News

• WLCG Collaboration workshop was organized by dCache.org at DESY in July 11-13, 2011. (Video Recordings)
• EMI 1 (Kebnekaise) released. Kebnekaise
• Great success : 5th dCache workshop in Göttingen, 16/17 March, 2011
• dCache Articles
• European Middleware Initiative, EMI started May 2010. Factsheet
• Security
  • dCache.org is introducing a new mailing list :
    security at dcache dot org dCache user should report problems or bugs to this list if there is the suspicion that the issue is security related or if the report may contain confidential information. (e.g. passwords). Only a very restricted number of people have access to this particular mailing list.
• Newletters and announcements.
• Chimera
  Chimera is the preferred name space abstraction for dCache. It is a thin layer on top of a relation database (preferrably PostgreSQL). In contrast to PNFS it is platform independent, scalable, and fully embedded in dCache. By now, most dCache Tier I sites as well as many Tier II sites have migrated to Chimera. PNFS itself is no longer maintained, although dCache does still support using PNFS as a backend. We recommend all sites to upgrade to Chimera as soon as possible. Please study the migration instructions and give it a try. You can evaluate the entire migration procedure in a safe test environment. More information is available from our documentation area.
• The dCache wiki : In addition to the Book, we offer a wiki were you may find some more helpful information. Check the link to findout on how you can contribute to the wiki with advise, documentation or tools.

The dCache project uses timeboxing to manage the release process. A new feature release is made every three months. These are maintained for four months during which bug fix releases are made. Once a year on April 1st a long term support release is made - we call these golden releases. These are maintained for at least two years.

Golden release 1.9.5 will be supported until the end of the technical LHC break beginning of 2012. The next Golden Release (1.9.12) is out and will be supported for an extended period.

• 2.1 will be released primo January 2012
  The following list of features is subject to change.
  • Kerberos for NFS4
  • ACL manipulation through NFS4
  • More memory efficient directory cache for NFS
  • Support export file for NFS
  • NFS4 referals
  • Color highlighting in admin service
  • Tab completion in admin service
  • ssh2 support in admin service
  • Plugin support
  • Configurable billing format
  • Limited NIS plugin for gPlazma 2
  • Feature parity between webadmin and legacy monitoring service
• 2.0 is out
  Fomerly known as version 1.9.14. Despite the version number increase, the number of changes are not bigger than between usual feature releases. The version number is increased because of changes in the version number format.
  • HTTP Basic Authentication for WebDAV.
  • Reduced latency for server side srmCopy.
  • ACL admin service integrated into pnfs manager.
  • Wildcards in pool manager commands.
  • SRM client's overwrite request can be honored without having to enable overwrite in other doors.
  • Pool to pool transfers use HTTP rather than DCAP.
  • Pluggable pool selection algorithm and a new write pool selection algorithm.
  • Lots of work on the webadmin component.
• 1.9.12 Golden Release II
  • Supported until April 2013.
  • The ultimate dCache Golden Release upgrade guide by Gerd (NDGF).
  • GLUE 2 support.
  • New pin manager.
  • HTTP support for third party srmCopy transfers.
  • Proxy certificate and VOMS support in the HTTP/WebDAV door.
  • Reduced file open latency.
  • gPlazma 2 with ARGUS black listing.
• 1.9.6 to 1.9.11 and 1.9.13 are deprecated.
• 1.9.5 Golden Release will be supported until the end of the technical break primo 2012.
• 1.9.4 and below are deprecated.