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

News

Python iRODS Client Library v1.1.8 is released

Version 1.1.8 is released changelog.

​link to the diffs​

UGM Round Up

• One week left to submit proposals to UGM 2023
• May 1 is the LAST day for early bird registration for the iRODS User Group Meeting 2023, which offers training sessions at a discounted rate.
• The iRODS User Group Meeting 2023 will be held both virtually and in-person June 13-16. The meeting will feature presentations, live demonstrations + open discussions about requested iRODS features.
• On June 13, the iRODSConsortium Team will provide training sessions for those who attend the iRODS UGM in person. The Beginner Training will cover iRODS vocabulary, #mentalmodels, capabilities, + basic interactions
• Need one-on-one help with an existing or planned #iRODS installation or integration? Join our team for the in-person iRODS Troubleshooting session, held on the last day of the iRODSUGM

May 2023 TRiRODS - iRODS 2023 Roadmap

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iRODS 4.2.12 is released!

​4.2.12 is here!​

4.2 is dead, long live 4.3! This is the last release of 4.2 (potentially done from a plane over Alaska?).

The iRODS Consortium and RENCI are pleased to announce iRODS 4.2.12.
This release represents more than a year and a half of work to finalize the 4.2.x series. 4.2.12 will be the last 4.2.x release.
Focused effort was spent on enhancements that leave 4.2.x in a good place for deployments that are not ready to upgrade to 4.3. These include greater availability of the admin keyword, JSON object and string-manipulation microservices, additional availability of DataObjInfo to rules, and better admin account and password management.
Notable bug fixes include better group and groupadmin support, improved user-input handling, replica status cleanup/locking, database statement management, and improved documentation.
This release consists of 169 commits from 10 contributors and closed 160 issues.

I’d especially like to call out the work done on

• Add support for federating all hosts in catalog_provider_hosts [#6827]
• Fix for password visibility in debug log with PAM and SSL [#2902]
• Fix for iquest results larger than 500 [#6097]
• Fix for resource hierarchy keywords for dataObjRepl and dataObjPhymv [#6100]
• Fix for iquest when using ‘not like’ and a resource hierarchy [#6101]
• Fix for slow imkdir with Postgres due to subquery [#6495]
• Fix for iget not returning specified replica [#6896]

Although I’m sure you’ll all have your own list!

Do pay attention to the Deprecated and Removed sections;

Deprecated
Deprecate unused members of l1desc_t [#6754]
Removed
Remove nanodbc library dependency from delay server [#6851]

Main Repository Activity

Open Issues

​guiProgressCallback.h: rodsLong_t and MAX_NAME_LEN referenced before definition​

​allow scanning negative or 64-bit integers​

​Allow client identity to be changed if re-authenticating using an existing connection​

​PAM passwords cannot exceed MAX_PASSWORD_LEN (50) characters​

​irepl -a -U fails when data object doesn’t have a 0 replica​

​Calling failmsg and fail msi via the PREP fails with RE_TYPE_ERROR​

​db_mod_user_op could verify old-password value to protect a rodsuser login​

​Agent crashes when rule input is mishandled​

​Groupadd error when group already exists​

Closed Issues

Closed on - 2023-04-26 15:28:44 UnicodeEncodeError during setup of test_targeting_specific_replica_number.test_targeting_specific_replica_number__issue_6896 causes cascading test failures​

Closed on - 2023-04-28 13:54:04 SQL statement leak: too many concurrent statements​

Closed on - 2023-04-27 17:29:43 Compound resource stuck with intermediate replica in cache ​

Closed on - 2023-04-26 19:26:49 msiAddKeyValToMspStr appending ++++ to blank strings causing -315000 error.​

Closed on - 2022-11-24 19:05:29 iqstat should output details of any ruleId once run by a rodsadmin​

Closed on - 2023-04-27 18:51:02 iadmin mkzone should report an error when given invalid connection information​

Closed on - 2023-03-31 17:52:43 severe imkdir performance impact with inheritance enabled​

A big deal for anyone on postgreSQL with lots of collections - nice work! Its in 4.2.12 AIUI as well.

Closed on - 2022-11-09 21:15:03 Delay server should not log a stacktrace when default config value is used​

Closed on - 2023-04-26 19:49:48 admin replication of user data and checksum computation​

Closed on - 2023-05-13 10:08:10 release activities for 4.2.12​

Python iRODS Client Activity

Open Issues

​data objects should properly finalize​

​tickets have no effect after cleanup( )​

​PUT and GET should transfer data directly to/from the resource server​

Closed Issues

Closed on - 2023-05-16 23:28:22 a rodsuser can disable their login via modify_password​

Closed on - 2023-05-11 13:37:04 Large put() times-out with NetworkException: Could not receive server response​

Our old friend TCP timeout strikes again.

NFSRODS Activity

Open Issues

​Build fails after most recent OpenJDK 17.0.7 update​

​It seems that truncate does not work properly through nfsrods​

YODA Activity

Closed Issues

Closed on - 2023-05-17 08:42:28 [BUG] Language not shown on landingpage metadata​

Closed on - 2023-04-24 11:07:56 [FEATURE] yoda metadata change related data package title​

Closed on - 2023-04-24 11:08:45 [FEATURE] Improve the behavior of the metadata Save button​

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