Announcing OSG Software version 3.1.24

We are pleased to announce OSG Software version 3.1.24!

This is the new OSG Software distributed via RPMs for:

* Scientific Linux 5 and 6
* CentOS 5 and 6
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6

This release affects the clients, compute elements, and storage elements.

Changes in the osg-release repository include

* Many bug fixes to the osg-configure package
* osg-ce now includes frontier-squid
* osg-configure warns when frontier-squid is not configured
* Completion of the Java 7 migration

Release notes and pointers to more documentation can be found at:

https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release3124

Need help? Let us know:

https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/HelpProcedure

We welcome feedback on this release!

GOC Services Update - Tuesday, September 24th, 2013 at 13:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, September 24th, 2013 at 13:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 hours in the unlikely event that unexpected problems are encountered. We encourage users to test affected services before the production release.

OIM 3.23
* Switch from jre-1.6.0-openjdk to java-1.7.0-openjdk
* Added notification suppression for host certificate request tickets if submitter is GridAdmin for the request.

MyOSG 2.16
* Updated various gratia accounting graph names to make it clear that the numbers are wall hours - not cpu hours (MYOSG-70)
* Updating to the latest Perfsonar Matrix jQuery - to fix table width issue.

GOC-TX 1.32
* Upgrading to openjdk 1.7.0
* Adding Jira accessor / converter with GOC Ticket (GOCTX-1)

Ticket 1.68
* Fixed an issue with Login button on some browsers having trouble redirecting to https.
* Added support for notification suppressor for REST interface
* Added capability to override ticket ID displayed on ticket exchange (for Jira). Added jiratest TX config.
* Updated empty object check for search controller throwing php notice

GratiaWeb 1.2-14
* Gratia query that show usage by ProjectName across OSG sites (GratiaWeb-56)
* ProjectName Daily WallHours per Site (GratiaWeb-36)


All Services

There will be OS updates; reboots will be required. Downtime should be minimal, and the usual high-availability mechanisms will be used to reduce service downtime even further and eliminate it in most cases. However, services may experience degraded performance, and the services without HA mechanisms (OIM and Twiki) will still experience brief downtimes.
We will also be switching to sssd rather than nss_ldap/pam_ldap for user authentication on all RHEL5 systems; this will provide scalability and flexibility in security as well as consistency with the RHEL6 systems, which already run sssd rather than nss_ldap/pam_ldap. This will affect only shell logins on systems located at OSG Operations. Locally-defined user logins will be unaffected in any case; we will be moving some of those users to LDAP over time.

Announcing OSG Software version 3.1.23

We are pleased to announce OSG Software version 3.1.23!

This is the new OSG Software distributed via RPMs for:

* Scientific Linux 5 and 6
* CentOS 5 and 6
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6

This release affects the clients, compute elements, and storage elements.

Changes in the osg-release repository include

* Migration of packages from using Oracle Java 6 to OpenJDK 7
* Initial release of osg-control
* VO Package v47

Changes in the osg-upcoming-release include:

* HTCondor-CE
* HTCondor 8.0.2

Release notes and pointers to more documentation can be found at:

https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release3123

Need help? Let us know:

https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/HelpProcedure

We welcome feedback on this release!

OASIS Outage

At approximately 7:00 (eastern) the file catalog of the top level oasis server was damaged making files appear to be missing. The root cause is understood, no user files were lost and recovery is underway. It is currently estimated complete recovery may take up to 24 hours.

The GOC apologizes for any inconvenience.

GOC Services Update - Tuesday, September 10th at 13:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, September 10th, 2013 at 13:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 hours in the unlikely event that unexpected problems are encountered. We encourage users to test affected services before the production release.


OIM 3.22
* Updating fields to display under project list view on VO / CampusGrid.
* Fixed duplicate user comment issue for cancel(), and fixed missing user comment issue for re-request()


Confluence
* Upgrading to version 5.2.3 (https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+5.2+Release+Notes)


SSH (All Hosts)
* Password authentication for all hosts at OSG Operations will be disabled. Authentication will be via SSH keys only. Primarily this affects only OSG Operations staff, but for those few with shell access to OSG Operations hosts, please forward your SSH public key to thomlee@iu.edu to continue to be able to connect.