StoRM Frontend v. 1.8.4

Released on 09.12.2013 with StoRM v. 1.11.3.

Description

This release provides fixes for security vulnerabilities that were recently reported, and a few bug fixes.

Important A security authentication token is now used to secure all communication among the storm-frontend and grihttps services and the backend. The token is configured using the STORM_BE_XMLRPC_TOKEN YAIM variable for the three services. More details in the System administrator guide.

Security vulnerabilities

More information concerning the security vulnerabilities addressed by this release are going to be published when appropriate at this URL.

Bug fixes

• [STOR-431] - File /etc/sysconfig/storm-frontend-server is replaced by yum
• [STOR-368] - StoRM frontend crashes when SSL connection errors are raised by argus pep_client library
• [STOR-217] - Service crashes on status of async operations

Installation and configuration

You can find information about upgrade, clean installation and configuration of StoRM services in the System Admininistration Guide of the Documentation section.

Known issues

None at the moment