v7.6.0

Highlights

For Users

• [Breaking Change] – Removed the deprecated Federation.NamespaceURL parameter. This will cause failures if a user is still using that value as opposed to Federation.RegistryURL
• [Experimental] – Adds a local whole-file-only cache which works over a Unix domain socket
• [Client] Multiple uploads and downloads are always done in parallel
• Federation discovery download failures are marked as retryable

For Admins

• [Breaking Change] – Removed the redacted Federation.NamespaceURL parameter. This will cause failures if a user is still using that value as opposed to Federation.RegistryURL
• [Documentation] – Added documentation for serving a registry and director to the website
• [Documentation] – Added documentation for setting up Grafana to visualize metrics collected on Pelican servers
• [General] – We now build separate images for each Pelican server module
• [Origin] – S3 origins no longer require a bucket to be specified
• [General] – Fixed a bug where Prometheus token didn’t renew and caused 403 errors at the origin and cache servers
• [General] – We now allow edits of Pelican server configurations via the web UI
• [Registry] – Improved web UI for namespace registration and management
• [Cache] – Added a Cache.Concurrency parameter to limit the number of connections to a cache
• [General] – Fixed a bug where XrootD process leaks when Pelican server encounters error at its start
• [Cache] – Cache’s can now start with a list a accepted namespaces they will accept origin data from
• [Origin] – Origins now support multiple exports with different authorization configurations