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

News

User Group 2023 News

• UGM 2023 Call for Proposals due May 1
• Registration for the 15th Annual iRODS User Group Meeting is open! This year’s meeting will take place June 13-16 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Training

At the 2023 User Group, the RENCI team will provide training sessions for those who attend in person. The Beginner Training will cover vocabulary, mental models, capabilities, and basic interactions.

Abstracts

Abstracts for talks + papers are due on May 1. They’re seeking presentations on the impact of iRODS on individuals, society, science, and systems & technology

Main Repository Activity

Open Issues

​Compound resource stuck with intermediate replica in cache ​

​msiDeleteUnusedAVUs and some other microservices do not redirect appropriately​

​Agent can stacktrace when using S3 client with S3 resource plugin​

​iexit: use environment variables to help determine auth file removal safety?​

​iexit: make command line arguments more normal and boring​

​Consider making acSetVaultPathPolicy a zone-wide configuration option​

​Verify if configuring acSetVaultPathPolicy to use a flat directory structure works​

​Topology tests are failing on all branches​

​Simultaneously allow client and server incarnations of irods::query​

​Add tests for missing/invalid configuration in stanza​

​Tests are failing with RE_UNABLE_TO_READ_SESSION_VAR​

​Deprecate BACKUP_RESC_KW​

​add note about %-separator between multiple variables for first form of irule usage​

​How to know collections created by iput -rb​

​Update mock archive to use irv::calculate()​

​irepl gives unhelpful error message when attempting to overwrite good replica in compound hierarchy​

​Expand documentation for voting/hierarchy resolution​

Closed Issues

Closed on - 2023-03-22 17:31:47 TLS issue in c# client ​

Closed on - 2023-03-17 16:33:03 Cyberduck with its Connection Profile fails authenticating against iRODS 4.3.0​

Closed on - 2023-03-13 20:25:31 fails in topology](https://github.com/irods/irods/issues/6956)

Closed on - 2023-03-14 15:50:55 improve documentation of upper in iquest​

Closed on - 2023-03-06 15:20:39 [Remove unused header in `itree.cpp`](https://github.com/irods/irods/issues/6949)

Closed on - 2023-03-15 18:58:45 need test for use of || and DATA_RESC_HIER​

Closed on - 2023-02-28 16:35:46 igroupadmin should be able to remove groups​

Closed on - 2023-02-28 16:35:59 A groupadmin cannot remove users from groups​

Closed on - 2023-03-14 18:34:06 Getting parsing and SSL connection errors with the logical quota plugin configured if there is unspecified rule instance call​

Closed on - 2023-03-14 18:19:20 Only the first item in list is considered in negotiation key determination​

Closed on - 2023-03-07 19:18:12 allow itree options specifying multiple match/ignore patterns​

Closed on - 2023-03-07 19:17:58 itree –pattern and –ignore should mimic “tree” command more closely​

Closed on - 2023-03-07 15:10:04 crashes - cannot handle wrong input](https://github.com/irods/irods/issues/6740)

Closed on - 2023-02-28 14:57:26 Support interactive PAM authentication plugin​

Closed on - 2023-03-24 15:40:02 Add timestamps to messages in reLog files​

Closed on - 2023-02-27 20:15:28 should return INCOMPATIBLE_PARAMS](https://github.com/irods/irods/issues/6267)

Closed on - 2023-03-14 15:09:04 Clients can still write when quota is exceeded​

Python iRODS Client Activity

Open Issues

​Renaming of (iRODS)UserGroup to simply (iRODS)Group breaks existing code​

​Session.data_objects.put() doesn’t normalize path​

​unregister call ignores NUM_REPL_KW and RESC_NAME_KW, removing all replicas​

​Can’t add 0 as value in metadata.set()​

​PAM login fails on Windows​

Closed Issues

Closed on - 2023-03-20 16:50:41 Seeing parse error in logs while calling a rule in delay​

Closed on - 2023-03-09 20:16:55 acls.get fails for collection after removing user ​

Closed on - 2023-03-06 14:44:13 more igroupadmin functions could be implemented by the Python client​

Closed on - 2023-03-06 14:43:52 irods.exception.SYS_NO_API_PRIV when groupadmin adds user to group​

YODA Activity

Open Issues

​[FEATURE] User rights roles​

​[BUG] When oidc_enable: false in ansible full.yml, web portal throws Internal Server Error on login​

Closed Issues

Closed on - 2023-03-08 10:56:40 [FEATURE] Add multiple people to folders at once​

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