Your monthly iRODS developments

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

News

No news this month? I am sure I missed something, but Twitter has been quiet, and RENCI don’t have a Mastodon account (that I know of!).

Even the iRODS-Chat mailing list has been quiet.

Main Repository Activity

Open Issues

​Delay microservices should accept not valid msis/inexistent rules?​

​Add support for units with iinit --ttl​

​Investigate how to determine when a client-side redirect is absolutely necessary​

​Consider exposing RNG/seed as parameters for irods::generate_random_alphanumeric_string​

​Investigate CAT_SUCCESS_BUT_WITH_NO_INFO being returned by iCommands when using MariaDB ODBC connector on Almalinux 8​

​msiSetResource crashes agent​

​only load configuration files at server startup and upon request​

​python rule language failing when rulefile is too big​

​cannot put a file with a space in a directory with a single quote​

​Possible race-condition in process stash​

​add hands-free recovery mechanism (recovery_regex) for when the delay server is gone​

​msiSendMail msi fails when its subject includes :, ;, -​

​Explore using system-provided libarchive​

​Consider removing old OpenSUSE-specific CMake code​

Closed Issues

Closed on - 2023-09-20 20:08:07 Tighten minimum privilege level needed for invoking API plugins​

Closed on - 2023-09-18 23:10:08 Unable to install irods-database-plugin-postgrescat​

Closed on - 2023-09-18 15:37:12 iRODS Filesystem library will return incorrect permissions when communicating with 4.2 server​

Closed on - 2023-09-19 18:04:12 Split class in test_icommands_file_operations.py into multiple classes​

Closed on - 2023-09-18 15:41:50 clearExecCmdOut does not free contents of internal byte buffers​

Closed on - 2023-09-17 02:13:39 UseLibCXX.cmake: bump required CMake version​

Closed on - 2023-09-11 18:02:33 Remove rErrMsg_t from connection_context in connection pool​

Closed on - 2023-09-20 21:24:36 Add EL version to RPM package version strings​

Closed on - 2023-09-11 18:02:06 Expose GenQueryOut::totalRowCount through the query iterator​

Closed on - 2023-09-11 18:02:25 Connection pool needs to track changes in the number of resources too​

Closed on - 2023-09-11 18:02:15 Consider adding new database column for storing the fractional part of R_RESC_MAIN.modify_ts​

Closed on - 2023-09-07 16:20:13 Process stash ‘erase_if’ function should indicate number of elements removed​

Closed on - 2023-08-29 13:45:56 db_check_auth_credentials_op uses incompatible SQL syntax for MySQL​

Closed on - 2023-08-29 13:45:49 Unit test for lifetime_manager does not allocate space for null-terminator​

Closed on - 2023-08-31 14:09:41 Long running agents spawned via a connection pool do not see changes to resources​

Closed on - 2023-09-20 13:46:47 Expose set_grid_configuration (and get) API through iadmin subcommand​

Closed on - 2023-09-15 17:48:15 Ensure RPM packages are collecting dependencies on all EL distros​

Closed on - 2023-08-29 15:43:42 NO_NEXT_RESC_FOUND when uploading data object using PRC if resource has minimum free space set​

Closed on - 2023-09-21 13:45:57 Debian 12 support​

Closed on - 2023-08-29 18:50:22 Bump Boost library dependency to 1.81​

Closed on - 2023-09-11 15:13:21 The server must reject overlapping requests to change where the delay server runs​

Closed on - 2023-09-20 13:46:35 PAM passwords cannot exceed MAX_PASSWORD_LEN (50) characters​

Closed on - 2023-09-06 14:26:27 Automated irods installation not deterministic provider and consumer irods roles​

Closed on - 2023-08-24 17:16:49 irods-icommands package missing dependencies on Almalinux 8​

Python iRODS Client Activity

Open Issues

​Allow loading and saving of library configuration​

Closed Issues

Closed on - 2023-09-20 12:52:52 error ​

Closed on - 2019-08-15 15:44:28 Enough unclosed queries cause CAT_STATEMENT_TABLE_FULL error ​

NFSRODS Activity

Closed Issues

Closed on - 2023-08-24 17:10:19 make NFSRODS report via spOption​

externals Activity

Closed Issues

Closed on - 2023-09-21 15:46:05 Older distro.codename implementations return undesirable strings​

Closed on - 2023-09-06 02:41:41 Explore removing imagemagick​

Closed on - 2023-09-05 21:11:24 Add jwt-cpp to externals for HTTP OIDC support.​

Closed on - 2023-09-06 13:51:16 libs3: Build fails with format-overflow warning on almalinux:9​

YODA Activity

Open Issues

​[FEATURE] Make metadata available within institute before publication​

​[FEATURE] CodeMeta fields​

Closed Issues

Closed on - 2023-09-05 10:59:25 [FEATURE] Add metadata form version info to json​

Closed on - 2023-09-20 09:36:53 [FEATURE] sandbox yoda​

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