News / 01 November 2018

iRODS 4.1.12 is released


The iRODS Consortium and RENCI are pleased to announce iRODS 4.1.12.

This is mainly a bugfix release which addresses various replication and iscan/ifsck issues and provides additional debugging and visibility tooling for administrators.

This release will be the last in the 4.1 series. The 4-1-stable branch is now EOL.

CentOS6 packages are no longer supported (Our test framework requires Python 2.7+).

This release consists of 39 commits from 3 contributors and closed 36 issues.

The 4.1.12 packages are available at https://files.renci.org/pub/irods/releases/4.1.12/.

The release notes include:

** Enhancements **

  • Add ichksum admin mode [#3265]

  • Add retry capability to replication resource [#3436] [#3746]

  • Add visibility for active rebalance operations [#3683]

  • Add enhanced_logging=1 option to server_config.json (4.1-only) [#3927]

** Bug Fixes **

  • Fix iscan exit code [#3256]

  • Marked as resolved/invalid [#3317] [#3719] [#3773] [#3789] [#3832] [#4106] [#4143]

  • Fix iscan for data in resource hierarchies [#3418] [#3419]

  • Fix ifsck for data in resource hierarchies [#3503] [#4107]

  • Fix rebalance operation to avoid data arriving after invocation [#3665]

  • Fix iscan to report missing zero-length files [#3681]

  • Fix MySQL case errors in group queries [#3717]

  • Marked as wontfix [#3759]

  • Fix uninitialized variables in datetimef() rule [#3767]

  • Documentation for decommissioning a resource [#3821]

  • Add testing for bad/corrupt file systems [#3854]

  • Fix database statement handling [#3862] [#4105]

  • Fix data placement logic with replication resources [#3904] [#3909]

  • Fix behavior in presence of root directory (/) used a vault path [#3928]

  • Fix icommands to report to ips correctly [#3991]

  • Fix iscan to page correctly when missing files detected [#4029]

  • Fix to only trigger replication when data changes [#4085] [#4099] [#4110]

  • Fix zone detection for federated clients [#4100]


Terrell Russell