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V7.11

Highlights

For Users
  • [Client] The client now supports object sync commands, which recursively syncs source and destinations #1586 #1691
  • [Client] ls -l and the -L flag for logging have switched behavior – ls -l now enables listings and -L is now the logging flag #1598
For Admins
  • [Director] The Director will now only enable x509 authentication for given selected prefixes #1563 #1624
  • [Origin] Issuer config has now been added to Origin webpages #1584
  • [Origin] Tokens are now auto generated if the issuer is available 1591
  • [Origin] Now allow HTTP backends for an Origin #1597
  • [Origin] Bug fixes for S3 origins with multiple virtual-style bucket exports #1601
  • [Director] GeoIP resolution failures are now recorded as Prometheus metrics #1608
  • [Director] Clients whose GeoIP resolution fails are now temporarily assigned a location within the continental US to improve followup cache selection. #1620
  • [Director/Origin] Prometheus metrics are now displayed on the Origin and Director Web UI #1623
  • [Registry] Admins can now delete a namespace from the Registry using the webpage #1626
  • [Director] There is now a director redirect metric displayed which keeps track of the number of redirects to an origin or a cache #1632
  • [All] Length of Prometheus metric retention is now configurable #1640
  • [Origin] S3 Origin performance/reliability enhancements #1681

Full Changelog: https://github.com/PelicanPlatform/pelican/compare/v7.11.0...v7.10.0

Changelog
  • c9cd02d5 Fixes an issue where a misplaced defer ticker.Stop() stopped the re-advertisement of caches/origins
  • 4ee13c06 Updated front-end version
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  • 5d333660 Revert "Switch to use new Caps struct but still handle old JSON from Director"
  • 26238933 Revert "Unmarshal Capabilities correctly in all structs that use them"
  • b3df1c87 Update the version number
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  • 7a096d57 Unmarshal Capabilities correctly in all structs that use them
  • 8629adaa Update the version number
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  • bc54370a Comment-out all origin export config
  • fa87b928 Drop old default origin port
  • 74888b40 First pass at default config.d based configuration
  • 50db1e25 Fix nil pointer bug caused by trying to list namespaces with no coll URL
  • 826da111 Move Pelican federation-facing config to an example file
  • c514ab57 Move Topology specific configuration to example file
  • 43d9b0d0 Move common OSDF config to the federation-level config dir
  • 9f9a09d0 Move common debugging configs to editable example file
  • b3861d18 Move multiuser origin config to an example file
  • 8dad09d8 Move origin export config to an example file
  • d83b4c4c Move web UI config to example file
  • a91a4335 Remove prescriptive cache / origin locations
  • 3beae08d Updated version to 7.11.1

V7.10

Highlights

For Users
  • [Documentation] Updated documentation structure #1423
  • [Client] Stopped file transfers are now retryable errors #1101
  • [Client] General improvements to error messages within the client and the plugin, ensuring more accurate errors and removing redundancies
  • [Client] Put requests using the pelican client work now with Origins using OA4MP Issuers #1490
  • [Client] Retries metadata lookup failures #1514
  • [Client] Fixed naming issue with queries on get/copy #1541
For Admins
  • [Director] Director now supports intelligent server sorting method to consider distance, server load, and object availability #1470
  • [Director] Add object availability test for cache access #1454
  • [Director] Allow caches to fetch objects from other caches when there’s a cache miss #1457
  • [Origin/Cache/Registry] Site name is now populated in the Origin/Cache auto-registration process #1460
  • [Origin/Cache/Director] Origins and Caches now advertise their storage backend type to the director and are able to control if they want to receive director-based object transfer tests #1462

Full Changelog: https://github.com/PelicanPlatform/pelican/compare/v7.9.0...v7.10.0

Changelog
  • a116a69f Adding back in poller fix to make macosx more reliable
  • 7b2ca77b Adjusted pelican_protocol.patch
  • ecd6906a Update version to 7.10.12
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  • 5f47b175 Update s3 backend to include new multi_curl handler
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  • ca3d0abf Move sssd-client installation to final stage builder
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  • a7b05d8c Install sssd-client in dev/prod containers
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  • 156743fd Don't construct Pelican URLs for stashcp copies

[plugin] Fix bug where transfer plugin fails if there is no $HOME directory set

Director: Selectively enable client X509 authentication

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  • 842c2a57 Update xrdcl-pelican to v0.9.4
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  • [Director] e40950e3 Fix topology downtime integration by using downtime URL and not ns JSON
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  • d29e1d2b Origins now have directreads on by default
  • 6f5341f3 Pre Release: Update npm version
  • a8189e09 Update S3 backend to v0.1.6
Changelog
  • aebe31a6 Pre Release: Update npm version
  • [Origin] Origins now have directress enabled by default

V7.9

Highlights

Congratulations to @patrickbrophy for his first contribution to Pelican!

For Users
  • [Client] Clients can now read the PELICAN_NEAREST_CACHE environment variable for determining which cache to use #1234
  • [Client] Clients can now list a collection of objects and get statistics of an object #1393 #1400
  • [Plugin] The plugin now advertises the ability to move pelican:// objects #1265
  • [Client] Additional error handling has been introduced that helps users build custom clients on top of the Pelican golang libraries #1263
  • [Client] Clients can now send a timeout value in their object requests, indicating to Pelican services the maximum time the client is willing to wait for requests #1299
  • [Cache/Client] Caches now report to clients whether the data they returned came from the disk on the cache or from the origin #1301
  • [All] Pelican now warns users about unrecognized configuration input #1325
For Admins
  • [Cache] Caches no longer shutdown on startup if advertisements fail, allowing admins to fix registrations #1244
  • [Director/Cache] The director can now filter caches marked as down in Topology #1260
  • [Origin] Pelican can now create "XRoot" backends for adding xroot-only protocol servers to the federation #1285
  • [Origin] HTTP backend export information has been added to Origin webpages #1291
  • [Origin] Origins can now export Globus collections as one of their backends #1336
  • [Director] The Director only responds to object requests with up to six Origin/Cache candidates #1304
  • [All] Pelican images are now built on top of EL9 from the OSG23 repositories #1288
  • [All] Servers now have a more permissive 5s timeout when checking for the existence of required remote resources #1328
  • [Director] The Director now checks object availability among Origins for object requests sent to Origins #1283
  • [All] Pelican now supports layered configuration through the specification of extra config directories in the root config using the ConfigLocations key #1313

Full Changelog: https://github.com/PelicanPlatform/pelican/compare/v7.8.0...v7.9.0

Changelog
  • [Director]: Fix a memory explosion in the Director caused by unbound Prometheus logging.
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  • [Director]: Bug fixes to stat capabilities in the Director
  • [Director]: Increase stat timeouts from 300ms to 1s.
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  • [Client]: Fixed a bug that could cause high-concurrency downloads to stall
  • [Client]: Fixed destination filename for 'unpack' mode
  • [Client]: Populate director information for stash:// URLs
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  • [Origins]: Update S3 backend version to correctly handle S3 resource URLs with a configured path component
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  • [Director/Client]: Add X-Pelican-[Authorization/Token-Generation] headers to origin redirects triggered by client requests. This fixes cases where pelican object put is unable to generate a token due to the missing headers.
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  • [Servers] Make server startup timeout configurable
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  • [Director]: Bug fixes in stat code so that the Director stats against the correct URL for authenticated Topology origins.

Highlights

Congratulations to @patrickbrophy for his first contribution to Pelican!

For Users
  • [Client] Clients can now read the PELICAN_NEAREST_CACHE environment variable for determining which cache to use #1234
  • [Client] Clients can now list a collection of objects and get statistics of an object #1393 #1400
  • [Plugin] The plugin now advertises the ability to move pelican:// objects #1265
  • [Client] Additional error handling has been introduced that helps users build custom clients on top of the Pelican golang libraries #1263
  • [Client] Clients can now send a timeout value in their object requests, indicating to Pelican services the maximum time the client is willing to wait for requests #1299
  • [Cache/Client] Caches now report to clients whether the data they returned came from the disk on the cache or from the origin #1301
  • [All] Pelican now warns users about unrecognized configuration input #1325
For Admins
  • [Cache] Caches no longer shutdown on startup if advertisements fail, allowing admins to fix registrations #1244
  • [Director/Cache] The director can now filter caches marked as down in Topology #1260
  • [Origin] Pelican can now create "XRoot" backends for adding xroot-only protocol servers to the federation #1285
  • [Origin] HTTP backend export information has been added to Origin webpages #1291
  • [Origin] Origins can now export Globus collections as one of their backends #1336
  • [Director] The Director only responds to object requests with up to six Origin/Cache candidates #1304
  • [All] Pelican images are now built on top of EL9 from the OSG23 repositories #1288
  • [All] Servers now have a more permissive 5s timeout when checking for the existence of required remote resources #1328
  • [Director] The Director now checks object availability among Origins for object requests sent to Origins #1283
  • [All] Pelican now supports layered configuration through the specification of extra config directories in the root config using the ConfigLocations key #1313
  • [All] Fixed a bug that prevented some PELICAN_* environment variables from being read correctly #1451

Full Changelog: https://github.com/PelicanPlatform/pelican/compare/v7.8.0...v7.9.2

Changelog
  • d18dd643 Add config knob to enable pprof endpoints
  • 2b1a1c2f Add config knob to turn off stat for the director
  • c8982a6d Add pprof endpoints
  • 3ca0f14d Add two Prometheus metrics for directorstat queries
  • 26f8e39f Change to use EnableStat instead
  • 559f64e9 Fix deadlock in recordAd and LaunchTTLCache
  • aca7a484 Pre Release: Update npm version
  • f49108fe Remove stat utils for caches as well

V7.8

Changelog
  • Correct typo in map name to fix ad sorting/filtering and add unit test with real topology data
Changelog
  • Fix issue with filtering/consolidating multi-export topology origins
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