Friday, June 24, 2016

OSG website available

Colleagues,

The OSG Website (https://www.opensciencegrid.org/) was unavailable due to maintenance. No other operations services were affected.  System engineers restored service at approximately 10:34am Eastern.  We apologize for any inconvenience this caused.

OSG website currently unavailable

The OSG Website (https://www.opensciencegrid.org/) is currently unavailable due to maintenance. No other operations services are affected at this time.  System engineers are currently working to restore service.  We will let you know when things have returned to normal.  Sorry for any inconvenience.

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

GOC Service Update Tuesday, June 28th at 13:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, June 28th at 13:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 hours in the unlikely event unexpected problems are encountered.

GratiaWeb
Adding PNG image generation capability

OIM
Adding error handling for CILogon errors during cert request

Repo
Updating mash configuration files

WWW
Adding rate limiter to minimize DoS possibilities
Disabling a vulnerable service component

All Services
Operating system updates; reboots will be required.
The usual HA mechanisms will be used, but some services will experience brief outages.

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Announcing OSG Software versions 3.3.13 and 3.2.39

We are pleased to announce OSG Software versions 3.3.13 and 3.2.39.

NOTE: There is a known incompatibility between GlideinWMS and HTCondor
8.4.7 and 8.5.5. Please read the release notes for further details.

Both 3.3.13 and 3.2.39 include:
* CA certificates based on IGTF 1.74

Changes to OSG 3.3.13 include:
* GridFTP-HDFS: improve buffering and avoid deadlocks
* CVMFS 2.2.3: bug fix for chunked files
* jGlobus: patched to reduce resource consumption, no need to restart BeStMan
* HTCondor 8.4.7: bug fixes
* BLAHP 1.18.20: dynamic environment variables, multi-core HTCondor jobs
* RSV: support for CREAM and NorduGrid
* GUMS: Now available on EL7 platforms!
* BeStMan: minor improvements (see notes) and a new OSG code base
* HTCondor 8.5.5 in the Upcoming repository
* CVMFS 2.3.0 in the Upcoming repository

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

Documentation Release3: Release3313
Documentation Release3: Release3239

Need help? Let us know:

Documentation Release3: HelpProcedure

We welcome feedback on this release!

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

GOC Service Update Tuesday, June 14th at 13:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, June 14th at 13:00  UTC. The GOC reserves 8 hours in the unlikely event unexpected problems are encountered.

Oasis
  * Upgrade oasis and oasis-replica to cvmfs-2.2.2 and oasis-goc-2.1.9
  * Add tool to copy config-osg repository from oasis-itb to oasis
  * Update config-osg configuration of osgstorage.org repositories

OIM
  * Adding the CN text describing the host name in all emails related to the certificate process