1.25.0rc2

Release Candidate

This is a release candidate! Only to be used in testing environments!

Upgrade Instructions

This feature release requires a database schema upgrade. Please consult the documentation about upgrading your database schema.

The following changes are necessary and are covered by the alembic upgrade head command:

1. Ading new column and indices to requests and requests_history tables. (Alembic revision f85a2962b021)

• Adding transfertool column to requests table
• Adding transfertool column to requests_history table
• Adding new REQUESTS_TYP_STA_TRA_ACT_IDX index to requests table

Important changes

1. This release removed the deprecated reaper1 daemon, which now has been fully replaced by the reaper2daemon.

General

Features

• Deletion: Deprecate reaper1 #4213
• Release management: urllib3 dependency upgrade #4163
• Transfers: Stronger integration of Globus Online transfer tool #4216

Enhancements

• REST & API: Flask dynamic endpoint loading #4043
• Testing: Functional download/upload tests with xrootd containers #2311

Bugs

• Core & Internals: Configuration: set doesn't work properly if '.' is provided as a value #3283
• Core & Internals: imp / importlib incompatibility #4361

Clients

Bugs

• Clients: replica client: expose signature_lifetime #3972
• Clients: new logger in client broke pilot compatibility #4359

WebUI

Bugs

• WebUI: Account quota cannot be changed if it's not set at all #4080