Version 2.0.0 of our Python library PyUNICORE for interacting with the UNICORE REST APIs is available from PyPI. While staying largely backwards compatible to the 1.x version, this release brings several major changes: it now uses HTTPX as underlying HTTP library, and offers both synchronous and asynchronous versions of the client APIs. More…

Version 11.2.0 of the UNICORE Core Servers and Version 11.2.0 of the UCC are available for download from GitHub.

This is a minor, maintenance release that updates dependencies and has some small improvements and new features.

Version 11.0.0 of the UNICORE Core Servers and Version 11.0.0 of the UCC are available for download from GitHub.

This major release now requires at least Java 17, and comes with major updates of our core third-party dependencies like Jetty and Apache CXF.

Version 10.4.0 of the UNICORE Core Servers and Version 10.4.0 of the UCC are available for download from GitHub.

This is a maintenance release focusing on code cleanup, dependency updates and preparing future extensions. It also a fixes a few minor issues.

Version 10.3.0 of the UNICORE Core Servers and Version 10.3.0 of the UCC are available for download from GitHub.

The server features an improved REST API for storage back-ends like AWS and S3, as well as many bug fixes and small improvements. The command-line client now has a feature to run a command on list items (e.g. jobs) similar to Unix’ ‘find’ command, as well as improved usability and bug fixes.

Version 10.2.0 of the UNICORE Core Servers and Version 10.2.0 of the UCC are available for download from GitHub.

The servers feature an updated support for S3 storages, specifically the ability to stage data to and from S3 storages such as Amazon S3 or MinIO, as well as minor bug fixes and improvements.

Version 10.1.3 of the UNICORE Core Servers and Version 10.1.3 of the UCC are available for download from GitHub.

These are maintenance releases with a few bug fixes and small improvements, as well as updates of third party dependencies.

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

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

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.