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.

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!

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

GOC Service Update Tuesday, May 24th at 13:00 UTC

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, May 24th at 13:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 hours in the unlikely event unexpected problems are encountered.

Condor Collector
Install HTCondor-CE-View, a web based monitoring tool that displays attributes of HTCondor-CEs 

Oasis
Conduct a security drill, temporarily blank two repositories

OIM
Color coding Search by Signer results for user certs (OSGPKI-400)

TICKET
Preserving formatting in blog posts (TICKET-124)

WWW
Prevent Apache from requiring a client certificate (HOME-5, 29653) Configure Apache to redirect http to https (same tickets)

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

Announcing OSG Software versions 3.3.12 and 3.2.38

We are pleased to announce OSG Software versions 3.3.12 and 3.2.38.

Both 3.3.12 and 3.2.38 include:
* VO Package v66 - final wave of OSG CA transitions

Changes to OSG 3.3.12 include:
* HTCondor-CE-BOSCO: Setup a CE with only SSH access to the cluster
* HTCondor 8.4.6: Fixes serious regression in HTCondor 8.4.5
* CVMFS 2.2.2: See Release Notes for important upgrade information
* OSG CE packages will no longer install GRAM components
* BeStMan on EL7 platforms
* HTCondor-CE 2.0.5: HTCondor-CE-CEView bug fixes, support HTCondor-CE-BOSCO
* BLAHP 1.18.19: Fix memory request for PBS, updated SLURM support
* Pegasus 4.6.1: Updated from version 4.3.1
* osg-pki-tools 1.2.17: Fix timeout handling, improved error messages
* osg-configure 1.4.0: configuration of HTCondor-CE-BOSCO plus other changes
* HTCondor 8.5.4 in the Upcoming repository

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

https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release3238
https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release3312

Need help? Let us know:

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

We welcome feedback on this release!

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, May 10th at 13:00 UTC.

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, May 10th at 13:00 UTC.  The GOC reserves 8 hours in the unlikely event unexpected problems are encountered.

MyOSG

• Adding CILogon status to the status board OIM
• Support for email signing will be added to CILogon OSG CA user certificates.
• OSG users will be able to utilize their OSG personal certificate to receive encrypted email and prove email came from them.”
• Fixing revocation for Host certificates - Adding “Search by Signer” feature for host certs

Upcoming gratia outage

Gratia will undergo emergency maintenance this afternoon to address disk space issues. Exact timing of the outage is unknown but is being determined at this time.

Unstable and/or unavailable behavior should be expected but no loss of data is anticipated. Some GOC services (GratiaWeb and display.opensciencegrid.org, for example) will also be affected.

The OSG Operations apologizes for any inconvenience you may encounter.