Changelog

Changes in 2.3.0: (emi-2)

• Added support for SL6 x86_64
• Added a Nagios probe for AMGA
• Added mdservice site option for Version Information Publish

Changes in 2.2.0:

• Added support for openssl 1.0.0.0 or higher

Changes in 2.1.2: (emi-1)

• fixed a bug which chmod fails with *
• Added R option with chown : recursive
• fixed a bug that rep_mount failes in replicating a table with too many rows because of memory problem.
• changed the default installation directory from /opt/glite to /usr

Changes in 2.1.1:

• Added nosync option with rep_mount : nosync option makes rep_mount at the slave not to synchronize to the master. However, changes at the master are replicated to the slave after rep_mount.
• Added noerase option with rep_umount : noerase option makes rep_umount not to remove the contents of mounted directory.
• fixed a bug which rep_umount does not umount a directory cleanly after some replication failure
• fixed a bug which rep_mount lets a master send dumped commands continuously even after there is a failure at the slave
• fixed a bug wihch user_create inside a transaction can not be replicated.
• limitations of group name are removed. Now only charaters which should be avoided are '. ", \, :, |, <space> at the group name.
• Added s option with ls : ls -s prints only subdirectories.
• Added version command which prints a version of the connected amga server

Changes in 2.1.0:

• Added support for federation
• Added support for replicating plain tables
• Added support for replicating indexes
• Fixed a bug which WS-DAIR does not replicate properly
• Fixed a bug which native SQL does not replicate properly

Changes in 2.0.0 :

• Added support for WS-DAIR (SOAP) Interface : Integration of AMGA into the DAIS framework of OGF standardized Grid Data Access Services
• Added support for sticky bit
• Added support for dynamic mapping from VOMS Role/Group to AMGA user/group
• Added support for Entry level ACL & permission check in native SQL query
• Added support for run-time configurable AMGA server : Existing Multi Process model or new Multi-threaded & Multi-process Model can be chosen through configuration
• Added support for native SQL Query Support on Oracle
• Changed command name madir to makedir
• Added support for accessing FILE, OWNER, PERMISSIONS, GROUP_RIGHTS attributes in native SQL query
• Fixed "SELECT *" to print FILE followd by user's attributes
• Fixed a bug which a deleted group can not be removed from an ACL
• Fixed a bug which permission is not checked when creating sequence
• Fixed a bug which acl_show generates error 9 when it accesses an entry
• Fixed a bug which index is not removed automatically with "rm -r"
• Fixed a bug which "rm -r" and "rmdir" do not require permission check
• Fixed a bug which permissions are checked in a wrong way with setattr, clearattr, getattr and find when a target in an entry
• Removed showing Group Permission with "ls -l" command, because it is useless information
• Fixed a bug which sequence_next does not produce correct sequence in MySQL5
• Fixed a bug which configure does not fail when boost-thread library is not found
• Fixed a bug of rm command in Oracle
• Fixed a bug of view_create command
• Added support for varbit (only works with PostgreSQL)
• Fixed a bug that rep_allow command produces "Error: 4: Directory not found" in Oracle
• Fixed a bug that rep_mount produces "Local execution failed. 4 Directory not found" in Oracle
• Fixed a bug that rep_umount produces ""Error: 4: Permission denied ..."
• Fixed a bug that inherit option is not shown with stat and dump command
• Fixed a bug that native sql does not compile in gentoo (--tags=CXX)
• Fixed a bug that very long SQL executes very slow (200K length query took about 1 minute)
• Fixed a bug that very long input data is truncated when inserted

Changes in 1.9.0:

• Added support for native SQL query
• Added support for multi-threaded multi-process service model with DB connection sharing
• Added support for more flexible masterindex schema

Changes in 1.3 (glite 3.1):

• Added support for admin flag in ACLs
• Added support for database schemas
• Added support for outer and inner joins
• Fixed nasty bug in stream buffer corrupting output under load when transactions were used
• Made directory traversal use bound paramters (DB performance)

Changes in 1.2.10:

• Fixed user replication
• Added monitoring of user connections numbers
• Added limits on number of connections per user
• Added possibility to reserve connections for root
• Fixed constraints in MySQL, in particular for plain directories
• Added capabilities (only used for repliation), to use, please update schema: ALTER TABLE users ADD COLUMN "capabilities" VARCHAR(256); See "help capabilities"
• Added the possibility to allow ordinary users to replicate login information via rep_users_allow, rep_users_disallow
• Added new type of view to create a union of several (replicated) directories, see: create_view_union
• Made create_union more powerful, please read the docs
• Added custom primary keys: constraint_add_primary_key
• Fixed username/password default from odbc.ini to work (thanks to Tamas Hauer).
• Fixed several bugs on 64 bit architecture (thanks to Tamas for reporting them).
• Added isnull() and notnull() function to give IS [NOT] NULL syntax in SQL.
• Added if() function for conditional evaluation.
• Loosened permission checking on ACL changes for entry-ACLs

Changes in 1.2.9:

• Fixed dump command in MySQL < 5.0 and for SQLite
• Fixed parsing problem with capital "AND"
• Problems with table creation fixed for SQLite, MySQL < 5.0 and PostgreSQL
• Seperated MySQL initialization files for version < 5.0 from those for 5.x
• Stat shows possible directory options
• New regression testing tool for the query parser
• Sequences implemented for MySQL5.x

Changes in 1.2.8:

• Added type=<TYPE> option in createdir/mkdir to create entry column with custom type
• Added execute command to run server-side scripts
• Initial implementation of import feature for existing tables
• Added update command, which updates using bound variable to circumvent Oracle problems with SQL command length limitations
• fixes for rm command
• fixed constraint_add_unique and constraint_add_not_null on MySQL

Changes in 1.2.7:

• Reimplemented mdserver as amgad.
• addattr checks for system columns and rejects them
• addattr works only on directories
• Support for preexisting tables as plain tables
• Added backend command to allow user to figure out the database backend.
• Added documentation for views.
• Fixed command option check for index_create.
• Support for ACLs for sequences, indices, views.
• Changed listattr to use 'x' flag for permission checking.
• Fixed getattr to allow showing of entries when default ACL allows it.
• Changed selectattr to allow access to individual entries.
• Initial version of renameattr (works only on Postgres and Oracle)

Changes in 1.2.6:

• Fixing CRL checking, adding CRLDir option to amgad.config
• Create all groups successfully mapped by VOGroupMap automatically on login
• Cleaning up include files of C++ API
• Adding several functions to C++ API to make it more Posix-IO like
• Several Oracle bugs found by Viktor fixed
• rm -r added
• Added -a option to grp_list. Users can now see other user's groups.
• Fixed constraint_add_reference and constraint_add_check

Changes in 1.2.5:

• Replication of users and groups
• Fixed stat output, now it is doing ls -lP
• Fixed bug in user_listcred if no certificate was assigned to a user
• updateattr reports error if no update performed
• Improved mdclient behaviour if upload command is messed up by the user

Changes in 1.2.4:

• Support for GLITE_LOCATION environment variable for the client configuration file
• Support for X509_USER_PROXY environment variable to locate the grid-proxy
• Support for limited proxies

Changes in 1.2.3:

• Fix login problem with VO certificates and Groups-on-the-fly
• Replication layer fixes
• Increased listen queue in mdserver to 500: Much better performance with high number of clients

Changes in 1.2.2:

• Replication layer refactored
• Standalone (without gLite build system) RPMs now possible

Changes in 1.2.1:

• Java API: Implemented on the MDClient the methods for constraints, groups, acls and sequences
• Java API: Fixed a bug in the MDClient constructor where the username and password were not being properly initialized on th
• Adding date in log messages
• Nicer debug messages
• Fixed constraint removal when removing attribute
• Fixed reading of configuration file in home-directory on SLC3
• Fixed request cancellation in C++ client
• Fixed uninitialized memory in command encoding routine problem
• Fixed several bugs of replication with Oracle
• Fixed replication of some commands where the logs were not being saved with the correct directory information.
• Improved dump performance
• Implemented replication of indices and of the upload/put/commit commands

Changes in 1.2.0:

• Added support for distinct, order and limit clauses in selectattr
• New parser for configuration files. New escape char is \. Read the documentation!
• Support for MonAMI (and from there to MonALISA) monitoring of the service.
• Support for explicite transaction handling.
• AMGA commands added to set up table constraints.
• BDII support including fallback to another AMGA server for the client

Changes in 1.1.0:

• Support for MySQL5
• Support for GIS on MySQL5
• Directories with shared schema may share a table (createdir parent shared)
• Per-entry ACLs in a directory (Postgres only!): createdir dir acls
• Inheriting schemas has been removed from the PostgreSQL version (was never supported elsewhere and shared directories make up for it)
• mdclient silent mode (-S) fixed
• mdclient command completion added

Changes in 1.0.0 (gLite 1.5):

• Dependency on readline optional (./configure --with-readline) by default editline is used
• Fixes to work with openssl 0.9.6 to 0.9.8, not only 0.9.7
• Log() function returns always natural logarithm
• dir(), stat(), listentries(), find() take r-flag into account
• listattr() and getattr() honour r-flag of directory
• Fixed group-existance checking in group commands
• Seperating user_list into user_list and user_listcred
• Dump method improved
• Directory matching operation fixed in SQLite
• Fixing rollback mechanism in uploads
• Several checks on put-command arguments added
• SQL query added to error output
• Disallow creation of subdirectories of entries
• Adding grp_dump, user_dump
• Fixed ACL-inheritance of new directories
• Cleaned up certificate checking
• Package can compile against Globus

Changes in 0.9.9:

• Move to gLite build environment
• Removed ZThreads dependency, Boost is not used instead
• External dependency on gSOAP removed, instead generated code is included
• Bug with unary minus fixed in parser
• Change to use 3 RPMs: client, server, soapserver
• Move to GLITE_LOCATION home-directory, default is /opt/glite
• Use datetime as timestamp datatype on MySQL
• listschemas command added to support PTF-API
• Move to flex 2.5.4 for improved compatibility, flexer object
• Several new functions in parser
• vomsattrusermanager added
• MyProxy works
• like() and count() added
• Added man-pages for client and server executables
• Lots of documentation improvements
• New grp_list command

Changes in 0.9.6:

• gLite integration
• New authentication and authentication module vomsinfo based on VOMS attribute certificates
• Introduction of default system:anyuser group
• Enabled 'x' entry visibility flag
• Delete() operation performance problem solved
• Separation into client, server and soapserver RPMs
• like() and count() functions in queries

Changes in 0.9.4:

• Support for LFC running with an Oracle back-end
• Fixes for several problems with the new Oracle ODBC driver
• New dump command to backup the database
• Fixes for wildcards in filenames

Changes in 0.9.3:

• Introduction of basic datatypes which are supported on all backends.
• Initial support of MySQL as a standalone backend, everything except sequences, views and indices should work.
• Moving to the new Oracle ODBC driver: The new release need the Oracle 10.2 ODBC driver for Oracle access. The EasySoft driver will not work.
• Many bugs fixed for the Oracle backend, more performant access to large metadata made possible through new ODBC driver.

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