v5.6.9

• Minor bug fixes
  [Python] Check list of files in prepare to ensure they are strings
  [Python] Fix iteration over a file with Python3
  [Python] Use int for 'force' in File::Stat (#2208)
  [Utils] Correct comparison that wrongly missed reaping certain directives
  [XrdCl] Fix logic error when upgrading connections to TLS
  [XrdCl] Stop Poller before TaskManager (fixes rare crashes at shutdown)
  [XrdHttpTPC] Fix 500 server response code if X-Number-Of-Streams > 100 (issue #2186)
  [XrdSciTokens] Add stat permissions to create, modify and write operations (issue #2185)
  [XrdSciTokens] Allow creation of parent directories if necessary (#2184)
  [XrdSciTokens] Fix bug when scope includes basepath or / (issue #2132)

• Miscellaneous
  [Tests] Optimize cluster configuration to speedup tests

Full Changelog: v5.6.8...v5.6.9

v5.6.8

• Minor bug fixes
  [RPM] Create systemd tmpfiles at post-install step
  [XrdCl] Only claim to be TLS capable if TLS initialization succeeds (issue #2020)
  [XrdCl] Only consider an endpoint TLS-enabled if the connection is encrypted
  [XrdCl] Remove duplicates from URL list to avoid undefined behavior
  [XrdHttpTPC] Fix infinite loop when scitags packet marking is enabled (issue #2192)
  [XrdPosix,XrdSecztn] Fix build on FreeBSD (issue #2090)
  [XrdTls] Fix automatic renewal of server certificate with OpenSSL>=1.1 (issue #1678)

• Miscellaneous
  [CMake] Use CTest module in test.cmake and optionally submit to CDash
  [RPM] Install the client as dependency of main RPM
  [Server] Fix clang compile warnings

Full Changelog: v5.6.7...v5.6.8

v5.6.7

• Major bug fixes
  [XrdCl] Fix crash at teardown when using copies with multiple streams (issue #2164)
  [XrdSecsss] Fix buffer overrun when serializing credentials (issue #2143)

• Minor bug fixes
  [XrdCl] Fix TPC initialization to take into account control stream (issue #2164)
  [XrdPosix] Fix ordering of debug levels in pss.setop DebugLevel (#2183)
  [XrdTpc] Properly handle creation of packet marking handles when socket is not yet connected (#2179)

• Miscellaneous
  [XrdHeaders] Install XrdSfsFAttr.hh as private header

Full Changelog: v5.6.6...v5.6.7

v5.6.6

• Major bug fixes
  [XrdHttp] Fix PostProcessHttpReq to take into account User-Agent setting (#2173, fixes #2154)

• Minor bug fixes
  [Server] Set TZ environment variable to avoid race conditions (issue #2107)
  [XrdCl] Treat errOperationInterrupted as a recoverable error (issue #2169)

Full Changelog: v5.6.5...v5.6.6

v5.6.5

• Major bug fixes
  [XrdTpc] Fix potential segmentation fault when creating packet marking handle (issue #2161)

• Minor bug fixes
  [XrdSecgsi] Fix compilation with GCC 14 (#2165)
  [XrdSys] Include <byteswap.h> for BSD and GNU/Hurd (#2149)

• Miscellaneous
  [Server] Align monitoring ID with HTTP (issue #2133)
  [XrdCrypto] Skip check of our standard DH parameters (issue #2162)
  [XrdHttp] Send User-Agent as part of monitoring info (#2154)

Full Changelog: v5.6.4...v5.6.5

Known Issues: HTTP transfers are failing due to #2154. A fix is being prepared and will be released in a new patch release soon.

v5.6.4

• Major bug fixes
  [XrdHttp] Fix segfault with macaroons (issue #2114)
  [XrdPss] Fix segfault if pss.origin uses https protocol with no port (issue #2140)

• Minor bug fixes
  [CMake] Fix include path in XRootDConfig.cmake (#2142)
  [Headers] Fix header dependencies and missing includes/declarations (#2119)
  [Server] Initialize pidFN to pidpath base directory if an error occurs
  [XrdCl] Don't try to enable TCP_CORK in GNU/Hurd (#2115)
  [XrdCl] Reapply fix for null-characters in error output (#2138, issue #1501)
  [XrdEc] Fix alignment issues on SPARC (issue #2131)
  [XrdHttp,XrdNet] Adapt Scitag min and max value to change in spec (#2139)
  [XrdSciTokens] Initialize SecEntity.addrInfo to avoid SEGV (#2128)
  [XrdTls] Switch from using a cert file to a cert chain file (issue #2126)

• Miscellaneous
  [CMake] Install CMake config file into lib/lib64 rather than share (#2116)
  [DEB/RPM] Rewrite packaging for Debian and RHEL based distributions
  [Tests] Convert tests to GoogleTest and run without containers (#2055, CERN Summer Student Project 2023)
  [Tests] Other fixes and improvements to tests (#2115, #2129, #2130, #2137, #2141)

• Known Issues
  [XrdSciTokens] In this release, as in previous ones, using scitokens with the ZTN
  protocol may grant more access than should be allowed by the token scopes (issue #2121).

Full Changelog: v5.6.3...v5.6.4

v5.6.3

XRootD 5.6.3 is a bugfix release which includes the following fixes:

• Minor bug fixes
  [CMake] Export project version in CMake config (issue #2094)
  [CMake] Find only XRootD matching XRootDConfig.cmake installation path
  [Python] Do not use PEP517 by default, not supported on CentOS 7
  [Server] Call tzset() early to ensure thread-safety of localtime_r() and mktime() (issue #2107)
  [Server] Correct maximum exp/act value in XrdNetPMark::getEA
  [Server] Create environment file within adminpath (issue #2106)
  [Server] Fix incorrect patch for authfile parsing (issue #2088)
  [Tests] Skip server checksum query test on unsupported filesystems (issue #2096)
  [XrdCl] Return an error if xrdfs rm fails to delete any file (issue #2097)
  [XrdCms] Try to load blacklist even if some entries are invalid (issue #2092)
  [XrdEc] Wait for pipeline including XrdCl::AppendFile() to finish (issue #2050)
  [XrdHttp] Fix parsing of chunked PUT lengths (#2102, #2103)

• Miscellaneous
  [CMake] Add extra debugging messages in XRootDConfig.cmake
  [CMake] Handle components using more standard method
  [Misc] Fix spelling errors reported by lintian (#2087)
  [Python] Convert pyxrootd installation instructions to rst
  [Server] Export ptr to full TLS context into the Xrd env
  [XrdCeph] Align CMake requirement with main CMakeLists.txt
  [XrdHttp] Implemented HTTP TPC Packet Marking (#2109)
  [XrdHttp] Parse headers provided by the client in case-insensitive way when matching header2cgi keys (#2101)
  [XrdHttp] Promote SciTag header if packet marking has been configured on the server (#2101)
  [XrdSciTokens] Use configured CA path in SciTokens plugin if supported (#2095, #2112)
  [XrdTpc] Differentiate error messages for push/pull TPC transfer modes (issue #2060)

Full Changelog: v5.6.2...v5.6.3

v5.6.2

XRootD 5.6.2 is a bugfix release which includes the following fixes:

• Major bug fixes
  [XrdHttp] Fix chunked PUT creating empty files (issue #2058)

• Minor bug fixes
  [CMake] Update Findlibuuid.cmake to use correct include paths
  [Python] Fix inclusion of markdown README file in documentation (#2057)
  [Server] Align code with actual documentation for auth idspec (issue #2061)
  [XrdCl] Fix flag check for append in XrdClZipArchive
  [XrdCl] Fix promotion of root:// URLs to use TLS encryption (issue #2078)
  [XrdHttp] Correct chunked response for GET with a byte range (issue #2076)
  [XrdHttp] Refactor read issuing during GET and fix read vector too long (issue #1976)
  [XrdSciTokens] Fix logic error in user mapping (issue #2056)
  [XrdSciTokens] Update maximum header size and line length in INI files (issue #2074)
  [XrdSecgsi] Fix crash of xrdgsitest when proxy is not already set
  [XrdSecztn] Fix template for default ZTN token location (issue #2080)
  [XrdTls] Change the thread-id returned to openssl 1.0 to improve performance (issue #2084)
  [XrdTls] Insert CRLs containing critical extensions at the end of the bundle (issue #2065)

• Miscellaneous
  [CMake] Always compile XrdOssCsi (compiled only with GCC before)
  [CMake] Hide build output for isa-l to not confuse CTest
  [CMake] Run tests in parallel and fail build when tests fail
  [Python] Allow build customization via environment variable (issue #2062)
  [Python] Check for Development.Module with CMake 3.18 and above
  [Server] Add initialiser in one of the XrdScheduler constructors (#2081)
  [Server] Default ffdest as per current pmark specification
  [Server] Export readv comma separated limits via XRD_READV_LIMITS envar
  [Server] Implement Linux epoll maxfd limit (#2063)
  [XrdClHttp] Add pgWrite support to the HTTP client plugin
  [XrdHttp] Refactor request statemachine for HTTP GET requests (#2072)
  [XrdTls] Refactor CASet and CRLSet to open the output file only once before the processing

• New Contributors

• @pllopis made their first contribution in #2063.
• @AngeloGalav made their first contribution fixing a bug in commit 3aa91c8.

Full Changelog: v5.6.1...v5.6.2

v5.6.1

XRootD 5.6.1 is a bugfix release which includes the following fixes:

• Minor bug fixes
  [CMake] Fix Findlibuuid.cmake to use kernel provided uuid on macOS (issue #2052)
  [XrdCl] Avoid race in postmaster QueryTransport
  [XrdCl] Add missing argument in call to debug log message.
  This fixes sporadic crashes seen in FTS when debug logging is enabled.
  [XrdCrypto] Avoid race in GetCryptoFactory

• Miscellaneous
  [CMake] Make sure Python is required in PyPI build
  [CMake] Set RPATH that works for binaries and libraries on macOS
  [CMake,Python] Handle RPATH for Python bindings on macOS
  [Python] Use PEP517 by default when building Python bindings

v5.6.0

XRootD 5.6.0 is a feature release which includes the following changes:

• New Features
  [CMake] Modernization of build system, now requires CMake 3.16
  [Client] Add xrdfs cache subcommand to allow for cache evictions
  [Misc] Add support for building with musl libc (issue #1645)
  [Python] Modernization of build system, better support for creating binary wheels,
  properly propagating CXXFLAGS (issues #1768, #1807, #1833, #1844, #2001, #2002)
  [Python] Better handling of unicode strings in the API (issue #2011)
  [Server] Add gsi option to display DN when it differs from entity name
  [Server] Allow generic prepare plug-in to handle large responses (issue #2023)
  [Server] Allow specfication of minimum and maximum creation mode (issue #649)
  [Server] Make maxfd be configurable (default is 256k) (issue #2010)
  [Server] Include token information in the monitoring stream (phase 1).
  [Xcache] Implement a file evict function
  [Xcache,XrdCl] Increase default number of parallel event loops to 10 (#2047)
  [XrdCl] xrdcp: number of parallel copy jobs increased from 4 to 128
  [XrdHttp] Allow XRootD to return trailers indicating failure (#1912)
  [XrdHttp] Denote Accept-Ranges in HEAD response (issue #1889)
  [XrdHttp] Report cache object age for caching proxy mode (#1919)
  [XrdPss] Allow origin to be a directory of a locally mounted file system
  [XrdSciTokens] Implement ability to have the token username as a separate claim (#1978)
  [XrdSecgsi] Use SHA-256 for signatures, and message digest algorithm (issues #1992, #2030)
  [XrdSecztn] Allow option '-tokenlib none' to disable token validation (issue #1895)
  [XrdSecztn] Allow to point to a token file using CGI '?xrd.ztn=tokenfile' (#1926)

• Major bug fixes
  [XrdHttp] Fix SEGV in case request has object for opaque data but no content (#2007)
  [XrdSecgsi] Fix memory leaks in GSI authentication (issue #2021)

• Minor bug fixes
  [Server] Use correct value for testing vector size
  [XrdCl] Fix off by one error in failure recovery check in parallel operation (issue #2040)
  [XrdCl] Fix potential stream timeout when a new request is sent to an idle stream (issue #2042)
  [XrdCl] Do not enforce TLS when --notlsok option is used in combination with root:// URL. This allows falling back to e.g. Kerberos authentication on a server with ZTN plugin enabled if the client has no certificates, hence not able to use TLS (issue #2020)
  [XrdEc] Fix compilation issues and underlinking on macOS
  [XrdHttp] Fix error returned when a client provides too many range requests (issue #2003)
  [XrdHttp] Fix regression where performance markers were missing during an HTTP TPC transfer (#2017)
  [XrdHttp] Return 404 instead of 500 error code on GET request on non-existent file (issue #2018)
  [XrdHttp] Return 405 instead of 500 error code on deletion of non-empty directory (issue #1896)
  [XrdHttp] Update HTTP header handling for chunked encoding and status trailer (#2009)
  [XrdTls] Make sure TLS context is marked invalid if not properly constructed (issue #2020)
  [XrdTls] Fix build failure with latest glibc (#2012)

• Miscellaneous
  [Apps] Make xrdcrc32c consistent with xrdadler32 (issue #2045)
  [CMake] Build option ENABLE_CRYPTO has been removed. OpenSSL is always required with XRootD 5 (issue #1827)
  [CMake] New test.cmake script added to automate configure/build/test cycle
  [CMake] Fix build with link-time optimizations on 32bit systems (issue #2032)
  [docs] Update READMEs, contribution, installation, and testing documentation
  [Misc] Fix warnings from Clang compiler (#1997)
  [Misc] Add sandboxing settings to systemd service files (initially commented out) (issue #2033)
  [Server] Also check for IPv6 ULA's to determine if an address is private
  [Tests] New script xrd-docker added to automate running of dockerized tests (#1974)
  [XProtocol] Add fallthrough statement for ENOTEMPTY errno code mapping
  [XRootD] Update code to no longer rely on using namespace std; (needed to support C++17)
  [XrdCeph] Submodule merged back into main repository (#2008)
  [XrdCeph] Minor build system updates and integration with main repository
  [XrdCrypto] Switch to a fixed set of DH parameters compatible with older OpenSSL (issue #2014)

  Full Changelog: v5.5.5...v5.6.0

  See also all issues and pull requests in this release in the 5.6 milestone.