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GT 5.0.1 Release Notes

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Obtaining and Installing Software
2.1. Java Client API Download
3. Platform Notes
4. Documentation
5. Support
6. Licensing
7. Usage Statistics
8. Summary of Changes Since 5.0.0 (by component)
8.1. Summary of Changes in GridFTP
8.2. Summary of Changes in RLS
8.3. Summary of Changes in GRAM5
8.4. Summary of Changes in GSI
8.5. Summary of Changes in MyProxy
8.6. Summary of Changes in GSI-OpenSSH
8.7. Summary of Changes in SimpleCA
8.8. Summary of Changes in XIO
8.9. Summary of Changes in C Common Libraries
9. Release Notes by Component

1. Introduction

The GT development team is pleased to make a new stable release of the Globus Toolkit available for download.

Highlights of this release include:

  • GridFTP

    • New globus-url-sync command for syncing individual files or directories
    • New server option to control the default permissions of created files
    • New server option to time out on slow or hanging filesystems
    • New server logging level to include transfer statistics

  • GRAM5

    • Improved reliability with Condor-G clients
    • Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks

  • MyProxy

    • Updated to MyProxy v5.1

  • GSI-OpenSSH

    • Updated to GSI-OpenSSH v5.1

  • GSI

    • Added OpenSSL 1.0.0 Support
[Note]Note

GT5 does not include any of the Web Service components from GT4.

For highlights of changes in each component, see Section 8, “Summary of Changes Since 5.0.0 (by component)”.

2. Obtaining and Installing Software

To download this release, go to the 5.0.1 Download page.

For information on installing this release, go to the 5.0.1 Installation Guide.

2.1. Java Client API Download

GT 5.0 does not include any of the CoG JGlobus Java APIs that were included in the GT4 release series.   But, the JGlobus APIs can still be used with the GT5 services.  You can get them directly from the CoG JGlobus releases; see the following link:

http://dev.globus.org/wiki/CoG_jglobus

Consider the following when determining which version of CoG JGlobus to use:

  • The GRAM development team used CoG JGlobus version 1.6.0 for performance testing.

  • The BIRN project used CoG JGlobus version 1.6.0 (plus patches) for GridFTP testing. All patches are included in 1.8.0.

  • At the time of the GT 5.0.1 release, 1.8.0 was the recommended version.  In general, the latest recommended CoG JGlobus version should be used.

3. Platform Notes

Check out platform-specific installation issues here.

These are some platform notes for 5.0.x in particular:

4. Documentation

Use the documentation which starts here.

Feel free to offer any suggestions or feedback using JIRA (the "Documentation" project). Note at the time of this release, the documentation feedback box that used to appear at the bottom of each page is not functioning after the recent website redesign. We are working on the matter and will have the feedback box available as soon as possible. Please note that this box is intended for feedback and suggestions only - for support, please read the following section.

5. Support

An overview on GT support can be found here.

6. Licensing

The Globus Toolkit is distributed and licensed for use under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0.

To view the licenses of the 3rd party software used by the developers of the Globus Toolkit, click here.

7. Usage Statistics

For full information about usage statistics collected by GT 5.0.1 and how to opt-out, see Usage Statistics Collection by the Globus Alliance.

8. Summary of Changes Since 5.0.0 (by component)

8.1. Summary of Changes in GridFTP

  • New globus-url-sync command for syncing individual files or directories

    New server option to control the default permissions of created files

    New server option to time out on slow or hanging filesystems

    New server logging level to include transfer statistics

8.2. Summary of Changes in RLS

  • None since GT 5.0.0.

8.3. Summary of Changes in GRAM5

  • New API function globus_gram_client_register_get_jobmanager_version()
  • Many bug and memory leak fixes
  • Improved reliability with Condor-G clients

8.4. Summary of Changes in GSI

  • RIC-29: OpenSSL 1.0.0 Support
  • RIC-63: Improve GSIC command documentation
  • Portability fixes and bug fixes
  • Improved documentation for command-line tools

8.5. Summary of Changes in MyProxy

GT 5.0.1 contains MyProxy 5.1. See the MyProxy Release Notes for more details on this and other MyProxy versions.

8.6. Summary of Changes in GSI-OpenSSH

GT 5.0.1 contains GSI-OpenSSH 5.1. See the GSI-OpenSSH Release History for more details on this and other GSI-OpenSSH versions.

8.7. Summary of Changes in SimpleCA

Other than bugfixes, no changes have occurred for SimpleCA since the last stable release, 5.0.0.

8.8. Summary of Changes in XIO

  • The TCP driver has been modified to randomize the selection of ephemeral ports.
  • Minor code cleanups.

8.9. Summary of Changes in C Common Libraries

No significant changes have happened for C Common Libraries since GT 5.0.0. See Feature Summary for some minor changes.

9. Release Notes by Component