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Note: This version of the VDT (1.3.10) 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 1.3.10d Release

We are pleased to announce the release of VDT 1.3.10. (08-March-2006)
VDT 1.3.10a was released on 16-March-2006.
VDT 1.3.10b was released on 06-April-2006.
VDT 1.3.10c was released on 10-October-2006.

Changes from VDT 1.3.10c to VDT 1.3.10d

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 1.3.10b to VDT 1.3.10c

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 1.3.10a to VDT 1.3.10b

Condor was upgraded to Condor 6.7.18 for a security fix.
During installation, the gridftp.log file is created, so monitoring system aren't confused by a non-existent file.
vdt-change-user was fixed to set secondary group memberships properly.
The Globus-Updates package was added.
The VDT-Client package now includes Globus-WS-Client (the Globus web service client tools).

Changes from VDT 1.3.10 to VDT 1.3.10a

Removed a hard-coded, incorrect pathname from the managed fork jobmanager that prevented it from working outside of the VDT facility
Fixed a bug that prevented the managed fork job manager from recognizing a pre-existing Condor installation.
Added a new environment variables (VOMS_USERCONF) so voms-proxy-init can find the vomses file that is in the VDT_LOCATION.
Added an extra configuration variable to Condor to work around a bug in Condor 6.7.17.

New Features

Changed Globus's Condor jobmanager to use a Condor job log per job instead of one job log for all jobs. This affects only pre-web services GRAM. This is a patch to our Globus build. See 65__prewsgram_multi_condor_log.diff at VDT 1.3.10 patches and Globus bugzilla ticket #4199
Added a feature to Globus's pre-web services jobmanager to allow system administrators to reject jobs that request streaming output, which can cause high load on the gatekeeper. This is a patch to our Globus build. See 66__disable_streaming.diff at VDT 1.3.10 patches and Globus bugzilla ticket #4213
Because the Generic Information Provider was updated along with our corresponding configure_gip script, lcg-info-generic-config has been removed and you no longer need to run it.
We now configure the jClarens VOMS publisher properly (vdt-support #1348)
We have added a way to run Globus within Tomcat and therefore to use the default web services port number (8443). Because this change happened after the VDT code freeze, it is not done by default and is considered unsupported. It is also a bit of a pain to do; we intend to simplify it in a future VDT release. You can see details for getting this to work

New Software

There is a now a managed fork jobmanager based on Condor that allows you control jobs submitted to the fork jobmanager

Upgraded Software

Apache HTTPD 2.2.0
Condor/Condor-G 6.7.18
DRM 1.2.10
Generic Information Provider 1.0.15 (Iowa 15-Feb-2006)
GSI-Enabled OpenSSH 3.6
jClarens Discovery Services registration scripts 20060206
MonALISA 1.4.12
MyProxy 3.4
UberFTP 1.18
Virtual Data System 1.4.4
VOMS 1.6.10.2

Bug Fixes

Added code to the installation framework to help ensure that files and directories have secure ownership and permissions. By default, nothing should be writable by group or other; exceptions are made on a per-package basis as needed. Our test framework now includes a second, tighter check for correct permissions in addition to the ownership checks already there. There is a VDT security advisory concerning this issue.
Improved a rewrite rule in Apache so that older VOMS Admin URLs work correctly from both the web browser and edg-mkgridmap (vdt-support #1474)
Fixed configure_voms so that it starts only the VO that is being configured when starting the VOMS service (vdt-support #1476)
Fixed the VOMS startup script to continue starting VOs after hitting a VO that is already started (vdt-support #1476)
Fixed the VOMS startup script to use vdt-change-user instead of su, which fixes a problem that can prevent VOMS from starting up at boot time on operating systems like RHEL4 (vdt-support #1475)
Applied several patches (from John Weigand) to edg-crl-upgraded to fix problems that included the daemon dying when it was not supposed to (vdt-support #1446)
Fixed the MySQL init script so that it shuts down properly when non-root (vdt-support #1469)
The configure_mds script was broken in the last few version of the VDT, and the -secure option did not correctly turn on authentication. This has been fixed.
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 (vdt-support #1096)
MonALISA VO modules no longer send debugging emails (vdt-support #1207)
Improved configure_monalisa's creation of the MonALISA configuration. If configure_monalisa is run more than once, it no longer saves old settings as comments (vdt-support #1456)
Installing Condor will now install Java; this ensures that submissions to web-services Globus will work, because Condor uses Java to do the submission
Moved functionality that patches a Globus file for the Condor jobmanager so that it is installed correctly for both pre-web and web services GRAM
Fixed Globus's Condor jobmanager to get rid of a small bug that caused some inefficiency (vdt-support #1437)
MonALISA'S MLD daemon no longer fails at boot-time on RHEL 4 when using the daemon user (it appeared as an ssh-keygen prompt); for curious users, we switched from using su to using vdt-change-user (vdt-support #1367)
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 CA certificates 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 CA certificate installs (vdt-support #1218)
You will no longer see permission denied warnings from bash when starting services (vdt-support #1229)
Fixed a bug that caused harmless but annoying error messages in the GRAM jobmanager logs (vdt-support #1502)
Patched Globus to fix a bug in the Reliable File Transfer (RFT) service that caused failures if there was a long time (usually eight hours) between job submissions. This is a patch to our Globus build. See 67__rft_disconnect.diff at VDT 1.3.10 patches and Globus bugzilla ticket #3685
Added a temp directory to Tomcat 5, to ensure that jClarens runs correctly (vdt-support #1431)

Other Changes

Support for installing a 32-bit version of the VDT on x86-64 architectures has been improved and should work much better. If VDT_PRETEND_32 is defined in your environment before you do a Pacman installation, it will install the 32-bit version on x86-64 platforms.
Changed GridFTP logging to include transfer logs in gridftp.log and put authentication logs in gridftp-auth.log (vdt-support #1395)
The VDT installation now requires Pacman 3.16.1 or later instead of Pacman 3.15 or later (as was required in VDT 1.3.9)
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 classloader errors.

To learn more, you can view the main documentation page, documentation specific to VDT 1.3.10d or support tickets closed in VDT 1.3.10d.

The VDT 1.3.10d cache is located at: http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/vdt_1310_cache