ARC v0.6.3 Release Notes

June 12, 2008

Advanced Resource Connector (ARC) version 0.6.3 is a bug fix release for the ARC 0.6 series. Please consult release notes of ARC 0.6 for detailed product description.

Changes since ARC v0.6.2

Extensions/enhancements:

• more informative error message in client
• standalone client setup script can be executed from arbitrary location (fixes bug 1105)
• server package includes configuration testing script

Bug fixes:

• Fixed bug 1091: allow dot in section names in configuration
• Fixed bug 1102: multi-threaded LFC issue
• Data handling: fixes for bugs 1048, 1095 and 1077 are ported to 0.6.x
• SGE back-end fixes:
  • don't use sessiondir for temporary files
  • add check to avoid reaping unfinished jobs in case qstat fails
  • fix reporting wrong state when qacct is out-of-date
• PBS back-end fixes:
  • Bug 1011: numerous improvements, restoring functionality lost in transfer to the new framework
  • Bug 1097: fix for ARRAY(0x91c25c4) in comment
• #include fixes in client tools
• RPM specfile dates are in "C" locale