From: Bernd S. <b.s...@fz...> - 2012-12-03 13:57:10
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Dear all, the release 6.5.1 of the UNICORE core servers is available for download from www.unicore.eu/download This is a maintenance release that fixes some bugs and brings some minor improvements, for details see the changelog below. Most notably, the reservation interface was greatly enhanced, thanks to our colleagues from PL-GRID for suggesting many improvements, and for the rigorous testing! Thanks to all who helped improve, build and test this release! Best regards, Bernd. CHANGES for 6.5.1 Installer/General ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - new demo certificates for all components, see "certs" folder (old demo CA expires Dec 2012!) - keystores (p12 format) and truststore (jks) separated for all components (best practice) UNICORE/X ~~~~~~~~~ - improvement: better filetransfer usage logging (SF enhancement #3564955) - improvement: allow admins to define the "filesystem ID" published by UNICORE using a property "CLASSICTSI.FSID" in the XNJS config or IDB (SF feature #3545102) - fix: copy file permissions after optimised file transfer (SF bug #3555305) - fix: problems with long-running data staging using external tools (ftp, gsiftp, ...) (SF bugs #3562401, 3556092) - fix: FTP data export (when not using 'curl') does not use credentials - fix: SBYTEIO streams not cleaned up (SF bug #3567664) - fix: list of reservations not re-created when TSS is re-created (SF bug #3566285) - fix: XTreemFS import tries chmod on source file instead target file (SF bug #3563643) - fix: persistence lib cannot create tables on newer MySQL server (SF bug #3547539) - fix: using StorageFactory types other than DEFAILT (SF bug #3543515) - improvement: reservation admin user can be configured (SF feature #3561226) - improvement: better reservation interface (see TSI docs for details) - fix: in some cases jobs did not fail if stageouts fail TSI ~~~ - new feature: TSI supports filtering execution nodes by node properties (implemented for Slurm, Torque) - fix: NOBATCH: do not remove submitted file in Submit.pm - fix: NOBATCH: "get job details" caused exception in UNICORE/X - fix: NOBATCH: status check was not working correctly (SF bugs #3560312 and #3560663) - fix: NOBATCH: add option to reduce forked process' niceness and ionice class to reduce load on the TSI node (SF bug #3560657) - improvement: better reservation interface, with implementations for Maui and Torque -- Dr. Bernd Schuller Federated Systems and Data Juelich Supercomputing Centre, http://www.fz-juelich.de/jsc Phone: +49 246161-8736 (fax -8556) |