GT 3.9.4 Development Release Notes

The 3.9.4 release is an important milestone, as it represents closure of the "feature addition" phase of the GT4 development cycle. Highlights of this release include:

  • A new C client for WS GRAM
  • A first look at our C WSRF implementation
  • Significant performance enhancements for all WS-based technology
  • Several performance improvements in our new GridFTP server
  • An improved installer interface
  • Improved documentation
  • Important bug fixes

The following topics contain high level descriptions of what's new in the following technology areas:

What's New

Click the component below for release notes to find out what's new for that component:

Security
Data
Management
Execution
Management
Information
Services
Common Runtime
Components
 
       
       
       
       

Compatibility

Information about public interface changes since the last GT4 development release can be found here. Information regarding backward compatibility with the last stable GT release is included in the release notes for each component, located in the What's New section.

Obtaining and Installing Software

To download this release, go to the Download page.

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

Documentation

This release continues the development of documentation towards GT 4.0 Final; however, it is still incomplete (you'll notice the many "placeholders" we've left for future content). We welcome any feedback or contributions!

For documentation about this release, click here.

Support

Support for GT4 development releases is available through the gt4-friends mailing list. For more information, see http://www-unix.globus.org/toolkit/docs/development/4.0-drafts/GT4Facts/friends.html.

Testing

The following components have a "Call for Community Testing" associated with them. A "Call for Community Testing" is a mechanism to notify our users that new Globus code is available for testing in the field. Through these calls, the Globus Alliance hopes to expose its code to a wide variety of usage scenarios early in its development process. The ultimate goals are to catch bugs that have historically been found only after final releases, and to elicit feedback from the community on ways our software can be improved.

Security

Data Management

Execution Management

Information Services

Common Runtime components

Licensing

The Globus Toolkit is distributed and licensed for use under the terms of the Globus Toolkit Public License.