Hello Reader, here is this month’s iRODS news and developments!

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News

August TRiRODS features the Summer Interns

A bumper crop of talks - and a travesty that they don’t even have one thumbs up (or they didn’t until I got there) - go show these students some recognition!

Phillip Davis

​Investigating the iRODS Protocol​

Ajay Krishnamurthy

​Adding S3 transfer capability to iRODS Automated Ingest​

Nishant Dash

​Updating Zone Report and Other Server Fixes​

Ganning Xu

​Zone Management Tool and NFSRODS​

Announcing… https://irods4r.org

The hosted site for rirods, the new iRODS Client Library for the R Statistical Programming Language.

Available on CRAN.

I do think they missed a trick by not waiting until 19th September to announce it, though.

iRODS in Production: Managing Petabytes of Genomics Research

​Some bloke yakking on…​

Great production values and animation, looking really slick (apart from the speaker, obviously)!

Main Repository Activity

Open Issues

​Address Sanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow error reported when running C++ unit test​

​Regression: PEP fails when destination resource keyword is not set​

​iscan of s3 resource does not detect missing objects​

​Debian 12 support​

​CMake consistency sweep for 4.3.1 post-release​

​CMake consistency sweep for 4.3.1 release​

​Investigate limiting pam_password length on client side​

​Investigate whether _rollback() should be called​

​need API like GET_HOST_FOR_* but exposing resource hierarchy​

​Give non-C/C++ clients a way to determine the library features provided by an iRODS server​

​Consider replacing boost::filesystem with std::filesystem​

​Bump Boost library dependency to 1.81​

​irepl unlock should not update non-state replica attributes​

​Auth tests: Either skip or error (rather than fail) when irodsauthuser not present​

​Address Python test suite inefficiencies​

​Consider moving (some) PREP-only tests to PREP repository/package​

​ibun –add doesn’t work​

​Consider adding zone-wide locking service​

​Consider adding a Unix Domain Socket Server for local clients​

​Redesign/Refactor/Simplify main server logic​

​Investigate purpose of hard-coded integers used in password specific code​

​Fix clang-tidy error in irods_re_serialization.cpp: bugprone-implicit-widening-of-multiplication-result​

​Use OS packages over externals packages when feasible​

​Build against libstdc++​

​Return better error code when attempting to remove a user from a group they’re not a member of​

​Refactor code to reduce number of steps needed to add a new API endpoint which isn’t a plugin​

​add facility for longrunning API calls to store and report status​

​Moving dataObjects to collections that are inherit enabled dont inherit ACLs​

​Investigate removing dependency on kerberos header files​

If you care about KRB, now might be the time to weigh in here.

Closed Issues

Closed on - 2023-08-11 21:35:18 with ticket activated, data object OPEN locks up on other clients after rcGetHostFor(Put|Get)​

Closed on - 2023-08-03 21:36:51 Restore unixodbc deb package dependency declaration​

Closed on - 2023-08-03 21:36:41 Upgrades from 4.3.0 result in chown error​

Closed on - 2023-07-31 18:08:12 apiPackTable.h looks like it’s supposed to be a C header, yet it contains C++ syntax?​

Closed on - 2023-07-31 21:57:36 Make obfuscation support function in user administration library public​

Closed on - 2023-07-28 12:32:12 Clang-Tidy: Demote modernize-use-auto to a warning​

Closed on - 2023-07-27 19:25:22 libstdc++: rodsAgent.cpp: redefinition of ‘log’ as a different kind of symbol​

Closed on - 2023-07-27 19:25:10 [ticket_administration.hpp: Missing include](https://github.com/irods/irods/issues/7211)

Closed on - 2023-07-31 21:56:59 User administration library cannot be used to change passwords from within the server​

Closed on - 2023-07-28 12:31:35 Investigate if irods_server is needed in irods_environment_variables.cmake​

Closed on - 2023-08-17 16:24:14 Investigate test_rulebase failing​

Closed on - 2023-07-31 21:55:29 Should a successful call to rc_switch_user close all open data objects?​

Closed on - 2023-07-31 21:55:40 Add function to irods::process_stash that allows bulk removal​

Closed on - 2023-07-31 21:56:32 Remove dependency on .irodsA file for changing passwords in user administration library​

Closed on - 2023-07-31 21:56:21 Should the session signature be tied to the RcComm?​

Closed on - 2023-07-28 12:31:25 setSessionTicket can result in segmentation fault​

Closed on - 2023-07-28 19:59:43 icp fails for large files when msiExecCmd called from within pep_database_reg_data_obj_post​

Closed on - 2023-07-31 21:56:01 Investigate how to disassociate a ticket from a connection​

Closed on - 2023-08-17 16:23:44 Investigate test_control_plane failing.​

Closed on - 2023-07-28 12:32:02 No microservice available for removing user from group​

Closed on - 2023-07-31 18:26:35 rError in RcComm is not initialized before call to procApiRequest.​

Closed on - 2023-08-03 20:59:00 DataObjInp::dataSize should be initialized to -1​

Closed on - 2023-08-03 20:58:54 Type of the size_ member of irods::file_object can lead to errors​

Closed on - 2023-07-24 22:03:56 Should iinit show default values or available choices?​

Closed on - 2023-08-15 17:43:48 msiCollRsync produces stacktrace, but works as expected​

Closed on - 2023-07-31 21:55:15 Add feature test macro for Ticket Administration library to library_features.h​

Closed on - 2023-07-31 21:57:17 Allow client identity to be changed if re-authenticating using an existing connection​

Closed on - 2023-08-17 17:00:59 itree tests for #6627 fail, error message differs from what is expected​

Closed on - 2023-07-31 18:26:40 clientLogin family of functions must not print messages to stdout / stderr​

Closed on - 2023-07-26 03:40:23 capture_string_property does not bounds-check environment variable​

Closed on - 2023-07-26 01:00:23 Being stuck to names in access_type​

Closed on - 2023-08-03 21:36:16 Deadlock in MySQL database plugin on many concurrent inserts​

Closed on - 2023-07-27 11:44:13 quota recalculation in v4.3​

Closed on - 2023-07-24 21:37:44 Adjust clang-format and clang-tidy configuration​

Closed on - 2023-08-03 21:36:30 setup_irods.py assumes default_resource_name to be present in server_config​

Closed on - 2023-07-26 16:38:26 iput numThreads​

Closed on - 2023-08-11 21:20:39 When composable resources voting and individual resource status conflicts, users don’t get their data​

Closed on - 2023-07-28 20:06:38 Documentation of keep-alive behaviour over long running connections​

Closed on - 2023-07-28 19:21:59 set socket options to avoid timeouts​

Closed on - 2023-07-28 12:31:48 Need to check for non-NULL in many serialization fcns​

Closed on - 2023-07-24 18:34:04 Build script should detect need to initialise git submodules​

Closed on - 2023-07-28 19:21:56 Investigate TCP_KEEPALIVE on the server​

Python iRODS Client Activity

Open Issues

​The PRC needs more code comments for explanation​

​S3 open file in append mode​

Closed Issues

Closed on - 2023-08-03 21:26:04 Enable Case-Insensitive Queries​

NFSRODS Activity

Open Issues

​Investigate inconsistencies in tests​

​FileNotFoundException when mounting NFSRODS​

externals Activity

Open Issues

​install_prerequisites.py backgrounds itself on debian 12 and ubuntu 22.04​

Closed Issues

Closed on - 2023-08-14 19:05:53 Makefile: cpr package depends on elasticlient package; this should be reversed​

Closed on - 2023-08-14 19:05:58 elasticclient package includes additional libcpr​

Closed on - 2023-08-09 22:02:08 CPR package contains libcurl, libgtest, and libmongoose​

YODA Activity

Closed Issues

Closed on - 2023-07-27 08:24:25 [BUG] Space at the end of submitted folder breaks Datamanager notification link​

Closed on - 2023-08-10 08:21:17 [FEATURE] Add search menu at search bar as default​

Closed on - 2023-08-16 10:49:01 [BUG] Removing all Contributor or Identifier blocks generates a confusing Validation warning​

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