GT 4.0.6 Incremental Release Notes: GridWay

1. Introduction

These release notes are for the incremental release 4.0.6. It includes a summary of changes since 4.0.5, bug fixes since 4.0.5 and any known problems that still exist at the time of the 4.0.6 release. This page is in addition to the top-level 4.0.6 release notes at http://www.globus.org/toolkit/releasenotes/4.0.6.

GridWay was introduced in the previous release, 4.0.5. For those release notes (including feature summary, technology dependencies, etc) go to the GridWay 4.0.5 Release Notes.

2. Changes Summary

GridWay 5.2.3 mainly includes fixes for bugs reported by users and some performance improvements.

New to GridWay 5.2.3:

New Information MAD

Bug 5231 was reopened and, as a result, a new Information MAD for MDS4 has been developed. Since this new MAD has significant performance improvements, its use is highly recommended.

Better integration with GridGateWay

Some minor bugs has been solved to better integrate GridWay with the GridGateWay. In addition some bugs in the configure script have been solved. Therefore, this release is intended for those affected by the bugs below, and for the GridGateWay users.

3. Bug Fixes

Here is the list of bugs fixed in GridWay 5.2.3, follow the links for a description of each bug:

4. Known Problems

The following is a list of all of the bugs known at the time for the 4.0.6 release:

  • Bug 5592: gwd blocks when misconfigured sudo
  • Bug 5724: Environment for Non-Wrapper based jobs
  • Bug 5308: gwd doesn't recover AIDs and TIDs

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