Note: This version of the VDT (1.3.9) is no longer supported. Feel free to look through the documentation and install it, but we cannot guarantee support for it. The current stable release is 2.0.0.

VDT 1.3.9e Release

We are pleased to announce the release of VDT 1.3.9e.
VDT 1.3.9d was released on 10-October-2006.
VDT 1.3.9c was released on 16-March-2006.

Changes from VDT 1.3.9d to VDT 1.3.9e

• Updated PPDG-Cert-Scripts to version 2.1. VDT ticket #2281 You can get the update by doing:

  cd $VDT_LOCATION
  pacman -update PPDG-Cert-Scripts
  

Changes from VDT 1.3.9c to VDT 1.3.9d

• Updated PPDG-Cert-Scripts to version 2.0. VDT ticket #2151 You can get the update by doing:

  cd $VDT_LOCATION
  pacman -update PPDG-Cert-Scripts
  

Changes from VDT 1.3.9b to VDT 1.3.9c

• Added new package, Globus-Updates that fixes problems in globus-url-copy and globus-gridftp-server.

Changes from VDT 1.3.9a to VDT 1.3.9b

• Bug fixes for a security problem relating to permissions.

VDT 1.3.9a

VDT 1.3.9a is a small upgrade to VDT 1.3.9. If you have already installed and configured VDT 1.3.9, you do not need to bother re-installing. The cache did not change, so you can only install VDT 1.3.9a, not VDT 1.3.9. There were two changes in VDT 1.3.9a:

• The configure_monalisa script fixed a small bug in the configuration of MonaLisa.
• A new, optional, unsupported package named VDS-Worker was added. This is a subset of the VDS that is appropriate for installation on a gatekeeper or worker node. It is currently unsupported because we have not fully tested it. Our light testing suggests it works fine.

New Features

• The VDT Apache server now includes mod_php.

Bug Fixes

• MonaLisa VO modules no longer send debugging emails. From vdt-support #1207.
• Init scripts are set up to start/stop in the proper order on SuSE Linux.
• The gris configuration no longer relies on the deprecated GRAM reporter. From vdt-support #1096.
• MonALISA will now work with sites that use a pre-existing Condor install, provided that HISTORY is set to $(SPOOL)/history (the default) in the Condor config file.
• If you elect to install certs in /etc/grid-security/certificates $GRID_SECURITY_DIR will be set to /etc/grid-security. It will still be set to $VDT_LOCATION/globus/etc for local cert installs. From vdt-support #1218.
• You will no longer see permission denied warnings from bash when starting services. From vdt-support #1229.
• Ensured that the CONDOR_CONFIG environment variable is correctly set in Globus's Condor job manager.

Upgraded Software

• jClarens Discovery Services registration scripts 1.3.8
• MonALISA 1.4.6
• MySQL 4.1.11
• PPDG Cert Scripts 2.1

Other Changes

• The jClarens web services framework now runs under Tomcat 5 instead of Tomcat 4. Tomcat 4 is no longer distributed with the VDT.
• The Bouncy Castle provider JAR file is installed just once into Tomcat 5 and removed from any web application that is installed into Tomcat 5. Doing so should prevent any strange (and yet unobserved) class-reloading errors.
• There is a new, untested, unsupported package named PRIMA-GT4 which provides an authorization callout for web services GRAM. It works similarly to PRIMA, but for web services GRAM instead of pre-web services GRAM.

To learn more, you can view the main documentation page or documentation specific to VDT 1.3.9e.

The VDT 1.3.9e cache is located at: http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/vdt_139_cache