What has changed from version 1.7.1 to 1.8.0

Feature Summary

The 1.8.0 release of LDAS was tagged in CVS on October 27, 2005. The major focus for this release was porting the code to Solaris 10 and Fedora Core 4 and to get LDAS certificate aware. The certificate authentication has been incorperated into the manager, cmonserver and cmonClient. Other client software will need to be enhance to utalize certificates.

Summary by API

Control and Monitor

The "Test All User" command which previously failed for sites lho, llo, and mit has been corrected. Users can now authenticate using x509 certificates when using a x509 compliant version of cmonClient.

managerAPI

The managerAPI has been enhanced to authenticate using x509 certificates.

metadataAPI

The version of DB2 being used has been upgraded to 8.2.2

Resource file changes

E-mail broadcasting of messags from the tandem systems has been disabled.

LDCG Software upgrades

Nineteen third party software packages were upgraded.

The current upgraded packages and thier current release number are: curl 7.14.1, octave 2.1.71, apache 2.0.55, tkcvs 7.2.4, rsync 2.6.6, tclglobus 0.3.0, libpcap 0.9.3, lft 2.5, emacs 21.4, gnuplot 4.0.0, gnats 4.0.1, XML::Parser 2.34, cvsgraph 1.5.0, lsof 4.77B, wget 1.10.2, openssl 0.9.8a, gnupg 1.4.2, fltk 1.1.6, and xdiskusage 1.48.1.

The following packages have been removed from /ldcg: acroread, less, firefox, fvwm, xemacs in favor of system supplied variations or lack of use.