The iRODS Consortium and RENCI are pleased to announce iRODS 4.2.2.
This is largely a bugfix release which addresses a few important use cases for the community and a stronger foundation for new plugins.
This release includes support for the iRODS Audit (AMQP) rule engine plugin. The Audit rule engine plugin requires upgrading to 4.2.2.
This release consists of 77 commits from 7 contributors and closed 39 issues marked for 4.2.2 and an additional 56 closed issues included in the recent 4.1.11 release.
The latest binary packages for CentOS6, CentOS7, Ubuntu12, Ubuntu14, and Ubuntu16 are available at https://packages.irods.org/.
Features
Enable more flexible plugin factory functions [#3703]
Generate relocatable RPMs [#3618]
Bug Fixes
Fixes for memory management [#3178] [#3184] [#3587] [#3605] [#3640] [#3641] [#3644] [#3649] [#3656]
Questions about REPF, byte range support, and tiny files [#3431] [#3471] [#3521]
Better documentation [#3442] [#3597]
Fix for REPF writeLine support using expected location [#3477] [#3638]
Fix for too-often expensive replication [#3525]
Fix for CMake linker flags [#3552]
Fix for logs being written to older logfile [#3563]
Fix for rebalance batching behavior [#3570]
Fix for type checker in iRODS Rule Language [#3575] [#3632]
Fixes for test harness [#3577] [#3579]
Fix for upgrade process [#3578]
Fix for exception handling [#3596]
Fix for iadmin modrescdatapaths [#3598]
Fixes for imeta output [#3600] [#3606]
Fix for logging when environment file is missing [#3608]
Fix for REPF start and stop operations [#3619]
Fix for detecting changes to rulefiles [#3651]
Fix for ireg and recursive checksums [#3662]
Fix for irsync with fully qualified paths [#3663]
Fix for logging PAM activity too often [#3673]
Fix for unattended setup via json file [#3704]
Alongside the core packages included in 4.2.2, the following plugins have been upgraded for compatibility:
We are planning to publish a full compatibility matrix soon as there are now a number of combinations where server version and plugin version matter.