ESGF Release Notes

ESGF 1.8 - Released - February 27 2015

esgf-installer

• Installation of git and curl using a RPM
• Implementation of new component installation script standard arguments
• Global variables move from esg-node to esg-init
• Global functions move from esg-node to esg-functions
• New LAS installer
• New CoG installer

esgf-getcert

• certificateless autentication and download
• Host certs with alt names bugfix

esg-security, esg-orp, esgf-idp

• OpenID selector

esgf-publisher

• esgscan_directory reports an error when failure to scan
• "--nodbwrite" option for esgpublish enables a "dry run" to read file headers
• Additional utility scripts: metasynchro.py, gen_versions.py, add_checksums_to_map.sh (see README)

LAS

• LAS 8.3

CoG

• CoG implementation running on port 8000

ESGF 1.7.2 - Released - September 15 2014

esgf-installer

• Add targeted search query substitution for pam_pgsql.conf to prevent unauthorized credential retrievals. The regex in esg-globus and the file template (etc_pam_pgsql.conf) on the dist servers were modified.
• issues fixed: 47,48,49,50

esgf-getcert

• Unnecessary clobbering of .MyProxyLogon file is now avoided

esg-search

• Fixes problem with missing authorization for publishing operations.
• Better handling of HTTP connections.

esg-orp

• IP ranges authentication feature
• Closing idle connections

ESGF 1.7.1 - Released July 10th 2014

esgf-installer

• New static files master storage system at IPSL and BADC Installer now fetches the distrib binaries from distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/esgf/ (master) or dist.ceda.ac.uk/esgf (mirror)

esg-search

• Improving the ability to read static meta data from property files.
• Inserting new PublishingServiceClient.
• Working on HDF parsing.
• Adding "dataSize" attribute parsed from files.
• Avoiding double entries for 'size'.

esgf-publisher-resources

• Allowing for more then one 'experiment_family' value.

esgf-web-fe

• Adding data.meteo.unican.es to the list of nodes

ESGF 1.7.0 - Released May 7th 2014

esgf-installer

• Bugfixes

  • Tomcat pwd set to /esg/config/.esgf_pass if file exists
  • Ferret FTP urls updated
  • Complete lmxl setup during esgcet setup itself
  • Tomcat default webapps are useless and now well deleted after installation

• New Features

  • Installer scripts will be fetched from github

esgf-node-manager

• Bugfixes
  • MountedPathResolver sort fix. ESGF could not mount several thredds_dataset_roots

esgf-web-fe

• Bugfixes
  • Data sets published without tracking id or checksum can now be displayed
  • White spaces in user registration allowed
  • .-_ in user registration fields allowed
  • All wiki links updated
  • access types (WGET, Globus Online) are now well displayed on data cart when using "Add All Displayed to Datacart"

esg-search

• Bugfixes

  • Fixing bug in wget controller that prevents downloads when more than one endpoint is availbale

• New Features

  • Exorcise wget template of rainbow

esgf-artifacts

• New features
  • This is a new repository hosting ESGF artifacts used at build time

All components

• New Features
  • New ant targets for ESGF build and artifacts publication processes