Release Notes

Version 4.4.0

New Features

• [Server] Add new [no]rpipa option to xrd.network directive.
• [Server] Allow objectid's to be specified in the authorization file.
• [Server] Add new logging plugin interface.
• [Server] Fixes #345 - add sid to TOD structure (ABI compliant).
• [Server] Implement resource selection affinity (primarily for ssi).
• [XrdCl] Add Metalink support (xrdcp & API).
• [XrdCl] Enable metalink processing on default.
• [XrdCl] xrdcp: use cks.type cgi tag to select the checksum type.
• [XrdCl] Support local metalink files.
• [XrdCl] Add support for GLFN redirector of last resort.
• [XrdCeph] Implemented pools of ceph objects.

Major bug fixes

• [Posix] Remove double unlock of a mutex.
• [Client] Serialize security protocol manager to allow MT loads.
• [Authentication/sss] Fix dynamic id incompatability introduced in 4.0.
• [XtdHttp] Removed the deprecated cipher SSLv3, in favor of TLS1.2
• [XrdCl] Close file on open timeout.
• [XrdCl] Differentiate between a handshake and an xrootd request/response while processing an incoming/outgoing message.
• [XrdCl] Fix dangling pointer issue that occurs while forking.
• [XrdCl] Ensure DefaultEnv is finalized after last use of the object.

Minor bug fixes

• [Proxy] Avoid SEGV when printing memory cache statistics.
• [Server] Avoid XrdNetIF static initialization issues.
• [Server] Honor DFS setting when forwarding operations.
• [Server] Make sure lockfile time is updated in deprecated runmodeold.
• [Server] Fixes #344 - squash path before checking for static redirect.
• [Server] Free Entity before replacing it from the cache (memleak).
• [XrdCl] xrdfs ls does not include opaque info in a listing.
• [XrdCl] Eliminate unnecessary write notifications.
• [XrdCl] Forward xrd.* parameters from the original to the redirection URL.
• [XrdCl] Do not preset CWD in batch mode.
• [XrdCl] Be complaint with file URI scheme.
• [XrdCl] Fix wrong query string used for opaquefile code.
• [XrdCl] Translate XRootD error code to errno before passing to strerror.
• [XrdCeph] Fixed thread safety of filedescriptors in the ceph plugin.
• [XrdCeph] Protected initialization of ioCtx object and striper objects by mutex in the ceph plugin.
• [XrdCeph] Fixed memory corruption in asynchronous read from ceph.
• [XrdXml] Make sure c-string buffes are properly terminated.
• [XtdHttp] Don't trim printable characters.

Miscellaneous

• [XrdCl] Change the way handlers and messages are matched (use maps).
• [Apps] Add xrdacctest to the tools set to test access control databases.
• [Packaging/RPM] Set max open files limit to 65k for systemd services.