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v7.9.2


Highlights

Congratulations to @patrickbrophy for his first contribution to Pelican!

For Users
For Admins

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

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  • [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

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This project is supported by National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement OAC-2331480. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.