backport time in HTTP headers for https server
- gridftp: Change data transfer finish codes from 250 to 226.
- gridftp: Support for SBUF command
- Fix for ngtest seg faults in case of missing middleware versions (Bug #507)
- Building fix (Bug #478 + #511)
- httpsd: Read ssl and gsi port from configuration file
- Fix filename comparison in grid-manager (Bug #493)
- Fix cache bug (screwed records in "old")
- grid-manager: Fix children handling
- Improve RLS url parsing
- Add nordugrid-se-accesscontrol attribute to infosystem to distinguish
  between GACL and non-GACL storages
- Update the user groups in the  nordugridmap.conf template
- Update the giislist to the new DNS names
- The standalone package includes updated CA certificates from the EUGridPMA
  CA release 0.27.
- Fix the problem where cancelling jobs kills the grid-manager (Bug #514)


Thanks to everybody who contributed with patches and testing.

NorduGrid Collaboration
