Pelican v7.13.0-rc.0

New Features and Enhancements

Client

• Improved detection and retry logic for clients that start transfers while the Director is down #1890
• Added new prestage functionality in the client #1923

Cache, Director, Origin, Registry

• Added pelican user and group along with some default directories for RPM installations #1856
• Added a "restart" button in each server's web UI #1869
• Added configuration knobs to increase server memory performance by limiting Prometheus cardinality #1887
• Created a new config parameter, Server.HealthMonitoringPublic, to make the server's health monitoring endpoint public #1936

Cache

• Disabled redirects for HTTP caches #1915
• Added experimental patches that modify a cache's ability to monitor resources and keep track of purgeable objects #1926

Director

• Created a Prometheus metric in the Director to track rejected cache/origin advertisements #1885

Origin

• Enabled server-side key refreshing so that origins/caches can update their keys in the Registry #1748

Bugs Fixed

Director

• Fixed issue with director tests failing due to the token being created using the director URL instead of the discovery URL #1936

Full Changelog

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