Announcing OSG Software versions 3.2.13 and 3.1.37

We are pleased to announce OSG Software versions 3.2.13 and 3.1.37.

This high priority release addresses urgent problems that sites are
currently experiencing.

OSG 3.2.13 and 3.1.37 contain:
- Fixed HTCondor Gratia probe to properly account for grid jobs
- Fixed HTCondor CE startup when using a very recent version of HTCondor

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

https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release3213
https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release3137

Need help? Let us know:

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

We welcome feedback on this release!

GOC Power and Network Maintenance Tuesday, July 29

The GOC would like to announce a special maintenace window on Tuesday, July 29 from 12:00 to 21:00 UTC. Please note this is the fifth Tuesday of July. The maintenace is required to physically move several servers to satisfy network, power and space constraints and install new equipment. No outages of production services is anticipated, but physical access to racks containing production servers is required.

GOC Service Update - Tuesday, July 22nd at 13:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014 at 13:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 hours in the unlikely event that unexpected problems are encountered.

OSG Repo (repo.grid.iu.edu)
Update mash files to include non-release el7 repos (osg-3.2-el7-development, -testing, etc.)

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.

Announcing OSG Software versions 3.2.12 and 3.1.36

We are pleased to announce OSG Software versions 3.2.12 and 3.1.36.

OSG will include CAs conforming to IGTF accredited IOTA (Identifier-Only
Trust Assurance) profiles starting with this release.

OSG 3.2.12 contains:
- Update to HTCondor CE 1.2
- Update to HTCondor 8.0.7
- A fix for file corruption when using parallel transfers in gridftp-hdfs

OSG 3.2.12 ang 3.1.36 contain:
- Updated CA certificates (IGTF 1.58)
- VO Package V55
- A fix for the BeStMan initialization script
- nmap is no longer required by osg-client
- Improvements to osg-configure
- Improvements to osg-pki-tools

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

https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release3212
https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release3136

Need help? Let us know:

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

We welcome feedback on this release!

GOC Service Update - Tuesday, July 8th, 2014 at 13:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, July 8th, 2014 at 13:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 hours in the unlikely event that unexpected problems are encountered.

OIM / GOC-TX / MyOSG
Moving github.com and updating release mechanism

GOC Ticket 1.78
Added check for missing ccs on tickets REST interface
Added fontawesome CDN
Added links to goc ticket RSS feed
Updated GGUS Test URL for ggus1 GOC-TX target
Updated Footprint model so that security/_notification creation / update will not send notification directly to customer / CCs (GOC ticket will send signed email to customer / CCs. Assignee will continue to receive emails directly)
Made description template to load only if the desc area is empty (TICKET-63)
Made Email model to use goc@ as from address by default
Added php notice suppressor for CustomController
(patched) fixed various issues found for RSS feed

Internal DNS/LDAP Improvements
Deploying dnsmasq as a caching-only nameserver on all hosts in order to speed DNS queries and insulate against outages
Shortening DNS and LDAP query timeouts to improve failover performance in case of outages
Rebuilding secondary internal DNS/LDAP server so as to ensure its consistency
Installing primary internal DNS/LDAP server on a different host, one with a single RAID-6 array