News / 31 October 2017

iRODS Development Update: October 2017

A release! We did it, and nearly a year in the making. 4.1.11 is out and many small bugfixes are included. Please upgrade if you are on the 4.1.x series.

We are working hard on our demos and talks for SC17 in a couple weeks. RSVP for our SC17 iRODS Workshop today!

The work on a CockroachDB database plugin is moving along nicely. It now builds, installs, and passes nearly the entire iRODS test suite. Once that is complete, we will begin learning some best practices to leverage a truly distributed global namespace.

October Technology Working Group

• Preparing 4.1.11 release

  Done.

• Preparing 4.2.2 release

  All but done - out within a day or so.

• Preparing 4.3.0 development kickoff

  By the end of the year, we hope to select a logging library and begin work on the design of an integrated irodsMonitor process to sit alongside the main irodsServer process.

• Active Development Work

  • Python iRODS Client (PRC)

    • community activity/usage is increasing
    • work on adding SSL
    • preparing 0.7.0
    • https://github.com/irods/python-irodsclient

  • Python Ingest Tool

    • using PRC, Redis Queue, gaining options
    • demo available
    • https://github.com/irods-contrib/irods_tools_ingest

  • Landing Zone Package

    • using the Python Ingest Tool
    • https://github.com/irods-contrib/irods_capability_landing_zone

  • Tiered Storage Demo/Package

    • will be part of the SC17 workshop
    • https://github.com/irods-contrib/irods_capability_tiered_storage

  • CockroachDB Database Plugin

    • now building and installing
    • https://github.com/irods/irods_database_plugin_cockroachdb

  • Ceph RADOS Resource Plugin

    • updated for 4.2
    • awaiting automation in CI
    • https://github.com/irods/irods_resource_plugin_rados

  • Multipart DataObjects, v5 API

    • cleaning up edge cases for multipart transfer
    • refactoring for demo at SC17
    • https://github.com/irods/irods_api_plugin_adapter
    • https://github.com/irods/irods_api_plugin_multipart

• Ongoing Development Work

  • QueryArrow Database Plugin

    • packaging and readying for continuous integration
    • https://github.com/xu-hao/QueryArrow

  • Nestle R Client Library

    • nearly passing in continuous integration
    • https://github.com/irods/irods_client_library_r_cpp

  • Lustre Integration

    • ready for testing
    • https://github.com/irods-contrib/irods_tools_lustre

  • Swagger REST API

    • working demo with metadata templates
    • https://github.com/irods-contrib/irods_rest_services

• Upcoming Releases

  • Cloud Browser (shibboleth, permissions)
  • AMQP Audit Rule Engine Plugin (awaiting iRODS 4.2.2)

Upcoming Working Groups

• Packaging (community standards, externals)

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Terrell Russell