Goodbye SourceForge

After 20 years, the UNICORE project will effectively leave Sourceforge, and complete the move of all operations to the UNICORE project on GitHub. Existing downloads will remain available for a while,  but new software releases will only be available via the appropriate GitHub releases pages.

 

UFTP components updated

The UNICORE FTP (UFTP) high-performance file transfer software is available in new versions

Have a look at the UFTP documentation to learn more about UFTP.

Whats new?

  • more information in reply to “uftp info”
  • more complete remote-copy implementation
  • first complete version of the Python commandline client “pyuftp”
  • new “issue-token” command to get an authentication token for simplifying automation tasks
  • support for AES encryption
  • bug fixes

UCC 10.0.0 is available

The latest version 10.0.0 of the UNICORE Commandline Client is available for download from  GitHub and SourceForge

What’s new?

  • new feature: ‘allocate’ command for creating an allocation
  • ‘shell’: much more powerful commandline completion including UNICORE URLs, site names, and more
  • ‘list-jobs’: improved job list when using the “–long” option
  • ‘issue-token’: show subject when inspecting the token
  • ‘exec’: new option “–allocation” for running command in an existing allocation
  • ‘shell’: fix: OAuth authentication fails when refresh token is present, but expired
  • update to UNICORE 10.0.0 base libraries

UNICORE 10.0 released

Version 10.0.0 of the UNICORE Core Servers is available for download from SourceForge.

You can also download the release from GitHub: Core Servers release 10.0.0

What’s new

This is a major release, with many updates of third party dependencies like Jetty and Apache CXF.
There are a number of new and improved features, improved installation tools and
a lot of internal code cleanup.

UNICORE 9.3.1 released

Version 9.3.1 of the UNICORE Core Servers is available for download from SourceForge.

You can now also download releases directly from GitHub:

Core Servers release 9.3.1

What’s new

This is a bugfix release.

  • SECURITY FIX: update json.org library to 20231013 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5072)
  • Fix: UNICORE/X: create required sub-directory for inline, https, ftp
    stage-ins
  • fix: UNICORE/X: correctly invalidate TSI connections in case of file
    write errors
  • fix: Registry: caching issue

UNICORE 9.3.0 released

Version 9.3.0 of the UNICORE Core Servers and the UNICORE Commandline Client are available for download from SourceForge.

You can now also download releases directly from GitHub:

Core Servers release 9.3.0  and Commandline Client(UCC) release 9.3.0

What’s new

  • Servers
    • New feature: all Java servers support runtime update of the main server credential
    • New feature: support for Let’s Encrypt in the Gateway, by allowing to serve files from a specified directory via plain HTTP
    • New feature: if no Partitions are defined in the IDB, add a “catch-all” definition that allows users to specify any partition,
      with no resource limit checks.
    • New standard resources “GPUS_PER_NODE” and “EXCLUSIVE”
  • Commandline client
    • Implement missing metadata ‘search’ and ‘start-extract’ sub-commands
    • Bug fixes
  • Updated third-party libs

New versions of UFTP components available

Whats new

  • New feature: an initial implementation of server-to-server transfer is available
  • Improved data sharing feature
    • access shared files using the fast UFTP protocol (also anonymously)
    • show listing for a directory via HTTP
  • The UFTPD server now implements the SYNC feature allowing to sync a file between server and client. Only differences are transferred.
  • Bug fixes

UNICORE 9.2.0 released

Version 9.2.0 of the UNICORE Core Servers and the UNICORE Commandline Client are available for download from SourceForge.

 

What’s new

  • NEW FEATURE: storages can send/receive files to/from non-UNICORE https servers
  • NEW FEATURE: /rest/core/token endpoint for creating an authentication token with configurable lifetime. The token can be limited to the issuing server, and can be made renewable, so a new token can be created using an existing one
  • Commandline client improvements
  • Updated third-party libs

UNICORE 9.1.2 released

Version 9.1.2 of the UNICORE Core Servers are available for download from SourceForge.

 

What’s new

  • IMPORTANT BUG FIX: servers could (slowly) run out of memory, especially when using MySQL as database back-end.
  • Enhanced notification system with the possibility to get notifications on certain job status changes on the back-end (e.g. Slurm)

We recommend an update for all UNICORE 9.x installations.

UNICORE 9.1.0 released

Version 9.1.0 of the UNICORE Core Servers and the UNICORE Commandline Client are available for download from SourceForge.

 

What’s new

  • NEW FEATURE: port forwarding / tunneling (read more)
  • IMPORTANT BUG FIX: some jobs were already launched without waiting for files from the client (despite job having ‘haveClientStageIn’: true) due to a JSON parser bug
  • Improvement: take requested login node into account also for pre/post processing
  • Updated third-party libs

 

© Forschungszentrum Jülich 2024, After 20 years, the UNICORE project will effectively leave Sourceforge, and complete the move of all operations to the UNICORE project on GitHub. Existing downloads will remain available for a while,  but new software releases will only be available via the appropriate GitHub releases pages.