Bug fix release 5.0.1

[simonmichal]

Dear XRootD community,

I'm planning to cut the first RC for 5.0.1 this week hence I'm creating this issue so we have a place where we can discuss the upcoming release.

The stable branch has been already updated:
https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/tree/stable-5.0.x

Here's the full list of new commits in the upcoming release:

e3d51e3 Merge pull request #1261 from ellert/one-definition-rule
3701833 Merge pull request #1258 from ellert/remove-space-end-of-line-in-cfg
9655fd5 [HTTP] Make "tlsreuse off" the default.
0080f0b Update notes on scaler forward port.
453d543 [SSI] Forward port LSST request scaler with auto-tuning.
da7d2c8 Merge pull request #1264 from ffurano/master
2739ffb Escape pathnames in HTTP and XML responses
d362769 Add forward declaration to fix one definition rule (ODR) violation
bd62382 set XrdSecEntity.uid/gid in xrootdfs
c742cb3 Remove space at end of line in config
d40eda7 Merge pull request #1242 from pkramp/HTTPCmsRedirLocal
455270b Merge pull request #1257 from ellert/no-sysdns
54e2b62 Merge pull request #1256 from ellert/sanitize
56a2bbf Merge pull request #1253 from ellert/fix-typo-in-rpm-scriptlet
5c87c88 No XrdSysDNS in xrootd 5 - remove include
8854a1f Fix XrdOucUtils::Sanitize not sanitizing the first character in the string
1802ed7 Update notes on cmsd adminpath patch.
0d68500 [CMS] Use correct adminpath for creating Unix socket. Fixes #1255
a3d7d74 Fix typo in rpm scriptlet
d71828c Updat notes on cert handling patch.
0502217 [HTTP] Correctly handle certs relative to refcount to avoid SEGV.
0410734 Update noes on session cache enablement and http.tlsreuse directive.
a4e156d [HTTP] Enable session cache by default, provide http.tlsreuse directve.
d192d98 Switch to safer comparisons for protocol checks
6384fc1 Update notes on affinity algorithm reimplementation.
d041553 [cmsd] Reimplement affinity algorithm using verified LSST mechanism.
74e8aeb Merge pull request #1250 from olifre/tpc-nullptr-deref
2f42758 Apart from checking for port < 0, also check for file:// protocol before redirecting to local filesystem
f337e43 [TPC] Fix potential null pointer dereference on Push.
e76af17 Merge pull request #1238 from esindril/xrdhttp_proxy_handling_v5
ff51d2f Merge pull request #1234 from djw8605/fstream-buff
69f3e34 Update notes on Xcache malloc() abort fix.
28e19bd [Xcache] Add missing initializer to avoid malloc() abort.
48a59b3 Update notes on packet sequence fix.
9baea65 [Mon] Rationalize UDP packet sequence numbers.
ee625b0 Update notes on VOMS and GSI fixes.
542eb4e [VOMS] Correct use of undocumented API that caused hang w/ dbg. Fixes #1245
53b0761 [GSI] Use the storage deallocator that matches the allocator.
1ba7a66 [Docs] Sync release notes.
ab9b328 [XrdHttp] Add "required" parameter to the http.secxtractor and http.gridmap configuration directives
0e1dce4 [XrdCrypto][XrdHttp] Extract DN from user (proxy, multi-proxy) certificate and properly handle the gridmap-file functionality when accessing through HTTP
9364927 [CI] Set DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive for Ubuntu builds.
52834b9 Merge pull request #1235 from esindril/xrdhttp_voms_params
f722922 [CI] Replace ubuntu eoan build with focal.
70bffc3 [XrdCl] Update TPC tests.
f4a289c Allow redirect to local filesystem when using HTTP
ffa0dec Change names to fbsz
c189501 [XrdHttp][XrdVoms] Pass parameters specified in the http.secxtractor down the chain
05a74f0 Adding fbuff argument to monitoring to restrict maximum size of fstream packet

Please let me know if there are any show stoppers?

Cheers,
Michal

[simonmichal]

Tentative release notes are available at:
https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/blob/stable-5.0.x/docs/ReleaseNotes.txt

[simonmichal]

Dear All,

The XRootD 5.0.1 bugfix release has been tagged last Friday. Please follow the link below for more details:
http://xrootd.org/2020/08/12/announcement_5_0_1.html

Sincerely,
Michal