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• iRODS Internship: Summer 2026

  https://irods.org/2026/01/irods-internship-summer-2026/

  Five Projects:

  1. Create a minimal system tray application to ingest local data (Python / C++)

  2. Fuzz test the iRODS HTTP API (C++)

  3. Polish HTTP API client libraries (Various Languages)

  4. Add the new 'irods' authentication scheme to various clients (Various Languages)

  5. Support OIDC and Kerberos via pam_interactive (C++ / Documentation)

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GitHub Activity

Main Repository (irods/irods)

Open Issues – irods/irods

• Add password_reuse_previous option for pam generated passwords

  State: open
  Labels: enhancement, consortium-member
  Description:
  documentation (irods_docs) --- This issue proposes to add an option to
  tweak the behaviour when generating a native password in case pam
  authentication is used (pam_interactive, pam_password). Suppose a user
  has two devices (work-laptop and hpc-cluster) and authenticates on
  Monday on hpc-cluster with pam_interactive and a ttl of 7 days. On
  Wednesday the user authenticates on work-laptop with a ttl of 1 day.
  With the default settings (password_extend_lifetime = 1), the session on
  hpc-cluster will terminate on Thursday instead of next Monday (what the
  user would expect). With the option password_extend_lifetime set to 0,
  the user will get a session on work-laptop that is actually valid until
  next Monday instead of the expected TTL of 1 day. To provide multiple
  concurrent sessions on different devices that possibly have different
  TTLs and certainly have different expiration dates, we propose to add an
  option "password_reuse_previous" that, if set to false, disables reusing
  previously generated temporary native passwords altogether. The default
  value would be true, and this would keep the current behaviour,
  regardless password_extend_lifetime is set to 0 or 1. While pam
  authentication might be coupled with the new session tokens #8746 in a
  later phase, this change could be useful in production systems right
  now.

• Remove msiDataObjPut

  State: open
  Labels: deprecation / removal
  Description: ## Deprecation / Removal

Deprecation effort is #8229.

Don't forget to remove https://github.com/irods/irods_client_icommands/blob/840be3cba6ecbd659ba32204754b5df658e45193/test/rules/rulemsiDataObjPut.r.

Closed Issues – irods/irods

• Closed on 2026-01-14:

  replica_close fails with HIERARCHY_ERROR when update_status is false and compute_checksum is true

• Closed on 2026-01-12:

  test_put fails after unattended setup install, but iput and iget works

• Closed on 2026-01-09:

  rodsPathInp_t not cleared in iget, leads to segfault when showing help text

• Closed on 2026-01-06:

  Remove rulemsiDataObjPut.r from test/rules directory of the icommands repo

• Closed on 2026-01-14:

  physical quotas are calculated based on original data_owner_name

• Closed on 2026-01-08:

  ips does not report clients with names containing spaces

• Closed on 2026-01-09:

  iadmin does not return error code for get/set_grid_configuration

• Closed on 2026-01-15:

  GenQuery1 queries for resource quotas do not use the same query conditions for iadmin lq

• Closed on 2026-01-08:

  Replica stuck in intermediate status with misconfigured HOST_MODE in S3 resource

• Closed on 2026-01-09:

  icp -f doesnt modify the timestamp of the target object

• Closed on 2026-01-06:

  Indexing Capability: Remove references to document_type plugin

• Closed on 2026-01-07:

  Review usefulness of msiDataObjPut

• Closed on 2026-01-14:

  iput -f to object for which user has insufficient permissions results in CAT_SQL_ERR

• Closed on 2026-01-06:

  delayed exec rules ignores error return code from msi

• Closed on 2026-01-06:

  test_all_rules.test_msi_replica_truncate: Add assertions about output string

• Closed on 2026-01-12:

  ils of a linkPoint gives error above 256 entries

• Closed on 2026-01-07:

  msiDataObjPut verifyChksum not behaving as expected

• Closed on 2026-01-14:

  Data object mtime of zero-length files not updating after ingest and istream

Python iRODS Client (irods/python-irodsclient)

Open Issues – irods/python-irodsclient

• raw fd close( ) runs more than once from garbage collect

  State: open
  Labels: bug
  Description:
  on the same object twice. The problem is apparently avoided if we call the
  overridden close( ) from iRODSDataObjectRaw's base class sooner, causing
  the closed property to be set True the first time raw.close( ) is
  called import sys import irods s = irods.helpers.make_session() f = s.data_objects.open('/tempZone/home/rods/abcz','w')) f.write(b'_')

Closed Issues – irods/python-irodsclient

• Closed on 2026-01-06:

  Using python-irodsclient behind a proxy on Windows

Testing Environment (irods/irods_testing_environment)

Open Issues – irods/irods_testing_environment

• iRODS server log not being copied in run_unit_tests.py

  State: open
  Labels: bug
  Description: I see the logs with run_core_tests.py, but not run_unit_tests.py.

YODA (UtrechtUniversity/yoda)

Open Issues – UtrechtUniversity/yoda

Closed Issues – UtrechtUniversity/yoda

• Closed on 2026-01-07:

  Option to remove embargo at any time

• Closed on 2026-01-12:

  Add a 'Request access' button to the publications landing pages for publications with Restricted access.

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