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1.29.0

Long Term Support (LTS)​

This release marks the start of the 1.29 Long Term Support (LTS) release line. This release line will be supported with security and critical patches until at least July 2024.

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. Introduction of the availability_read, availability_write and availability_delete columns in rses table. This will replace the availability column in a later release. (Alembic revision 1677d4d803c8)

  2. Extend refresh_token column in tokens table. (Alembic revision fa7a7d78b602)

  3. Drop third_party_copy column in rse_protocols table. (Alembic revision d6e2c3b2cf26)

  4. Creation of several global temporary tables on Oracle. (Alembic revision f41ffe206f37)

  5. Migration of RSE Settings (city, region_code, country_name, continent, time_zone, ISP) from rses table to rse_attr_map; These columns will be dropped from rses in a future release. (Alembic revision 2190e703eb6e)

Important changes​

  • This release drops the, long deprecated, DQ2 compatibility clients.

  • Full removal of Python 2.7 compatibility. If you require Python 2.7 compatibility on the clients side, please consider the Rucio 1.26 LTS release line which will still be supported until mid-2023.

General​

Features​

  • Core & Internals: Passing scope to construct_surl() #4836
  • Database: Further integration of temporary tables to other major workflows #5441
  • Documentation: Fix client API documentation page #5444
  • Messaging: Hermes 2 evolution #4610
  • Release management: Removal of Python 2.7 dependencies from the code #5435

Enhancements​

  • Authentication & Authorisation: Replace deprecated oauth2client dependency #5343
  • Core & Internals: Replace dependency python-memcached #5341
  • Core & Internals: Calculation of container length and events #5422
  • Core & Internals: Cannot update continent attribute of RSE #5464
  • Core & Internals: rucio-admin rse update shows no error for unsupported options #5491
  • Database: Add poolclass configuration options for database engine #5391
  • Database: Add additional operators in metadata filter engine for Oracle #5503
  • Database: global temp table detection query is costly on oracle #5714
  • Documentation: Further OIDC and SSO optimization and documentation #5437
  • Metadata: Using plugin ALL or JSON returns DataIdentifierNotFound if json metadata is not set #4512
  • Remove third_party_copy column #5634
  • Introduce a heartbeat handler to kronos #5685
  • Protocols: Remove legacy S3 protocols and libraries #5346
  • Protocols: Check before deleting with GFAL #5622
  • Recovery: Heartbeat handler for bad_replicas daemons #5562
  • Recovery: Create rules for suspicious replicas with only one declaration #5591
  • Testing: mypy static code analysis #4455

Bugs​

  • Cache detection code results in wrong logging level #5697
  • global temporary tables not used on oracle #5710
  • Transfers: Logic error in FTS3 transfertool checksum validation strategy #5670

Clients​

Features​

  • Clients: Remove DQ2 Client #5584

Bugs​

  • Clients: Config not found RuntimeError in version 1.29.0rc1 #5704

WebUI​

Enhancements​

  • WebUI: Make subscriptions page real-time #5583