News / 05 March 2025

iRODS 4.3.4 is released


The iRODS Consortium and RENCI are pleased to announce iRODS 4.3.4.

This release primarily focuses on preparing the ground for the initial release of iRODS 5 by introducing more deprecations, fixing bugs, and cleaning up implementations.

The biggest news of this release is that imiscsvrinfo has been updated to report SSL/TLS certificate information, if in use.  This is made possible due to enhancements to the rcGetMiscSvrInfo API endpoint.  Keep in mind that this requires the client to have a proper client-side configuration.

This release consists of 94 commits from 6 contributors and closed 134 issues marked for 4.3.4.

The latest binary packages for AlmaLinux8, RockyLinux9, Ubuntu20, Ubuntu22, Ubuntu24, Debian11, and Debian12 are available at https://packages.irods.org/.

The release notes include:

Changed

  • Improve documentation (#2600, #7622, #7701, #7784, #7952, #8000).

  • Return errors on one-sided encryption in parallel transfer (#4984).

  • Improve testing (#6421, #7412, #7491, #7795, #7990, #8046, #8047, #8183, #8185, #8247).

  • Clean up code (#5800, #6972).

  • Remove unnecessary code - source files, functions, declarations, header includes, etc (#6043, #6234, #6546, #7919, #7942, #8010, #8133, #8201, #8204).

  • Replace use of externals-provided libarchive with distro-provided libarchive (#6250, #7286).

  • Improve CMake (#6319, #6584).

  • Update clang-format / clang-tidy configuration (#6970, #7313, #7751, #7821, #7822).

  • Remove ACLs following removal of user (#7778).

  • Migrate GitHub workflows to Ubuntu 24.04 (#7823).

  • Expand permission levels supported by atomic ACL operations API (#7913).

  • Reduce log noise (#7953).

  • Remove installation of packedRei directory from CMakeLists.txt (#7993).

  • Install msiExecCmd_bin/hello script as a template (#7994).

  • Replace stacktrace with user-friendly error message in itree (#8082).

  • Improve GenQuery2 parser's handling of whitespace sequences (#8182).

  • Add json_events.hpp header file to development package (#8200).

Removed

  • Remove CentOS 7 build from GitHub workflows (#7968).

Deprecated

  • Deprecate ilocate (#2524).

  • Deprecate igetwild (#2525).

  • Deprecate creation or modification of user having rodsgroup type in GeneralAdmin API (#2978).

  • Deprecate modification of ACL policy (#6843).

  • Deprecate GeneralRowInsert and GeneralRowPurge (#7608).

  • Deprecate update_deprecated_database_columns.py (#7835).

  • Deprecate imeta qu (#7959).

  • Deprecate imeta interactive mode (#7961).

  • Deprecate server monitoring microservices (#7977).

  • Deprecate DataObjLock and DataObjUnlock (#7979).

  • Deprecate unused global variables in resource manager implementation. (#8042).

  • Deprecate fillGenQueryInpFromStrCond (#8088).

  • Deprecate forkAndExec (#8109).

Fixed

  • Avoid SIGABRT by setting pointers to null after deallocation (#3581).

  • Use ProcessType to detect server vs pure client (#6684).

  • Rework logic in _cllExecSqlNoResult to return proper error codes (#7440, #7599).

  • Fix flex warning for GenQuery2 lexer rules (#7685).

  • Validate and reject invalid zone names (#7722).

  • Return non-zero exit code from iadmin on failure (#7734).

  • Remove undefined reference to variable in exception (#7752).

  • Ignore SIGPIPE so agents do not terminate immediately (#7933, #7934).

  • Change if-statement so ticket use-count is only updated on first pass (#7967).

  • Write client and proxy user info to ips data file in correct order (#8001).

  • Modify JSON schema file to enforce required attributes of controlled_user_connection_list (#8017).

  • Use std::tolower with std::transform correctly (#8045).

  • Fix error handling logic for heartbeat operation (#8050).

  • Return error on invalid GenQuery1 aggregate function (#8080).

  • Return error on nonexistent target for write functions in iRODS Rule Language (#8095).

  • Clean up memory in rsDataObjChksum, various endpoints, and iCommands (#8106).

  • Correct narrowing of floating point values (#8110).

  • Remove constructor from Cache data type in iRODS Rule Language to allow for memset (#8111).

  • Avoid segfault in rcDisconnect (#8120).

  • Fix libstdc++ linker error for ienv, ierror, and ipwd on EL8 (#8122).

  • Fix GenQuery2 column mappings for user zone (#8134).

  • Use correct GenQuery2 table aliases for permissions (#8135).

  • Fix nullptr to function argument and unsigned overflow (#8153).

  • Fix read/write loop in istream (#8166).

  • Clear rodsPathInp_t instead of freeing memory (#8221).

  • Add support for order_asc keyword to GenQuery1 string parser (#8249).

Added

  • Add dedicated keywords for creating groups via GeneralAdmin API (#2978).

  • Make checksum buffer size configurable (#7947).

  • Provide way for clients to obtain SSL/TLS certificate information (#7986).

  • Add support for Undefined Behavior Sanitizer (#8090).

Alongside the core packages included in 4.3.4, the following plugins have been updated for compatibility:

  • irods-authentication-plugin-pam-interactive
  • irods-microservice-plugins-curl
  • irods-resource-plugin-s3
  • irods-rule-engine-plugin-audit-amqp
  • irods-rule-engine-plugin-elasticsearch
  • irods-rule-engine-plugin-indexing
  • irods-rule-engine-plugin-logical-quotas
  • irods-rule-engine-plugin-metadata-guard
  • irods-rule-engine-plugin-python
  • irods-rule-engine-plugin-unified-storage-tiering
Kory Draughn