Advanced Resource Connector (ARC)
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Release Announcement for version 0.8.1
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                                               November 6, 2009

Advanced Resource Connector (ARC) version 0.8.1 is a bug fix
release for the ARC 0.8 series. Please consult release notes of ARC
0.8 for detailed product description.

-Changes since 0.8-

Extensions/enhancements:

* Grid Manager: transfer shares feature to allow data transfer
  fair-share - see the Grid Manager Administration guide for how to
  use the new "maxloadshare" configuration option
* Grid Manager: Intelligent retry strategy for temporary errors
  in data transfer -  see the Grid Manager Administration guide
  for how to use the new "maxtransfertries" configuration option
* Grid Manager cache: files are distributed over multiple caches
  according to the size of each cache
* Grid Manager cache: caches can be cleanly drained before being
  taken offline
* Improved OpenLDAP relocation possibilities (#1616)
* Job can now find its grid-id in the environment variable 
  GRID_GLOBAL_JOBID. (#962)
* New urlogger for logging resource usage to an SGAS 3 server
* nordugridmap now produces a user->vo mapping along with the regular grid-map files

Bug Fixes:

* Download with http options is broken (#1686)
* Grid Manager init script should not use -Z option (#1623)
* Fix out-of-range crash in information index service
* Fix for copying LFC file with no replicas being reported as successful (bug #1612)
* Fix for wrongly placed quotes in slurm backend (bug #1619)
* Fix for SE not working with new strict LDAP
* Correct slapd handling in non-standard locations
* Fixed typo in slapd configuration
* Added possibility to configure slapd from arc.conf (bug #1616)
* Fix typo in gridftp2 macro name (bug #1618)
* Fix for crash in uploaders and downloaders when using parallel transfers (bug #1613)
* BDII misbehaving on install/startup (bug #1603)
* Index service does not work on debian/ubuntu (#1614) (#1638)
* Zero cputime and walltime for jobs killed with ngkill -keep (#1239)
* ARC components now have world wide readable .pid-files (#1408)
* Packaging/naming conflict for man-pages between arc and util-linux (#1596)
* Build-problem with enable-pkgdirs (#1594) (#1595)
* Support for more PBS configurations (#1588)
* Problem with srm downloads (#1562)
* Walltime attribute in xrsl does not accept string like "3 hours" (#1649)
* On Ubuntu, infosys configured with wrong path (#1635)
* Unexpected setfsuid when LCAS/LCMAPS plugin enabled (#1495)
* Copying LFC file with no replica is reported as successful (#1612)

Known Issues:
* It is not recommended to run the new index server on Fedora 11
