StoRM v.1.11.15 - release notes

StoRM v. 1.11.15

Released on 28.02.2019.

Supported platforms: CentOS 6

This release:

implements proper limits for the incoming requests of frontend;
fixes the synchcall.xmlrpc.maxthread setting for XMLRPC requests;
improves backend’s startup logic thanks to a refactoring of the init scripts;
allows to specify multiple WebDAV endpoints to be published through the info provider, by using a new YAIM variable STORM_WEBDAV_POOL_LIST (read more here);
fixes minor issues on YAIM and storm-info-provider;
implements basic support for Third-Party-Copy in the StoRM WebDAV service (read more here);

[STOR-1019] - Fix namespace configuration syntax error
[STOR-1021] - Request queue length monitoring in the FE
[STOR-1025] - Configurable size limit for the request queue
[STOR-1026] - Backend does not honor XMLRPC maxThreads settings
[STOR-1037] - The published WebDAV endpoint ends with /webdav which is obsolete and broken without an ending slash

[STOR-844] - Change the way info-provider knows if a webdav endpoint must be published
[STOR-1018] - Support for third-party copy in StoRM WebDAV service
[STOR-1020] - Remove functions and code related to old and deprecated variables
[STOR-1028] - Ged rid of the storm-backend command server
[STOR-1029] - Address frontend compilation warnings
[STOR-1038] - YAIM should exit with error in case StoRM Backend daemon start fails
[STOR-1039] - Implement suggested changes in JSON report file
[STOR-1067] - Make YAIM able to configure storm-webdav organizations

In case of a clean installation, follow the instructions in the System Administration Guide.

Starting from StoRM v1.11.14 the production repository has been migrated. In addiction, beta and nightly yum repositories have been created.

Read how to install/upgrade StoRM repositories into the Downloads section.

UMD-3 repositories are currently EOL so we encourage to use UMD-4. Read the upgrade instructions here.