News / 01 October 2025

iRODS 5.0.2 is released


The iRODS Consortium and RENCI are pleased to announce iRODS 5.0.2.

This release adds support for Enterprise Linux 10 and Debian 13. With that comes bug fixes and improvements for irsync, GenQuery2, unattended installation, physical quotas, etc.

Important updates regarding the plugins:

  • Plugin version numbers now follow three segments instead of four, aligning with semantic versioning (X.Y.Z instead of X.Y.Z.W).
  • Plugin versioning is independent of the server version. Keep in mind that package names include the version of the development library used during the build.

The latest binary packages for Enterprise Linux 9, Enterprise Linux 10, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, Debian 12, and Debian 13 are available at https://packages.irods.org/.

The release notes include:

Changed

  • Update help text for itouch and irepl to be more explicit (#4687, #8454, #8673).
  • Do not print stacktrace when irods_environment.json file is not readable (#8083).
  • Document SIGHUP signal in server binary's help text (#8582).
  • Invoke fileNotify when closing replica (#8586, irods/irods_resource_plugin_s3#2146).
  • Detect zombie processes during shutdown and warn the administrator (#8588).
  • Create stored procedures for MySQL using ODBC directly (#8601, #8686).
  • Include access time grid configuration options in help text for iadmin (#8630).

Fixed

  • Fix renaming of collections containing multi-byte characters (#6239).
  • Maintain appropriate permissions for msiExecCmd_bin directory on package upgrade (#6671).
  • Do not create target collections or directories during dry-run of irsync (#7774).
  • Fix irsync's handling of ALL_KW when targeting a single data object (#8295).
  • Limit max value of maximum_size_for_single_buffer_in_megabytes for DataObjGet API (#8373).
  • Improve irsync's handling for checksum errors (#8384).
  • Fix GenQuery2's ability to find objects lacking user permissions (#8546).
  • Do not prompt for server's FQDN, hostname, or IP during unattended installation (#8577).
  • Define IRODS_EXTERNALS_FULLPATH_JSONCONS variable in CMake configuration (#8581).
  • Fix help text for igroupadmin (#8583).
  • Fix irsync's handling of overwrites and checksums involving stale replicas (#8590).
  • Show correct help text for iadmin h <subcommand> (#8597).
  • Remove all existing usage entries when recalculating physical quotas (#8633).
  • Make imiscsvrinfo report an error when connected to a server older than 4.3.4 (#8653).
  • Do not stacktrace on detection of server downgrade (#8676).
  • Do not invoke SysV init commands in packaging-related scripts (#8684).

Added

  • Add support for Enterprise Linux 10 (#8099, #8454).
  • Add support for Debian 13 (#8596).

Full GitHub commit history for the iRODS server
Full GitHub commit history for the iCommands

Kory Draughn