37.0.0rc3

Release Candidate

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Messaging: factorize duplicate messaging code into a common module or class #6423
Monitoring & Traces: Ability to submit traces in bulk #7368

Core & Internals: Remove C3PO daemon #6872
Core & Internals: Minor checksum improvements #7488
Database: Create context managers for database session handling to replace current *_session decorators #7407
Database: SQLA 2.0: remove deprecated future=True flags that were used during migration #7433
Deletion: Reaper - Do not exit when no RSE are found #7471
Deletion: Reaper - Remove deprecated aternative spelling for options #7474
Life time model: add_lifetime_exception summary: refactor dict keys into proper names #7443
Messaging: Add services into messages_history table #7181
Metadata: Elasticsearch metadata plugin #6059
Metadata: Improve MongoDB connection parameter handling and validation #7217
Policies: Remove LIGO and Xenon lfn2pfn algorithms from main code #7187
Policies: Standardize permission policy check logic #7206
Protocols: Remove gsiftp.py #7347
Release management: Release 37 dependency upgrade #7455
Release management: Remove match_define_requirements #7463
Release management: Publish wheels #7546
Testing: Allow only one concurrent GitHub Action per PR #7401
Testing: Replace flake8 and pylint in run_tests.sh with ruff #7467
Transfers: Activity passing in Tape REST API during tape staging missing for davs/https protocol missing #7451

Authentication & Authorisation: Restricted (oidc) token size limiting group membership #7136
Database: psycopg2-binary should not be used in production - psycopg2 should be used instead #6669
Database: Database migration scripts do not pass the Ruff check #7295
Messaging: Unused older rows in the messages table prevents newer messages for other functional services from being delivered #6684
Messaging: Receiver can’t connect to message broker #7583
Messaging: Hermes doesn’t deliver messages to ActiveMQ #7584
Metadata: get_metadata_bulk does only look at JSON metadata #6455
Multi VO: Script to convert a single-VO to multi-VO instance fails #7390
Policies: ATLAS policy is set when no permission option is defined in cfg under policy #7332
Protocols: Avoid GFAL error when exists(None) is called. #7398
REST & API: API identity put calls don't fail if email or identity key name are not passed, despite them being required by the SQLA model #7448
Release management: Docker build failures due to missing setuptools #7524
Testing: TC006 Ruff errors in CI #7491
Testing: test-curl tests fails in dev envoriments #7507

Clients: New CLI: retrieving the list of parent DIDs should be under the ‘list’ command #7233
Clients: New CLI: Replace argparse with Click #7253