UCC 10.1.0 is available

Version 10.1.0 of the UNICORE Commandline Client is available for download from GitHub.

This release improves the OIDC/OAuth based authentication when using the OIDC-Agent tool or in
direct interaction with an OAuth server such as Keycloak.

What’s new

  • new feature: allow to read auth token from file; allow to set token-type to something else than “Bearer”
  • ‘rest’: add ‘-i’ option for printing the response headers
  • ‘run’: print job status message in case of job failure
  • ‘run’: new option “-J”, “–multi-threaded”, for launching and monitoring multiple jobs in parallel
  • improvement: oidc-agent authentication: add refreshInterval config parameter
  • fix: oidc-agent authentication: add missing dependency
  • fix: oidc-agent authentication: don’t fail on missing refresh_token
  • fix: oidc-server authentication: allow to configure “oidc.scope” parameter, which defaults to “openid”
  • update to UNICORE 10.1.0. base libraries

UNICORE 10.1.0 released

Version 10.1.0 of the UNICORE Core Servers is available for download from GitHub.

What’s new

This is a maintenance release with a lot of updates of third party dependencies like Jetty and Apache CXF.
There are a number of improvements, as well

  • OAuth and SAML authentication can now assign user attributes much more flexibly based on the authentication response
  • Improved handling of “slow” login nodes, preventing timeouts on job submission when the login nodes are under heavy load
  • Login nodes can now be grouped into categories, and the user can request a login node by category in her job
  • Better error reporting in the job log

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.

UCC 9.0.0 is available

The latest version 9.0.0 of the UNICORE Commandline Client is available for download from https://sourceforge.net/projects/unicore/files/Clients/Commandline%20Client/9.0.0.

Apart from support for the new features in UNICORE 9.0, such as (single-site) workflow support in every UNICORE/X and Slurm allocations, this release offers cleaner command-line options and a smaller download size. The documentation can be found on unicore-docs.readthedocs.io.

Note that this release requires Java 11 or later!

UNICORE Core servers 9.0.0 released

Version 9.0.0 of the UNICORE Core Servers is available for  download from SourceForge https://sourceforge.net/projects/unicore/files/Servers/Core/9.0.0.

We used this major release to remove a lot of “baggage”, update many of our third party dependencies and make UNICORE simpler to configure and manage. In terms of new features, every UNICORE/X server now comes with workflow processing capability for easily running single-site workflows. Furthermore, support for “interactive computing” via Slurm allocations has been added. Last not least, directly integrating UNICORE with a Keycloak OIDC server for user authentication is now possible.

Visit our new documentation pages at https://unicore-docs.readthedocs.io

What’s new

  • This release requires Java 11
  • Workflow processing feature in UNICORE/X (single site workflows)
  • Batch system allocation job support (Slurm only, via ‘salloc’)
  • Direct support for Keycloak OAuth server for user authentication
  • Support PostgreSQL as persistence back-end
  • Simplified and harmonized config files
  • Remove SOAP/XML endpoints
  • Bug fixes

 

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