
  NorduGrid ARC v0.4.3 Release Notes

June 17, 2004

During the test runs of the ATLAS High Energy Physics Group, which were
carried out as a preparation for the upcoming ATLAS DC2 production, a
few minor bugs with ARC release 0.4.2 have been found. The discovered
and fixed bugs mainly affected the data management components. In order
to support the ATLAS production a new release 0.4.3 was tagged. The
0.4.3 release of the stable branch of the ARC middleware has been
uploaded to the repository. Go to the download section
<http://ftp.nordugrid.org/download/> from the NorduGrid web page, or
proceed directly to the repository
<ftp://ftp.nordugrid.org/nordugrid/releases/0.4.3>.

This release fixes various minor bugs and should be backward compatible
with all the previous 0.4.x releases. Users of earlier releases,
especially those participating in the DC2 are advised to upgrade to this
release.

The problems and the changes are:

    * If the uploader tries to upload a file to one of the SE's
      registered in the RLS and that SE has problems or is down, the
      uploader doesn't try another SE registered in the RLS. This can
      lead to jobs failing in upload.
    * The uploader does not start after an ngrenew.
    * ngremove segfaults when there is no locations found in rls (bug
      #342
      <http://bugzilla.nordugrid.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=342>).
    * Proxy expiration fixes.
    * More changes for more robust timeout in the grid-manager's data
      management.
    * Bugfix for improperly presented crc to SE on client side.

