Hello,
 the components of DPM 1.9 (DMLite 0.8.5) finished the EPEL testing phase
and are available now in the regular stable distro.

 As advertized in the previous announcement,
  https://lcgdm.web.cern.ch/dpm-190-epel-testing-release-core-components
 ... and discussed at the DPM workshop:
  https://indico.cern.ch/event/559673/

New versions of the DPM puppet modules have been released to puppeforge.  Mainly they contain bug fixes and changes to support DPM 1.9.0 Dome flavour.

https://github.com/cern-it-sdc-id/puppet-dmlite/releases/tag/v0.5.0

https://github.com/cern-it-sdc-id/puppet-lcgdm/releases/tag/v0.3.5

Bug

Task

• [LCGDM-2062] - Create new dpmhead and dpmdisk packages

Improvement

• [LCGDM-1963] - Add the directory used space code to the DPM daemon putdone (through DPNS)
• [LCGDM-2044] - Make the DPM daemon honour token space modifications made by external progs

Bug

• [LCGDM-2021] - Compile dpm-xrootd with the same boost used in dmlite (1.48)

Task

• [LCGDM-2201] - Relase dpm-xrootd 3.6.1-2 to epel-testing

Improvement

Bug

• [LCGDM-2209] - Checksum calculation through gridftp+dome returns bogus result if unknown checksum type

Improvement

• [LCGDM-2203] - checksum calculations through gridftp should always try to get the value from the db

Bug

• [LCGDM-2013] - No URL escaping
• [LCGDM-2052] - File descriptor caching does not consider not existing files
• [LCGDM-2155] - Extra comma at the end of a checksum reply

New Feature

Hello everyone,

 the minor update release of Dynafed has been pushed to epel-testing today, it will soon appear in the mirrors.
Here are the release notes:

Hello,

we just pushed the latest versions of the core components of DPM to EPEL-testing. These
should be already available in the repositories, or will appear in the various
mirrors in the next one or two days. We encourage sysadmins to test this release and give
feedback before it's promoted to the EPEL stable repository.

This is an important release that keeps the compatibility with the past while adding
many features. What follows are the highlights and the release notes.

Cheers
Fabrizio Furano, on behalf of the DPM team

Hello,
 the core components of DPM finished the EPEL testing phase and are available now in the regular stable distro.

As advertized in the previous announcement,

https://lcgdm.web.cern.ch/dpm-1811-epel-testing-release-core-components

this is a bugfix release that will allow us to proceed more smoothly towards the next releases, which will contain
new features. Please refer to the previous announcement for the release notes.