release.notes

[v9.1.2]

*ResourceStatusSystem

FIX: (#8480) restore CEs in getSiteElements

*Github actions

FIX: (#8478) Reenable automatc release deployment in CVMFS

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#8477) pass the job ID to the dirac-cwl job wrapper

*MonitoringSystem

FIX: (#8363) MonitoringReporter - avoid endless loop in sending records with failures

[v9.1.1]

*ResourceStatusSystem

CHANGE: (#8473) removed ResourceManagement.AccountingCache table and methods
CHANGE: (#8473) removed Catalogs from list of managed RSS resources

*Deployment

CHANGE: (#8473) MySQL -- USE ResourceManagementDB; DROP TABLE AccountingCache;
CHANGE: (#8473) CS -- remove CS entry /Operations/<>/ResourceStatus/StatusTypes

*Interfaces

CHANGE: (#8470) added includeInSandbox flag to Job().setExecutable(). Default: True
FIX: (#8470) Job().setExecutable(): warn->verbose message when the executable is not local

[v9.1.0]

*FileCatalog

FIX: (#8467) RucioFileCatalogClient.setMetadata returns empty result on success #8330

*DataManagementSystem

CHANGE: (#8466) FTS3 jobs don't call delete when TPC fails

*WorkloadManagement

NEW: (#8464) add `UseDiracXBackendOnly` CS option to SandboxStore to make DiracX the exclusive sandbox backend and disable local purging
FIX: (#8463) Add composite (DestinationSite, Queue, Status) index to PilotAgents table for SiteDirector.countPilots()
FIX: (#8463) Add JobName index to Jobs table for TransformationSystem and monitoring lookups
FIX: (#8462) Optimize TaskQueueDB matching queries by adding composite (TQId, Value) indices and replacing COUNT subqueries with EXISTS/NOT EXISTS

*Deployment

CHANGE: (#8463) USE JobDB; ALTER TABLE `Jobs` ADD INDEX `JobName` (`JobName`), ALGORITHM=INPLACE, LOCK=NONE;
CHANGE: (#8463) USE PilotAgentsDB; ALTER Table `PilotAgents` ADD INDEX `idx_dest_queue_status` (`DestinationSite`,`Queue`,`Status`), ALGORITHM=INPLACE, LOCK=NONE;
CHANGE: (#8462) ALTER TABLE tq_TQToBannedSites ADD PRIMARY KEY (TQId, Value), DROP INDEX TaskIndex;
CHANGE: (#8462) ALTER TABLE tq_TQToGridCEs ADD PRIMARY KEY (TQId, Value), DROP INDEX TaskIndex;
CHANGE: (#8462) ALTER TABLE tq_TQToGridMiddlewares ADD PRIMARY KEY (TQId, Value), DROP INDEX TaskIndex;
CHANGE: (#8462) ALTER TABLE tq_TQToJobTypes ADD PRIMARY KEY (TQId, Value), DROP INDEX TaskIndex;
CHANGE: (#8462) ALTER TABLE tq_TQToPlatforms ADD PRIMARY KEY (TQId, Value), DROP INDEX TaskIndex;
CHANGE: (#8462) ALTER TABLE tq_TQToSites ADD PRIMARY KEY (TQId, Value), DROP INDEX TaskIndex;
CHANGE: (#8462) ALTER TABLE tq_TQToTags ADD PRIMARY KEY (TQId, Value), DROP INDEX TaskIndex;
CHANGE: (#8446) USE ResourceStatusDB; DROP TABLE `NodeHistory`; DROP TABLE `NodeLog`; DROP TABLE `NodeStatus`;

*docs

NEW: (#8446) added RSS technical documentation

*ResourceStatusSystem

CHANGE: (#8446) Removed nodes (queues) tables

[v9.0.20]

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#8457) cache SandboxMetadataDB instance in JobSanity and JobCleaningAgent to avoid unnecessary DB overhead per job

[v9.0.19]

*TransformationSystem

FIX: (#8452) Bulk TransformationDB.getFileIDsForLFN to avoid full in memory table

*Tests

NEW: (#8420) script to debug and test CEs and the DIRAC interfaces to interact with them

*RucioFileCatalog

fix: add missing option in RucioFileCatalog.getUserMetadataBulk

[v9.0.18]

*Core

CHANGE: (#8433) Follow refactoring in DIRACGrid/diracx#741

[v9.0.17]

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#8441) JobAgent - do not fail already rescheduled job

*DataManagementSystem

FIX: (#8440) revert gfal2 error propagation until better solution

*Core

CHANGE: (#8435) Support Python 3.14

*Tests

FIX: (#8434) diracx-cli not being installed from wheel built from PR branch in integration test

*WorkloadManagementSystem

NEW: (#8425) Experimental job wrapper for cwl workflows

[v9.0.16]

*Tornado

FIX: (#8426) return when retrying another Tornado service

*Resources

FIX: (#8424) SingularityComputingElement: convert MemoryLimitMB to int before comparison with maxRAM

*WorkloadManagementSystem

CHANGE: (#8423) rescheduleJobs: allow reusing existing JobDB, TaskQueueDB, jobLoggingDB instances

*WorkloadManagement

NEW: (#8422) Support overriding configuration servers ins pilot JSON

[v9.0.15]

*DIRAC

FIX: (#8421) Fix default InputDataModule path in dirac.cfg

*Core

CHANGE: (#8419) the weekly index for OpenSearch uses also the year as a prefix
FIX: (#8405) rootPath for server installation can be a random string, followed by a timestamp

*RequestManagementSystem

CHANGE: (#8418) just ignore a shifter if we cannot get a matching proxy

*Resources

FIX: (#8417) SLURM getCEStatus last empty line
FIX: (#8412) add further details when time left cannot be obtained
FIX: (#8408) PoolComputingElement: fix: do not set a fictional ram limit, use 0 for no-limit
FIX: (#8406) adding basic RAM capabilities to InProcessCE
CHANGE: (#8404) improve getReplicas performances by sorting LFNs
CHANGE: (#8332) set default time for gfal operations

*WorkloadManagementSystem

NEW: (#8414) added a new table to TaskQueueDB for RAM requirements and matching
NEW: (#8366) InProcessComputingElement takes RAM requirements into consideration for jobs' matching
NEW: (#8366) PoolComputingElement takes RAM requirements into consideration when subdividing the pool
NEW: (#8366) SingularityComputingElement can enforce CG2 RAM limits

*DataManagementSystem

FIX: (#8413) check properly if an FTS error is recoverable
FIX: (#8410) Only submit FTS job with tokens if all hop support tokens
CHANGE: (#8402) batch getReplicas at the FileCatalogClient level instead of at the DM level for speedup

*Interfaces

FIX: (#8409) inputDataPolicy should not change the inputDataModule but set a parameter inside the arguments.
CHANGE: (#8407) Dirac().getInputDataCatalog - allow changing the inputDataPolicy

*TransformationSystem

CHANGE: (#8404) TransformationAgent does not bulk calls to dm.getReplicas

*FrameworkSystem

CHANGE: (#8403) (SystemAdministrator): add the possibility to install non-released software versions

*WorkloadManagement

NEW: (#8399) ability to adjust job wrapper log level

*CSAPI

FIX: (#8398) Have CSAPI return AffiliationEnds if existing

[v9.0.14]


[v9.0.0a70]


[v9.0.13]

*DataManagementSystem

FIX: (#8396) submit unmanaged token for FTS3 replication

*Resources

NEW: (#8382) Attempt to set the xrd checksum attribute when copying files localy

[v9.0.12]

*Resources

FIX: (#8393) make client_id and secret optional to avoid KeyError exceptions.

*ConfigurationSystem

NEW: (#8392) handle adding user AffiliationEnds section in the CS when modifying the user from CSAPI

*MonitoringSystem

FIX: (#8391) Addapt webApp to new getTransformations API

[v9.0.11]

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#8389) Use ObjectLoader for DB instantiation in WMS components
FIX: (#8389) Reuse DB objects when killing/deleting jobs

*Resources

CHANGE: (#8362) SSHCE export inputs/import outputs as a JSON file instead of using the stdout/stderr

[v9.0.10]

*DataManagementSystem

FIX: (#8381) make sure the DataManager knows the VO

*Interfaces

FIX: (#8380) DConfigCache - reset Registry caches after loading the configuration from the local disk cache

*TransformationSystem

CHANGE: (#8373) This contains various speed of for the TS, mostly by using temporary tables for the queries, only requesting what's needed in the DB, and bulking things more efficiently

[v9.0.9]

CHANGE: (#8359) Subprocess: use psutil for killing processes

[v9.0.8]

*DataManagementSystem

NEW: (#8263) add scitag to FTS transfers

[v9.0.7]

*DataManagementSystem

FIX: (#8367) FTS reports correct accounting for failed transfers

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#8365) SiteDirector: siteNames, ceTypes, ces and tags are None by default

*FrameworkSystem

FIX: (#8361) use cachedmethod instead of cached in ProxyDB

*TransformationSystem

FIX: (#8361) use cachedmethod instead of cached in Utilities

*WorkloadManagement

CHANGE: (#8360) use PilotManager to get the pilot output(s) from a job ID in WMSAdministrator service

*ResourceStatusSystem

FIX: (#8357) Avoid negative values in the Space Accounting

*Resources

FIX: (#8355) AREX CE: fix for understanding slightly different formats

*Core

NEW: (#8352) Report errors for every failed attempt in M2SSLTransport initAsClient
FIX: (#8352) Use resolved socket address for SSL connections in M2SSLTransport

[v9.0.6]

*FrameworkSystem

NEW: (#8328) allow for multiple client per provider

*DataManagementSystem

NEW: (#8328) FTS3 gets tokens directly

[v9.0.5]

*Subsystem

CHANGE: (#8353) add PreferredURLPatterns to pilot.json

[v9.0.4]
[v9.0.3]

*DiracX

NEW: (#8347) Depend on released versions of DiracX
NEW: (#8347) Depend on diracx-cli to ease management of DiracX CS conversion

*FrameworkSystem

CHANGE: (#8324) Remove Registry/group option VOMSVO (simply use "VO")

[v9.0.2]

*MonitoringSystem

FIX: (#8343) remove Setup remnants

*CERNLDAPSyncPlugin

FIX: (#8341) cernAccountType is a list -- ensure CERNPersonId filled correctly
NEW: (#8334) sync CCID / CERN Person ID to CS

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#8340) Site Director stops trying to leverage banned CEs
FIX: (#8338) TokenManager - pass audience parameter as resource to fetchToken() to satisfy Check-In

*General

Remove setuptools from runtime dependencies, no longer required.

*Core

CHANGE: (#8323) Agressively close connections when serivces are overloaded
For examples look into release.notes
CHANGE: (#8312) allow one and only one diracx token in the proxy file

[v9.0.1]

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#8321) Restore uploading local outputfiles from the job's directory to a specific LFN.
FIX: (#8317) use correct interface to _filterJobStateTransition from DIRAC APIs

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#8318) Killing jobs

*FileCatalog

FIX: (#8316) Fix non-existent charset in mysql schema definition

*RequestManagementSystem

CHANGE: (#8303) REA defaults changed for higher perfs

[v9.0.0]

*ConfigurationSystem

CHANGE: (#8298) Apply PreferredURLPatterns to Configuration refresh server list

[v9.0.0a69]

*WorkloadManagementSystem

CHANGE: (#8297) Remove the master CS aliases from the list of servers when generating the pilot.json
FIX: (#8296) removed MatcherServiceTime JobParameters

[v9.0.0a68]

*ConfigurationSystem

CHANGE: (#8295) Move getDIRACPlatform to DIRACCommon

[v9.0.0a67]

*DataManagementSystem

NEW: (#8293) Add composite indices on (lastUpdate, assignment) for both Jobs and Operations tables in FTS3DB

*Test

CHANGE: (#8292) Speed up CI/pytest runtime

*Core

CHANGE: (#8290) Move TimeUtilities to DIRACCommon
CHANGE: (#8290) Move StateMachine to DIRACCommon
CHANGE: (#8290) Move JDL utilities to DIRACCommon
CHANGE: (#8290) Move List utilities to DIRACCommon
CHANGE: (#8289) Move ClassAdLight to DIRACCommon

*WorkloadManagement

CHANGE: (#8290) Move JobStatus to DIRACCommon
CHANGE: (#8290) Move JobsStateMachine to DIRACCommon
CHANGE: (#8290) Move JobStatusUtility to DIRACCommon
CHANGE: (#8290) Move JobManifest to DIRACCommon
CHANGE: (#8290) Move JobDBUtils to DIRACCommon
FIX: (#8290) Correctly update JDL defaults when CS changes

*Workload Management

CHANGE: (#8289) Move JobDBUtilsto DIRACCommon
CHANGE: (#8289) Move ParametricJob to DIRACCommon

*Configuration/Core

NEW: (#8288) Included a VO (using top level groups as VO) option when getting user subjects from IAM. Behaviour with single VO IAM should be unchanged.

Address GHSA-mm38-q5fj-99j4

*RucioFileCatalogClient

FIX
Remove some potentially Sensitive Information (DN, account)

[v9.0.0a66]
[v9.0.0a65]

*Core

NEW: (#8287) DIRACCommon package containing stateless utilities extracted from DIRAC. This allows external projects like DiracX to use DIRAC's S_OK/S_ERROR return values and error codes without importing DIRAC and triggering global state initialization. The package maintains full backward compatibility - all existing imports continue to work unchanged.

*ConfigurationSystem

CHANGE: (#8284) force successful sync of remote CS for agents

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#8283) Do not import DB at the top of the utility module

Please follow the template:

*Integration Tests

NEW: (#8281) Add diracx logs into DIRAC CI

[v9.0.0a64]

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#8282) Use of closed file in ZstdCompatibleTarFile when downloading sandboxes
NEW: (#8282) add sandbox download functionality in Dirac runLocal API

[v9.0.0a63]

*WorkloadManagementSystem

NEW: (#8276) Add zstandard compression support for sandbox files with backward compatibility
CHANGE: (#8244) move the logic for jobs deleting and killing in an utility

*Integration Tests

FIX: (#8248) Add in CI and in `integration_test.py` legacy adaptors.

[v9.0.0a62]

*ConfigurationSystem

FIX: (#8259) Stops VOMS2CSSynchronizer crashing on robot DNs that don't follow the CERN pattern.
FEAT: (#8242) Cache getUsernameForDN and getVOForGroup

*WorkloadManagementSystem

CHANGE: (#8254) JobMonitoring: removed several unused RPC calls
CHANGE: (#8252) removed SandboxStore RPC call unassignEntities
CHANGE: (#8252) removed SandboxStore RPC call assignSandboxesToEntities
CHANGE: (#8252) removed SandboxStore RPC calls getFreeDiskSpace and getTotalSpace
CHANGE: (#8240) add site metadata for WMSHistory (Monitoring)

*ResourceStatusSystem

CHANGE: (#8250) Added a token expiry option to dirac-rss-set-status and dirac-admin-allow/ban-site commands.

*Resources

CHANGE: (#8247) add spool option to SSHCE+Condor
FIX: (#8241) missing parenthesis in htcondor submission script

*Core

FIX: (#8245) dirac-apptainer-exec can bind optional paths

*TransformationSystem

NEW: (#8242) Cleanup unused TransformationAgent caches at the beginning of a cycle
FEAT: (#8242) cache isSameSEInList

[v9.0.0a61]

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#8237) The JobWrapper correctly resolves the destination SE lists

*Core

FIX: (#8235) do not randomized urls sorted by preferredURLPatterns

*WorkloadManagement

NEW: (#8234) add a warning log when the first pilot retrieval attempt fails

*Resources

NEW: (#8230) StorageBase.getParameters returns all parameters
FIX: (#8225) Condor command line call compatible with v24

*Accounting

CHANGE: (#8216) removed few dangerous RPC calls

*MonitoringSystem

CHANGE: (#8216) removed useless RPC calls

[v9.0.0a60]

*DataManagementSystem

FIX: (#8228) don't remove twice in the RemoveFile operation

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#8227) Download input data in the job directory

*FrameworkSystem

FIX: (#8222) do not import MySQLdb unless necessary

[v9.0.0a59]

*Resources

CHANGE: (#8219) SLURM plugin now supports the WholeNode options
CHANGE: (#8211) remove dependency from HTCondorComputingElement to PilotManager

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#8217) move DB import in the function
NEW: (#8215) define setJobStatus in the Client to allow keyword arguments

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#8212) AREXCE not detecting pilots in an accepted/staged states

*Core

FIX: (#8207) dirac-apptainer-exec : cd in /mnt to find locally-mounted files (e.g. pilot.cfg)

[v9.0.0a58]

*Resources

NEW: (#8206) allow to mount local folder in rw mode in SingularityCE

*PilotManagerHandler

CHANGE: (#8203) Moved killpilot to diracAdmin itself to avoid migrating it to DiracX while migrating PilotManagerHandler
This is useful later because in DiracX we can't use it for now: it needs a proxy to contact the CS + we would need to import `MySQLdb` in DiracX (see error below):
```
from DIRAC.Core.Utilities.MySQL import MySQL
File "/opt/conda/lib/python3.11/site-packages/DIRAC/Core/Utilities/MySQL.py", line 155, in <module>
import MySQLdb
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'MySQLdb'
```
This error occurred while importing `killPilotsInQueues` from DiracX via an import.

*ConfigurationSystem

NEW: (#8202) Add PreferredURLPattern for URL sorting

[v9.0.0a57]

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#8200) Remove accidental dependnecies in JobStateUtility

[v9.0.0a56]

*Resources

FIX: (#8197) SE: check the protocol only after checking the plugins when checking the occupancy

*Core

FIX: (#8193) consistent use of utcfromtimestamp in the Graph
FIX: (#8187) Platform detection on recent EL9 broken

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#8192) getJobParameters for the multi-VO case
FIX: (#8192) stalledJobAgents talks directly to DBs

*MonitoringSystem

NEW: (#8190) WebAppHandler and Client, for WMS and TS related DIRAC WebApp calls

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#8189) Don't clean sandboxes which are on S3
FIX: (#8184) PushJobAgent dumps the proxy to get access to DiracX token
NEW: (#8183) Support bulk calls to JobMonitoring.getInputData

*Tests

CHANGE: (#8188) use a jwks instead of a single key

[v9.0.0a55]


[v9.0.0a54]

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#8180) disable watchdgo wallclock check for remote executions
FIX: (#8179) Watchdog does not kill payload properly and runs endlessly
FIX: (#8170) JobAgent endlessly looping in checkSubmittedJobs
FIX: (#8163) Typo in SingularityComputingElement

*Subsystem

FIX: (#8177) SiteDirector: the architecture script can be set in the options

*TransformationSystem

FIX: (#8172) adapt getTableSummaryWeb to the new data access layer response format
NEW: (#8165) Cast return of getTransformationFilesCount in the client
FIX: (#8162) Explicitly cast to string when returning dates

*WorklodManagement

FIX: (#8171) Optimize SandboxMetadataDB.unassignEntities
FIX: (#8171) Optimize JobLoggingDB.deleteJob
FIX: (#8171) Optimize JobDB.getJobsAttributes
FIX: (#8171) Optimize PilotAgentsDB.__getPilotID

*Resources

CHANGE: (#8153) remove PilotBundle

*GraphUtilities

FIX: (#8151) prevent any local-UTC offset being introduced in plots

[v9.0.0a53]

*WorkloadManagement

NEW: (#8159) cgroup2 limit support

*FrameworkSystem

CHANGE: (#8157) Improve performance of TheImpersonator
FIX: (#8154) Caching the proxy strength to avoid a DB call
NEW: (#8144) add a randomized connection pooling for diracx

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#8156) we can kill a list of pilots instead of going one by one

*Core

NEW: (#8155) Add caches to asn1_utils for better performance

*RequestManagementSystem

FIX: (#8152) Printing DiracX ForwardDISET requests

[v9.0.0a52]

*RequestManagementSystem

FIX: (#8150) RequestValidator sets correct Owner for v8 requests

[v9.0.0a51]

*FrameworkSystem

FIX: (#8149) DiracX tokens should not be included in the proxies used to interact with CEs
FIX: (#8146) TypeError in TheImpersonator

*TransformationSystem

FIX: (#8147) bad escape in the updateTransformationParameter

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#8145) Running dirac-admin-update-pilot

[v9.0.0a50]

*Core

FIX: (#8140) Make it possible to debug dirac-jobexec failures
NEW: (#8139) add a source parameter to the impersonator
NEW: (#8138) DiracX token from PEM is always stored in $TMP/dx_.....

[v9.0.0a49]

*Core

FIX: (#8136) Proxy Pilots are sent with a token

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#8135) the PoolXMLSlice should be created in the same directory where the job runs

[v9.0.0a48]

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#8134) replace DIRACJOBID with JOBID in JobWrapper environment
FIX: (#8126) Write DiracX token in JobAgent
FIX: (#8126) Remove platform validation as extensions can redefine it
FIX: (#8125) add VO information to the pilotDict when killing pilots
FIX: (#8124) report the message of the Exception instead of the Exception itself in JobAgent.submitJob

*Core

CHANGE: (#8131) DIRAC.initialize(): ensure host credentials are not ignored in case passed as a list and not a tuple

*ConfigurationSystem

FIX: (#8127) dirac-admin-update-pilot can work without a specified VO

*Resources

FIX: (#8124) do not try to use a malformed StorageElement instance in SingularityCE

[v9.0.0a47]

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#8123) PilotManager not using tokens to kill pilots
NEW: (#8119) JobStateUpdate legacy adapter

*RequestManagementSystem

CHANGE: (#8121) No longer directly use of the JobStateUpdateClient when processing requests
FIX: (#8121) Calling setJobParameter when processing requests

*TransformationSystem

CHANGE: (#8121) No longer directly use of the JobStateUpdateClient from the DataRecoveryAgent

*DBs

FIX: (#8120) Escape password when giving it to sqlalchemy

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#8116) avoid repeating optimization when job goes to STAGING

*Resources

FIX: (#8115) Fix AREX CE pilot logs in alwaysIncludeProxy case

[v9.0.0a46]

*Subsystem

NEW: (#8109) added setInputData to JobState

*ConfigurationSystem

FIX: (#8108) VOMS2CSAgent newDiracName might not be defined yet

[v9.0.0a45]

*WorkloadManagemnt

FIX: (#8106) Clear any non-UTF encodable environment variables in pilots

*ConfigurationSystem

NEW: (#8104) backport the export of the Sub in DiracX

*Core

FIX: (#8102) Don't use string processing on X509 name objects
NEW: (#8099) -S option on dirac-configure is now ignored
FIX: (#8088) force M2Crypto to use the proxy instead of the host certificate if provided

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#8100) Move JobWrapperUtilities after import Script.parseCommandLine()

*Resources

FIX: (#8086) Catch ConnectionError when calling send on a MQ

[v9.0.0a44]

*Resources

FIX: (#8084) htcondor x509 unsupported version
CHANGE: (#8075) Disable Bearer token for HTTPs unless upload/TPC
CHANGE: (#8074) conditionally reset the rlimit for xroot
NEW: (#8069) findFileByMetadata method for Rucio

*Core

FIX: (#8080) dirac-apptainer-exec should work also in the case of no proxy

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#8073) pass args to buildQueueDict() in the right order

*Workload Management

FIX: (#8067) Supress non-UTF8 variables from pilot environment

*ConfigurationSystem

CHANGE: (#8061) TTLCache for getProxyPrrovidersForDN

*Test

NEW: (#8005) use containerized certs creation for integration tests

[v9.0.0a43]

*Documentation

CHANGE: (#8055) extend pilot documentation.

*docs

FIX: (#8054) update and correct the README to build the DIRAC documenation

*Subsystem

CHANGE: (#8044) default MySQL version from 8.0 to 8.4

[v9.0.0a42]

*Core

NEW: (#8041) new command dirac-apptainer-exec for running DIRAC commands inside apptainer
FIX: (#8034) Correct user mapping for DiracX from IAM

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#8040) get ElasticJobParametersDB index prefix from the configuration
CHANGE: (#8014) Use apptainer for SingularityComputingElement
CHANGE: (#8014) Drop support for SingularityComputingElement without user namespaces
CHANGE: (#8014) Enchance debugging output if SingularityComputingElement fails
CHANGE: (#8014) Drop support for using apptainer from outside of DIRACOS2

*ConfigurationSystem

FIX: (#8040) evaluate useCRT flag as boolean in Utilities.getElasticDBParameters()

[v9.0.0a41]

*TransformationSystem

FIX: (#8031) make the setting of inputDataBulk extendable
FIX: (#8022) make 2 methods of WorkflowTaskAgent extendable

*Core

FIX: (#8029) read at most 2^14 bytes at the same time
FIX: (#8002) one less flag for EnableSecurityLogging
FIX: (#7988) Add locks to AuthManager caches
CHANGE: (#7971) Optimise ASN1 decoding in X509Certificate
FIX: (#7969) Avoid locking in MessageQueueHandler

*Resources

FIX: (#8027) explicitly disconnect Stomp before reconnecting
FIX: (#8012) adapt AREX to ARC7 delegation output
FIX: (#7995) adapt HTCondorCE to latest htcondor version

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#8020) StalledJobAgent: if StartExecTime is not set, use the last recorded heartbeat
FIX: (#7986) PilotBundle: compatibility with py2 and py3

*DataManagementSystem

FIX: (#8003) exit with status 1 in case of error
FIX: (#7989) Apply a workaround for https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/issues/2396

*CI

FIX: (#7999) Add PilotAgentsDB definition to `tests/CI/docker-compose.yml`

FIX: (#7997) pensearch configuration should consume the ca_certs parameter if it is there

*ResourceStatusSystem

CHANGE: (#7987) dirac-rss-sync: flip the default status to Active
FIX: (#7983) Docs: removed Setup from Operations
NEW: (#7972) Add a timeout for GocDB to avoid blocking the CacheFeederAgent

*MonitoringSystem

CHANGE: (#7978) removed ElasticSearch in favor or OpenSearch

*RequestManagementSystem

NEW: (#7975) Allow to disable DM transfer as an FTS failover

*FrameworkSystem

FIX: (#7970) Support https URLs with dirac-framework-ping-service

*Integration tests

FIX: (#7968) mount diracx in init-db container

[v9.0.0a40]

*Core

CHANGE: (#7961) Introduce caches to AuthManager.getUsername

[v9.0.0a39]

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#7954) correctly log the pilot job reference during the matching process

[v9.0.0a38]

*TransformationSystem

FIX: (#7953) use updatemany in TransformationDB

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#7949) renew delegation prior to submitting pilots
FIX: (#7941) integrity check failure in RemoteRunner
FIX: (#7935) Run CE cleanup step at correct point

*ConfigurationSystem

FIX: (#7947) Make writing the CS atomic

*RequestManagementSystem

FIX: (#7934) call the correct executeRPCMethod depending on diset/diracx

[v9.0.0a37]

*TransformationSystem

FIX: (#7927) Use parameterised query in addTransformation
FIX: (#7910) Use UTC to calculate older in export_getTasksToSubmit

*WorkloadManagment

CHANGE: (#7922) Better caching performance in the Matching Limiter

*Resources

CHANGE: (#7918) Add option to include proxy on AREX token submission

*Integration tests

CHANGE: (#7915) Upgrade Indigo IAM (1.10.2)

[v9.0.0a36]

*TransformationSystem

CHANGE: (#7906) the TransformationCleaningAgent forces jobs to KILLED

*WorkloadManagementSystem

NEW: (#7905) for parametric jobs, added the possibility to bulk insert records in JobLoggingDB
CHANGE: (#7902) added ulimit -n 1048575 to pilotwrapper content

*FrameworkSystem

CHANGE: (#7901) Rename TokenManager service classes to follow standard convention for tornado and diset handlers

Thank you for writing the text to appear in the release notes. It will show up
exactly as it appears between the two bold lines
Please follow the template:

*CI

NEW: (#7899) Add `PilotLogsDB` to `diracx` environment to allow CI testing.
For examples look into release.notes

*Misc

FIX: (#7893) Tidy up whitespace in cvmfs.yml

*WorkloadManagement

CHANGE: (#7892) Use plain proxy for the pilot bundle

[v9.0.0a35]
[v9.0.0a34]

*DataManagementSystem

FIX: (#7879) Fix the condition for return type sanitation

[v9.0.0a33]

*Core

CHANGE: (#7876) Remove lock in Logging._createLogRecord
FIX: (#7864) Prevent `-1` returned from `oSocket.write` being interpreted as number of bytes to avoid an infinite loop in `DISET BaseTransport.sendData`.
FIX: (#7856) ensure processProposal always returns "closeTransport" on error
FIX: (#7843) Returning DISET responses with >100000000 bytes

*ResourceStatusSystem

FIX: (#7871) some protocols or types are not in GOC

*TransformationSystem

FIX: (#7865) getTasksToSubmit consider tasks inserted by 30 seconds or more
NEW: (#7843) Use getTransformationFilesAsJsonString for faster getTransformationFiles

*StompMQConnector

FIX: (#7855) add a timeout for the StompConnector to handle nonresponsive sockets which can cause logging to be blocked

*DataManagementSystem

FIX: (#7850) Fix deadlock when FTS3Agent._treatOperation fails

[v9.0.0a32]

*Resources

FIX: (#7839) hide private keys from the logs
FIX: (#7832) AREX interactions with tokens
FIX: (#7831) Drop CloudCE proxy handling
FIX: (#7829) CloudCE: truncate long messages returned from create_node

*Core

CHANGE: (#7837) minimum version of some packages

*TransformationSystem

NEW: (#7833)
CHANGE: (#7833) Improve getTransformationFiles performance

[v9.0.0a31]

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#7827) SandboxStore not able to assign a sandbox to a job
FIX: (#7825) JobWrapper checks existence of executable in jobIDPath
FIX: (#7821) Getting pilot reference from job parameters

*Resources

FIX: (#7819) AREXCE returns an error if a queue is not found in the ARC instance configuration

[v9.0.0a30]

*DataManagementSystem

NEW: (#7817) experimental token support for FTS transfers
FIX: (#7781) dirac_dms_find_lfns: Check if requested path exists and returns error if not. Prevents users hitting #7487
FIX: (#7780) Return correct error for non-existing directory. Partial fix for #7487
NEW: (#7764) added checksum comparison in the fc/se consistency tool
NEW: (#7756) FileCatalogHandler: add function export_getFileDetails to get the (user) metadata for a list of LFNs
FIX: (#7719) Remove `def findDirIDsByMetadata(self, metaDict, dPath, credDict):` method from `MultiVODirectoryMetadata` (derived) class which caused an extra VO suffix added when searching. The method is meant to be used _internally_ only on keys which are already expanded in a MultiVO case. Add a user-level def `findDirectoriesByMetadata(self, queryDict, path, credDict)` to the derived class thus adding a VO suffix for a directory search. Fixes  #7687.
CHANGE: (#7694) dirac-dms-replicate-and-register-request: Make request chunk size configurable; default behaviour unchanged.

*FrameworkSystem

NEW: (#7817) allow to bypass cache when retrieving tokens

FIX: (#7813) SSHCE, Try python3 before unversioned python
Fix a typo in the key Addler -> Adler of the return dict of putAndRegister

*TransformationSystem

FIX: (#7806) RequestTaskAgent only considers requests in final states, and consider files in intermediate state as problematic (https://github.com/DIRACGrid/DIRAC/issues/7116)
NEW: (#7806) RequestTaskAgent uses getBulkRequestStatus instead of getRequestStatus
RMS: (#7806)
NEW: (#7806) implement getRequestStatus
NEW: (#7697) InputDataAgent: new Option MultiVO, which makes the FileCatalog Query use the author of the DN, rather than the Host, to resolve MultiVO metadata correctly. Fixes #7681

*Resources

FIX: (#7803) added a 30s gfal2 timeout for downloading the SRR
FIX: (#7790) SSHComputingElement fix: added check of result
FIX: (#7726) Update CloudCE cloudinit.template for EL8+
CHANGE: (#7715) HTCondorCE: UseSSLSubmission: use the generated proxy file for everything, no longer need to have certificate of user present on the server.
FIX: (#7713) AREX submission issue not properly handled
NEW: (#7695) better error message when no matching protocol between 2 SE
CHANGE: (#7689) remove BOINCCE

*ResourceStatusSystem

FIX: (#7801) use always a from address (from Operations ResourceStatus/Config/FromAddress ) when sending email notifications, to avoid "spoofing" domains restrictions
NEW: (#7783) add a DIRAC to GOCDB service type conversion
CHANGE: (#7774) do not consider Endpoint for StorageOccupancy
FIX: (#7765) Do not use tinezone aware datetime
FIX: (#7755) delete the Occupancy cache only for older entries

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#7797) Allow jobs to be KILLED from more states
FIX: (#7797) KILLED is a final job state
FIX: (#7716) PilotWrapper - check for the presence of the -l pilot option

*ConfigurationSystem

CHANGE: (#7796) VOMS2CSAgent: if a nickname is set, this nickname will always be used and no new accounts are going to be created if a DN changes or a user is in multiple VOs
NEW: (#7796) VOMS2CSAgent: New option "ForceNickname", if this option is enabled no dirac user is created if no nickname attribute is set for a user
CHANGE: (#7796) IAMService: use logger and return errors for users so that the VOMS2CSAgent can notify admins about issues
NEW: (#7742) Configuration-system-shell: added reload and sort commands

*WorkloadManagementSystem

CHANGE: (#7792) SiteDirector will always bundle the proxy
CHANGE: (#7762) removed JobDB's SiteMask and Logging
FIX: (#7751) Proper killing of jobs when not matched, running or stalled
FIX: (#7707) JobDB: update LastUpdateTime when the job is matched
NEW: (#7699) added possibility to specify UserEnvVariable (pilot option) at CE level

*Workflow

FIX: (#7786) Avoid incorrect error strings in Workflow execute

*Core

NEW: (#7775) Support aggregating by date in MySQL.getCounters
FIX: (#7750) add more safeguard when processing result queue in ProcessPool
CHANGE: (#7720) register the DictCache destructor as an atexit handler
NEW: (#7700) fetch nickname attribute from IAM
CHANGE: (#7696) drop DIRAC_MYSQL_CONNECTION_GRACE_TIME and stalled connections reuse

*Subsystem

CHANGE: (#7733) For PilotWrapper tests, use the artifacts (created in Pilot repo)

*Diracx

NEW: (#7711) populate diracx section from Iam

*Doc

FIX: (#7688) Move the explanation how to enable tokens to a place that is shown in ReadTheDocs in the end.

*Interfaces

FIX: (#7684) Document BadJobParameterError

[v9.0.0a29]

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#7649) added log headers to InputDataResolution modules
CHANGE: (#7629) add jobGroup to job parameters
FIX: (#7584) ServerUtils: prevent getPilotAgentsDB from returning None
FIX: (#7576) Fix potential circular import in WorkflowReader. Mostly seen in the creation of the documentation.
FIX: (#7787) added a 30s gfal2 timeout for downloading the SRR

*TransformationSystem

FIX: (#7741) RequestTaskAgent only considers requests in final states, and consider files in intermediate state as problematic (https://github.com/DIRACGrid/DIRAC/issues/7116)
NEW: (#7741) RequestTaskAgent uses getBulkRequestStatus instead of getRequestStatus
RMS: (#7741)
NEW: (#7741) implement getRequestStatus

[v8.0.52]

*ResourceStatusSystem

FIX: (#7800) use always a from address (from Operations ResourceStatus/Config/FromAddress ) when sending email notifications, to avoid "spoofing" domains restrictions

*WorkloadManagement

NEW: (#7643) Support Pydantic 2
FIX: (#7621) remove random shuffle in PilotWrapper
CHANGE: (#7609) Perform bulk lookup of job parameters from elasticsearch
CHANGE: (#7608) Make RemoteRunner more resilient to CE issues
FIX: (#7594) JobMonitoring.getJobParameters should pass jobID as an int to ElasticJobParametersDB
FIX: (#7590) AREX "out" and "err" need to exist before file integrity check

*Accounting

FIX: (#7640) AccountingDB only generate condition if needed

*Resources

NEW: (#7638) HTCondorCE: Added UseSSLSubmission option. Allows one to use a configured DN at given Sites for job submission, instead of proxies or tokens. Only at participating CEs and conditions apply.

*Core

FIX: (#7634) Avoid printing out clear text password in SQLAlchemy
FIX: (#7591) File.secureOpenForWrite: fix exception when opening in binary mode, fixes #7581

*DataManagementSystem

NEW: (#7633) Add a protocol parameter to the getReplicas method family
NEW: (#7619) prepare for FTS 3.13 release with breaking API
NEW: (#7617) DataManager.putAndRegister rejects too long filename

*Deployment

FIX: (#7628) fix the path of the CVMFS sync_packages.sh script

*All

FIX: (#7616) fix pylint 3.2.0 warnings

*MonitoringSystem

FIX: (#7584) ServerUtils: prevent getMonitoringDB from returning None

[v9.0.0a28]

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#7574) serverUtils: jit imports
FIX: (#7534) Pilots submitted by SiteDirector won't add the pythonVersion flag
FIX: (#7521) Fix memory reporting
FIX: (#7510) SandboxStore: add VO if needed

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#7571) support file:/... as a location for the pilot files
FIX: (#7564) make sure CVMFS_locations is a list
CHANGE: (#7553) Remove files from the RemoteRunner execution
FIX: (#7552) JobCleaningAgent: fix exception in deleteJobsByStatus caused by mismatching job ID types
NEW: (#7529) introduce JobWrapperOfflineTemplate for uses in systems without external connectivity
CHANGE: (#7460) introduce JobWrapper.preprocess, process and postprocess

*test

NEW: (#7570) added pilot workflow tests to integration_tests

*Core

FIX: (#7569) Support M2Crypto 0.40.0+
CHANGE: (#7566) Replace the default PFN type ROOT_All with ROOT
FIX: (#7524) Depend on packaging

*environment.yml

NEW: (#7555) add cwltool

*Resources

FIX: (#7545) TimeLeft utility was unable to get values from the cfg
FIX: (#7532) support the case where HTCondor kills the jobs

*Test

FIX: (#7540) Redirect the output of popen in a file to fix #7473
FIX: (#7539) extra_module default to empty list

*FrameworkSystem

CHANGE: (#7511) ProxyDB: removed tables ProxyDB_Proxies and ProxyDB_Tokens

[v9.0.0a27]

*Core

FIX: (#7505) plotting TypeLoader works with editable installation
NEW: (#7453) Introduce an RPC stub equivalent for DiracX

*Test

CHANGE: (#7502) use pytest-rerun instead of flaky

*WorkloadManagementSystem

CHANGE: (#7498) removed GridEnv
FIX: (#7497) If the SoftwareDistModule is set in the Operations Section, add it to the Job JDL to restore previous behaviour
NEW: (#7453) FutureJobStateUpdate.setJobStatusBulk return a DiracX RPC stub

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#7493) check the VO from the task queues before submitting pilots
FIX: (#7488) JobAgent.setupProxy takes owner instead of ownerDN

*RequestManagementSystem

CHANGE: (#7453) adapt ForwardDISET to DiracX stub

*FrameworkSystem

CHANGE: (#7442) removed NotificationDN

[v9.0.0a26]

*FrameworkSystem

FIX: (#7491) dirac-proxy-info without the dirac group

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#7490) missing result in return statement

*tests

NEW: (#7484) add the state key in the test environment to fix diracx execution

[v9.0.0a25]

*Accounting

FIX: (#7486) Fix errors during insert into ac_in_* tables.

*Core

FIX: (#7483) Fix DISET calls with proxy to be used passed as an argument

*RequestManagementSystem

FIX: (#7482) RequestTask - download no-VOMS proxy if the owner group does not define VOMSRole

[v9.0.0a24]

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#7480) JobCleaningAgent - select random jobs for deletion rather than head and tail jobs.
FIX: (#7475) JobID type in PushJobAgent

*Interfaces

CHANGE: (#7472) dfind - more explicit failure report

*DataManagementSystem

NEW: (#7471) add tools for consistency checks

*tests

FIX: (#7470) check running containers in integration tests script

*WorkloadManagementSystem

CHANGE: (#7464) PilotAgentsDB: removed OutputReady and Broker fields

[v9.0.0a23]

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#7458) jobID type issue in JobAgent

*ConfigurationSystem

FIX: (#7454) getQueue() overriding the CE tags

*FrameworkSystem

FIX: (#7451) dirac-proxy-init printInfo without the dirac group

[v9.0.0a22]

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#7448) get pilot logging info with a token from an AREXCE

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#7447) Each job has its own JobReport in JobAgent
FIX: (#7447) JobAgent exits when all the jobs have been processed
FIX: (#7446) StatesAccountingAgent: skip the first iteration in order to avoid double commit after a restart
CHANGE: (#7439) SandboxStore: remove external SE feature
FIX: (#7436) JobDB: fix mismatch of string and integer jobIDs. In some cases API calls would fail because JObDB.getJobParameters and JobDB.getJobsAttributes return dictionaries with integer keys, while the function was called with a string jobID. This fixes for example the StalledJobAgent being unable to reschedule matched jobs.
NEW: (#7425) TornadoPilotLoggingHandler modify the handler to accept VO name sent by a pilot. Required in a case where the VO cannot be guessed from a proxy. This change requires https://github.com/DIRACGrid/Pilot/pull/230
NEW: (#7421) SandboxDB: add VO field
CHANGE: (#7414) move the content of SubmissionPolicy in SiteDirector

*FrameworkSystem

FIX: (#7443) correctly set the duration of tokens in cache

*RequestManagementSystem

FIX: (#7441) make sure OwnerDN is defined before trying to access its value

*MonitoringSystem

CHANGE: (#7432) moved to weekly indices for agent and service monitoring

[v9.0.0a21]

*Test

CHANGE: (#7417) write the diracx CsSync config in the CS instead of taking the yaml file from diracx repo

*FrameworkSystem

CHANGE: (#7413) removed Proxies persistency flag

*Core

FIX: (#7412) Adding VOMS extensions without having environment variables set
NEW: (#7412) Add DIRAC_DISABLE_GCONFIG_REFRESH environment variable to prevent gConfig being accidentally used
FIX: (#7409) Use proxy lifetime for tokens from legacy proxy exchange (https://github.com/DIRACGrid/diracx/issues/130)

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#7409) Add DiracX to payload proxies used by compute elements (#7402)
FIX: (#7406) SiteDirector should not interact with CEs if there is 0 pilot to submit

*WorkloadManagementSystem

CHANGE: (#7407) JobDB simplifications
CHANGE: (#7405) Removed Private Pilot functionality

[v9.0.0a20]

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#7399) JobAgent rescheduling wrong jobs
FIX: (#7387) JobAgent interaction with JobMonitoringClient

*WorkloadManagementSystem

CHANGE: (#7396) PilotAgentsDB: move from OwnerGroup to VO
FIX: (#7379) The callback for the Stager was failing, because of a type mismatch in the jobID used to retrieve the status. Jobs never came out of Staging.
NEW: (#7375) pilotWrapper: using CVMFS_locations for discovering the pilot files

*FrameworkSystem

FIX: (#7391) send notifications for expiring proxies

Documentation on how to deploy a third party tool (fluent-bit) to grab, format and send Dirac current logs to ElasticSearch and/or splitted logs files

*Resources

FIX: (#7376) AREXCE should break when a valid delegation ID is found

*Core

FIX: (#7374) Converting p12 files with filenames containing special characters

[v9.0.0a19]
[v9.0.0a18]
[v9.0.0a17]
[v9.0.0a16]
[v9.0.0a14]
[v9.0.0a14]
[v9.0.0a15]
[v9.0.0a14]
[v9.0.0a13]
[v9.0.0a12]
[v9.0.0a11]
[v9.0.0a10]
[v9.0.0a9]
[v9.0.0a8]


[v9.0.0a7]

*Resources

FIX: (#7366) make sure the WLCG accounting file is json

[v9.0.0a6]

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#7364) added SiteDirector option for CVMFS_locations

[v9.0.0a5]

*FrameworkSystem

FIX: (#7360) wrong service uptime calculation

*Resources

FIX: (#7357) get batch system details from local cfg instead of environment variables
FIX: (#7349) remove valid argument from setToken

*docs

NEW: (#7356) added doc for PreInstalledPilotEnv

*Core

NEW: (#7344) Introduce DIRAC_MYSQL_CONNECTION_GRACE_TIME to specify the grace time of the MySQL connection pool

*TransformationSystem

NEW: (#7337) add an index on Status and Type for the TransformationDB.Transformations table

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#7332) basic JobMonitoring client fixes
FIX: (#7331) JobAgents will set jobStatus=Failed/Payload failed if and only if the job was previously Running

*CORE

FIX: (#7332) allow for proxyLocation to work with host certificate

[v9.0.0a4]

*docs

FIX: (#7330) just use `pip install DIRAC` for DIRAC client install
FIX: (#7330) updated picture for py3 stack

*Interfaces

FIX: (#7328) Improve performance of job delete/kill/reschedule API
FIX: (#7322) Lower log level for printing version in submitJob

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#7327) Allow "ANY" in the valid sites list
NEW: (#7318) initial FutureClient for JobStateUpdate
FIX: (#7316) ElasticJobParametersDB: do not configure the IndexPrefix name

[v9.0.0a3]

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#7305) Use copy+remove in PilotSync agent to avoid SELinux problems
FIX: (#7288) WMSUtilities supports VO-specific token tags

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#7301) correctly handle UTC in JobLoggingDB float timestamp

*Core

FIX: (#7297) convert exception object to string representation in ElasticSearchDB

*DataManagementSystem

CHANGE: (#7297) default proxy lifetime for FTS is 36h and force the redelegation when 12h are left

*FrameworkSystem

FIX: (#7284) disabledVOs not available when doing dirac-configure

*DiracX

NEW: (#7261) DiracX credentials are now included in proxy PEM files created by DIRAC
NEW: (#7261) DiracX is now mandatory 🎉

[v9.0.0a2]

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#7282) JobStatus: allow WAITING -> KILLED
FIX: (#7263) SiteDirector acts for a VO

*FrameworkSystem

FIX: (#7280) show status SysAdminCLI KeyError

*Resources

FIX: (#7279) getting more details about failed/aborted pilots from HTCondor

*Core

FIX: (#7273) createClient: also look at HandlerMixin classes to find `export_`ed functions. Fixes the client Documentation creation, fixes #7265

*WorkloadManagement

NEW: (#7271) SiteDirector - added preinstalledEnv and preinstalledEnvPrefix pilot options

[v9.0.0a1]

*Core

NEW: (#7258) Support using DiracX as a backend for RPC calls

*WorkloadManagementSystem

CHANGE: (#7257) Refactor PilotLoggingAgent: download proxies at initialisation. Renew a proxy if it is about to expire.

*Resources

NEW: (#7256) Add support for loading external providers in CloudCE
NEW: (#7256) Add OpenNebula6 (XMLRPC) provider for CloudCE/libcloud

*Subsystem

FIX: (#7253) prevent AREXCE from creationg delegations each time a CE got a small and temporary issue

*docs

NEW: (#7252) add documentation about setting up DIRAC to submit pilots with tokens

*WorkloadManagement

CHANGE: (#7250) pilot submission with tokens in a multi-VO context

[v8.1.0a23]

*TransformationSystem

NEW: (#7239) TransformationCleaningAgent: Use the RequestManagementSystem to asynchronously remove files, rather than serially in the agent run

[v8.1.0a22]

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#7238) Output sandbox are assigned when using DiracX
CHANGE: (#7237) Removed interaction with MJF
FIX: (#7226) SiteDirector adds wnVO Pilot options, if needed
CHANGE: (#7215) add VO info in the table Jobs of JobDB

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#7234) AREX does not return an error if delegation not found
FIX: (#7230) Group to vo conversion in TaskQueueDB

*ConfigurationSystem

CHANGE: (#7225) explicitly state the VO in each default group upon installation

*DiracX

CHANGE: (#7222) Get a access/refresh token pair when generating a proxy
NEW: (#7222) Support using diracx as backend for the SandboxStoreHandler

[v8.1.0a21]

*Core

FIX: (#7216) replace ColorBar.draw_all() with figure.draw_without_rendering()

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#7213) emove OwnerDN from SiteDirector & PilotStatus

*WorkloadManagementSystem

CHANGE: (#7190) add VO info in TaskQueueDB
FIX: (#7187) code simplification for SandboxStoreClient

[v8.1.0a20]

*Test

FIX: (#7206) manually start the extra services when running the integration test
NEW: (#7143) allow integration tests to run against DiracX

*TransformationSystem

CHANGE: (#7204) TransformationCleaningAgent removes files by chunk
FIX: (#7200) Drop TS permission check for all read-only functions

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#7201) JobMonitoringClient uses the new DiracClient class
CHANGE: (#7194) Job.setNumberOfProcessors raises an exception if the function arguments aren't valid.

Please follow the template:

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#7196) do not try to insert nan values in AccountingDB
NEW: (#7143) call the diracx Job Monitoring endpoint
NEW: (#7105) Enhance dirac-admin-get-pilot-output to download remote pilot logs. Currently only from a SE.

*FrameworkSystem

FIX: (#7192) replace create_access_token with create_token

*ConfigurationSystem

CHANGE: (#7143) do not look for the shifter under the Default or <Setup> section

*Core

NEW: (#7143) get a token for a proxy

[v8.1.0a19]

*ConfigurationSystem

CHANGE: (#7182) VOMS2CS agent only sends a mail in case of change in the CS

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#7180) passing pilotDN instead of owner in getPilotProxyFromVOMSGroup()

[v8.1.0a18]

*Production

CHANGE: (#7162) Move from DN to Username

*WorkloadManagementSystem

CHANGE: (#7157) PilotAgentsDB: move DN in favor of username

[v8.1.0a17]

*TransformationSystem

NEW: (#7170) Implement a finer grained permissions model for Transformations.

*DataManagementSystem

FIX: (#7168) better error reporting when an existing LFN has no replicas (at least it doesn't crash)

*WorkloadManagement

CHANGE: (#7167) Stop using PID namespaces with SingularityCE

*Resources

FIX: (#7160) default providerType if not found in IdProviderFactory

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#7155) Adding Owner as JDL requirement
CHANGE: (#7151) factorize some utilities of JobSubmit into functions

[v8.1.0a16]

*FrameworkSystem

FIX: (#7149) Do not overwrite the tornado port if already set
FIX: (#7117) replaced deprecated importlib read_text function to fix failure in CI tests

*Resources

FIX: (#7147) MultiVO proxy renewal in AREX
FIX: (#7146) Propagate environment variables from host to container.
FIX: (#7134) Don't print client_secret in oauth2 debug
FEAT: (#7120) allow to pass credentials when downloading the SRR file
CHANGE: (#7103) ARC and ARC6 are now deprecated
CHANGE/FIX: (#7102) proxy renewal logic in AREX
FIX: (#7102) submitting tokens with AREX
FIX: (#7102) correctly report aborted pilots with AREX

*TransformationSystem

FIX: (#7144) dirac_production_runjoblocal: updated list of Pilot modules
CHANGE: (#7124) use userName instead of DN

*Core

FIX: (#7142) look also for DIRAC.rootPath/etc/dirac.cfg before printing a warning of not found cfg

*docs

change: Replace the use of sphinx-panels with sphinx-design, this unblocks the use of latest sphinx versions (panels was requiring sphinx < 5)
FIX: (#7133) formatting item list

*WorkloadManagement

NEW: (#7132) Introducing 'Scouting' status in job state transitions

*ResourceStatusSystem

FIX: (#7120) Add the Error status in the scripts

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#7101) JobManagerHandler: get the OwnerDN only when needed.

[v8.1.0a15]

*Resources

FIX: (#7100) concatenate tags instead of overriding them in ComputingElement.initializeParameters()
NEW: (#7079) audienceName attribute in CEs
NEW: (#7065) add a test for the PoolCE to highlight the fact that submission failures cannot be handled by the caller with the return value

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#7098) Exceptions in StalledJobAgent
CHANGE: (#7097) modifying access specifiers of JobPolicy from private to protected
FIX: (#7081) disable activityMonitoring for JobAgent
NEW: (#7079) audience support in SiteDirector
CHANGE: (#6973) validating the JDL job format using a pydantic model

*FrameworkSystem

FIX: (#7094) Support Authlib v1.2.1

*FrameworkSyste

FIX: (#7079) fix TokenManager(Client/Handler/Utilities)

*WorkloadManagent

NEW: (#7068) New TornadoSandboxStoreHandler implementation

*Core

NEW: (#7068) TornadoClient - added sendFile() method

FIX: (#7067) Close DISET selector when we no longer need it

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#7065) management of the job status in JobAgent
NEW: (#7065) add a test for the JobAgent to make sure the status of the submissions are correctly handled

*docs

NEW: (#7065) documentation about ComputingElement

*tests

NEW: (#7024) added script for comdirac hackathon certification tests

[v8.1.0a14]

*WorkloadManagementSystem

NEW: (#7059) new script dirac-admin-add-pilot

*dashboard

NEW: (#7039) add missing dashboards of issue #6742 also to the LHCb grafana organisation. The dashboards can be checked/reviewed at https://monit-grafana.cern.ch/dashboards/f/qwdBd3KVk/dev-dirac-certification

Please follow the template:

*docs

FIX: (#7023) added remaining info from COMDIRAC Wiki. Addresses part of #6746

[v8.1.0a13]

*Core

FIX: (#7058) print a warning message when no CFG file is found
FIX: (#6976) retry upon DNS lookup error
FIX: (#6955) HandlerManager - create separate class for each service handler
FIX: (#6955) BaseRequestHandler - fullComponentName can be only defined in the configuration

*docs

FIX: (#7057) added a note about removal of elastic job parameters
CHANGE: (#6969) more details in the "supercomputers" section

*Resources

CHANGE: (#7055) use double slash in Echo xroot URLs
FIX: (#7042) reduce memory consumption of AREXCE.getJobOutput()
CHANGE: (#7036) remove CREAM CE
FIX: (#7028) SSHCE getPilotOutput remove stamp
FIX: (#7000) ARCLogLevel
FIX: (#6999) remove executables definition from AREXCE.submitJob()
NEW: (#6969) cleanJob() in AREX
CHANGE: (#6969) executables from inputs are passed as executables in the XRSL in ARC and AREX

*test

FIX: (#7053) Workflow tests need pilot.cfg to work

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#7052) Implementation of DefaultLocalCEType option
FIX: (#7046) fix(StalledJobAgent): after a job was Killed, we have to force the Failed.
CHANGE: (#7033) TokenManagerHandler provides client access token if username is not provided.
CHANGE: (#7031) Using JobManager instead of JobDB for rescheduling stalled jobs
CHANGE: (#7019) removed old format of ElasticJobParametersDB
NEW: (#7017) add the possibility of adding generic options for running the pilots
FIX: (#6980) JobStatus: add staging to checking transition, needed by StorageManagementSystem (Stager)
NEW: (#6969) tests for RemoteRunner
CHANGE: (#6969) RemoteRunner can deal with MP applications, clean job outputs and process more applications
FIX: (#6969) Modify the DIRACVersion in the PushJobAgent

*WorkloadManagement

NEW: (#7042) md5 checksum comparison in RemoteRunner
NEW: (#7041) Add /Resources/Computing/DefaultLocalCEType option
FIX: (#7007) return specific exit code in RemoteRunner in case of failure
FIX: (#7006) Getting the value of /LocalSite/RemoteExecution

*RequestManagementSystem

FIX: (#7013) fix the monitoring of Operations not yet entered into the DB

*FrameworkSystem

CHANGE: (#6967) enable/disableLogsFromExternalLibs only used from LocalConfiguration
FIX: (#6967) remove a deprecated method
CHANGE: (#6967) gLogger date format
NEW: (#6967) type hinting in gLogger

*Interfaces

FIX: (#6961) Removed dinit, sessions are now instantiated automatically. Also removed DCOMMANDS_PPID.

PR for adding Dirac side code related to https://github.com/DIRACGrid/WebAppDIRAC/pull/729/commits
CHANGE: (#6956) Add getTokensByUserID method and make it compliant with ProxyManager code

*Integration tests

FIX: (#6954) Make error nicer when the IAM docker instance is not working properly

*dashboards

NEW: (#6911) added json export of Grafana demo dashboard

[v8.1.0a12]

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#6953) Watchdog fix: always report correct types
FIX: (#6931) make singletons of VirtualMachineDB and PilotAgentsDB

PR for fixing dead link in doc (monitoring part)
FIX: (#6949) change urls for WMS and Logs dashboards

*tests

CHANGE: (#6948) Integration tests: upped Opensearch version to 2.1.0
NEW: (#6937) integration tests for IdProviders

*Core

CHANGE: (#6947) remove support for MySQL 5.7
FIX: (#6944) protection for opensearch_dsl being merged in opensearchpy
FIX: (#6924) cast method names to string before sending monitoring

*Resources

NEW: (#6937) unit tests for IdProviders
FIX: (#6927) HTCondorCEComputingElement - set _CONDOR_AUTH_SSL_CLIENT_CADIR before executing condor commands

*Tornado

FIX: (#6933) do not use activityMonitor in TornadoREST

*FrameworkSystem

FIX: (#6922) stdoutJson logger prints all the necessary fields
FIX: (#6922) MicrosecondJsonFormatter does not dump DIRAC specific fields (`timeStampIsShown`, `colorIsShown`, etc)

[v8.1.0a11]

*Resources

FIX: (#6913) better handle exceptions in AREXCE
CHANGE: (#6902) (AREX)ComputingElement - use proxy only if it is set up
FIX: (#6883) add workaround for https timeout when dowloading file

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#6913) config helper error message
FIX: (#6907) SiteDirector: failure in submitting Accounting or Monitoring report only prints an error

*MonitoringSystem

FIX: (#6904) while updating ES documents, wait and retry on ConflictError
CHANGE: (#6875) introduce gMonitoringDB global instance

*Interfaces

FIX: (#6903) make -F (file) option work for drm command. This fixes #6896

*WorkloadManagement

NEW: (#6902) Enable PilotManager to manage pilots with tokens

*Core

FIX: (#6901) Tornado PeriodicCallbacks are actually called
FEAT: (#6901) Tornado Handlers report to ActivityMonitor
FEAT: (#6901) Activity Monitoring reports useful information
FIX: (#6874) TornadoREST - fix the error in resolution of exposed methods

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*Production System

CHANGE: (#6898) change column types in ProductionDB from VARCHAR(255) to LONGTEXT

*FrameworkSystem

CHANGE: (#6897) Default log level is INFO
NEW: (#6897) Define global configuration options for log level

*ConfigurationSystem

FIX: (#6888) Fix the connection to ES database when using certificates

*DataManagementSystem

CHANGE: (#6884) refactor (DFC): rewrite the file/replica deletion stored procedure as they were in 5.6
CHANGE: (#6880) FTS3DB uses `in` instead of `not in` for some query
CHANGE: (#6880) FTS3DB removal of operations uses python datetime instead of mysql builtin

[v8.1.0a11]

*Resources

FIX: (#6913) better handle exceptions in AREXCE
CHANGE: (#6902) (AREX)ComputingElement - use proxy only if it is set up
FIX: (#6883) add workaround for https timeout when dowloading file

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#6913) config helper error message
FIX: (#6907) SiteDirector: failure in submitting Accounting or Monitoring report only prints an error

*MonitoringSystem

FIX: (#6904) while updating ES documents, wait and retry on ConflictError
CHANGE: (#6875) introduce gMonitoringDB global instance

*Interfaces

FIX: (#6903) make -F (file) option work for drm command. This fixes #6896

*WorkloadManagement

NEW: (#6902) Enable PilotManager to manage pilots with tokens

*Core

FIX: (#6901) Tornado PeriodicCallbacks are actually called
FEAT: (#6901) Tornado Handlers report to ActivityMonitor
FEAT: (#6901) Activity Monitoring reports useful information
FIX: (#6874) TornadoREST - fix the error in resolution of exposed methods

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*Production System

CHANGE: (#6898) change column types in ProductionDB from VARCHAR(255) to LONGTEXT

*FrameworkSystem

CHANGE: (#6897) Default log level is INFO
NEW: (#6897) Define global configuration options for log level

*ConfigurationSystem

FIX: (#6888) Fix the connection to ES database when using certificates

*DataManagementSystem

CHANGE: (#6884) refactor (DFC): rewrite the file/replica deletion stored procedure as they were in 5.6
CHANGE: (#6880) FTS3DB uses `in` instead of `not in` for some query
CHANGE: (#6880) FTS3DB removal of operations uses python datetime instead of mysql builtin

[v8.1.0a10]

*Tests

CHANGE: (#6861) factorize FTS3 tests

[v8.1.0a9]

*ConfigurationSystem

FIX: (#6868) VOMS2CSAgent: strip whitespaces from DN entried and nickname
NEW: (#6865) Resources helper - getQueues() - can select queues by Tag values also

*FrameworkSystem

FIX: (#6865) TokenManager - use refreshToken flow to generate access tokens from the stored refresh tokens

*WorkloadManagement

NEW: (#6865) SiteDirector enabled to select queues by tags
NEW: (#6865) SiteDirector sets up tokens for ComputingElements configured with the Token tag

*Resources

NEW: (#6865) HTCondorComputingElement, ARC(6)ComputingElement and AREXComputingElement enabled to for job operations with tokens
FIX: (#6842) Complete AREX renewal

*DataManagementSystem

NEW: (#6863) ReplicateAndRegister FTS mode also checks the SE status
NEW: (#6863) add a delay in monitoring in the FTS3Agent
NEW: (#6860) dirac-dms-filecatalog-cli - use the default VO FileCatalog if not explicitly specified
CHANGE: (#6835) Speed up ReplicateAndRegister operation

*dashboards/PilotSubmissions

FIX: (#6858) efficiency plots now use heatmaps
FIX: (#6858) index patterns are now environment agnostic

*dashboards/ServiceMonitoring

FIX: (#6858) index patterns are now environment agnostic

*dashboards/AgentMonitoring

FIX: (#6858) index patterns are now environment agnostic

*dashboards/PilotsHistory

FIX: (#6858) style of plots
FIX: (#6858) index patterns are now environment agnostic

*Interfaces

NEW: (#6853) Add setPriority to Job API
FIX: (#6849) removed print statements and replaced with gLogger as appropriate as requested in #6746

*RequestManagementSystem

CHANGE: (#6848) ReqProxy does not attempt a direct forward to central ReqManager

[v8.1.0a8]

*Resources

FIX: (#6832) Update AREX delegation renewal
FIX: (#6830) Fix AREX ARCRESTTimeout
FIX: (#6817) fix account parameter in SSHBatchCE

*TransformationSystem

FIX: (#6829) keep transID an int in utilities

*DataManagementSystem

FIX: (#6819) specify the same column in order_by and distinct in FTS3DB.getNonFinishedOperations

*Tests

NEW: (#6812) Integration test for StorageElementHandler and FileHelper

[v8.1.0a7]

*Core

FIX: (#6811) don't use matplotlib deprecated methods
FIX: (#6793) Fix exception in FileHelper.networkToString on Python3
FIX: (#6784) Tornado components are initialized using the Tornado system section
FIX: (#6784) each Tornado handler reads its own log level
New: dirac-configure warns you about existing config file
FIX: (#6731) Fix in FileHelper module writing to file, fixed exception "TypeError: write() argument must be str, not bytes, because file was opened in the wrong mode.
CHANGE: (#6706) debug log level instead of info in a few places

*Resources

NEW: (#6806) [ALL]ComputingElements - pass pilot stamp to the pilot environment
FIX: (#6768) do not handle ECOMM when removing file
FIX: (#6753) Add a note about XRSL times in ARC(6) vs AREX
NEW: (#6729) SensitiveDataFilter in LogFilters
FIX: (#6719) remove stupid CS sync when getting MQ config
CHANGE: (#6690) drop the WholeNode CE option from Condor
CHANGE: (#6683) https comes before gsiftp in the preference list
NEW: (#6683) Singularity detects locally mounted file system on the worker node to bind mount
FIX: (#6681) fix upload from relative path

*Docs

FIX: (#6801) Removed Google forum from docs
NEW: (#6786) Improve documentation on installing HTTPs services
FIX: (#6732) nginx takes aliases into account
NEW: (#6683) document how to access locally mounted file system

*DataManagementSystem

CHANGE: (#6787) take into account all possible sources for intermediate copy when replicating files
CHANGE: (#6763) Removed deprecated StorageElementProxy and FileCatalogProxy
NEW: (#6759) Provide `diskOnly` option in getFile. Defaul is `False`
CHANGE: (#6752) adapt FTS3DB to sqlalchemy 2.0
NEW: (#6697) Introduce getDirectoryDump method in the DFC
CHANGE: (#6697) dirac-dms-user-lfns uses getDirectoryDump method
CHANGE: (#6697) DataManager getReplicasFromDirectory and __cleanDirectory use getDirectoryDump
FIX: (#6696) fix a non initialized variable when doing a TPC with gfal2
FIX: (#6696) propagate error number when calling getTURL in SRM2
FIX : (#6696) ConsistencyInspector default value should be a dict and not a list

*ConfigurationSystem

FIX: (#6779) VOMS2CSSynchronizer: strip leading and trailing whitespaces from DN entries
FIX: (#6706) getMonitoringBackends returns a list

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#6756) Repect paramList argument in ElasticJobParametersDB.getJobParameters
FIX: (#6749) Reorder pilot downloads to minimise race condition
FIX: (#6704) Calculating index for JobParametersDB for string job ids

*Interfaces

NEW: (#6755) Merge COMDIRAC

*RequestManagementSystem

CHANGE: (#6752) adapt ReqDB to sqlalchemy 2.0

*FrameworkSystem

CHANGE: (#6743) Increased length of MySQL field UserProfileDB.up_Users to 64 (was 32)
CHANGE: (#6729) Refactor access to log filters and Logging.__init__()
FIX: (#6718) ComponentSupervisionAgent: Fix problem if two instances in different systems but with the same name are present on the same machine (e.g., Framework/Monitoring and Monitoring/Monitoring)
CHANGE: (#6686) Removed old RabbitMQ specific interface

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#6706) Matcher handles cases of empty Tag in resource description
FIX: (#6684) InputData optimizer: keep the tape LFNs in

*Accounting

FIX: (#6695) JobsPerPilot plot when no data available

[v8.1.0a6]

*Resources

FIX: (#6620) convert ARC to DIRAC JobID in AREXCE
FIX: (#6618) SSHBatchComputingElement needs self.account
FIX: (#6608) HTCondorCE: use CS location Resources/Computing/CEDefaults/HTCondorCE instead of Resources/Computing/HTCondorCE
FIX: (#6595) fix delegation process in the AREXCE

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#6618) encoding proxy in PilotWrapper.py
FIX: (#6609) ExtraPilotOptions can be a comma-separated list

*StorageManagamentSystem

FIX: (#6617) fix py3 incompatibility in wakeupOldRequests

*DataManagementSystem

FIX: (#6591) Faster query to list directory for DFC LHCb managers

[v8.1.0a5]

*Resources

FIX: (#6577) multi-node allocations with SLURM
FIX: (#6558) AREXCE._getDelegation() returns an error if the process cannot be completed

*ConfigurationSystem

NEW: (#6576) BDII2CSAgent: allow using AREX or ARC6 Computing Elements instead of ARC, fixes #6541

*tests

NEW: (#6569) added system/rms_script.sh test for basic RMS test

*WorkloadManagementSystem

CHANGE: (#6568) improve killing of process with psutil
CHANGE: (#6556) completely removed old PilotsLogging machinery

*DataManagementSystem

NEW: (#6567) TornadoS3GatewayHandler service

*ProductionSystem

NEW: (#6567) TornadoProductionManagerHandler service

*StorageManagementSystem

NEW: (#6567) TornadoStorageManagerHandler service

*MonitoringSystem

CHANGE: (#6563) remove setup

*Subsystem

CHANGE: (#6561) Swapped the default of EnableSecurityLogging flag
FIX: (#6553) simplified NotificationHandler

*Core

CHANGE: (#6466) removed DIRAC_USE_JSON_DECODE, flipped DIRAC_USE_JSON_ENCODE

[v8.1.0a4]

*Resources

NEW: (#6530) add the ARCLogLevel option in ARC
NEW: (#6530) add the ComputingInfoEndpoint in ARC6
FIX: (#6530) restore a commented line in AREX._reset()
FIX: (#6524) Support using ARC that was compiled against SWIG 4.1+
NEW: (#6506) Added network selection to CloudCE.
FIX: (#6505) simplifying `if` statements for setting bools

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#6525) Ensure cpuNormalizationFactor is a float
FIX: (#6489) pass CE parameters to dirac-jobexec instead of writing them in the configuration

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#6521) JobDB.getJobAttributes() returns an empty dict if jobID does not exist
FIX: (#6479) reduce the PollingTime of JobAgent to 20s

*ResourceStatusSystem

FIX: (#6513) GOCDB parser to understand also real URLs
FIX: (#6501) replace pre-Python 2.5 ternary syntax

*docs

FIX: (#6512) Added CloudComputingElement to AdminGuide/Resources

*ConfigurationSystem

FIX: (#6505) simplifying `if` statements for returning bools

*DataManagementSystem

FIX: (#6505) simplifying `if` statements for returning bools
FIX: (#6505) use `not in` instead of `not ... in`
FIX: (#6505) simplify loop with `any` call

*FrameworkSystem

FIX: (#6505) simplifying `if` statements for setting bools
FIX: (#6505) simplified if statement for checking list/string len
FIX: (#6501) replace pre-Python 2.5 ternary syntax
NEW: (#6450) added TornadoComponentMonitoringHandler
NEW: (#6450) added TornadoNotificationHandler
NEW: (#6450) added TornadoUserProfileManagerHandler

*TransformationSystem

FIX: (#6505) simplifying `if` statements [unneeded `not`]
FIX: (#6505) simplified if statement for checking list/string len

*Core

FIX: (#6480) quoting the DB passwords for special characters
FIX: (#6462) Scripts: adapt to proper way of getting console_scripts entry_points, mandatory for importlib_metadata v5
FIX: (#6459) Setting timeout when adding VOMS extension

*tests

NEW: (#6463) added Glasgow to sites that should work(TM) in multiVO test
NEW: (#6454) launching the Optimizers in integration-tests

*Docs

FIX: (#6462) Fail if one the commands cannot be documented

[v8.1.0a3]

*Docs

FIX: (#6457) Fix the title for the Command Reference Page, fixes #6455

*Interfaces

CHANGE: (#6452) remove JobRepository functionality

*FrameworkSystem

CHANGE: (#6451) remove support for myProxy

*Core

FIX: (#6448) Only use X- headers if /WebApp/Balancer is defined
FIX: (#6428) MySQL tracer bugs

*ConfigurationSystem

FIX: (#6444) remove warning logs when initializing ElasticDB parameters

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#6441) fix the timestamp of initial logging records
FIX: (#6436) WMSUtilities.killPilotsInQueues have a consistent return value
FIX: (#6432) removed unused SubmissionMode CE parameter

NEW: (#6429) Information about VirtualOrganization parameter added.

*Test

FIX: (#6428) server installation do not install JobAgent

*MonitoringSystem

CHANGE: (#6426) Remove PilotSubmissionPlotter

*WorkloadManagement

CHANGE: (#6380) Remove VMDIRAC components

[v8.1.0a2]

*DataManagementSystem

FIX: (#6414) Proper casting for data sent to the monitoring
NEW: (#6410) backport getDestinationSEList from LHCbDIRAC
FIX: (#6392) DirectoryLevelTree: fix missing keyword argument name causing failures to upload files for example

*Tests

NEW: (#6410) introduce generateDIRACConfig utility to generate DIRAC config during tests

*Docs

CHANGE: (#6410) move site documentation from ConfigRef to Resources and dirac.cfg
NEW: (#6410) document Countries

*WorkloadManagementSystem

CHANGE: (#6410) JobWrapper uses getDestinationSEList rather that resolveSEGroup
CHANGE: (#6408) ElasticJobParametersDB: create a new index every 1M jobs
FIX: (#6397) JobScheduling: select the correct RescheduleDelay instead of 1 higher

*MonitoringSystem

CHANGE: (#6409) Remove DataOperationPlotter

*Production

NEW: (#6406) add dirac-prod-complete command

*Core

FIX: (#6398) Use safer mode for grid-security directories
FIX: (#6397) TimeUtilities.fromString: when given a datetime.datetime, return the same object, instead of None. Also Fixes JobScheduling issue

[v8.1.0a1]

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#6388) replace opPath by opChain in JobPath

*DataManagementSystem

FIX: (#6385) Monitoring does not update the dict using by the accounting, avoiding a crash
NEW: (#6385) FailedDataOperation monitoring now keeps track of interactive/job failures
NEW: (#6383) cancel the FTS transfers when an RMS request is found to be canceled

*Core

FIX: (#6379) Explicitly depend on db12
CHANGE: (#6337) Use Python's default SSL ciphers by default

*Resources

CHANGE: (#6378) negative free space value is transformed to 0

[v8.0.0]

*Resources

FIX: (#6359) new directory creation specifies the permission in octal mode
NEW: (#6357) Add a setGfalSetting decorator
CHANGE: (#6357) add a 30s timeout for removal at RAL

*WorkloadManagementSystem

NEW: (#6355) The default InputDataDirectory used by DownloadInputData can be overridden by setting /LocalSite/InputDataDirectory
FIX: (#6354) Stop instance from VirtualMachineMonitor

[v8.0.0a29]

*Core

NEW: (#6347) Introduce ``DIRAC_MYSQL_OPTIMIZER_TRACES_PATH`` environment variable for advance optimization of MySQL calls
CHANGE: (#6347) calls to the MySQL class with keyword parameters MUST now be named
FIX: (#6345) Setting codeProperties["version"] in AgentModule

[v8.0.0a28]

*Core

FIX: (#6341) createClient now creates subclasses of the original class
NEW: (#6335) DIRAC.initialize now provides keyword arguments to customise initialisation
NEW: (#6335) SecurityProperty enum for expressing security properties which can be assigned to groups/hosts
NEW: (#6335) LogLevel enum for choosing the logging level
NEW: (#6309) Introduce DReturnType/DOKReturnType/DErrorReturnType for DIRAC return structures
CHANGE: (#6299) Set OpenSSL ciphers to "DEFAULT:@SECLEVEL=1"
NEW: (#6299) Experimental support for Python 3.10
NEW: (#6299) Suppress InsecureRequestWarning when using dirac-configure with HTTPS servers
NEW: (#6299) Support overriding ciphers and methods with environment variables when using HTTPS
CHANGE: (#6298) Replace suds-jurko with suds
CHANGE: (#6297) Use psutil.net_if_addrs for Network.discoverInterfaces
NEW: (#6291) adding general flag for disabling Monitoring for Agents (used by JobAgent)
CHANGE: (#6286) Default proxy length is 2048 bits
CHANGE: (#6286) remove RFC argument for proxy generation

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#6338) Log error if CE Platform is missing.
CHANGE: (#6336) Remove CPU(MHz) from CacheSize(kB) job parameters

*Resources

FIX: (#6320) Forward jobDesc to innerCE in PoolCE
FIX: (#6318) Set HOME in SingularityCE
FIX: (#6317) Return proper error if provider value missing in CloudCE
CHANGE: (#6283) GFA2_SRM2 does not use anymore StorageElements/DefaultProtocols option in the CS (relies on specific OutputProtocols config)
CHANGE: (#6283) explicit distinction between PluginName and ProtocolSection name in all the StorageElement components
CHANGE: (#6283) API change for the StorageElement. See https://github.com/DIRACGrid/DIRAC/pull/6283 for details
CHANGE: (#6283) StorageElement favors local plugins

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#6288) ElasticJobParametersDB: do not return parameters that are not needed

*tests

FIX: (#6287) replication transformation test: avoid target==source
FEAT: (#6287) transformation tests: allow -disk SEs, avoid RAL, RALPP, CESNET (don't work for me, YMMV)

*MonitoringSystem

FIX: (#6286) ElasticSearchDB generates full index names based on UTC
FIX: (#6286) DataOperationSender works on a copy of the documents
CHANGE: (#6286) DataOperationSender fails if the master accounting system fails

[v8.0.0a27]

*ConfigurationSystem

CHANGE: (#6285) Make GOCDB2CSAgent functionMap less private

*Core

CHANGE: (#6281) Removed Core.Utilities.MemStat module (use psutil module instead)
CHANGE: (#6281) Removed possibility to Register a DISET service with a secondary name

*Resources

FIX: (#6275) Conditional FC ProxyPlugin checks the ThreadConfig

*DataManagementSystem

FIX: (#6268) Fix FC change{group,owner,mode} for multiple LFNs

*WorkloadManagement

NEW: (#6267) ContainerBind option can be set on the per-site and per-CE level

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#6256) Making getJobParameters handle specific parameters
CHANGE: (#6178) removing filtering user sites by platform during the CHECKING state

*FrameworkSystem

NEW: (#6248) Add StdoutJsonBackend
FIX: (#6246) dirac_login HTML error hiding the actual error

[v7.3.25]

*Resources

FIX: (#6275) Conditional FC ProxyPlugin checks the ThreadConfig

*DataManagementSystem

FIX: (#6268) Fix FC change{group,owner,mode} for multiple LFNs

*WorkloadManagement

NEW: (#6267) ContainerBind option can be set on the per-site and per-CE level

*FrameworkSystem

NEW: (#6248) Add StdoutJsonBackend
FIX: (#6246) dirac_login HTML error hiding the actual error

[v8.0.0a26]

*Resources

FIX: (#6242) remove REST information from the ARC6 pilot job references to bind them with jobs
FIX: (#6222) dirac_resource_info - restored the SE lookup logic
FIX: (#6218) ARCCE.getARCJob() becomes protected
FIX: (#6215) ARC6 typo issues
FIX: (#6215) ARC writeXRSL becomes protected

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#6241) Fix Platform key error in SD when CheckPlatform=True

*DataManagementSystem

FIX: (#6240) DatasetManager: bug fix in getDatasetsInDirectory() method
FIX: (#6209) Built-in metakeys were incorrectly modified in a MultiVO environment. This fix keeps them intact while modifying user-supplied metadata names by append a VO suffix, as before.

*tests

NEW: (#6239) added tests for the dirac-resource-info command

*Interfaces

CHANGE: (#6228) Make tmpdir for local cache instead of using CWD directly when replicating

*Core

FIX: (#6227) Increase VOMS command timeout
FIX: (#6204) Fixing errors, adding tests for TimeUtilities module
FIX: (#6128) Discovery of HTTPS methods from parent classes

*MonitoringSystem

FIX: (#6214) Fixing errors blocking commission of data operations to Elasticsearch

*ResourceStatusSystem

FIX: (#6201) convert ComputingElement to CE before searching in the configuration

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#6196) Fixing errors, adding mapping for ESJobParameters
CHANGE: (#6193) new method to submit pilots from ARC
CHANGE: (#6161) removing the possibility to get the optimizers to run with a vo plugin

[v8.0.0a25]

*CI

NEW: (#6189) max open files for dirac CI container to 8192

*Core

CHANGE: (#6188) Propagate original proxy strength when generating new proxies

*WorkloadManagementSystem

CHANGE: (#6154) Addded timestamp to elasticjobparameters and changed parameter values into strings

[v8.0.0a24]

*Core

FIX: (#6179) better report of error when importing Module
FIX: (#6167) Replaced old vomses/vomsdir code to be able to handle cvmfs vomses. See https://github.com/DIRACGrid/DIRAC/issues/6150
FIX: (#6151) Replace deprecated threading.activeCount with active_count
FIX: (#6149) use AnyThreadEventLoopPolicy asyncio policy
FIX: (#6144) Removing time dependence of TimeUtilities Module
NEW: (#6137) add https to issuer address automatically
FIX: (#6132) fix error reporting in TornadoService
CHANGE: (#6091) changed name and simplified repetitive methods of Utilities.TIme
CHANGE: (#6084) BaseRequestHandler encode/decode static methods

*MonitoringSystem

FIX: (#6175) MonitoringReporter - late binding to MonitoringDB
FIX: (#6076) Removing multiplication in timestamp when committing to monitoring

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#6173) restore /LocalSite/InstancePath for the case of JobAgents (see issue #6143)
FIX: (#6162) use the JobMonitoringClient to check for job parameters (that can be in the ES backend)
NEW: (#6134) adding a test to show the modifications made to the JDL before being inserted in the JobDB

*RequestManagementSystem

NEW: (#6172) Add option to automatically cancel Scheduled requests after a defined time period.  Default behaviour unchanged. Relates to #6136
CHANGE: (#6114) Replace BLOBs with TEXTs for ReqDB

*docs

NEW: (#6147) add info on installing non-released code from within the pilot

*Resources/Cloud

FIX: (#6146) userData need to be in "ascii" string format to meet the requirement of "create_node" when creating VMs from cloud resources

*FrameworkSystem

FIX: (#6138) dirac_login: avoid misleading error message, fixes issue #6096
FIX: (#6135) dirac_login: Pass proxy as string to writeToProxyFile()
NEW: (#6130) add the possibility to add a prefix before the actual log message for a given subLogger

[v8.0.0a23]

*Tests

FIX: (#6122) restart Tornado after updating the configuration

*Core

FIX: (#6120) don't truncate first character in cli doc strings
FIX: (#6103) Race condition which causes multiple connectioons to be opened when the connection to an executor drops
CHANGE: (#6103) Improve logging split between message/varmessage in execuctors
FIX: (#6083) Grid: BDII make ldapsearch call forward compatible with newer ldapsearch versions

*DataManagementSystem

NEW: (#6115) Introduces an option 'ForceIndexedMetadata' to disable the creation of unindexed metadata. Default: False, i.e. preserves the current default where both indexed and unindexed metadata are allowed. Relates to #6029.

*Resources

FIX: (#6111) Error in the condition to get FlavorName
FIX: (#6110) use identity instead of subject of proxy in CloudCE
FIX: (#6102) remove decode from proxy in CloudCE
FIX: (#6095) use ceType instead of ceName for CE parameters
FIX: (#6088) autodetect cvmfs proxy in default cloudce template
FIX: (#6083) ARCCE  make ldapsearch call forward compatible with newer ldapsearch versions
FIX: (#6080) Adapt StompMQConnector to Stomp 8

*tests

FIX: (#6104) typo in testJobDefinitions for new Cloud test
NEW: (#6081) added hackathon test for CloudComputingElement

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#6103) Avoid producing massive log output in OptimizationMind

*Elasticsearch

NEW: (#6094) option op_type in index API for Elasticsearch

[v8.0.0a22]

*Web

FIX: (#6046) Fix downloading sandboxes from the Job Manager in the WebApp

*Resources

CHANGE: (#5996) release stomp version
NEW: (#5996) Simple stomp interface

[v8.0.0a21]

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#6066) In case of a pilot version not matching the production version, the JobAgent expects the error message to contain the words "Pilot version does not match", so the error message was updated accordingly.

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#6065) Don't crash if systemCall fails

*Resources

NEW: (#6061) add SRM+HTTPs as a default TPC protocol in SRM
FIX: (#6060) use ceType instead of ceName for CE parameters
FIX: (#6052) string format for future in PoolCE

*Core

NEW: (#6017) TornadoBaseRequestHandler define a class logger with an extra attribute "tornadoComponent"
NEW: (#6017) DIRACDB can now use a parentLogger instead of direct gLogger

*All

CHANGE: (#6017) services propagate their local loggers to the DB
CHANGE: (#6017) tornado services use local logger

[v8.0.0a20]

*docs

FIX: (#6041) Added (renewed) jobs and pilot State Machines drawings

*DataManagementSystem

NEW: (#6040) bitterly implement multihop
NEW: (#6015) BringOnline setting for FTS transfers can be SE dependant

*Resources

FIX: (#6039) HTCondorCE: make sure proxy is available when running condor_rm
NEW: (#6038) add CloudComputingElement

*WorkloadManagementSystem

CHANGE: (#6038) add hook for pilot cleanup

*RequestManagementSystem

FIX: (#6033) if the request ID is an integer the test `is digit()` throws an exception

*Core

FIX: (#6031) Allow rootPath to be overridden with DIRAC_ROOT_PATH  environment variable

*FrameworkSystem

FIX: (#6007) ComponentSupervisionAgent: skip Tornado service

*DMS/WMS/Monitoring

FIX: (#6006) Fixed errors in Data Operation Monitoring and PilotsHistory from hackaton

*MonitoringSystem

CHANGE: (#6002) Replaced the flags for monitoring with a new unified flag system

*Monitoring/Core

CHANGE: (#5944) Divided ComponentMonitoring into AgentMonitoring and ServiceMonitoring

[v8.0.0a19]

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#6004) StalledJobAgent can force status from Submitting to Failed
FIX: (#6004) ElasticJobParametersDB: make sure the docID is less than 512 characters

*WMS/Monitoring

NEW: (#5999) Added a PilotsHistory Monitoring

*Subsystem

FIX: (#5994) allow to run Watchdog on non x86 platforms

*WorkloadManagement

CHANGE: (#5993) dirac-wms-get-cpu-normalization depends on db12 multiple_dirac_benchmark

*Core

FIX: (#5985) Set default value of BaseRequestHandler.COMPONENT_NAME

*DataManagementSystem

FIX: (#5984) fix a race condition when running multiple FTS3Agents in parallel

*RequestManagementSystem

FIX: (#5960) moved REA initialization inside the initialize() method

*MonitoringSystem

FIX: (#5955) Fixed data operation  and pilot submission monitoring from certif Hackaton

[v8.0.0.a18]

*Core

FIX: (#5983) fix: allow for agents to loop every 10 seconds
FIX: (#5980) Limit reoccurrences of subprocess unicode error

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#5983) can't change the polling time of JobAgent from inside an already running agent
FIX: (#5982) Stop fetching jobs when no more slot available in the inner PoolCE
FIX: (#5982) Make sure dirac-jobexec does not use the server certificate to execute the workflow
FIX: (#5973) update PoolCE.InnerCESubmissionType from JobAgent
FIX: (#5950) escape time stamp in setHeartBeatData

*MonitoringSystem

NEW: (#5974) TornadoMonitoring handler

*docs

FIX: (#5969) added better docs for JobShare and priorities

*FrameworkSystem

CHANGE: (#5965) removed gMonitor
FIX: (#5941) dirac-login uses the correct proxy to add VOMS attributes

*RequestManagementSystem

FIX: (#5958) dirac-rms-request takes into account PEP-515
FIX: (#5951) fix variable referenced before assignment in RequestTask
FIX: (#5951) take into account that targetSEList can be empty in the operations

*DataManagementSystem

CHANGE: (#5954) DFC dump feature can dump more than one SE at the same time

*Accounting/Monitoring

FIX: (#5945) Fixed the plotter for pilot submission accounting and other small fixes

[v8.0.0a17]

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#5937) using a DErrno for no match found
CHANGE: (#5933) removed last SubmitPool entries
FIX: (#5907) Matcher: fixed parsing of (required) tags

*Resources

FIX: (#5935) File protocol listDirectory returns metadata
CHANGE: (#5919) GFAL2_StorageBase redefine ECOMM if it does not exist

*RequestManagementSystem

FIX: (#5932) filter by SourceSE in ReplicateAndRegister preparation
FIX: (#5932) Change RMS.Operation sourceSEList and targtSEList default to empty list
FIX: (#5926) removing python2 support

*FrameworkSystem

CHANGE: (#5931) DBs stop using BLOB types in favor of TEXT types
NEW: (#5901) move ProxyManager to HTTPs

*DataManagementSystem

NEW: (#5927) TornadoDataIntegrityHandler

*Tornado

NEW: (#5925) added TornadoWMSAdministratorHandler

[v8.0.0a16]

*tests

CHANGE: (#5900) use dirac-login instead of dirac-proxy-init for tests

*FrameworkSystem

NEW: (#5899) dirac-login (AS) added VOMS extension
NEW: (#5896) dirac-login try to connect to DIRAC AS if no local certificate

*Core

FIX: (#5898) print error details/callstack in BaseRequestHandler

[v8.0.0a15]

*docs

CHANGE: (#5895) moved docs of ComputingElement from ConfReference to dirac.cfg
CHANGE: (#5875) add more details about the PushJobAgent configuration
FIX: (#5868) update DFC components description
NEW: (#5867) Added general service configuration options description including Authorization options

*WorkloadManagementSystem

NEW: (#5894) Added Account option for SLURM
CHANGE: (#5876) HeartBeatTime is set every time a status is changed by the job itself
CHANGE: (#5840) Replace BLOBs with TEXTs for JobDB and PilotAgentsDB

*Core

CHANGE: (#5883) Show callstack in service logs when returning S_ERROR
CHANGE: (#5872) Minimum Python version is now 3.9
FIX: (#5870) allow to use `deprecated` decorator with classes without predefined `__init__` function.

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#5875) add proxy in PushJobAgent and enhance it

*Accounting

CHANGE: (#5873) decrease some logs verbosity

*All

CHANGE: (#5870) use DIRAC.Core.Base.Script.Script instead of DIRAC.Core.Utilities.DIRACScript.DIRACScript
CHANGE: (#5870) add deprecation message

*FrameworkSystem

CHANGE: (#5865) remove unused 'rfc' argument
NEW: (#5862) add password mask to dirac-login

*ResourceStatusSystem

FIX: (#5864) return S_OK/S_ERROR in PublisherHandler.getSite

*MonitoringSystem

FIX: (#5860) Changed name of methods in PilotSubmissionMonitoringPlotter
NEW: (#5807) Move DataOperation to Monitoring

[v8.0.0a14]

*DataManagementSystem

FIX: (#5858) FileCatalogCLI - removed faulty evaluation of undefined option to the rebuild command. Fixes #5759

*Core

FIX: (#5857) TorandoREST ignore arguments that not defined in the target method
FIX: (#5857) dirac-info show "None found" instead of exception
CHANGE: (#5854) Treat X509 data as str instead of bytes

*FrameworkSystem

FIX: (#5857) use payload keyword argument for handle_response method
CHANGE: (#5857) use DIRAC CAs location to request DIRAC AS
FIX: (#5857) fix message in dirac-login after authorization
FIX: (#5854) UserProfileManager usage with JEncode

*Resources

CHANGE: (#5857) verify CAs when request IdP by default

FIX: (#5856) Changed the nomenclature for PilotSubmissionMonitoring

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#5854) JobDB usage with JEncode

*Production

FIX: (#5854) ProductionManager use with JEncode

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#5848) WMS DBs: do not try to decode when it's not bytes
CHANGE: (#5846) added Modules and PipInstallOptions to SiteDirector/Pilot option

*ConfigurationSystem

FIX: (#5844) VOMS2CSAgent correctly takes into account multiple CAs for users with multiple DNs

*MonitoringSystem

FIX: (#5838) Fixing nomenclature and other issues with PilotMonitoringSubmission

*Tornado

FIX: (#5837) better logging formatting

*TransformationSystem

NEW: (#5829) Added TornadoTransformationManager service

[v8.0.0a13]

*FrameworkSystem

CHANGE: (#5836) added a flag for disabling the use of SecurityLogging service

*Core

CHANGE: (#5833) JEncode bytes, tests
FIX: (#5810) do not allow arbitrary code execution in JEncode

*ConfigurationSystem

CHANGE: (#5833) align with JEncode changes

*ResourceStatusSystem

NEW: (#5830) Added tornado version for the three RSS services

*TransformationSystem

CHANGE: (#5828) TransformationDB: removing BLOB in favor of TEXT for non-binary data
FIX: (#5822) TransformationDB: removed old compatibility layer with mySAM tables
FIX: (#5796) Convert fileID / taskID to fix issue when task status is updated in transformation treatment

*docs

FIX: (#5825) fix indentation in the doc related to the server installation
CHANGE: (#5823) add further details about the server installation process with python3

*WorkloadManagement

CHANGE: (#5824) enable logs from db12 in dirac-wms-cpu-normalization

*Interface

FIX: (#5818) send only single jobID to checkJobStateTransition

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*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#5816) Allow transition Rescheduled->Failed

*Subsystem

NEW/CHANGE/FIX: (#5804) explanation
For examples look into release.notes

*MonitoringSystem

CHANGE: (#5788) moving pilot submission to monitoring

*Docs

FIX: (#5711) updated/simplified the documentation for adding new components

[v8.0.0a12]

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#5793) better use the job state machine when setting the job status, in particular when it comes from failover requests that may be inserted between 2 successful updates.
FIX: (#5751) allow Stalled, Running and Matched jobs to go to Reschedule
FIX: (#5751) JobAgent forces the reschedule of jobs in case of exceptions
FIX: (#5746) convert inputs from tuple to list in JobAgent before submitting to a CE
NEW: (#5714) added WMSDashboard and diracLogsDashboard in NDJSON format.
FIX: (#5714) removed old index patterns in WMSDashboard.json, updated documentation.

*DataManagementSystem

FIX: (#5791) Fix pickle error in dirac-dms-directory-sync

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#5789) JobSanity doesn't handle input sanboxes named "LFN:"

*TransformationSystem

Fix: Restore task state "Scheduled"

*Resources

CHANGE: (#5774) SingularityComputingElement: install python3 version
NEW: (#5766) allow to overwrite input/output  storage plugin parameter with the CS
CHANGE: (#5766) add "xroot" to the list of input protocol for the XROOT plugin

*Interfaces

CHANGE: (#5772) DIRAC APIs check if a JobState transition is allowed

*Subsystem

FIX: (#5768) dirac_production_runjoblocal.py: moved to py3 Pilot install

*All

CHANGE: (#5764) use Client instead of RPCClient

*HTTPS

FIX: (#5762) Replace DIRAC.Core.DISET.TransferClient with DIRAC.Core.Tornado.Client.ClientSelector

*FrameworkSystem

FIX: (#5757) rename downloadablePersonalProxy value to allowProxyDownload
FIX: (#5748) Get Tornado's port from the CS when adding URLs

*docs

CHANGE: (#5756) add document image source files

*Core

FIX: (#5743) removed isPy3VersionNumber function

[v8.0.0a11]

*WorkloadManagement

NEW: (#5736) PushJobAgent to prepare jobs for sites with no external connectivity
NEW: (#5736) RemoteRunner to execute applications remotely (submitting them to remote CE)

*Resources

CHANGE: (#5736) add inputs and outputs parameters in ARC.submitJob()
CHANGE: (#5702) ParallelLibrary: Embed the executable in the srun wrapper

*Workflow

CHANGE: (#5736) integrate RemoteRunner

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#5735) securityLogging: zip after 1 day
CHANGE: (#5728) Replace DB12.py with the db12 package
FIX: (#5725) ElasticJobParametersDB: get in output all entries
CHANGE: (#5724) JobAgent and JobWrapper: only reporting changes on major status when needed

*ResourceStatusSystem

FIX: (#5734) CSHelpers: some sites have no resources

*HTTPS

FIX: (#5730) Add URLs to CS when installing HTTPS services

*Core

FIX: (#5726) TornadoBaseClientcorrectly checks CA
FIX: (#5717) encodeDict when the dict keys have mixed types
CHANGE: (#5698) Replacing Elasticsearch python client with OpenSearch.
FIX: (#5694) do no look anymore for __RCSID__
FIX: (#5683) ThreadSafe.Synchronizer: Add target method docstring to preserve docstring of decorated function

*ConfigurationSystem

FIX: (#5701) fix an exception in the VOMS2CSAgent when a user joins a second VO
FIX: (#5684) fix CSGlobals.Extensions class

*TransformationSystem

FIX: (#5690) fix more flaky tests for RequestTasks

[v8.0.0a10]

*ConfigurationSystem

CHANGE: (#5682) Bdii2CSAgent: add InjectSingleCoreQueue option to automatically create single core equivalents for MutliCore Queues , kind of fixes #5582
CHANGE: (#5682) Bdii2CSAgent: CEs in the BannedCEs list are no longer updated by the agent, previously this list only concerned CEs that are not already in the Configuration, fixes  #5224
CHANGE: (#5682) dirac-admin-add-resources: add --onecore option to automatically create single core equivalents for MutliCore Queues
FIX: (#5682) dirac-admin-add-resources: fix the query about adding new CEs, this can now be answered in the negative

*Resources

FIX: (#5674) decode the http response in WLCGAccountingHTTPJson
CHANGE: (#5643) HTCondorCE submits jobs with -spool option when a local schedd is used to spool the pilot wrappers that can be deleted afterwards

*Core

FIX: (#5671) DIRAC.isPy3VersionNumber always returns True
FIX: (#5656) Tasks never get removed from the ExecutorState if an UnrecoverableTaskException is raised
CHANGE: (#5629) use DIRAC_DEBUG_M2CRYPTO to enable SSL debugging in tornado

*RMA

FIX: (#5670) If a job was Killed, set it Killed at request completion

*TransformationSystem

FIX: (#5666) fix RequestTasks flaky tests
NEW: (#5642) Allow MultiOperation body to fetch values from the task dict
NEW: (#5642) Introduce Body Plugins for DMS transformations
FIX: (#5630) TransformationCleaningAgent 'deletes', do not 'remove' jobs

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#5665) Python 3 support in SSHComputingElement
FIX: (#5657) Bad error handling in OptimizationMindHandler.exec_taskError

*Docs

CHANGE: (#5663) removed a bunch of py2 related documentation

*MonitoringSystem

FIX: (#5658) Wrong link on the docs page for the WMSHistory dashboard. Fixed the link and edited some of the text.
NEW: (#5634) JSON file for WMS monitoring dashboard

*docs

FIX: (#5654) fix trailing-whitespace

*FrameworkSystem

FIX: (#5652) SystemAdministratorCLI: get DIRAC version from Extensions
CHANGE: (#5641) proxy expiration emails are sent from an address taken from the Service/Agent config instead of the DB
NEW/CHANGE/FIX: (#5627) avoid duplication of code in TornadoBundleDeliveryHandler
FIX: (#5619) continue on empty service list in getComponentsStatus

*DataManagementSystem

FIX: (#5651) dirac-dms-directory-sync: The script will now try all files and not end a thread if one of the files assigned to be uploaded or downloaded to a thread fails. The script will also print out all failed files, and their error at the end of a thread. A few log messages have been corrected as well.

*ResourceStatusSystem

FIX: (#5647) specifying the gocDB type for known types

*WorkloadManagementSystem

CHANGE: (#5643) Add functions in WMSUtilities, move content of getPilotLoggingInfo() and getGridJobOutput() in PilotManagerHandler

*RequestManagementSystem

NEW: (#5615) add SweepSize option to the ReqProxy

[v8.0.0a9]

*TransformationSystem

FIX: (#5612) fix bug in TransformationCleaningAgent, that was NOT removing jobs but only deleting them

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#5612) removing jobs instead of deleting them when bulk submission fails
CHANGE: (#5570) better logging output in the JobStateUpdate

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#5610) Return error if JobPolicy.getControlledUsers returns an empty list
FIX: (#5603) Don't run JobsStateMachine if newStat is ''
FIX: (#5595) UnicodeDecodeErrors in JobDB.getJobParameters
FIX: (#5585) Error logging when optimisation fails

*FrameworkSystem

FIX: (#5609) Cleaning old installations from a Python 3 based server
FIX: (#5604) Issue installing DIRAC and extensions on servers running Python 3
FIX: (#5583) display correctly the help in sysadmin-cli
CHANGE: (#5571) allow DIRAC AS return proxy by default

*ConfigurationSystem

FIX: (#5608) ServiceInterface.py - use ThreadPoolExecutor instead of ThreadPool to avoid thread leaks in the ConfigurationServer
CHANGE: (#5596) do not add the master CS first in the list of CS when new slaves are added

*Test

FIX: (#5605) fix typo in the HTTPs Resources tests

*Core

FIX: (#5594) Extension ordering in DIRACScript

*Resources

FIX: (#5586) cloudinit-template - allow time in the monitor for the pilot to start
FIX: (#5586) cloudinit-template - set DIRACSYSCONFIG to point to the pilot.cfg in order to allow its use in the user applications

*docs

CHANGE: (#5573) move the ConfReference DIRAC section part to dirac.cfg and add there OAuth 2 settings.
FIX: (#5572) update nginx installation instruction
NEW: (#5540) add documentation with information about new system APIs component

Align `WebApp` installation manual with last changes (using BaseRequestHandler in WebAppDIRAC 5.0).
The request Accounting -> Network -> Packet lost rate (magnified) causes an error:
```
ERROR: (#5569) Error while generating the plots Value keys 100 - IF(SUM(PacketLossRate)/SUM(entriesInBucket)*10 > 100, 100, SUM(PacketLossRate)/SUM(entriesInBucket)*10), 100 are not defined
```
This RP should provide correct pattern.

*Accounting

FIX: (#5569) provide correct pattern for reportMagnifiedPacketLossRate

[v8.0.0a8]
[v8.0.0a7]

*WorkloadManagementSystem

CHANGE: (#5566) JobParameters - generalize getting CS parameters for Cloud VMTypes also
FIX: (#5563) PilotCStoJSONSynchronizer: do not look anymore in releases.cfg
CHANGE: (#5555) SiteDirector submits only py3 pilots
FIX: (#5541) old OptimizerModule can commit to ElasticJobParametersDB
FIX: (#5529) QueueUtilities - do not stop queue instantiation in case of failures
FIX: (#5518) CloudDirector - create only one pilot reference

*Core

FIX: (#5561) Fix overwriting files from an X509Chain object
NEW: (#5543) Utility for parsing DIRAC version number to Py3
CHANGE: (#5537) Do not return failures when sending tasks to executors
FIX: (#5530) wait that the CS is loaded before checking for master CS in tornado-start-all
FIX: (#5516) Fix finding Dwatermark.png for the accounting watermark

*Docs

CHANGE: (#5559) Forces docutils to 0.17 because of bug with sphynx

CHANGE: (#5546) do not calculate FQDN unnecessarily

*FrameworkSystem

NEW: (#5543) dirac-admin-update-instance converts version number to PEP-440 style if needed
CHANGE: (#5537) ComponentInstaller: look also for HTTPs services
FIX: (#5482) Allow Python 3 style pre-releases to be installed if the primary extension is a pre-release

*ConfigurationSystem

FIX: (#5535) VOMS2CSAgent: VOMS users that have multiple DNs and are suspended should no longer lead to "User not registered" errors and have their status correctly set

*Resources

FIX: (#5529) ComputingElement - remove unnecessary warning
CHANGE: (#5528) Use PilotManagerClient to get CE status instead of interrogating PilotAgentsDB in HTCondorCE
FIX: (#5518) OpenStackCE - removed buggy line
NEW: (#5518) Utilities - added possibility to specify extra yum installable packages in the configuration
NEW: (#5518) Utilities - added possibility to specify ssh connection to the VM in the configuration
FIX: (#5518) cloudinit.template - use VMType as the Queue analog
FIX: (#5518) dirac_resource_get_parameters - fixed bugs in the VMType getting logic

*Interfaces

FIX: (#5522) Dirac.py - JobMonitoring.getJobsSummary now returns a structure and not a string

*RequestManagementSystem

CHANGE: (#5521) getRequestFileStatus takes better into account cases of multiple operations on the same file
CHANGE: (#5521) physicalRemoval checker expects an LFN and not a PFN

*WorkloadManagement

FIX: (#5516) Ensure valenc is bytes before decoding in retrieveOptimizerParam

*TransformationSystem

NEW: (#5514) Allow GroupSize parameter to be mutable
NEW: (#5514) Add setGroupSize to command transformation CLI

*SecurityLog

CHANGE: (#5513) fed up with unreadable job logs...

[v8.0.0a1]

*FrameworkSystem

FIX: (#5410) ProxyManagerClient - upload proxy without embedded DIRAC group

*DataManagementSystem

CHANGE: (#5391) The LcgFileCatalogClient has been removed

Discard https://github.com/DIRACGrid/DIRAC/commit/dfbb53232dba40aff4bf0f04802877c51d078ab1 that resolve error described in previous hackathon https://trello.com/c/y7TgEuF7/40-multi-vo-tests. Now after the last lot of changes, this key returns correctly, so I canceled the last adjustment.

*Interfaces

FIX: (#5388) Discard https://github.com/DIRACGrid/DIRAC/commit/dfbb53232dba40aff4bf0f04802877c51d078ab1.

[v8r0-pre4]

NEW: Basic support for the OAuth/OIDC tokens

*DataManagement
CHANGE: (#5391) The LcgFileCatalogClient has been removed

[v7r3p4]

FIX: fixes from v7r2p28

*WorkloadManagement
CHANGE: (#5429) Use python3 in VMDIRAC instances

[v7r3p3]

*Resources
NEW: (#5396) Add Emies endpoint to the ARC CE

*docs
FIX: (#5424) some minor fixes for user documentation

[v7r3p2]

*WMS
CHANGE: (#5404) use raw.githubusercontent URL for github raw files requests

*TS
CHANGE: (#5395) RequestTaskAgent uses objectLoader for RequestTasks
CHANGE: (#5395) split RequestTasks and WorkflowTasks into distinct module

*docs
NEW: (#5218) Updated Python2 and Python3 server installation instructions
CHANGE: (#5228) Documenting /WebApp/StaticResourceLinkDir option
CHANGE: (#5404) use raw.githubusercontent URL for github raw files requests
FIX: (#5404) use working git links for scripts

[v7r3p1]

FIX: Tag to push the PyPi deployment

[v7r3]

NEW: (#5000) Initial support for Python 3 server installations
NEW: VMDIRAC separate project is merged into the core DIRAC project
CHANGE: (#5035) use registerArgument to register positional arguments for scripts
CHANGE: (#4715) removing env variable DIRAC_USE_NEWTHREADPOOL
FIX: (#5035) use DIRACScript instead of Script
FIX: (#5028) Replaced all the cases of BaseException use by Exception

*Core
NEW: (#5062) provide some docs and add registerArgument method to register arguments in Script
NEW: (#4997) dirac-configure can now be ran without arguments when using Python 3
CHANGE: (#4937) removed dirac-agent, dirac-service, dirac-executor scripts (use '_' counterparts instead)
CHANGE: (#5110) Removed Core.Utilities.Grid.getBdiiCEInfo function use Utilities.Glue2.getGlue2CEInfo.
        Also dropped ldapSite, ldapCluster, ldapCE, ldapCEState, ldapCEVOView, ldapService functions
CHANGE: (#4903) Using former RSS State Machine as general State Machine
CHANGE: (#5237) Use generic ObjectLoader.loadObjects() function in the specific Plotting.ObjectLoader class
CHANGE: (#5244) dirac-configure: no upload attempt upon initial proxy generation
CHANGE: (#5246) Drop MySQL._to_string() method
CHANGE: Release constraint on SQLALchemy versions
FIX: (#5210) show extremely small values in pie plots
FIX: (#4997) Handle SIGINT correctly when reading certificate passwords
FIX: (#5269) Use isinstance when checking types in MessageFactory
FIX: (#5272) encode stub before base64
FIX: (#5326) fix bug in getSystemURLs: getOptionsFromCFG can return None
CHANGE: (#5337) removed src/DIRAC/Core/scripts/dirac-install.py
CHANGE: (#5372) RCSID is no longer access for Python 3 based installations

*Configuration
NEW: (#5062) add registerCmdArg to register arguments and group argument to group returned arguments
NEW: (#5286) test new PathFinder methods
NEW: (#5286) PathFinder - add checkServiceURL that check URL port and path
NEW: (#5286) PathFinder - add getServiceURLs that return list type result
NEW: (#5286) PathFinder - add getSystemURLs that return all services URLs for system
CHANGE: (#5110) Dropped Glue2Only and Glue2URLS options from Bdii2CSAgent, Glue2 is now the only way
CHANGE: (#5110) dirac-admin-add-resources: drop -g -G options, Glue2 is now the only way
CHANGE: (#5110) Configuration.Client.Utilities functions getGridCEs, getSiteUpdates no longer take glue2 parameter
CHANGE: (#5000) Deprecate CSGlobals.getInstalledExtensions, DIRAC.Core.Utilities.Extensions.extensionsByPriority
        should be used instead
CHANGE: (#5000) Deprecate getCSExtensions, DIRAC.Core.Utilities.Extensions.extensionsByPriority should be used instead
CHANGE: (#5286) PathFinder - getSystemSection do not use serviceTuple, add docs, use system and service instead
         of componentTuple
FIX: (#5286) PathFinder - getGatewayURLs pass list to randomize when serviceName is empty
FIX: (#5298) fix getServiceFailoverURL for multi url case
FIX: (#5375) Handle S_ERROR result in CSAPI, docs

*DMS
CHANGE: (#5206) prints why dirac-dms-add-files failed

*Framework:
CHANGE: (#4303) Removed completely the SystemLogging
CHANGE: (#5164) Remove HashTag table from Framework/UserProfile
CHANGE: (#5164) Remove dataTypeRE argument when retrieving values from Framework/UserProfileClient
FIX: (#5340) Fix using the System Administrator to install Python 3 releases of DIRAC from Python 2

*Interfaces
CHANGE: (#5110) DiracAdmin: dropped getBDII* functions, which were looking for Glue1 information
CHANGE: (#5110) removed dirac-admin-bdii-info command

*Resources
CHANGE: (#5314) Remove GlobusComputingElement

*RMS
CHANGE: (#5291) ReqDB don't cast datetime to strings

*RSS
NEW: (#5042) Multi-VO mode of operation support
FIX: (#5335) VO parameter is optional. When omitted commands will act on all VOs.

*WMS
NEW: (#4903) Added WMS (Jobs) State Machine
NEW: (#5214) Added a HTTPs JobManager service
NEW: (#5214) Added a HTTPs JobMonitor service
NEW: (#5214) Added a HTTPs JobStateUpdate service
NEW: (#5314) Add a PilotStatus module to clearly define the pilot status in the code
CHANGE: (#5214) Removed need for ThreadScheduler in JobManagerHandler
CHANGE: (#5289) SiteDirector: do not send dirac-install if it's py3 pilot
CHANGE: (#4884) JobDB: compress JDLs by default (no need for flag anymore)
CHANGE: (#4937) removed StatesMonitoringAgent (use StatesAccountingAgent agent instead)
CHANGE: (#5141) add an Aborted_HOUR column to the pilot efficiency table needed by the WebApp
CHANGE: (#5178) JobMonitoring does not need to look into TaskQueue
CHANGE: (#5246) remove pilots before start Test_PilotsClient test
CHANGE: (#5318) Move SiteDirector.getQueues in QueueUtilities module
FIX: (#5246) mock _escapeString in Test_Agent_PilotStatusAgent to pass test
FIX: (#5246) escape values in PilotAgentsDB
FIX: (#5246) decode values using decode() method in JobDB
NEW: (#5314) Add a PilotStatus module to clearly define the pilot status in the code
FIX: (#5325) Fix-up minor errors introduced during VMDIRAC merge
NEW: (#5325) Tests for VirtualMachine DB & Service
FIX: (#5342) Allow Platform parameter to be missing from the queue configuration

*TS
NEW: (#5327) Added TransformationFilesStatus module

*tests
NEW: (#5062) add Test_LocalConfiguration
CHANGE: (#5046) don't use mail in the self generated certificates
CHANGE: (#5301) added RALPP as a multi-VO test site and added env dump to job.log to ease debugging
NEW: (#5321) added integration test for AccountingDB
CHANGE: (#5362) Add proxy correct setup within wms-script.sh

*docs
CHANGE: (#5313) replace the theme by the sphinx_rtd_theme

[v7r2p28]

*Core
FIX: (#5416) unless explicitly set, do not skip the CA checks

*WorkloadManagement
FIX: (#5431) Ensure invalid tasks don't get rescheduled by ExecutorDispatcher
NEW: (#5430) add support for execution of pilot wrappers when the python executable is not set

*RMS
FIX: (#5432) ReqClient uses correct credentials to talk to ReqProxies
FIX: (#5432) ReqClient uses proper WMS client insteand of RPCClient

*Resources
CHANGE: (#5428) asctime now includes microsecond precision when using the MessageQueueBackend for logging

*DMS
FIX: (#5427) adapt csv use to py3

*tests
FIX: (#5427) adapt csv use to py3

[v7r2p27]

*TS
CHANGE: (#5413) TransformationDB: moved GroupSize from INTEGER to FLOAT

*Resources
FIX: (#5421) fix Slurm getJobStatus() method

[v7r2p26]

*Core
FIX: (#5390) Handle S_ERROR in Service._executeAction
NEW: (#5145) Add returnValueOrRaise and convertToReturnValue to simplify writing code with exceptions
CHANGE: (#5394) Requests are now dropped if the backlog is too large
FIX: (#5411) RPCClient and TornadoClient support proxyChain

*Framework
FIX: (#5410) ProxyManagerClient - upload proxy without embedded DIRAC group

*WMS
FIX: (#5414) JobCleaningAgent uses OwnerDN to put the sandbox removal request

*DMS
CHANGE: (#5284) FTS DB change (see https://github.com/DIRACGrid/DIRAC/wiki/DIRAC-v7r2#new-status-for-fts3-files-and-jobs)
NEW: (#5284) enable FTS archive monitoring
NEW: (#5284) allow to use FTS activity based on FTS3Plugin
FIX: (#5408) making use of freesize in WLCGAccountingJson if exists, instead of calculating
     as Total - usedsize

*RMS
CHANGE: (#5284) ReplicateAndRegister prefers disk replicas

*Resources
NEW: (#5402) DIRAC_GFAL_GRIDFTP_ENABLE_IPV6 to control gridftp behavior

*TS
FIX: (#5405) Transformation.setBody correctly checks all the operation tuples

*tests
NEW: (#5403) force commit format

[v7r2p25]

FIX: (#5373) Fix un-returned use of S_ERROR and S_OK

*tests
CHANGE: (#5380) Update DIRACCAProxyProvider test to use pytest
FIX: (#5381) Adapt Test_FilePlugin.py for https://bugs.python.org/issue43219

*WMS
FIX: (#5380) Fix bad merge in JobMonitoringHandler.py when producing v7r2p24

[v7r2p24]

FIX: fixes from v7r1p46

*Resources
FIX: (#5267) return error for StompMQConnector

[v7r2p23]

*WMS
CHANGE: (#5348) PilotWrapper: added file:/cvmfs/dirac.egi.eu/pilot/ as location
CHANGE: (#5356) SiteDirector - continue queues initialization if one of them fails

*Resources
FIX: (#5356) executeBatch - fallback to urllib if six module is not available
FIX: (#5356) Host.py - return Message in case of non-zero status in getCEStatus
FIX: (#5356) SSHBatchComputingElement - added forgotten instantiation of the BatchSystem plugin

[v7r2p22]

*Workflow
FIX: (#5346) UnicodeEncodeError when application log contains non-ascii characters

*Resources
FIX: (#5345) Pass --cfg /tmp/pilot.cfg when reusing host DIRAC installation in SingularityComputingElement

[v7r2p21]

*Core
FIX: (#5334) Use selectors(2) instead of select.select to avoid issues with file descriptors > 1024, fixes #5232
FIX: (#5336) ElasticSearchDB: use ca certs file if requested
FIX: (#5328) ElasticSearchDB: work on a copy of the documents in generateDocs()

*WorkloadManagement
FIX: (#5332) Fix unassigning sandboxes when removing jobs from the transformation system

*Resources
NEW: (#5329) Added PBSResourceUsage unit test

[v7r2p20]

*Resources
NEW: (#5316) Support Python 3 pilots in SingularityCE
CHANGE: (#5310) changes some log levels in StorageElement
CHANGE: (#5310) Default to using CERNVM4 in SingularityCE
FIX: (#5310) Propagate the DIRAC and DIRACOS variables when not re-installing DIRAC in SingularityCE
FIX: (#5315) Parallel Library Srun: remove chmod of executableFile

*WMS
FIX: (#5323) fix python3 incompatibility in InputDataByProtocol

[v7r2p19]

*Configuration
FIX: VOMS2CSSynchronizer: if a user is in QuarantineGroup, remove it from all other VOMS groups

[v7r2p18]

*Framework
FIX: ComponentSupervisionAgent: consistently use the actual "Setup", and not the "instance" to look up options. Note: you might need to change your config from "Production" to "DIRAC-Production" depending on you config.
FIX: fix ProxyManagerClient docs

*Resources
NEW: removal throttle for Echo
CHANGE: private methods in GFAL2_StorageBase are now protected

*Transformation
FIX: Python 3 serialisation error when calling JobMonitoringClient.getJobsStatus in WorkflowTasks.getSubmittedFileStatus
FIX: DataRecoveryAgent: fix exception when there is exactly 1 done or failed job for a transformation

[v7r2p17]

*Framework
FIX: (#5288) fix use of --excludeHosts in dirac-admin-update-instance
NEW: (#5284) Introduce Local SubLogger

*WMS
CHANGE: (#5284) attempt to use Local subLogger
NEW: (#5279) Added option for rescheduling Stalled Jobs, for certain sites

*Resources
FIX: (#5281) SSHComputingElement - treat properly the case of the pilots submitted to SSHBatch CE
FIX: (#5281) SSHBatchComputingElement - use special SSHBATCH execution context
FIX: (#5281) Host.py - put the actual execution host name/IP into the SSH_NODE_HOST environment

[v7r2p16]

*Configuration
FIX: (#5266) fix RefresherBase log

*Resources
FIX: (#5271) only evaluate number of GPUs if necessary

*WMS
FIX: (#5271) Limiter: no error if the section does not exist

*TS
NEW: (#5268) add currentStatus parameter to TransformationClient.setTransformationParameter

[v7r2p15]

*WorkloadManagement
FIX: (#5270) SandboxStoreClient tarfile mode

[v7r2p14]

NEW: Patch release is broken, use v7r2p15 instead

*Core
FIX: (#5265) Avoid pinging the database every time MySQL.__escapeString is called
NEW: (#5263) Support datetime.date objects in JEncode

*Framework
FIX: (#5254) ComponentSupervisionAgent - use socket.getfqdn() instead of gethostname()

*WorkloadManagement
FIX: (#5264) TypeError when running dirac-wms-pilot-job-info
CHANGE: (#5248) When removing Deleted jobs, they could not be removed if they had still an attached
        request. With this change, if the request is in final state, it will be removed and the job as well.

*Transformation
NEW: (#5265) Add columns keyword argument to TransformationClient.getTransformations
NEW: (#5265) Add index on (TransformationID,Status) in TransformationFiles table
NEW: (#5265) Add index on (TransformationID,ExternalStatus) in TransformationTasks table
NEW: (#5265) Add index on (TransformationFamily) in Transformations table

*Resources
NEW: (#5256) SLURM can set gpus-per-task job requirement
NEW: (#5256) added getNumberOfGPUs method to JobParameters utility
FIX: (#5242) HTCondorCE: corrected ClassAd for requesting MP slots

[v7r2p13]

*Core
CHANGE: (#5233) protect client doc generation against new importlib_resources

*WorkloadManagement
FIX: (#5245) Bytes confusion when using SandboxStoreClient with Python 3

*Resources
FIX: (#5245) Bytes confusion when using SingularityComputingElement with Python 3

[v7r2p12]

CHANGE: (#5219) Service Handlers discover DBs in Extensions

*Core
FIX: (#5226) DIRAC_USE_TORNADO_IOLOOP is set in the runsv file rather than the python starting script (#5223 )
FIX: (#5234) GOC: taking hostname from URL, if present

*WMS
NEW: (#5212) SiteDirector: added flag for pilots to install python3 DIRAC clients
FIX: (#5220) JobPath executor: fix bug for per-job list of optimizers
FIX: (#5229) JobAgent - protect against trying to send a None operation in a request
CHANGE: (#5229) CHANGE: JobCleaningAgent - fixed some printouts
FIX: (#5229) dirac-admin-ban-se - make it work with option --Site

*Resources
FIX: (#5231) fix path of the executable file when using a parallel library within SSHCE

[v7r2p11]

*Core
FIX: (#5197) Fix handling Subprocess calls which produce invalid output

*Framework
FIX: (#5195) Avoid TypeError in ColorGenerator
FIX: (#5198) ComponentSupervisionAgent: Pick up PollingTime from a base agent config

*Resources
FIX: (#5199) remove CPUScalingFactor calls
*WorkloadManagementSystem
FIX: (#5199) remove CPUScalingFactor calls
FIX: (#5200) Matcher: use custom exception for Pilot Version Error

[v7r2p10]

*Python 3
FIX: (#5175) Improve "git describe" command used by setuptools-scm to ignore v6e7p27

*Core
NEW: (#5180) Add callStack keyword argument to S_ERROR to allow object to be created much faster
FIX: (#5182) Optimise ClassAd.asJDL to remove quadratic runtime dependence on the length of the output

*Framework
FIX: (#5187) ComponentSupervisionAgent: add necessary SystemAdministrator Authorization
     Settings in the docstring

*Configuration
CHANGE: (#5180) No longer include a full CallStack in the S_ERROR object returned by
        ConfigurationClient.getOption
NEW: (#5185) Add DIRAC_FEWER_CFG_LOCKS environment variable to significantly improve multithreading
     performance in CS heavy workloads

*WMS
FIX: (#5184) JobDB: Getting InputDataModule from Operations section
FIX: (#5184) JobCleaningAgent: get jobIDs old and recent, and combine

*Resources
FIX: (#5179) Handle the case where inputs is None in SSHComputingElement.submitJobToHost()
CHANGE: (#5189) PoolComputingElement use concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor
CHANGE: (#5189) PoolComputingElement: added a shutdown (called by JobAgent)

*tests
CHANGE: (#5186) AgentOptionTests: re-work ConfigTemplate discovery, should be
        transparent for the users, but work better for extensions

[v7r2p9]

*FrameworkSystem
NEW: (#5173) Add option to exclude list of hosts from dirac-admin-instace-update
CHANGE: (#5169) Deprecate checkTypeRe and HashTags in UserProfileClient
FIX: (#5169) Python 3 compatibility in UserProfileClient

[v7r2p8]

*Core
FIX: (#5158) Workaround for OSError when copying vomses directory with too many extended attributes

*Framework
NEW: (#5155) ComponentSupervisionAgent to Monitor running components. See Agent Documentation for details.

*WorkloadManagement
NEW: (#5122) multi-node allocation support via the ParallelLibraries and srun

[v7r2p7]

*Core
CHANGE: (#5142) Move MySQL.ConnectionPool class to the module level
CHANGE: (#5142) Move RequestHandler.ConnectionError to the module level
FIX: (#5133) The RPC Client class should now be threadsafe
FIX: (#5133) Correctly add RPC attributes to client objects in Python 3
FIX: (#5130) Avoid race when importing modules which can cause classes to be redefined

*Transformation
FIX: (#5135) TransformationBody update is too long for parameters

[v7r2p6]

*Core
FIX: (#5000) Display thousands separators in PrettyScalarFormatter again

[v7r2p5]

FIX: fixes from v7r0p56, v7r1p39

*WMS
CHANGE: (#5102) JobCleaningAgent will first DELETE and only then REMOVE jobs

[v7r2p4]

*Core
NEW: (#5094) DIRAC.Core.Utilities.Extensions module for interacting with extensions in a Python 3 compatible way

*tests
NEW: (#5094) ./integration_tests.py helper script for running the integration tests locally

[v7r2p3]

FIX: Fixes from v7r054 and v7r1p37
FIX: (#5088) Fix various Python 3.9 deprecations

*Core
FIX: (#5095) Avoid KeyError when calling parseCommandLine

*Framework
CHANGE: (#5092) Use String(64) for DIRACVersion column in InstalledComponentsDB.HostLogging
CHANGE: (#5098) in the run files created by ComponentInstaller, execute directly the deployed scripts

*WMS
NEW: (#5073) JobManager service now exposes a "RemoveJob" RPC call
NEW: (#5073) implementing bulk indexing for jobs parameters
CHANGE: (#5073) JobCleaningAgent will not remove those jobs that, while marked "DELETED", have still Operations to do in RMS

*RequestManagement
FIX: (#5091) Ensure BLOB columns are always passed bytes data

*Resources
CHANGE: (#5050) StompMQConnector uses a single connection

*tests
NEW: (#5086) Integration tests can be re-ran locally without re-installing the entire setup

[v7r2p2]

FIX: Fixes from v7r053 and v7r1p36

[v7r2p1]

NEW: (#5041) Add Python 3 install docs to README
FIX: (#5065) Explicitly convert variables assigned to range() into lists

*Core
CHANGE: (#5052) Added IS NULL mySql condition

*WMS
FIX: (#5039) dirac_wms_cpu_normalization: fix for python3 client, and stop looking for MJF
CHANGE: (#5070) Using ThreadPool in StalledJobAgent

*DMS
NEW: (#5057) Allows to retrieve the non recursive size of a directory from the DFC
CHANGE: (#5057) Factorize TornadoFileCatalogHandler and FileCatalogHander

[v7r2]

FIX: python 2-3 compatibility fixes
NEW: (#4209) Extends the MonitoringSystem to support RMS and DMS/Agents/RequestOperations.
CHANGE: (#4586) Use __future__ imports to get Python 3 like behaviour for imports, division and printing
CHANGE: (#4796, #4797) removed obsoleted codes
CHANGE: (#4823) Service handlers use class variables instead of global
NEW: Moved to a src/ repository layout
NEW: (#4906) Deploy releases to PyPI
FIX: (#4921) use six.moves for urllib
CHANGE: (#4958) use __doc__ for script help message, remove filecfg as argument from usage description
FIX: (#5015) Add prompt-toolkit to setuptools metadata

*Core
FIX: (#4283) Added protection against empty certificates directory in dirac-install
CHANGE: (#4582) Use concurrent.future.ThreadPoolExecutor by default.
FIX: (#4606) Handle expected HTTP status codes in dirac-install (#4562)
CHANGE: (#4630) Create symlinks to bashrc when using versions directory structure
        with dirac-install.py. Fixes #4565
NEW: (#4497) add histogram support to the Graph package.
NEW: (#4497) adapt Graph package to python3
CHANGE: (#4581) Replace DIRAC.Core.Utilities.CFG with independent diraccfg module
CHANGE: (#4671) Add an example for DIRAC_NO_CFG to bashrc.
FIX: (#4736) dirac-install: use system tar command for extracting tarballs, fixes #4246
NEW: (#4677) X509Chain returns DN entry
NEW: (#4677) introduction of Tornado based services
NEW: (#4732) Support installing Python 3 clients using by passing --pythonVersion=3 to ./dirac-install.py
CHANGE: (#4791) dirac-install with diracos: remove TERMINFO, RRD_DEFAULT_FONT, GFAL and ARC paths from bashrc
FIX: (#4791) Late import of MonitoringReport
NEW: (#4823) flipped default value of DIRAC_USE_JSON_DECODE env variable
FIX: (#4843) X509Chain: fix downloading X509 certificates
FIX: (#4870) ElasticSearchDB: fix exception handling when checking existance of indices
FIX: (#4887) fix exception in Services when trying to use uninitialized gMonitor client while
             targeting ES monitoring
NEW: (#4898) added a base DB class for all DB types
NEW: (#4865) Fully support installation with setuptools
CHANGE: (#4932) Rename DIRAC_VOMSES to X509_VOMSES in dirac-install.py
CHANGE: (#4958) when import Script, a help message is formed from __doc__, not need to use Script.setUsageMessage(__doc__)
FIX: (#4956) use logging.warning in favor of deprecated logging.warn
CHANGE: (#4997) Use prompt-toolkit for password input when generating proxies
CHANGE: (#4994) dirac-install.py should now be taken from management
CHANGE: (#5010) Use ConfigurationClient in CSCLI and CSShellCLI
CHANGE: (#5026) Remove DIRAC.Core.Utilities.ExitCallback

*Configuration
CHANGE: (#4866) split standard and tornado refresher in two files to avoid tornado dependency on the client
CHANGE: (#4958) setUsageMessage in LocalConfiguration will parse received str value for building help message
FIX: (#5008) HTTPS: allow to run master CS in parallel of other tornado services
FIX: (#5016) harmonize https and dips version of ServiceHandler, and make doc consistent with reality

*Framework
CHANGE: (#4787) expose deleteProxyBundle call to ProxyManagerClient
FIX: (#4850) MQ logging sends also the message,asctime and levelname field
FIX: fix link to DIRAC install instruction and comments for WebApp
FIX: (#4977) SystemAdministratorClientCLI - fix log message about responding hosts in sysadmin cli
CHANGE: (#4956) renames of column names to avoid reserved keywords

*Interfaces
CHANGE: (#4799) remove runLocalAgent method from DIRAC API

*Accounting
NEW: (#4537) Add histogram of CPU usage to Job accounting
NEW: (#4537) Implement the method used to retrieve data for creating histograms

*WMS
NEW: (#4367) Added option "CompressJDLs" to JobDB, which compresses JDLs before they are
     added to the JobJDLs table
CHANGE: (#4428) removed the watchdog for mac, simplified linux
CHANGE: (#4577) Removed the Pilot2
NEW: (#4799) JobWrapperTemplate kills the JobWrapper in case of Exception during Execution phase
CHANGE: (#4799) Remove MultiProcessorSiteDirector (use standard SiteDirector)
CHANGE: (#4799) stop setting JDL requirements MaxCPUTime, SubmitPools, GridRequiredCEs, Origin, JobMode
CHANGE: (#4823) using JobReport and delayed send for JobStateUpdate
FIX: (#4829) PilotCStoJSONSynchronizer - upload method uses WebDav
NEW: (#4874) new agent PilotsSyncAgent for syncing pilot files.
NEW: (#4874) new script dirac-admin-sync-pilots for syncing pilot files.
CHANGE: (#4874) largely simplified PilotCStoJSONSynchronizer
CHANGE: (#4874) don't call PilotCStoJSONSynchronizer from the CS
NEW: (#4905) moving towards a single agent for WMS history
CHANGE: (#4925) SiteDirector - removed using of SubmitPools requirement by default
CHANGE: (#4925) SiteDirector, JobAgent - no more using ProxyManager tokens while user proxy retrieval
NEW: (#4950) JobAgent adds GridCE and queue to Job Parameters
CHANGE: (#4966) added flag to exclude the master CS from the list of servers synchronized by PilotCS2JSON
FIX: (#5017) Fix uploading jobDescription.xml in upload sandboxes with Python 3

*DataManagement
CHANGE: (#5019) Remove IRODSStorageElementHandler

*Monitoring
FIX: (#4768) Adapting RMSMonitoring type to ES7
FIX: (#4844) Correct the rounding of integers when computing buckets in MonitoringDB
NEW: (#4898) added possibility to configure the period and so the indexing strategy
CHANGE: (#4976) removed DynamicMonitoring (replaced by ActivityMonitoring)

*ResourceStatusSystem
CHANGE: (#4235) Removes locals() way of passing parameters
NEW: (#4900) Remove old entries from history
CHANGE: (#5002) RSS handlers: removed global objects

*RMS
CHANGE: (#4887) use dedicated ES monitoring flag RMSMonitoring

*docs
FIX: (#4740) make dirac-docs-get-release-notes.py python3 compatible
CHANGE: (#4823) added some clarifications on starting the pilots
CHANGE: (#4829) updated configuration in terms of security, added description of webdav
FIX: (#4905) added config and instructions for Monitoring DBs (ES) configuration
FIX: (#4973) fix link to DIRAC install instruction and comments for WebApp

*tests
NEW: (#4179) Set up Gitlab CI pipeline using Docker containers
FIX: (#4677) Ignore tornado services and test DBs
NEW: (#4677) new integration tests for Tornado based services
NEW: (#4910) --runslow option on unit tests to allow faster local tests
NEW: (#4938) added a helloworld test for the (yet to be implemented) cloud testing in certification
CHANGE: (#4968) Change the defaults for tests (to MySQL 8 and ES 7)

[v7r1p47]

*Accounting
FIX: (#5412) do not attempt to write buckets if there's nothing to write
NEW: (#5392) Add AccountingMonitor permission
FIX: (#5257) GROUP BY statement syntax to be compatible with more recent SQL reference
     (e.g. as used in MariaDB 10.5). This fix is backward compatible.

*WMS
FIX: (#5382) Fix the job matching algorithm used by the dirac-wms-match command

*RequestManagement
FIX: (#5260) Fix the GROUP BY syntax in the RequestSummaryWeb to be compliant with MariaDB 10.5.
     The fix is backward compatible with MySQL 5.7

[v7r1p46]

*WorkloadManagement
FIX: (#5364) convert Owner attribute into OwnerDN in PilotManagerHandler.getPilotStatistics
FIX: (#5368) JobMonitoring - fix "Unknown column 'PilotJobReference'" error

[v7r1p45]

Data Management
FIX: (#5290) Type error when calling FTS3ManagerHandler.getActiveJobs

[v7r1p44]

*WorkloadManagement
CHANGE: (#5205) Make error message from SandboxStoreClient clearer when the sandbox is not found

*DataManagement
CHANGE: (#5211) FileCatalogClientCLI register File now takes a fixed number of arguments (6)
        including Checksum

*Resources
NEW: GFAL2_XROOTStorage - set XrdSecGSIDELEGPROXY=1 to enable third party copy

*Interfaces
NEW: (#5201) Implemented a function that allows programmatic listing of directories in the DFC.
Meant to replace the never fully deployed listCatalog function.

[v7r1p43]

CHANGE: new features and fixes from v7r0p57

*WorkloadManagement
FIX: (#5177) Look for dirac-jobexec instead of $DIRACROOT to decide when to copy the pilot.cfg
     to improve compatibility with v7r2

[v7r1p42]

*Framework
FIX: (#5168) Avoid minor caching bug which causes constraints to be violated when rapidly
     writing to UserProfileDB

[v7r1p41]

*Accounting
FIX: (#5152) Bug in PilotSubmission efficiency plot

*Framework
NEW: (#5159) Add UserProfileClient.listStatesForWeb endpoint to make the Public State Manager faster
CHANGE: (#5153) change SQLITE connection option for speed improvement

*DataManagement
FIX: (#5163) DatasetManager - Fix the syntax of the query to get dataset files
FIX: (#5162) Improve listing error if file info is missing from DB

*WorkloadManagement
CHANGE: (#5161) SiteDirector - Combine CE and Queue name in PilotSubmissionAccounting
        to avoid duplicated queue name

[v7r1p40]

*Core
CHANGE: (#5123) Read X509_CERT_DIR from central place

*WorkloadManagement
CHANGE: (#5143) Clarify that "tarfile failed with message" can be normal
FIX: (#5146) SiteDirector._getPilotsWeMayWantToSubmit: fix return type in case of error

*DataManagement
CHANGE: (#5144) FileManagerPS has bulk method for getReplicas

*Resources
CHANGE: (#5137) HTCondorCE submits jobs with -spool option when a local schedd is used to
        spool the pilot wrappers that can be deleted afterwards

[v7r1p39]

*WMS
CHANGE: (#5121) for HTCondor, the SiteDirectory write the executable in the globally defined working directory

[v7r1p38]

FIX: fixes from v7r0p55

*WMS
FIX: (#5108) delete the local output sandbox tarfile in case it's still there
FIX: (#5106) SiteDirector - use | operand for the union of tests
CHANGE: (#5104) JobDB.setJobAttributes: use _update instead of _transaction (as not needed)

[v7r1p37]

*DataManagement
NEW: (#5096) FTS3 plugins to alter TPC and source SE preferences

[v7r1p36]

*DMS
FIX: (#5080) SQLAlchemy 1.4 support for FTS3DB
FIX: (#5054) Submit FTS3 jobs with lowercase checksum

*RMS
FIX: (#5080) SQLAlchemy 1.4 support for ReqDB

*Resources
FIX: (#5077) Host.py - Fix for the case where no subprocess32 module found

[v7r1p35]

FIX: Fixes from v7r0p52

*Core
NEW: (#5047) DIRAC_M2CRYPTO_DEBUG env variable for SSL debugging

*WorkloadManagement
FIX: (#5062) Move the CPU work left computation at the beginning of the JobAgent execution
CHANGE: (#5053) Remove margins from the TimeLeft utility
CHANGE: (#5051) if the HeartBeatTime of a job is not set, it cannot be seen as Stalled.
        Hence set the HeartBeatTime (if not set) when setting the StartExecTime
CHANGE (#5051) (StalledJobAgent): don't try and get pilot status if "Unknown"

*Interfaces
CHANGE: (#5051) print the jobID in dirac-wms-job-logging-info

*DMS
CHANGE: (#5051) lower logging level for individual LFNs (from INFO to VERBOSE) to decrease
        amount of logged information. Replace with a summary

[v7r1p34]

FIX: Fixes from v7r0p51 patch release

[v7r1p33]

*DMS
FIX: (#4960) FTS3 explicitly use verify_checksum
NEW: (#4960) add --FTSOnly and --ExcludeSE options to dirac-dms-protocol-matrix

*RMS
CHANGE: (#4960) ReqClient prints the FTS3 job url directly

[v7r1p32]

*Core
FIX: (#5021) Glue2: fix error when too many execution environments were looked for
FIX: (#5021) Subprocess: when the systemCall failed, S_ERROR now contains a string
             in 'Message' instead of an exception object

[v7r1p31]

*Resources
FIX: (#4996) Getting access to $_CONDOR_JOB_AD in HTCondorResourceUsage

*WMS
CHANGE: (#5001) JobAgent: if we don't match a job, independently from the reason, we wait a
        bit longer before trying again
CHANGE: (#5001) JobAgent: moved check of availability of CE before doing anything else
NEW: (#4998) JobWrapper - find executables from PATH if not using an absolute filename
FIX: (#5009) As the job status is set AFTER the request is uploaded, it may happen that the request
     is executed BEFORE the status is set... Add thus a delay of 2 minutes for execution

[v7r1p30]

*Configuration
FIX: (#4879) The loop in the siteCE mapping was exiting as soon as a mis-configured site was found.
     Fixed to continue the loop, while adding an error message.
FIX: (#4970) Utilities - fixed bug in addToChangeSet(): use tuple instead 4 arguments
FIX: (#4974) Utilities - fix setting of LocalCEType

*WorkloadManagementSystem
FIX: (#4972) fix the cpu work left computation in JobAgent when batch system information cannot be processed
CHANGE: (#4978) Improved logging of the Matcher: adding pilotReference

*Resources
FIX: (#4955) SingularityComputingElement - better error message when the Singularity CE not found
CHANGE: (#4972) add a condition in TimeLeft module to know whether the batch system relies on wallclock and/or cpu time
NEW: (#4972) HTCondorResourceUsage module to get the time left in CERN-specific HTCondor resources.
CHANGE: (#4935) HTCondorCE: add a periodic remove in case we are not using the local schedd

[v7r1p29]

FIX: Fixes from v7r0p49 patch release

*Core
CHANGE: (#4954) using argparse for a few scripts instead of getopt
NEW: (#4957) ObjectLoader: do not fail if one module fails importing in recursive loading

*Framework
CHANGE: (#4964) dirac-proxy-init always uploads the proxy unless --no-upload is specified
FIX: (#4964) ProxyManagerClient checks for group and groupless proxies in its cache

*WMS
FIX: (#4954) PilotCStoJSONSynchronizer - bug fixed in getting CE information
CHANGE: (#4956) JobAgent - resorting to calculate time left with info in possession

*Workflow
FIX: (#4953) ModuleBase - remove deprecated function that does not do anything

[v7r1p28]

CHANGE: Revert #4919 - absolute imports in several modules

*Configuration
FIX: (#4945) CS.Client.Utilities: change exception caught to IndexError

*WMS
FIX: (#4947) SiteDirector: fix for case of empty tag

*DMS
CHANGE: (#4891) split staging and access protocols
NEW: (#4891) FTS3 can submit transfers with staging protocols different from transfer protocols

[v7r1p27]

FIX: Fixes from v7r0p47
FIX: (#4919) Added from future import absolute_import when having conflicts when importing standard modules.
     Fixes issue #2207

*Core
FIX: (#4918) Glue2: fix problem for CEs with multiple Queues, only one queue was discovered
FIX: (#4926) ElasticSearchDB: fix exception handling when checking existence of indices

*Configuration
CHANGE: (#4926) Adding Pool as LocalCEType for MultiProcessor queues (invoked by BDII2CSAgent)

*Framework
CHANGE: (#4928) initialized, processMessage and flushAllMessages functions of Logging are deprecated

*WMS
FIX: (#4923) The StalledJobAgent's behaviour changed (for bad) as only jobs stalled for more than 24.5 hours were
     checked before being set Failed... Restore v7r0 behaviour with immediate check
CHANGE: (#4926) JobAgent: getting CEType only from LocalSite/LocalCE config
CHANGE: (#4926) JobAgent: flipped the default for fillingMode
CHANGE: (#4926) SiteDirector: The max number of jobs in filling mode is not set anymore by the SD. The option
        MaxJobsInFillMode was removed

*Resources
FIX: (#4931) InProcess/SingularityComputingElement - Fix calling _monitorProxy as a periodic task

*Monitoring
NEW: (#4924) added possibility to login to ES via certificates.

*docs
NEW: (#4853) user management, ProxyManager
CHANGE: (#4853) move Registry from ConfReference to dirac.cfg
CHANGE: (#4853) move CommandReference content to scripts docs

[v7r1p26]

FIX: Fixes from v7r0p46

*Resources
FIX: (#4909) use grid CA to download the srr file
FIX: (#4904) ARCComputingElement: fixed a few places where unicode literals have leaked: wrapped in str

*WMS
FIX: (#4904) JobAgent: using internal function for rescheduling jobs

[v7r1p25]

FIX: Fixes from v7r0p45

*Core
CHANGE: (#4890) logging failing MySQL commands

*WMS
FIX: (#4889) fix for retrieving the pilot reference when it's an ES JobParameter
FIX: (#4889) fix for using the ES JobParameters for static data of heartbeats (app std out)
FIX: (#4897) added timestamp to pilot.json

[v7r1p24]

FIX: fixes from v7r0p44

*TransformationSystem
FIX: (#4883) fix to allow to pass a list of sourceSE to dirac-transformation-replication

[v7r1p23]

FIX: Fixes from v7r0p43

*Configuration
FIX: (#4869) Bdii2CSAgent: remove constant update of NumberOfProcessors parameter.
     Comparison between int and str lead to "new" value every run.

*WMS
FIX: (#4868) JobLoggingDB: fix for backward compatibility

*Monitoring
CHANGE: (#4872) better, faster aggregations. Always using term queries for keyword fields,
         and other less important changes
CHANGE: (#4872) do not return error if trying to delete non-existing index

*tests
NEW: (#4872) added integration test for MonitoringDB

[v7r1p22]

*WMS
NEW: (#4852) new module JobMinorStatus.py to put some standard minor statuses
CHANGE: (#4852) JobStateUpdateHandler - set startTime of job (in attributes) as from when the
        (#4852) job is Running (was when the application started). As agreed in a mail discussion...
CHANGE: (#4852) JobWrapper - send failover requests and accounting information after setting the final status

[v7r1p21]

*ConfigurationSystem
FIX: (#4854) Fix typo in CERNLDAPSyncPlugin

*Resources
FIX: (#4848) Fix SingularityComputingElement for non-server-style installations

[v7r1p20]

*Core
CHANGE: (#4842) TLS: read proxy flag from M2Crypto.X509

*Framework
CHANGE: (#4832) NotificationHandler: sendMail: the avoidSpam parameter is deprecated.
        All emails (same subject, address, body) are now only sent once per 24h

*WorkloadManagementSystem
FIX: (#4839) There was a bug handling the bulk status updates that was not updating
             correctly the job status although the job logging information was correct).
             This PR fixes this bug. It was tested in certification as a hotfix
CHANGE: (#4839) internally always call the setJobStatusBulk() method in order to be consistent
CHANGE: (#4839) in JobReport, only send statuses that are not empty, and remove handling of
                ApplicationCounter that is never sent nor used anywhere
CHANGE: (#4834) JobStateUpdateHandler: use class variables instead of global

*Resources
FIX: (#4841) Fix using SingularityComputingElement with the host's DIRAC installation

*Interfaces
FIX: (#4834) Job.py: use --cfg option for JobConfigArgs

*RSS
FIX: (#4834) Added one field for retrieving the corrected order of columns

[v7r1p19]

FIX: Fixes from v7r0p40

*Configuration
FIX: (#4821) Bdii2CSAgent: Updating CE information wasn't working because the list of
     CEs wasn't picked up from the right place (Site/CE option, instead of Site/CES/<CE_Sections>)
FIX: (#4821) Glue2: fix association of CEs to sites if the CE associated sitename in the BDII differs
     from the Name given in the CS
FIX: (#4821) dirac-admin-add-resources: Fix bug preventing the use of GLUE2 mode
CHANGE: (#4636) BDII2CSAgent: stop looking for SEs in BDII

*Resources
FIX: (#4827) SingularityCE: Create pilot.cfg as part of the inner DIRAC install.

*RSS
FIX: (#4830) added vo field to ResourceStatusClient calls

[v7r1p18]

*RSS
FIX: (#4815) Fix a problem with vo being returned in a middle to a list in toList

[v7r1p17]

*Configuration
NEW: (#4784) VOMS2CSAgent introduce SyncPlugins to add extra or validate user information information
NEW: (#4809) Add CERNLDAPSyncPlugin for VOMS2CSAgent

*Accounting
CHANGE: (#4798) multiply wallclock per the number of processors used

*WMS
FIX: (#4816) JobStateUpdateHandler - Fix bug when using elasticJobParametersDB

*Resources
FIX: (#4792) Initialisation of arc.Endpoint in ARCComputingElement

*RSS
FIX: (#4790) use createClient decorator for RSS clients

[v7r1p16]

*Resources
FIX: (#4786) FileCatalogClient: correctly returning error in getReplicas() call

[v7r1p15]

*Configuration
FIX: (#4766) Bdii2CSAgent: Fix exception if selectedSites was set, but some unknown Sites were found by the agent
CHANGE: Bdii2CSAgent: if selectedSites is configured, also remove all CEs from unknown sites from the results

*Framework
CHANGE: (#4766) NotificationHandler: sendMail: the avoidSpam parameter is deprecated. All emails (same subject, address,
        body) are now only sent once per 24h

*Resources
FIX: (#4777) Mount the host's DIRAC installation in the container when using SingularityCE without
     InstallDIRACInContainer

*RSS
CHANGE: (#4767) SummarizeLogAgent uses list instead of tuples

*WorkloadManagement
CHANGE: (#4767) JobMonitoring uses cls/self attributes instead of global variable
CHANGE: (#4772) JobMonitoring.getJobPageSummaryWeb can provide jobIDs according to the pilotJobReferences

[v7r1p14]

*Core
CHANGE: (#4752) Glue2: the number of ldap searches has been reduced to three making lookups much faster
CHANGE: (#4752) Glue2: return also unknown sites not found in the information provider for given VO
CHANGE: (#4752) Glue2: fill value for SI00 for queues as well. Value is fixed at 2500 and will overwrite any existing value.
CHANGE: (#4752) Glue2: architecture will now always be lowercase.
CHANGE: (#4752) Glue2: Read the GLUE2ComputingShareMaxSlotsPerJob value and fill the NumberOfProcessors entry for
                the respective queue. Ignores CREAM CEs. A Ceiling for this number can be set by
                /Resources/Computing/CEDefaults/MaxNumberOfProcessors, defaults to 8. Solves #3926
CHANGE: (#4747) Added support for ElasticSearch 7.
CHANGE: (#4747)  Find cas.pem and crls.pem if they are local, before generating them.

*Configuration:
CHANGE: (#4752) Bdii2CSAgent: change email subject to agent name
CHANGE: (#4752) Bdii2CSAgent: Make GLUE2Only=True the default
CHANGE: (#4752) Bdii2CSAgent: Email also information about CEs not found in the specified information, CEs can be ignored with BannedCEs option, solves #1034
CHANGE: (#4752) dirac-admin-add-resources: printout CEs that are not known at the given information provider
CHANGE: (#4752) dirac-admin-add-resources: default to Glue2, deprecate -G flag. Add -g flag to use glue1
FIX: (#4752) dirac-admin-add-resources: Do not exit if no new CEs are found, still look for changes of existing CEs

*Monitoring
CHANGE: (#4747) Eliminate types from MonitoringDB for support for ElasticSearch 7

*WMS
CHANGE: (#4747) renamed ElasticJobDB.py in ElasticJobParametersDB.py
CHANGE: (#4747) Eliminate types from ElasticJobParametersDB.py for support for ElasticSearch 7
CHANGE: (#4747) Use ES query DSL for searches in ElasticJobParametersDB.py, also for deleting entries

*Resources

CHANGE: (#4755) remove backward compatibility for BaseSE defined in StorageElements section (issue #3516)
CHANGE: (#4755) Clearer error message related to LFN convention (issue #2790)

[v7r1p13]

*WMS
CHANGE: (#4750) JobMonitoring casts for JSON

*Framework
CHANGE: (#4750) ignore serialization error for JSON in the Monitoring

*RMS
CHANGE: (#4750) ignore serialization error in ForwardDISET

tests
FIX: (#4745, #4746) transformation_replication - fix integration test

[v7r1p12]

*Core:
FIX: (#4724) correctly pass the argument to the new ThreadPool in MessageBroker
FIX: (#4737) modify logging when CAs & CRLs sync

*Framework
FIX: (#4728) Fix hashing of local CA and CRL bundles
FIX: (#4737) add check of availability of directories for sync CAs in BundleDeliveryClient

*Production
FIX: (#4739) Fixes for JSON serialization

*WMS
FIX: (#4739) Fixes for JSON serialization

*Transformation
FIX: (#4739) TransformationManagerHandler: fixes for JSON serialization


*ResourceStatusSystem
CHANGE: (#4720) add a VO column to all tables as apart of the primary key and a default value='all'

*Resources
NEW: (#4721) SingularityCE: singularityCE: added possibility to run without re-installing DIRAC inside the container
CHANGE: (#4733) SingularityComputingElement: Enable userns option in singularity if possible.
CHANGE: (#4733) SingularityComputingElement: Use CVMFS as singularity fallback location if userns is enabled.

*docs:
CHANGE: (#4721) improved doc for SingularityCE options

*tests
FIX: (#4724) fix rss-scripts syntax

[v7r1p11]

*WMS
FIX: (#4712) PilotStatusAgent was crashing due to a bug

*Test
FIX: (#4712) fix for main RSS system test

[v7r1p10]

Fixes from v7r0p32

CHANGE: (#4690) ComponentInstaller uses --cfg option

[v7r1p9]

Fixes from v7r0p31

*Resources
FIX: (#4704) ARCComputingElement: fix use of gLogger, which was replaced by self.log

[v7r1p8]

*WMS
NEW: (#4699) add a retryUpload option in the JobWrapper

*DMS
NEW: (#4699) add a retryUpload option to FailoverTransfer
CHANGE: (#4693) Retry file upload for any error condition, not just file catalogue failure.

*Resources
FIX: (#4669) multiple minor style fixes

*tests
FIX: (#4695) Tests are modified so the MultiVO File catalog is not a master catalog anymore.
     Addresses #4682 .

[v7r1p7]

*Core
FIX: (#4679) dirac-install is getting the globalDefaults.cfg from CVMFS if available
FIX: (#4679) dirac-install - loads the installation configuration from etc/dirac.cfg if it is present
NEW: (#4679) dirac-install-extension - new command to add an extension to an existing installation
CHANGE: (#4679) dirac-deploy-scripts - added --module option to inspect only specified modules

*WMS
CHANGE: (#4674) DownloadInputData no longer fails if getFileMetadata fails for the first SE, tries others if available

*DMS
FIX: (#4678) Fix problem where a FileCatalog instance was not aware of SEs added by a different instance.
     SEManager.getSEName now refreshes if an seID is not known. Fixes #4653

*docs
FIX: (#4667) some more info on duplications

*tests
FIX: (#4681) Test_UserMetadata makes dynamic lfns using VO

[v7r1p6]

*Framework
CHANGE: (#4643) BundleDeliveryClient: inheriting from Client

*SMS
FIX: (#4645) StorageManagementDB - drop the tables in the correct order to avoid foreign key errors

*TS
NEW: (#4641) TransformationCleaningAgent will (re)clean very old transformations that are still in the system

*tests
FIX: (#4645) dropDBs uses real array;
FIX: (#4645) remove readonly variables

[v7r1p5]

*Framework
FIX: (#4640) Install of ES DBs: only search in *DB.py files

[v7r1p4]

Includes fixes from v6r22p30, v7r0p26

*Framework
CHANGE: (#4632) dirac-sysadmin - handle installation possible also for ES DBs

*tests
NEW: (#4633) added xmltodict module - makes working with XML feel like working with JSON.

[v7r1p3]

Includes fixes from v6r22p29, v7r0p25

*Framework
FIX: (#4611) ProxyManager, dirac-admin-get-proxy - allow bool type for vomsAttribute parameter
     on service side. Fixes #4608

[v7r1p2]

Changes from v7r0p24 patch

[v7r1p1]

Changes from v6r22p28 patch

*Framework
CHANGE: (#4572) removed group from proxy expiration notification

[v7r1]

NEW: Add environment.yml file for preparing an environment with conda
CHANGE: (#4507) autopep8 for the entire code stack

*Core
NEW: initial support for mysql8
NEW: (#4236) DISET - pass the client DIRAC version as part of the request description structure
NEW: (#4274) Allow installation from a local directory
FIX: (#4289) Use subprocess32 if possible for significantly better performance
FIX: (#4289) TypeLoader should not be a singleton as it has a cache
CHANGE: (#4362) RPC parameters are cast to list/tuples when needed
FIX: (#4410) M2Crypto transport cast socket.error to strings
CHANGE: (#4410) (JSON) rpcStub uses list instead of tuples
NEW: (#4410) add utilities for JSON Serialization (strToIntDict and ignoreEncodeWarning)
CHANGE: (#4354) ThreadPool - replaced by ThreadPoolExecutor(native python)
FIX: (#4439) MySQLDB _connect method
NEW: (#4510) Removed dirac-distribution (use docker image)
CHANGE: (#4491) Streamline of CS helpers for sites and computing elements
NEW: (#4538) MixedEncode - allows for json serialization transition
CHANGE: (#4461) use M2Crypto by default
CHANGE: (#4565) Source bashrc in wrapper script

*Configuration
CHANGE: (#4157) add new helper methods for IdP/Proxy Providers, OAuthManager. Add methods that
        read DN options in dirac user section
NEW: (#4241) Slave configuration servers are automatically updated as part of the new configuration
     changes commit
NEW: (#4241) Configuration Server - added forceGlobalConfigurationUpdate() interface to force all
     registered service to update their configuration
NEW: (#4257) Add search emails for group method in Registry
NEW: (#4397) ConfigurationClient - added getOptionsDictRecursively method, add docs
CHANGE: (#4551) Registry - change search DN properties logic

*Framework
CHANGE: (#4157) add possibility to work with Proxy Providers and "clean" proxy without
        voms/dirac extensions
NEW: (#4257) Filter of duplicate mails in Notification
FIX: (#4257) Optimize test in NotificationHandler
FIX: (#4289) Avoid leaking std(in|out|err) file handles when running runsvdir
CHANGE: (#4362) BundleDeliveryFramework uses list instead of tuple
CHANGE: (#4410) (JSON) use of list instead of tuples for SecurityLog

*WMS
CHANGE: (#4362) SandboxStoreClient uses list instead of tuple
CHANGE: (#4396) Removed outdated PilotMonitorAgent
CHANGE: (#4410) (JSON) use of list instead of tuples for JobReport and Watchdog
CHANGE: (#4416) As explained in #4412, Completed jobs is used as major status for jobs during
        completion while it is also used for jobs that have a pending request and require a further
        action before being Done or Failed.
CHANGE: (#4416) Completing jobs are treated exactly like Running jobs, i.e. set Stalled if they
        didn't give sign of life, and are not set Failed directly as before. Jobs to be checked
        are those that had not sent a heartbeat within the stalledTime period, in order to reduce
        the number of jobs to check.
NEW: (#4416) Created a file JobStatus.py for replacing the literal job statuses, and updated many
        modules using these new variables. Note that there are still many others to change, but
        could be done gradually...
FIX: (#4451) StalledJobAgent - use int factor to the seconds time delta
FIX: (#4451) ProxyDB - set UserName in setPersistencyFlag() if it is a first record in ProxyDB_Proxies
FIX: (#4514) JobWrapper: try to send the failover requests BEFORE declaring the job status
FIX: (#4514) JobAgent: do not override the job status after the job has finished

*DMS
CHANGE: (#4243) FileCatalog - standard components are loaded using ObjectLoader mechanism
NEW: (#4279) FileCatalog - added VOMSSecurityManager class
CHANGE: (#4279) FileCatalog - dropped PolicyBasedSecurityManager and VOMSPolicy classes
CHANGE: (#4410) (JSON) correct casts for serialization for FTS
CHANGE: (#4364) remove all the SE mangling in the DFC (SEPrefix, resolvePFN, SEDefinition)
CHANGE: (#4423) FileMetadata - split getFileMetadataFields into getFileMetadataFields and _getFileMetadataFields
CHANGE: (#4423) DirectoryMetadata - split getMetadataFields into getMetadataFields and _getMetadataFields
NEW: (#4465) FileCatalog - a FileMetadata and DirectoryMetadata multi VO targeted plug-in wrappers for
     user metadata operations.
FIX: (#4535) StorageElement - do not return negative values in getFreeDiskSpace()

*RMS
CHANGE: (#4410) (JSON) correct casts for serialization
FIX: (#4517) When finalising the request, one should take into account the fact that if the job is
     Stalled one must find its previous status. This is fixed in ReqClient

*Resources
NEW: (#4157) ProxyProvider resources with implementation for DIRAC CA and PUSP proxy providers
NEW: (#4276) IdProvider resources to represent external user identity providers
FIX: (#4455) discrepancy in CE._reset() methods return value in different CE implementations
NEW: (#4546) add Test_ProxyProviderFactory, docs


*RSS
CHANGE: (#4362) SQL query orders using list instead of tuples
CHANGE: (#4410) (JSON) db ordering uses list instead of tuples
FIX: (#4462) convert the dictionary keys to number, when it is required.
CHANGE: (#4463) Dynamically load database handlers for ResourceStatus and ResourceManagement modules in
         preparation for a schema changes needed by multi-VO versions of these.


*StorageManagement
CHANGE: (#4410) (JSON) use lists instead of tuples

*tests
CHANGE: (#4279) use VOMSSecurityManager for integration instead of PolicyBasedSecurityManager/VOMSPolicy
FIX: (#4284) DMS client tests to use DIRAC user name, rather than the local system user name
NEW: (#4289) CI for unit/lint/integration testing with GitHub actions
NEW: (#4289) Start using shell linting of the test scripts
FIX: (#4289) Exit quickly if the installation fails to make it easier to find issues
CHANGE: (#4410) call pytest directly instead of as a module
FIX: (#4426) restored system test, moved Jenkins test to appropriate location
CHANGE: (#4439) integrate test_MySQLDB to all_integration_server_tests

*tests
FIX: (#4469) ProxyDB integration tests fixed for the M2Crypto case
FIX: (#4551) align ProxyDB test to current changes

*docs
NEW: (#4289) Document how to run integration tests in docker
NEW: (#4551) add DNProperties description to Registry/Users subsection

[v7r0p57]

*Resources
NEW: (#5067) RucioFileCatalog plugin based on Belle II implementation

[v7r0p56]

*Resources
FIX: (#5119) HTCondorCE: Limit calls to actual cleanup (find and delete files on disk) to
     once per minute per SiteDirector, fixes #5118
CHANGE: (#5119) HTCondorCE cleanup: Run the DIRAC_ executable purge with -O3 and -maxdepth
        1 to speed up the find

[v7r0p55]

*TS
FIX: (#5109) DataRecoveryAgent: immediately skip transformations without jobs, prevents
     exception later on

[v7r0p54]

*Core
FIX: (#5087) Undefined variable error when RabbitMQAdmin fails to connect

*CS
FIX: (#5090) VOMS2CSSynchronizer: add email information about a user joining groups for an additional VO, fix for #5037
FIX: (#5090) VOMS2CSSynchronizer: When a user leaves a second VO, only the membership in these groups is removed
CHANGE: (#5090) VOMS2CSSynchronizer: If email of user is known, do not replace it with None

[v7r0p53]

*Interface
FIX: (#5069) parseArguments strip arguments correctly

[v7r0p52]

*Core
FIX: (#5058) (M2Crypto) fixes in proxy serial parsing

[v7r0p51]

*Configuration
FIX: (#5037) VOMS2CSAgent: fix an issue in the agent that prevented users being added to
     a second VO if they were already existing in another VO

[v7r0p50]

*Core
CHANGE: (#4927) Added MySQL LIKE query feature.

[v7r0p49]

*Core
NEW: (#4967) introduce DIRAC_M2CRYPTO_SSL_METHODS to configure accepted protocols
NEW: (#4967) introduce DIRAC_M2CRYPTO_SSL_CIPHERS to configure accepted ciphers

[v7r0p48]

CHANGE: (#4949) change default top-level bdii to cclcgtopbdii01.in2p3.fr (was lcg-bdii.cern.ch)

*CS
FIX: (#4943) Fix exception in VOMS2CSAgent for missing 'suspended' and other entries occurring if the credentials
     used to query the VOMS server have insufficient privileges to obtain this information

[v7r0p47]

*Core
CHANGE: (#4930) Resolve location of etc/grid-security/vomses via env variable X509_VOMSES

[v7r0p46]

*DMS
FIX: (#4908) FTS3Job: fix the check of isTapeSE for multiVO instances, fixes #4878
FIX: (#4908) FTS3Job: pass VO for fetchSpaceToken function to StorageElement

[v7r0p45]

*WMS
FIX: (#4899) JobAgent: adding ExtraOptions as argument iff the executable is a DIRAC script

*Resources
CHANGE: (#4896) ARC CE: request all processors on the same node.

[v7r0p44]

*Core
CHANGE: (#4873) default generated bashrc does not overwrite X509* variables if already set
NEW: (#4873) Add DIRAC_X509_HOST_CERT and DIRAC_X509_HOST_KEY environment variables

*WMS
CHANGE: (#4836) JobWrapper: Add extraOptions only when the executable is a DIRAC script

[v7r0p43]

*RSS
FIX: (#4871) SiteInspectorAgent: prevent the agent from getting locked if an exception occurs during enforcement
FIX: (#4871) ElementInspectorAgent: prevent the agent from getting locked if an exception occurs during enforcement

[v7r0p42]

*Configuration
CHANGE: (#4587) Added possibility to load more then one cfg file from DIRACSYSCONFIGFILE env variable

[v7r0p41]

*Core
FIX: (#4845) Fix hashing SubjectName in X509Chain

*FrameworkSystem
FIX: (#4833) pilot update script, update global CS not the local one
NEW: (#4840) Add option to retry to update hosts in dirac-admin-update-instance

*WorkloadManagementSystem
FIX: (#4838) SiteDirector - Flatten platform list avoid crash if CheckPlatform=True

[v7r0p40]

*docs
FIX: (#4826) correct link to LHCb documentation

[v7r0p39]

NEW: (#4814) FileManager, FileCatalogDB - added repairFilesTable function to fix differencies between FC_Files
     and FC_FileInfo tables
NEW: (#4814) FileCatalog CLI - rmdir command can perform recursive directory removal
NEW: (#4814) FileCatalog CLI - repair command adapted to multiple repair operations

[v7r0p38]

*Configuration
FIX: (#4807) --cfg option supports tilde
FIX: (#4813) Show username when deleting users

*FrameworkSystem
NEW: (#4800) new tool dirac-admin-update-instance to update all servers of a dirac instance from command line
NEW: (#4800) new tool dirac-admin-update-pilot to update version of pilot in CS from command line

*DMS
CHANGE: (#4807) FTS3 gives priority to disk replicas

*Resources
NEW: (#4807) CTA compatible Storage plugin
FIX: (#4812) get SSH hostname from the CE config instead of the job ID to get the job output

*tests
FIX: (#4803) Use GitHub Container registry due to pull limit on dockerhub
CHANGE: (#4806) Remove obsolete gitlab integration

[v7r0p37]

*TS
CHANGE: (#4769) consider all sites when getting sites with storage (not only LCG sites with Tier0, 1 or 2

*WMS
FIX: (#4769) dirac-wms-job-parameters: output was printed twice

*docs
NEW: (#4771) admin tutorial on how to install the WorkloadManagementSystem
CHANGE: (#4780) mock the MySQLDB python module as we cannot install it in RTD any longer

[v7r0p36]

FIX: fixes from v6r22p35 patch release

[v7r0p35]

*Core
FIX: (#4751) Do not read suspensionReason from VOMS as it's not used anywhere and
     needs special permissions to give this information
FIX: (#4756) Fix for silly-formed XMLs from GOCDB

*Framework
CHANGE: (#4753) NotificationService: if avoidSpam=True the email is now sent immediately
        and cached for up to one hour, instead of being cached and then sent after up to an hour.

*Resources
FIX: (#4743) remove dots in xroot virtual username

[v7r0p34]

*Core
NEW: (#4391) Make M2Crypto TLS implementation compatible with openssl 1.1 series

*DataManagement
FIX: (#4729) Allow no LFNs to be passed to getReplicas

*RSS
FIX: (#4722) GOCDBClient: fix for different forms of XML answer from GOC

*Resources
FIX: (#4725) create "task kwargs" with the required arguments in PoolCE before passing them to the ProcessPool
FIX: (#4738) create chunks before using the Arc.JobSupervisor

[v7r0p33]

*Interfaces
FIX: (#4713) Pass useCertificates to WMSClient in Dirac API

*Resources
NEW: (#4716) better way to discover the innerCESubmissionType (Pool CE)
CHANGE: (#4716) SingularityCE: get info from Pilot3 pilot.json, if present

*tests
NEW: (#4716) added integration test for SingularityCE

[v7r0p32]

*Core
FIX: (#4688) M2Crypto based protocol - better handling of timeout
NEW: (#4710) add loadCRLFromFile to pyGSI implementation of X509CRL

*WorkloadManagement
NEW: (#4708) JobAgent - define DIRAC_JOB_PROCESSORS environment to number of
     processors allocated for the user job

[v7r0p31]

*WorkloadManagement
FIX: (#4706) Crash getting available memory limits when MJF is not available

[v7r0p30]

*Core
FIX: (#4698) Glue2: Fix crash in bdii2CSAgent, when ARC CEs do not have an ExecutionEnvironment

*WorkloadManagementSystem
FIX: (#4701) Ensure JobParameters.getNumberOfProcessors always returns an integer

*RSS
NEW: (#4691) GOCDB - interpret also downtimes with URLs different from the hostname

*Resources
CHANGE: (#4666) ARCComputingElement - enable GLUE2 queries on ARC CEs, which is now strongly recommended
        as GLUE1 publishing is stopped in ARC6.

*docs
NEW: (#4684) Added documentation for HTCondor/use full proxy length setting.

[v7r0p29]

*Core
FIX: (#4683) M2Crypto - force bio free and shutdown when closing

*Configuration
CHANGE: (#4651) Add --cfg option for config files, deprecating old non-option version.

*TransformationSystem
FIX: (#4680) Bug fixed in updateFilterQueries. The bug was affecting only TS catalog interface.

*Production
FIX: (#4672) minor fix in ProdValidator
FIX: (#4672) more detailed output added in dirac-prod-get-trans

*Resources
FIX: (#4673) hack in Slurm ResourceUsage to stop jobs running out of time on multi-processors resources

[v7r0p28]

*Core
FIX: (#4642) M2Crypto closes the socket after dereferencing the Connection instance

*DMS
FIX: (#4644) Cancel FTS3 Operation if the RMS request does not exist

*RMS
NEW: (#4644) getRequestStatus returns ENOENT if the request does not exist

*TS
FIX: (#4647) TaskManager - hospital sites were not looked for correctly, which
      generated an exception
FIX: (#4656) fix parsing of command line flags (e.g., -ddd) for dirac-transformation-archive/clean/remove-output/verify-outputdata

*Interfaces
CHANGE: (#4652) dirac-admin-add-host now inserts hosts into the ComponentMonitoring if the host
        is not yet known

[v7r0p27]

*Framework
FIX: (#4639) MySQL - commit transaction when creating tables

[v7r0p26]

*Resources
CHANGE: (#4626) Test_PoolComputingElement - increase delays for job submission
CHANGE: (#4626) PoolComputingElement - fix the logic of number of processors evaluation
FIX: (#4634) Add pilot.cfg symlink in SingularityCE for Pilot3 compatibility.
FIX: (#4620) in getPilotOutput, returns errors when the HTCondor working directory is
     not available and condor_transfer_data fails

*WMS
NEW: (#4614) uploadToWebApp flag to disable the json upload for the CSToJson
FIX: (#4614) Fix an absolute path in the CSToJSON
NEW: (#4620) pop the pilot reference from the failedPilotOutput dictionary when
     maxRetryGetPilotOutput is reached
NEW: (#4619) Watchdog - added DISABLE_WATCHDOG_CPU_WALLCLOCK_CHECK env variable
FIX: (#4619) Watchdog - Split check methods for better control

*Docs:
CHANGE: (#4614) allow to generate only header/footer in the release notes if no PR were merged
FIX: (#4635) add missing packages for the UBUNTU Linux Distribution that need to be installed
     before installing DIRAC
NEW: (#4635) add useful commands for working with conda environments
CHANGE: (#4622) diracdoctools - No longer mock numpy and matplotlib
FIX: (#4619) added doc about DIRACSYSCONFIG environment variable

[v7r0p25]

Fixes from v6r22p29 patch

*Core
FIX: (#4615) M2SSLTransport does not catch all the exceptions
FIX: (#4615) M2SSLTransport calls parent class when renewing context
CHANGE: (#4615) default to split handshake
NEW: (#4617) Added test for profiler.py

*WMS
FIX: (#4617) Watchdog - use 2 flags for profiler: withChildren and withTerminatedChildren

[v7r0p24]

*Core
FIX: (#4584) M2SSLTransport catch exceptions and convert them into S_ERROR
CHANGE: (#4584) M2SSLTransport: allow to do the SSL handshake in threads
CHANGE: (#4584) Do not query the Registry when doing the handshake

*WMS
CHANGE: (#4587) Check LFN InputSandbox separately from InputData
NEW: (#4593) option to only retry to get pilot outputs a limited number of times
CHANGE: (#4594) SandboxStoreClient - remove direct access to SandboxMetadataDB by default
CHANGE: (#4594) JobSanity - instantiate SandboxStoreClient with direct access to SandboxMetadataDB
FIX: (#4601) JobAgent: check if there are arguments

*Resources
CHANGE: (#4593) retrieve pilot output paths in getJobOutput using the pilot IDs instead of calling condor

*Interfaces
Change: (#4594) Dirac - instantiate SandboxStoreClient without smdb=False which is now a default

*docs
FIX: (#4598) Use also time in addition to date to get list of PRs since last tag

[v7r0p23]

*Core
FIX: (#4580) The CPU for the jobWrapper process group was incorrectly calculated as
     it was not including former children of the JobWrapper.

*Framework
FIX: (#4570) MonitoringCatalog only prints an error when there is really one

*WMS
NEW: (#4576) add a workDir to PilotCStoJSONSynchronizer
FIX: (#4591) Fix exception when calling HTCondorCE killJob, used when killing pilots
     with dirac-admin-kill-pilot for example. Fixes #4590

*DMS
FIX: (#4591) allow dirac-dms-protocol-matrix be run for non LHCb VOs

*RMS
CHANGE: (#4573) Add include from ConfigTemplate to CleanReqDBAgent, RequestExecutingAgent, ReqManager
CHANGE: (#4573) align defaults in ConfigTemplate with those in the Code

*Resources
FIX: (#4588) HTCondorCE cleanup only the pilots files related to the CE

*Docs:
NEW: (#4571) the DiracDocTools are now also compatible with python3
NEW: (#4571) added ".readthedocs.yml" config

[v7r0p22]

*Core:
CHANGE: (#4554) dirac-install: remove empty lines between options in dirac-install --help

*Configuration
CHANGE: (#4563) move documentation to ConfigTemplate, Module docstrings

*Accounting
CHANGE: (#4564) Move documentation about agent and services configuration to module docstrings, ConfigTemplate

*Docs
CHANGE: (#4554) Small restructuring in the DeveloperGuide: merge sections on testing, add note about generating command references
NEW: (#4554) DeveloperGuide: add section about DIRACOS and link to diracos.readthedocs.io
CHANGE: (#4560) allow release notes to be empty in dirac-docs-get-release-notes

*Tests
FIX: (#4560) DataManager tests check VO dynamically

[v7r0p21]

*Core
CHANGE: (#4506) remove rst2pdf from dirac-create-distribution-tarball

*Framework
CHANGE: (#4536) Don't loop forever if a query does not work in the MonitoringCatalog

[v7r0p20]

*Core
FIX: (#4531) Mail.py - add SMTP parameters

*DMS
CHANGE: (#4528) FTS3 - failoverTransfer sleep & retries in case of FC unavailability

*Resources
NEW: (#4529) WLCGAccountingHTTPJson occupancy plugin

*TS
CHANGE: (#4525) clean the DataFiles table when cleaning a Transformation

[v7r0p19]

*DMS
CHANGE: (#4505) explicitly delegate the proxy to FTS3 with a configurable lifetime
NEW: (#4519) S3 storage support

*RSS
FIX: (#4520) correct verbosity (avoid non-necessary warnings)

*docs
NEW: (#4520) Minimal documentation on Bdii2CSAgent and GOCDB2CSAgent

[v7r0p18]

*Interfaces
CHANGE: (#4502) run jobs locally: use $DIRAC for $DIRACROOT

*Docs
NEW: (#4513) add recommonmark extension to allow use of markdown files in the documenation

[v7r0p17]

*WMS
FIX: (#4496) PilotCS2Json: fix writing of local pilot.json file, which is used to calculate the hash
FIX: (#4496) PilotCS2Json: write checksum file in text mode

*DMS
FIX: (#4476) StorageElementHandler: removed ignoreMaxStorageSize flag from getTotalDiskSpace and getFreeDiskSpace

*Resources
FIX: (#4499) Slurm Resource Usage

[v7r0p16]

*Core
CHANGE: (#4482) TimeLeft modules become ResourceUsage and inherit from an abstract module called ResourceUsage
NEW: (#4482) TimeLeft/SLURMResourceUsage module to get resource usage from a SLURM installation
CHANGE: (#4482) Move TimeLeft from Core/Utilities to Resources/Computing/BatchSystems

*WMS
NEW: (#4493) Add checksum calculation for PilotCSToJsonSynchroniser
NEW: (#4493) Add checksum checks to PilotWrapper
FIX: (#4493) Fix download checks in PilotWrapper in case the webserver does not return 404 but not the expected file content either.

*Resources
FIX: (#4482) LocalCE: proxy submission and getJobStatus
FIX: (#4482) Slurm getJobStatus() making use of sacct
FIX: (#4466) Stomp reconnection only reconnect the connection that dropped

[v7r0p15]

*Accounting
NEW: (#4464) StorageOccupancy accounting

*RSS
NEW: (#4464) FreeDiskSpaceCommand used to fill the StorageOccupancy accounting
CHANGE: (#4464) FreeDiskSpaceCommand can clean the from not-anymore-existing SEs

*WMS
CHANGE: (#4471) Optimizer: treat input sandboxes uploaded as LFNs ad Input Data

[v7r0p14]

*Framework
CHANGE: (#4458) Remove LHCb specific code used to install cx_Oracle

*Core
CHANGE: (#4460) agents exit with sys.exit(2) in case of errors

*Resources
CHANGE: (#4460) InProcess CE correctly reports number of processors available

*WMS
FIX: (#4454) PilotWrapper: try to untar also with system tar

[v7r0p13]

*Core
FIX: (#4448) SubProcess: rewritten function for getting child PIDs

*ResourceStatusSystem
NEW: (#4419) Backported GGUSTicketsPolicy from LHCb
CHANGE: (#4419) removed dangerous script dirac-rss-policy-manager

*tests
NEW: (#4429) Allow extensions to extend the continuous integration tests

*docs
NEW: (#4431) dirac-doc-get-release-notes can take a sinceLatestTag option, header and footer messages,
     and can create github/gitlab release

[v7r0p12]

*WMS
FIX: (#4432) Better logging for WMS Optimizers
NEW: (#4435) PilotCS2JSONSynchronizer: added options pilotRepoBranch and pilotVORepoBranch

*DMS
FIX: (#4436) dirac-dms-clean-directory: also works on single empty directory, fixes #4420

*Framework
FIX: (#4436) dirac-install-component: fix bug prohibiting use of the -m/--module parameter

*tests
NEW: (#4429) Allow extensions to extend the continuous integration tests
NEW: (#4433) added README.rst for every subdirectory

*docs
FIX: (#4438) update notes for dirac-distribution (add extensions)

[v7r0p11]

*Core
FIX: (#4411) Make dirac-install tool python 3 compatible
NEW: (#4409) Allow --dirac-os-version argument to dirac-install.py to be a path or URL to a tarball

[v7r0p10]

*Core
FIX: (#4394) RequestHandler - fix log output for the case where the ActionTuple is actually a string
FIX: (#4394) AuthManager - manage the case where ExtraCredentials are in a form of a list
NEW: (#4379) dirac-install accepts userEnvVariables switch, adds user-requested env variables
     to *rc* files

*WMS
FIX: (#4404) Fix the matching delay functionality, fixes #2983
NEW: (#4403) JobCleaningAgent: Add possibility to remove HeartBeatLoggingInfo before jobs are
     completely removed.
FIX: (#4394) SiteDirector - do not add downloading files ti the pilot if Pilot3 flag is False
FIX: (#4390) Watchdog: get the CPU consumed by children processes too
FIX: (#4370) SiteDirector: Pilot3 option easier to interpret
CHANGE: (#4338) getStatus method in ARC CE now uses a JobSupervisor to get status of multiple pilots at once.
CHANGE: (#4338) SiteDirector.updatePilotStatus has been parallelized using threads.
NEW: (#4338) AvailableSlotsUpdateCycleFactor is a parameter part of the configuration allowing to control
     the rate of the update of the available slots in the queues.
FIX: (#4338) Revert to queueCECache being an object attribute to fix the CEs instantiation.

*RMS
CHANGE: (#4400) ReqDB: Add pool_recycle=3600 parameter for sql engine setup, might prevent
        occasional "Mysql Server has gone away" errors

*Resources
FIX: (#4380) ComputingElement classes: use GridEnv if present
CHANGE: (#4360) in HTCondor CEs, the pilot stamps are now used to retrieve outputs and logging info

*DMS
CHANGE: (#4400) FTS3DB: Add pool_recycle=3600 parameter for sql engine setup, might prevent
        occasional "Mysql Server has gone away" errors

*Docs
CHANGE: (#4402) dirac-docs-get-release-notes.py does not require a GITLABTOKEN

[v7r0p9]

*Core
CHANGE: (#4302) Simplify and convert command wrapper scripts to bash. Also removed some obsolete MacOS code.
FIX: (#4361) restore the possibility to set a global timeout for a Client

*DMS
CHANGE: (#4353) FTS3 persistOperation method checks that the caller is allowed to do so
CHANGE: (#4353) FTS3Manager: do not expose updateJobStatus and updateFileStatus on the service
CHANGE: (#4353) FTS3 operation is canceled if the matching request is canceled
CHANGE: (#4353) when a source file does not exist, defunct the FTS3File associated
CHANGE: (#4353) use the JEncode serializer instead of the custom FTS3Serializer
CHANGE: (#4353) cancel an FTS3Job together with its associated FTS3Files if the job is not found on the server

*RSS
CHANGE: (#4336) remove a call to shifterProxy configuration which would not work for multi VO Dirac

*docs
CHANGE: (#4378) using docker images from docker hub

[v7r0p8]

*Configuration
CHANGE: Let update the config, even if the Pilot info is not in the CS

[v7r0p7]

*Core
CHANGE: {bash,tchs,diracos}rc set the PYTHONPATH to only dirac (ignore existing PYTHONPATH)
CHANGE: dirac-configure might work without the need of a proxy
CHANGE: the timeout of an RPC call is always updated

[v7r0p8]

*Configuration
CHANGE: Let update the config, even if the Pilot info is not in the CS

[v7r0p7]

*Core
CHANGE: {bash,tchs,diracos}rc set the PYTHONPATH to only dirac (ignore existing PYTHONPATH)
CHANGE: dirac-configure might work without the need of a proxy
CHANGE: the timeout of an RPC call is always updated

[v7r0p6]

*Core
NEW: Add environment.yml file for preparing an environment with conda
CHANGE: Use subprocess32 if possible for significantly better performance
FIX: TypeLoader should not be a singleton as it has a cache

*FrameworkSystem
FIX: Avoid leaking std(in|out|err) file handles when running runsvdir

*WorkloadManagementSystem
NEW: To activate the pilot logging mechanism the following option must be present in CS: Pilot/PilotLogging with a value set to "true", "yes" or "y".

*Tests
NEW: CI for unit/lint/integration testing with GitHub actions
NEW: Start using shell linting of the test scripts
FIX: Exit quickly if the installation fails to make it easier to find issues

*Docs
NEW: Document how to run integration tests in docker
CHANGE: The options in the command reference sections: 'ignore' and 'scripts', are replaced by 'exclude' and 'manual' respectively. The entries in 'exclude' will now reject scripts that are otherwise picked up by the 'patterns'. Entries in 'manual' will be added to the indexFile, but their rst file has to be provided by hand. Fixes #4345

[v7r0p5]

FIX: changes from v6r22p15 included

[v7r0p4]

*Core
FIX: (#4337) remove unexisting import from dirac-info

*WMS
CHANGE: (#4317) dealing with min and max number of processors from the job

*docs
CHANGE: (#4317) added WMS admin doc (job state machine)

[v7r0p3]

*Core
FIX: (#4298) install_site.sh : set UpdatePilotCStoJSONFile=False for initial installations

*WMS
FIX: (#4294) JobState - restored logic of having database clients at the class level

*TS
CHANGE: (#4308) Rename Operations option Productions/ProductionFilesMaxResetCounter to Transformations/FilesMaxResetCounter

*Resources, WMS, tests
CHANGE: (#4295) save the number of processors as jobLimits in pilot cfg

*tests
CHANGE: (#4291) removed pilot2 tests

*docs
NEW: (#4309) Added how to create a dedicated dirac file catalog

[v7r0p2]

*Accounting
FIX: (#4290) Allow longer user and site names.

*WMS
NEW: (#4287) dirac-wms-get-wn and dirac-wms-pilot-job-info scripts (ported from LHCbDIRAC)

*docs
CHANGE: (#4266) the AdministratorGuide has been restructured

[v7r0p1]

FIX: Removing some deprecated codes

[v7r0]

FIX: (#3962) use print function instead of print statement
FIX: (#3962) remove the usage of the long suffix to distinguish between long and int
FIX: (#3962) convert octal literals to new syntax
NEW: (#3962) Add pylint test to check python 3 compatibility

*Configuration
CHANGE: (#4249) The flag UpdatePilotCStoJSONFile has been moved to Operations/[]/Pilot section
NEW: (#4255) Resources - added getStorageElements() method

*Framework
CHANGE: (#4180) Removed local MySQL handling (DIRACOS won't have install it)
CHANGE: (#4180) Removed setup of old portal

*Accounting
CHANGE: (Multi)AccountingDB - Grouping Type and Object loader together with the MonitoringSystem ones.

*WorkloadManagementSystem
NEW: Add JobElasticDB.py with getJobParameters and setJobParameter methods to work with ElasticSearch (ES) backend.
NEW: Add gJobElasticDB variable and indicates the activation of ES backend.
CHANGE: Modify export_getJobParameter(s) to report values from ES if available.
CHANGE: (#3748) Reduced (removed, in fact) interactions of Optimizers with JobParameters, using only OptimizerParameters
NEW: (#3760) Add Client/JobStateUpdateClient.py
NEW: (#3760) Add Client/JobManagerClient.py
CHANGE: (#3760) Use the above Client classes instead of invoking RPCClient()
NEW: Added ES backend to WMSAdministratorHandler to get JobParameters.
NEW: Added separate MySQL table for JobsStatus in JobDB, and modified code accordingly.
CHANGE: ElasticJobDB.py: Modify setJobParameter method to register JobAttributes like Owner, Proxy, JobGroup etc.
CHANGE: ElasticJobDB.py: added getJobParametersAndAttributes method to retrieve both parameters and attributes for a given JobID.
CHANGE: Pilot Watchdog - using python UNIX services for some watchdog calls
CHANGE: (#3890) JobState always connects to DBs directly
CHANGE: (#3890) remove JobStateSync service
CHANGE: (#3873) Watchdog: use Profiler instead of ProcessMonitor
NEW: (#4163) SiteDirectors send by default Pilot3 (flag for pilot2 is still kept)
FIX: (#4163) removed unicode_literals (messes up things with DEncode)
NEW: (#4224) PilotWrapper can get the Pilot files from a list of locations
CHANGE: (#4224) PilotWrapper is compatible with several python versions
NEW: (#4260) New dirac-wms-match command to test a given job for matching computing resources
NEW: (#4260) QueueUtilities - utilities relevant to queues manipulation
FIX: (#4265) urllib.urlopen() call with and without the 'context' parameter in Utilities/PilotWrapper.py
     according to the version of urllib instead of the python version
CHANGE: (#4244) Modified flag for using the JobParameters on ElasticSearch database

*Core
NEW: (#3744) Add update method to the ElasticSearchDB.py to update or if not available create the values
     sent from the setJobParameter function. Uses update_by_query and index ES APIs.
CHANGE: (#3744) generateFullIndexName() method made static under the ElasticSearchDB class.
CHANGE: (#3744) removed unused/outdated stuff from Distribution module
FIX: check for empty /etc/grid-security/certificates dir
NEW: (#3842) Add createClient decorator to add wrapper for all export_ functions automatically
NEW: (#3678) dirac-install can install a non released code directly from the git repository
FIX: (#3931) AuthManager - modified to work with the case of unregistered DN in credDict
FIX: (#4182) Add CountryName OID and be more permissive in the String type for decoding VOMSExtensions
FIX: (#4211) change orders of @deprecated and @classmethod decorators in X509Chain
NEW: (#4229) dirac-install defines XRD_RUNFORKHANDLER environment variable

*TransformationSystem
NEW: (#4124) InputDataQuery and OutputDataQuery parameters can be set for Transformations before
     they are added to the transformation system. Solves #4071
CHANGE: (#4238) TransformationDB.getTransformationMetaQuery returns ENOENT if no meta query exists
FIX: (#4238) InputDataAgent: silence warnings about transformations not having a input data query

*ProductionManagement
NEW: (#3703) ProductionManagement system is introduced

*Interfaces
CHANGE: (#4163) removed deprecated methods from Dirac.py

*Resources
FIX: (#4229) add proxy location as a virtual user for xroot urls
FIX: (#4234) future import in executeBatch script that prevented the pilot deployment on SSH CE, fixes #4233
FIX: (#4231) SE __executeMethod: only pass protocols parameter to getTransportURL
NEW: (#4255) New dirac-resource-info command to display computing and storage resources available
     to a given VO

*ResourceStatusSystem
CHANGE: (#4177) use the ObjectLoader for Clients, in PEP

*Monitoring
FIX: MonitoringReporter - make processRecords() method thread safe, fixes #4193

*tests
NEW: Add ChangeESFlag.py script to modify useES flag in dirac.cfg. To be integrated with Jenkins code.
CHANGE: (#3760) Use the above Client classes instead of invoking RPCClient()
NEW: (#3744) Added performance tests for ES and MySQL for WMS DB backends
NEW: (#3744) Added miniInstallDIRAC function for Jenkins jobs
FIX: (#4177) restored test of JobsMonitor().JobParameters
NEW: (#4224) added a test for PilotWrapper
NEW: (#4244) integration test for JobParameters on ElasticSearch database

*Docs
FIX: Better dirac.cfg example configuration for web
NEW: (#3744) Add WMS documentation in DeveloperGuide/Systems
NEW: Added script (docs/Tools/UpdateDiracCFG.py) to collate the ConfigTemplate.cfg
     files into the main dirac.cfg file
CHANGE: (#4110) updated basic tutorial for CC7 instead of SLC6.
NEW: (#4170) added Production system documentation
CHANGE: (#4224) Pilot 3 is the default
NEW: (#4244) Added a few notes on using the JobParameters on ElasticSearch database

[v6r22p35]

*WMS
FIX: (#4759) exclude fuse from df (watchdog checks)

[v6r22p34]

*DMS
FIX: (#4748) FTS3Agent - Rotate FTS3Operations list to fetch all. Fixes #4727

[v6r22p33]

*Core
NEW: (#4710) add loadCRLFromFile to pyGSI implementation of X509CRL

[v6r22p32]

*Core
Change: (#4665) ElasticSearchDB - existing index function is modified to add argument option of document id
NEW: (#4665) ElasticSearchDB - update() function is added.

*Resources
CHANGE: (#4676) ARCComputingElement - reserve the number of cores as defined in the NumberOfProcessors
        configuration parameter
FIX: (#4676) ARCComputingElement - use CEQueueName configuration parameter if defined

[v6r22p31]

*DMS
FIX: (#4646) Print error from dirac-dms-add-file if input LFN list file is missing.

*RMS
FIX: (#4657) RequestDB - fix getRequestCountersWeb error in DIRACOS

[v6r22p30]

*DataManagementSystem
FIX: (#4627) Throw an error if LFN contains '//'

[v6r22p29]

*WorkloadManagementSystem
CHANGE: (#4603) Updated to customize the JobType of user jobs in JobDescription and JobManifest

*DataManagementSystem
CHANGE: (#4618) dirac-dms-remove-catalog-files and dirac-dms-remove-catalog-files use
        Operations/.../DataManagement/AllowUserReplicaManagement to allow users perform
        direct File Catalog operations

[v6r22p28]

*TS
FIX: (#4569) TransformationClient - allow "LFN" condition as a string to be compatible with the service

[v6r22p27]

*Monitoring
CHANGE: (#4543) Allow to retrieve multiple variables from Monitoring DB.
        Add functions to calculate efficiency.

*TS
FIX: (#4550) infinite loop when a file was requested an it was not in the TS
CHANGE: (#4550) show headers in Utilities sub logger (but this is not effective yet)

[v6r22p26]

*Resources
FIX: (#4518) HTCondorCE - added missing multicore option

*Transformation
FIX: (#4523) when getTransformationFiles was called with a large list
     of LFNs, the DB couldn't cope. This fix truncates the list of
     LFNs in chunks such that each call to the DB is fast enough.

[v6r22p25]

*Framework
FIX: (#4503) SystemLoggingDB: reduce too long messages to 255 characters (see also #1780 ?)

*WMS
FIX: (#4503) JobLoggingDB: Limit StatusSource to 32 characters

*TS
CHANGE: (#4503) TransformationDB.Transformations TransformationGroup column increased to 255 characters
        (ALTER TABLE Transformations MODIFY TransformationGroup VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL default 'General';)

*Resources
FIX: (#4511) Moved _prepareRemoteHost in SSHComputingElement

[v6r22p24]

*Core
FIX: (#4477) Try to untar using system tar in case tarfile module is failing

[v6r22p23]

*DMS
CHANGE: (#4472) DM.getFile only checks metadata of files with replicas

[v6r22p22]

*Framework
CHANGE: (#4457) Web portal compilation is done during the DIRAC distribution, it is not
        required to compile during the installation

*RSS
FIX: (#4452) PublisherHandler - fix UnboundLocalError

[v6r22p21]

*Core
FIX: (#4442) If no port is set in the CS for ES assume that the URL points to right location

*RSS
FIX: (#4441) DowntimeCommand - fix typo that was preventing to update expired or deleted
     downtimes from RSS downtime cache.

*ConfigurationSystem
FIX: (#4447) remove logging from inside getConfigurationTree

*MonitoringSystem
FIX: (#4447) add check if MQ is setup for Monitoring
CHANGE: (#4443) Read the IndexPrefix for the CS and use this index prefix when creating ES indices,
        if not given use the name of the setup

[v6r22p20]

*Core
CHANGE: (#4424) SocketInfo.py - DEFAULT_SSL_CIPHERS updated following the issue #4393

*WorkloadManagement
FIX: (#4440) ServerUtils.py - server name in ServerUtils.getPilotAgentsDB()

*Transformation
FIX: (#4434) TaskManager.py - fix bug in finding the settings for Clinics in the hospital

[v6r22p19]

*Framework
CHANGE: (#4415) ComponentInstaller - do not start runsvdir if not needed

*Resources
FIX: (#4414) Enable setting of WaitingToRunningRatio from Global CE Defaults, fixes #4368

*DMS
CHANGE: (#4413) FTS3Agent - change proxy lifetime of FTS3Agent from 2 to 12 hours

[v6r22p18]

*TS
CHANGE: (#4331) TaskManager - give possibility to run jobs for different problematic productions at
        different Hospital sites

[v6r22p17]

CHANGE: Just update the Web version

[v6r22p16]

*Core
CHANGE: remove many calls to gLogger.debug() of low level DB modules (in particular MySQL.py) that may slowdown services

*FrameworkSystem
FIX: PRIVATE_LIMITED_DELEGATION role can download its own proxies

*ResourceStatusSystem
FIX: PublisherHandler: Convert set to list, because set can not be serialized using DEncode.

[v6r22p15]

*Resources
NEW: GFAL2_StorageBase: Disable GRIDFTP SESSION_REUSE by default. It can be enabled via
     an environment variable export DIRAC_GFAL_GRIDFTP_SESSION_REUSE=True. This export
     should be added in server bashrc files.

[v6r22p14]

*Framework
FIX: (#4318) NotificationHandler: fix name of initializeHandler function so the
     handler is properly initialized and the periodicTasks are created
CHANGE: (#4325) InstalledComponentsDB.addInstalledComponents: Instead of creating a new
        Host entry if only the CPU model changed, update the CPU field in the DBCHANGE:
        InstalledComponentsDB.addInstalledComponents: Instead of creating a new Host entry
        if only the CPU model changed, update the CPU field in the DB

*WMS
FIX: (#4329) Fix exception for PilotManager or PilotStatusAgent: itertems -> iteritems

*DMS
FIX: (#4327) avoid introducing inconsistencies in the DB due to the FTS inconsistencies

*Resources
CHANGE: (#4313) increase the SE logging level for plugin errors

*TS
CHANGE: (#4315) DataRecoveryAgent: Tweak information printout for email formatting;
        clarify use of default values; reduce logging verbosity

[v6r22p13]

*Resources
FIX: (#4299) CREAMComputingElement - possibility to defined CEQueueName to be used in the pilot submission command
CHANGE: (#4297) SingularityCE: Delete workDir at end of job by default.
FIX: (#4297) SingularityCE: Always stop proxy renewal thread at end of job.

*TS
NEW: (#4301) DataRecoveryAgent to perform and apply consistency checks for transformations
NEW: (#4301) dirac-transformation-recover-data : script to manually run consistency checks on
     individual transformations, for debugging and testing of the DataRecoveryAgent

[v6r22p12]

FIX: fixes from v6r21p16

[v6r22p11]

*Interfaces
FIX: (#4277) Dirac.py - fix error handling in getJobParameters()

[v6r22p10]

*Resources
FIX: (#4271) StorageElement - loadObject of occupancyPlugin is called with the path to OccupancyPlugins

[v6r22p9]

*Core
FIX: (#4269) Workflow - revert changes introduced in #4253

[v6r22p8]

*WMS
FIX: (#4256) handle empty results of getJobParameter in StalledJobAgent

*Resources
NEW: (#4223) Storage - occupancy plugin for WLCG standard accounting JSON
FIX: (#4259) SingularityComputingElement - ensure lcgBundle is installed in container if LCGBundleVersion is set.

[v6r22p7]

*Core
FIX: (#4253) Workflow - accept unicode file path to workflow XML

*WMS
NEW: (#4205) Statistics of Pilot submission is sent to Accounting System by SiteDirector.
FIX: (#4250) use host credentials to query the SandboxMetadataDB for async removal

*Resources
CHANGE: (#4242) DFC SEManagerDB: only acquire the lock if the cache needs to be modified
FIX: (#4251) preamble attribute was missing in SSHBatchComputingElement causing an error
     in _submitJobHost()

*DMS
FIX: (#4248) SEManager correct order of calls at init

[v6r22p6]

*Core
CHANGE: (#4203) A VO with diracos extension, must be able to install the main diracos from DIRAC repository.

*TS
CHANGE: (#4218) do not set Job type 'hospital'

[v6r22p5]

*WMS
CHANGE: (#4217) Sandbox: Adding OwnerDN and OwnerGroup for DelayedExternalDeletion

*DMS
CHANGE: (#4202) relax permissions on getLFNForGUID

*Resources
FIX: (#4200) re-allow the use of the gsiftp cache in the SE
CHANGE: (#4206) Storage - improved treatment for the case without SpaceToken in SpaceOccupancy

[v6r22p4]

*Core
NEW: (#4181) Allow to install an extension of DIRACOS

*Docs
FIX: (#4187) Create a TransformationAgent Plugin -- more concrete
     descriptions for adding a plugin to AllowedPlugins

[v6r22p3]

*WMS
CHANGE: (#4175) added function to get the number of Processors, using it in dirac-wms-get-wn-parameters (invoked by the pilots)
CHANGE: (#4175) changed port of PilotManager from 9129 to 9171

*docs
CHANGE: (#4174) update WebApp administrator docs
CHANGE: (#4175) removed mentions of MPIService

[v6r22p2]

*Core
FIX: (#4165) $Id$ keyword must be replaced only at the beginning of the file

*RSS
FIX: (#4169) PublisherHandler fix (UnboundLocalError)

*Docs
NEW: (#4167) /Operations/DataManagement - Added a link to the documentation on "Multi Protocol"

[v6r22p1]

*WMS
NEW: (#4147) added option for specifying a LocalCEType (which by default is "InProcess")

*Interfaces
NEW: (#4146) added setNumberOfProcessors method to Job() API

*Resources
NEW: (#4159) add dav(s) in the protocol lists of GFAL2_HTTPS

*tests
NEW: (#4154) Using variable for location of INSTALL_CFG_FILE (useful for extensions)

[v6r22]

*WorkloadManagementSystem
NEW: (#4045) PilotsHandler service (to interact with PilotAgentsDB)
CHANGE: (#4049) Pilot wrapper for pilot3: download files at runtime
CHANGE: (#4119) removed last bit looking into /Registry/VOMS/ section
CHANGE: (#4119) VOMS2CSAgent: mailFrom option is invalid, use MailFrom instead
FIX: (#4074) fixed PilotManager service name in ConfigTemplate.cfg
FIX: (#4100) use CAs to upload the pilot files to a dedicated web server using requests
FIX: (#4106) fixes for logging messages for Matcher
FIX: (#4106) fixes for logging messages for Optimizers
NEW: (#4136) added DIRACOS option (for SiteDirectors)

*ConfigurationSystem
NEW: (#4053) VOMS2CSSynchronizer/VOMS2CSAgent - enable automatic synchronization of the
     Suspended user status with the VOMS database
CHANGE: (#4113) VOMS2CSSynchronizer: considering the case when no email is provided by VOMS

*Core
NEW: (#4053) AuthManager - interpret the Suspended user status considering suspended
     users as anonymous visitors
CHANGE: (#4053) The use of CS.py module is replaced by the use of Registry.py and CSGlobals.py

*Interfaces
CHANGE: (#4098) removed dirac-admin-get-site-protocols.py as it could give potentially wrong results (use dirac-dms-protocol-matrix instead)

*Resources
NEW: (#4142) enable to get SE occupancy from plugin
NEW: (#4142) add occupancy plugin to retrieve the info from BDII
CHANGE: (#4142) GFAL2_SRM2Storage.getOccupancy() calls parent if SpaceToken is not given

*ResourceStatusSystem
CHANGE: clients: using DIRAC.Core.Base.Client as base
CHANGE: (#4098) SiteInspectorAgent runs only on sites with tokenOwner="rs_svc"
CHANGE: (#4098) remove SRM dependencies
CHANGE: (#4136) downtimeCommand will use the GOCServiceType only for SRM SEs
FIX: (#4139) only take the first endpoint for the SpaceOccupancy

*DataManagementSystem
CHANGE: (#4136) Moved methods from ResourceStatusSystem/CSHelpers to DMSHelpers
CHANGE: (#4138) FTS3 is now the default

*docs
NEW: (#4099) Instructions about setting up the DIRAC web server for pilot3
CHANGE: (#4119) added note on MultiProcessor jobs preparation

*test
FIX: (#4119) Not lhcb but dteam (for DIRAC certification)
FIX: (#4139) client_dms.sh not lhcb specific
CHANGE:(#4140) adapt transformation certification tests to dteam VO

[v6r21p16]

*Resources
FIX: (#4292) SSHComputingElement - define X509_USER_PROXY in case of gsissh access

*WMS
FIX: (#4292) SiteDirector - do not use keyword arguments when making setPilotStatus call

[v6r21p15]

*WMS
CHANGE: (#4214) Add an argument to the constructor of SandboxStoreClient for using in scripts
        that cannot use the DB directly

*DMS
NEW: (#4171) ArchiveFiles Request Operation: to create a tarball out of a list of LFNs
NEW: (#4171) CheckMigration Request Operation to hold the request progress until the attached
             LFNs are migrated to tape
NEW: (#4171) FCOnlyStorage StorageElement plugin to register LFNs without physical replica to
             conserve LFN metadata when they are archived, for example
NEW: (#4171) dirac-dms-create-archive-request command to create a request to archive a list of
             LFNs and remove their physical copies
NEW: (#4171) dirac-dms-create-moving-request command to move LFNs from a to b with optional
             "CheckMigration" step. as it uses the ReplicateAndRegister operation, transfer via
             FTS is also possible
FIX: (#4171) FileCatalogClient: add "addFileAncestors" to list of "write functions"

[v6r21p14]

*DMS
FIX: (#4192) dirac-dms-clean-directory correct usage message for list of arguments
FIX: (#4192) dirac-dms-clean-directory now properly prints error messages
FIX: (#4192) dirac-dms-clean-directory will now also clean empty directories
FIX: (#4192) FileCatalog.DirectoryMetadata: prevent error when removeMetadataDirectory is
     called on empty list of directories, triggered when calling removeDirectory
     on non-existing directory
FIX: (#4192) FileCatalog.DirectoryTreeBase: prevent maximum recursion depth exception
     when calling remove directory with illegal path

*Resources
CHANGE: (#4191) Storages: catch specific DPM/Globus error code when creating existing directory

[v6r21p13]

*RSS
FIX: (#4173) only use the hostname of FTS servers in the RSS commands

[v6r21p12]

*WMS
FIX: (#4155) JobDB.getAttributesForJobList: Return S_ERROR if unknown attributes are requested.
     Instead of potentially returning garbage a clear error message is returned.

[v6r21p11]

*Transformation
FIX: (#4144) fixed a logic bug in counting numberOfTasks in MCExtension which is expected
     to limit the total number of tasks for MC transformations

*Accounting
FIX: (#4151) In AccountingDB.insertRecordThroughQueue fix bad dictionary key "0K"

[v6r21p10]

*Core
FIX: (#4133) dirac-install: correct location for ARC plugins with DIRACOS

*WMS
CHANGE: (#4136) JobStateUpdateHandler - restoring the job status to Running after hearbeat

*Docs
NEW: (#4134) Added /Operations/DataManagement parameters for protocols

[v6r21p9]

*Core
FIX: (#4130) correct symlinks in dirac-deploy

[v6r21p8]

*WMS
CHANGE: (#4111) Better logging in JobWrapper
CHANGE: (#4114) JobScheduling - allow both Tag and Tags option in the job JDL

*DMS
FIX: (#4101) FileManagerBase - use returned ID:LFN dict instead of the LFN list. Fixes the bug in
             getReplicasByMetadata reported in #4058

*TransformationSystem
FIX: (#4112) TaskManager.py - testing if the request ID is correct was not done properly, test the numerical value

[v6r21p7]

*Core
FIX: (#4076) A certain module like WebAppDIRAC must be checked out from the code repository once.

*Resources
FIX: (#4078) Fix the exception when StorageElement objects are created with a list of plugins

*SMS
NEW: (#4086) StageMonitorAgent: new option StoragePlugins to limit the protocols used to contact storagelements for staged files.

*WMS
FIX: (#4093) better logging from services

*TS
CHANGE: (#4095) ConfigTemplate for RequestTaskAgent now contains all options
CHANGE: (#4096) the Broadcast TransformationPlugin no longer requires a SourceSE to be set. If it is set, the behaviour is unchanged
CHANGE: (#4096) dirac-transformation-replication: change default pluging back to Broadcast (reverts #4066)

*Docs:
CHANGE: (#4095) AdministratorGuide install TS tutorial: added options MonitorFiles and MonitorTasks for TaskAgents

[v6r21p6]

*CS
FIX: (#4064) Fix exception when calling dirac-admin-add-shifter with already existing values

*Core
NEW: (#4065) getIndexInList utility in List.py

*Resources
NEW: (#4065) add a SpaceReservation concept to storages
NEW: (#4065) add a getEndpoint method to StorageBase

*RSS
CHANGE: (#4065) CSHelpers.getStorageElementEndpoint returns the endpoint or non srm protocol
CHANGE: (#4065) add the SpaceReservation to the FreeDiskSpaceCommand result

*TS
FIX: (#4066) The dirac-transformation-replication script will now create valid transformations
     given only the required arguments. Instead of the 'Broadcast' plugin, the 'Standard' plugin
     is created if not SourceSE is given. If a value for the plugin argument is given, that will
     be used.

*docs
CHANGE: (#4069) DIRAC installation procedure is updated taking account DIRACOS
CHANGE: (#4094) Pilots3 options: moved to /Operation/Pilot section

[v6r21p5]

*Core
NEW: (#4046) allow install_site to install DIRACOS
FIX: (#4047) dirac-deploy-scripts uses correct regex to find scripts
NEW: (#4047) dirac-deploy-scripts can use symplink instead of wrapper
CHANGE: (#4051) use debug level for logs in the ProcessPool

*RequestManagementSystem
CHANGE: (#4051) split log messages

*ResourceStatusSystem
FIX: (#4050) fix reporting from EmailAgent
CHANGE: (#4051) split log messages in static and dynamic parts

*Docs
CHANGE: (#4034) Add magic runs to setup DIRAC in example scripts, so they work out of the box.
NEW: (#4046) add a tuto for setting up a basic installation
NEW: (#4046) add a tuto for setting up two Dirac SEs
NEW: (#4046) add a tuto for setting up the DFC
NEW: (#4046) add a tuto for managing identities
NEW: (#4046) add a tuto for setting up the RMS
NEW: (#4046) add a tuto for doing DMS with TS

*ConfigurationSystem
CHANGE: (#4044) dirac-configure: forcing update (override, in fact) of CS list

*WorkloadManagementSystem
FIX: (#4052) SiteDirector - restore the logic of limiting the number of pilots to submit due to the
             WaitingToRunningRatio option
FIX: (#4052) Matcher - if a pilot presents OwnerGroup parameter in its description, this is interpreted
             as a pilot requirement to jobs and should not be overriden.
CHANGE: (#4027) Improve scalability of HTCondorCE jobs

*Accounting
CHANGE: (#4033) accounting clients use DIRAC.Core.Base.Client as base

*DataManagementSystem
FIX: (#4042) add exit handler for stored procedure
FIX: (#4048) correct the header of the CSV file generated by dirac-dms-protocol-matrix

*TransformationSystem
FIX: (#4038) TransformationCleaningAgent cancels the Request instead of removing them

*Resources
CHANGE: (#4048) SE: give preference to native plugins when generating third party URLS

[v6r21p4]

WorkloadManagementSystem
CHANGE: (#4008) Modification of utility function PilotCStoJSONSynchronizer. The modification
        allows to add information to created json file about the DNs fields of users belonging
        to 'lhcb_pilot' group. This information is needed for the second level authorization
        used in the Pilot Logger architecture. Also, some basic unit tests are added.

*Docs
CHANGE: (#4028) update instructions to install and setup runit

*TransformationSystem
FIX: (#4022) when a site was requested inside the job workflow description, and BulkSubmission was used, such site was not considered.

*Resources
FIX: (#4006) Resources/MessageQueue: add a dedicated listener ReconnectListener

[v6r21p3]

*Core
FIX: (#4005) getDiracModules is removed, class member is used instead.
FIX: (#4013) Use getCAsLocation in order to avoid non-exist os.environ['X509_CERT_DIR']

*ConfigurationSystem
FIX: (#4004) BDII2CSAgent: fix for CEs with incomplete BDII info

*WorkloadManagementSystem
NEW: (#4016) JobAgent - added possibility to try out several CE descriptions when
             getting jobs in one cycle
NEW: (#4016) Matcher - MultiProcessor tag is added to the resource description if appropriate
NEW: (#4016) JobScheduling - MultiProcessor tag is added to the job description if it
             specifies multiple processor requirements
FIX: (#4018) JobMonitoring.getJobParameter cast to int
NEW: (#4019) added WMSAdministratorClient module, and using it throughout the code

*Resources/MessageQueue
CHANGE: (#4007) change the way of defining identifier  format for MQ resources:
        accepted values are  'Topics' or 'Queues'.

*DataManagementSystem
CHANGE: (#4017) DIP handler internally uses bytes instead of MB
NEW: (#4010) add dirac-dms-protocol-matrix script
CHANGE: (#4010) remove dirac-dms-add-files script

*Resources
NEW: (#4016) PoolComputingElement - getDescription returns a list of descriptions
             with different requirements to jobs to be matched
CHANGE: (#4017) Standardize sizes returned by StoragePlugins in Bytes
CHANGE: (#4011) MQ: randomzied the broker list when putting message

[v6r21p2]

*Core
CHANGE: (#3992) dirac-install does not define REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE in the bashrc anymore
NEW: (#3998) dirac-install if DIRACOS already installed and DIRACOS is not requested,
             it will force to install it
CHANGE: (#3992) specify the ca location when calling requests
CHANGE: (#3991) MySQL class prints only debug logs
FIX: (#4003) dirac-install - if the DIRACOS version is not given then use the proper
             release version

*WorkloadManagementSystem
CHANGE: (#3992) specify the ca location when calling requests
FIX: (#4002) Local protocols are retrieved as a list in InputDataResolution

*Interfaces
FIX: (#4000) Dirac.py - bug fixed: return value of getJobParameters changed that
     should be taken into account by the clients

[v6r21p1]

*WorkloadManagementSystem
CHANGE: (#3989) JobDB.py - do not add default SubmitPool parameter to a job description
FIX: (#3989) dirac-admin-get-site-mask - show only sites in Active state

*DataManagementSystem
CHANGE: (#3985) FTS3DB: getActiveJobs, those jobs are now selected that have been monitored the longest time ago. Ensure better cycling through FTS Jobs
FIX: (#3987) check missing file with another string

[v6r21]

*Core
NEW: (#3921) DictCache - allow threadLocal cache
FIX: (#3936) DictCache - Fix exception upon delete
FIX: (#3922) allow Script.py to accommodate specific test calls with pytest
CHANGE: (#3940) dirac-install - instrument to support DiracOS
FIX: (#3945) set DIRACOS environment variable before souring diracosrc
CHANGE: (#3949) Removed unattended dirac-install-client.py
CHANGE: (#3950) File.py - do not follow links when getting files list or size
        in directory via getGlobbedFiles and getGlobbedTotalSize
CHANGE: (#3969) Use EOS for installing DIRAC software

*FrameworkSystem
FIX: (#3968) removed the old logging

*ResourceStatusSystem
FIX: (#3921) fix logic of the RSSCache leading in expired keys

*Accounting
CHANGE: (#3933) Change the columns size of the FinalMinorStatus

*WorkloadManagementSystem
CHANGE: (#3923) Clean PYTHONPATH from *rc when installing DIRAC from the pilot
NEW: (#3941) JobDB: getJobParameters work also with list on job IDs
CHANGE: (#3941) JobCleaningAgent queries for job parameters in bulk
CHANGE: (#3941) Optimizers only set optimizers parameters (backported from v7r0)
CHANGE: (#3970) streamlining code in OptimizerModule. Also pep8 formatting (ignore white spaces for reviewing)
FIX: (#3976) fixed Banned Sites matching in TaskQueueDB
FIX: (#3970) when an optimizer agent was instantiating JobDB (via the base class) and the machine
     was overloaded, the connection to the DB failed but this was not noticed and the agent was
     not working until restarted after max cycles. Now testing JobDB  is valid in OptimizerModule
     base class and exit if not valid.

*TransformationSystem
CHANGE: (#3946) Remove directory listing from ValidateOutputDataAgent
CHANGE: (#3946) Remove directory listing from TransformationCleaningAgent
FIX: (#3967) TransformationCleaningAgent: don't return error if log directory does not exist

*Interfaces
CHANGE: (#3947) removed old methods going through old RMS
CHANGE: (#3960) Dirac.py - getLFNMetadata returns result for both file and directory LFNs
FIX: (#3966) Dirac: replace the use of deprecated function status by getJobStatus

*DataManagementSystem
FIX: (#3922) Fixes FTS3 duplicate transfers
FIX: (#3982) respect the source limitation when picking source for an FTS transfer

*MonitoringSystem
CHANGE: (#3956) Change the bucket size from week to day.

*Resources
CHANGE: (#3933) When crating a consumer or producer then the error message must be
        handled by the caller.
CHANGE: (#3937) MessageQueue log backends is now set to VERBOSE instead of DEBUG
NEW: (#3943) SSHComputingElement - added Preamble option to define a command to be
     executed right before the batch system job submission command
NEW: (#3953) Added the possibility to add filters to log backends to refine the
     output shown/stored
NEW: (#3953) Resources.LogFilters.ModuleFilter: Filter that allows one to set the
     LogLevel for individual modules
NEW: (#3953) Resources.LogFilter.PatternFilter: Filter to select or reject log
     output based on words
FIX: (#3959) PoolComputingElement - bug fix: initialize process pool if not yet
     done in getCEStatus()

*test
CHANGE: (#3948) integration tests run with unittest now exit with exit code != 0 if failed

*docs
NEW: (#3974) Added HowTo section to the User Guide

[v6r20p28]

*WorkloadManagementSystem
FIX: (#4092) pilotTools - Ensure maxNumberOfProcessors is an int

[v6r20p27]

*WMS
FIX: (#4020) SiteDirector - do not use keywords in addPilotTQReference/setPilotStatus calls

[v6r20p26]

*WorkloadManagementSystem
FIX: (#3932) MutiProcessorSiteDirector: get platform is checkPLatform flag is true

*DataManagementSystem
FIX: (#3928) `FileCatalogClient` now properly forwards function docstrings through
     `checkCatalogArguments` decorator, fixes #3927
CHANGE: (#3928) `Resources.Catalog.Utilities`: use functool_wraps in `checkCatalogArguments`

*TransformationSystem
CHANGE: (#3934) make the recursive removal of the log directory explicit in the TransformationCleaningAgent

[v6r20p25]

*Core
FIX: (#3909) DISET - always close the socket even in case of exception

*FrameworkSystem
FIX: (#3913) NotificationHandler - bugfixed: changed SMTPServer to SMTP
FIX: (#3914) add extjs6 support to the web compiler

*docs
NEW: (#3910) Added documentation on MultiProcessor jobs

*WorkloadManagementSystem
FIX: (#3910) TaskQueueDB - fixed strict matching with tags, plus extended the integration test

*DataManagementSystem
CHANGE: (#3917) FTS3: speedup by using subqueries for the Jobs table

*TransformationSystem
CHANGE: (#3916) use SE.isSameSE() method

*Resources
NEW: (#3916) Add isSameSE method to StorageElement which works for all protocols

[v6r20p24]

*WorkloadManagementSystem
FIX: (#3904) SiteDirector fixed case with TQs for 'ANY' site

[v6r20p23]

*TransformationSystem
NEW: (#3903)  do not remove archive SEs when looking at closerSE

*CORE
NEW: (#3902) When the environment variable DIRAC_DEPRECATED_FAIL is set to a non-empty value,
     the use of deprecated functions will raise a NotImplementError exception

*ConfigurationSystem
FIX: (#3903) ServiceInterface - fix exception when removing dead slave

*FrameworkSystem
FIX: (#3901) NotificationClient - bug fix

[v6r20p22]

*Core
FIX: (#3897) ObjectLoader returns DErrno code
FIX: (#3895) more debug messages in BaseClient

*ResourceStatusSystem
FIX: (#3895) fixed bug in dirac-rss-set-token script

*WorkloadManagementSystem
FIX: (#3897) SiteDirector: using checkPlatform flag everwhere needed
CHANGE: (#3894) Using JobStateUpdateClient instead of RPCClient to it
CHANGE: (#3894) Using JobManagerClient instead of RPCClient to it

[v6r20p20]

*Core
CHANGE: (#3885) Script.parseCommandLine: the called script is not necessarily the first in sys.argv

*ConfigurationSystem
CHANGE: (#3887) /Client/Helpers/Registry.py: Added search dirac user for ID and CA

*MonitoringSystem
FIX: (#3888) mqProducer field in MonitoringReporter can be set to None, and the comparison was broken.
     It is fixed. Also some additional checks are added.

*WorkloadManagementSystem
CHANGE: (#3889) removed confusing Job parameter LocalBatchID
CHANGE: (#3854) TQ matching (TaskQueueDB.py): when "ANY" is specified, don't exclude task queues
        (fix with "Platforms" matching in mind)
CHANGE: (#3854) SiteDirector: split method getPlatforms, for extension purposes

*DataManagementSystem
FIX: (#3884) restore correct default value for the SEPrefix in the FileCatalogClient
FIX: (#3886) FTS3: remove the hardcoded srm protocol for registration
FIX: (#3886) FTS3: return an empty spacetoken if SRM is not available

*TransformationSystem
CHANGE: (#3891) ReplicationTransformation.createDataTransformation: returns S_OK with the
        transformation object when it was successfully added, instead of S_OK(None)

*Resources
NEW: (#3886) SE - return a standard error in case the requested protocol is not available

[v6r20p18]

*DataManagementSystem
CHANGE: (#3882) script for allow/ban SEs now accepting -a/--All switch, for allo status types

*Core
FIX: (#3882) ClassAdLight - fix to avoid returning a list with empty string

*Resources
FIX: (#3882) Add site name configuration for the dirac installation inside singularity CE

*test
FIX: (#3882) fully activating RSS in Jenkins tests

[v6r20p17]

*Core
CHANGE: (#3874) dirac-create-distribution-tarball - add tests directory to the tar file and fix pylint warnings.
FIX: (#3876) Add function "discoverInterfaces" again which is still needed for VMDIRAC

*ConfigurationSystem
CHANGE: (#3875) Resources - allow to pass a list of platforms to getDIRACPlatform()

*WorkloadManagement
CHANGE: (#3867) SandboxStoreClient - Returning file location in output of getOutputSandbox
CHANGE: (#3875) JobDB - allow to define a list of Platforms in a job description JDL

*ResourceStatusSystem
CHANGE: (#3863) deprecated CSHelpers.getSites() function

*Interfaces
NEW: (#3872) Add protocol option to dirac-dms-lfn-accessURL
CHANGE: (#3864) marked deprecated some API functions (perfect replace exists already, as specified)

*Resources
FIX: (#3868) GFAL2_SRM2Storage: only set SPACETOKENDESC when SpaceToken is not an empty string

*Test
CHANGE: (#3863) Enable RSS in Jenkins

*DataManagementSystem
FIX: (#3859) FTS3: resubmit files in status Canceled on the FTS server
NEW: (#3871) FTS submissions can use any third party protocol
NEW: (#3871) Storage plugin for Echo (gsiftp+root)
FIX: (#3871) replace deprecated calls to the gfal2 API
NEW: (#3871) Generic implementation for retrieving space occupancy on storage

*TransformationSystem
FIX: (#3865) fixed submission of parametric jobs with InputData from WorkflowTask
FIX: (#3865) better logging for parametric jobs submission

*StorageManagamentSystem
FIX: (#3868) Fix StageRequestAgent failures for SEs without a SpaceToken

*RequestManagementSystem
FIX: (#3861) tests do not re-use File objects

[v6r20p16]

*WorkloadManagementSystem
CHANGE: (#3850) the platform discovery can be VO-specific.

*Interfaces
CHANGE: (#3856) setParameterSequence always return S_OK/S_ERROR

*TransformationSystem
FIX: (#3856) check for return value on Job interface and handle it

*ResourceStatusSystem
FIX: (#3852) site may not have any SE

[v6r20p15]

*Interface
FIX: (#3843) Fix the sandbox download, returning the inMemory default.

*WorkloadManagementSystem
FIX: (#3845) late creation on RPC in JobMonitoringClient and PilotsLoggingClient

*DataManagementSystem
FIX: (#3839) Update obsolete dirac-rms-show-request command in user message displayed when running dirac-dms-replicate-and-register-request

*FrameworkSystem
FIX: (#3845) added setServer for NotificationClient

*Docs
NEW: (#3847) Added some info on parametric jobs

[v6r20p14]

CHANGE: (#3826) emacs backup file pattern added to .gitignore

*MonitoringSystem
CHANGE: (#3827) The default name of the Message Queue can be changed

*Core
FIX: (#3832) VOMSService.py: better logging and error prevention

*ConfigurationSystem
FIX: (#3837) Corrected configuration location for Pilot 3 files synchronization

*FrameworkSystem
FIX: (#3830) InstalledComponentDB.__filterFields: fix error in "Component History Web App" when filter values are unicode

*Interface
CHANGE: (#3836) Dirac.py API - make the unpacking of downloaded sandboxes optional

*Accounting
CHANGE: (#3831) ReportGenerator: Authenticated users without JOB_SHARING will now only get plots showing their own jobs, solves #3776

*ResourceStatusSystem
FIX: (#3833) Documentation update
CHANGE: (#3838) For some info, use DMSHelper instead of CSHelper for better precision

*RequestManagementSystem
FIX: (#3829) catch more exception in the ReqClient when trying to display the associated FTS jobs

[v6r20p13]

*FrameworkSystem

FIX: (#3822) obsolete parameter maxQueueSize in UserProfileDB initialization removed

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#3824) Added Parameter "Queue" to methods invoked on batch systems by LocalComputingElement
FIX: (#3818) Testing parametric jobs locally now should also work for parametric input data
NEW: (#3818) Parameters from Parametric jobs are also replaced for ModuleParameters,
             and not only for common workflow parameters

*DataManagementSystem

FIX: (#3825) FileCatalogCLI: print error message when removeReplica encounters weird return value
FIX: (#3819) ReplicateAndRegister: fix a problem when transferring files to multiple storage
             elements, if more than one attempt was needed the transfer to all SEs was not always
             happening.
CHANGE: (#3821) FTS3Agent: set pool_size of the FTS3DB

*TransformationSystem

FIX: (#3820) Fix exception in TransformationCleaningAgent: "'str' object not callable"

*ConfigurationSystem

FIX: (#3816) The VOMS2CSAgent was not sending notification emails when the DetailedReport
             option was set to False, it will now send emails again when things change for a VO.
CHANGE: (#3816) VOMS2CSAgent: Users to be checked for deletion are now printed sorted and line
                by line
NEW: (#3817) dirac-admin-check-config-options script to compare options and values between
             the current Configuration and the ConfigTemplates. Allows one to find wrong or
             missing option names or just see the difference between the current settings and
             the default values.

[v6r20p12]

*Core
FIX: (#3807) Glue2 will return a constant 2500 for the SI00 queue parameter,
     any value is needed so that the SiteDirector does not ignore the queue, fixes #3790

*ConfigurationSystem
FIX: (#3797) VOMS2CSAgent: return error when VO is not set (instead of exception)
FIX: (#3797) BDII2CSAgent: Fix for GLUE2URLs option in ConfigTemplate (Lower case S at the end)

*DataManagementSystem
FIX: (#3814) SEManager - adapt to the new meaning of the SE plugin section name
FIX: (#3814) SEManager - return also VO specific prefixes for the getReplicas() and similar calls
FIX: (#3814) FileCatalogClient - take into account VO specific prefixes when constructing PFNs on the fly

*TransformationSystem
FIX: (#3812) checking return value of jobManagerClient.getMaxParametricJobs() call

[v6r20p11]

*Core
FIX: (#3805) ElasticSearchDB - fix a typo (itertems -> iteritems())

[v6r20p10]

*Core
NEW: (#3801) ElasticSearchDB - add method which allows for deletion by query
NEW: (#3792) added breakDictionaryIntoChunks utility

*WorkloadManagementSystem
FIX: (#3796) Removed legacy "SystemConfig" and "LHCbPlatform" checks
FIX: (#3803) bug fix: missing loop on pRef in SiteDirector
NEW: (#3792) JobManager exposes a call to get the maxParametricJobs

*TransformationSystem
NEW: (#3804) new option for dirac-transformation-replication scrip `--GroupName/-R`
FIX: (#3804) The TransformationGroup is now properly set for transformation created with dirac-transformation-replication, previously a transformation parameter Group was created instead.
FIX: (#3792) Adding JobType as parameter to parametric jobs
FIX: (#3792) WorkflowTaskAgent is submitting a chunk of tasks not exceeding the MaxParametricJobs accepted by JobManager

[v6r20p9]

*Core
FIX: (#3794) Fix executeWithUserProxy when called with proxyUserDN,
     fixes exception in WMSAdministrator getPilotLoggingInfo and TransformationCleaningAgent

*DataManagementSystem
CHANGE: (#3793) reuse of the ThreadPool in the FTS3Agent in order to optimize the Context use

*WorkloadManagementSystem
FIX: (#3787) Better and simpler code and test for SiteDirector
FIX: (#3791) Fix exception in TaskQueueDB.getActiveTaskQueues, triggered
             by dirac-admin-show-task-queues

[v6r20p8]

*ResourceStatusSystem
FIX: (#3782) try/except for OperationalError for sqlite (EmailAction)

*Core
FIX: (#3785) Adjust voms-proxy-init timeouts
NEW: (#3773) New Core.Utilities.Proxy.UserProxy class to be used as a contextManager
FIX: (#3773) Fix race condition in Core.Utilities.Proxy.executeWithUserProxy,
     the $X509_USER_PROXY environment variable from one thread could leak to another, fixes #3764


*ConfigurationSystem
NEW: (#3784) Bdii2CSAgent: New option **SelectedSites**, if any sites are set, only those will
     be updated
NEW: (#3788) for CS/Registry section: added possibility to define a QuarantineGroup per VO

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#3786) StalledJobAgent: fix "Proxy not found" error when sending kill command to stalled job,
     fixes #3783
FIX: (#3773) The solution for bug #3764 fixes a problem with the JobScheduling executor, where
     files could end up in the checking state with the error "Couldn't get storage metadata
     of some files"
FIX: (#3779) Add setting of X509_USER_PROXY in pilot wrapper script,
which is needed to establish pilot env in work nodes of Cluster sites.

*DataManagementSystem
FIX: (#3778) Added template for RegisterReplica
FIX: (#3772) add a protection against race condition between RMS and FTS3
FIX: (#3774) Fix FTS3 multi-VO support by setting VO name in SE constructor.

*TransformationSystem
FIX: (#3789) better tests for TS agents

*StorageManagamentSystem
FIX: (#3773) Fix setting of the user proxy for StorageElement.getFileMetadata calls, fixes #3764

[v6r20p7]

*Core
FIX: (#3768) The Glue2 parsing handles some common issues more gracefully:
     handle cases where the execution environment just does not exist, use sensible;
     dummy values in this case (many sites);
     handle multiple execution environments at a single computing share (i.e., CERN);
     handle multiple execution environments with the same ID (e.g., SARA)

CHANGE: (#3768) some print outs are prefixed with "SCHEMA PROBLEM", which seem to point to problems in the published information, i.e. keys pointing to non-existent entries, or non-unique IDs

*Tests
NEW: (#3769) allow to install DIRACOS if DIRACOSVER env variable is specified

*ResourceStatusSystem
CHANGE: (#3767) Added a post-processing function in InfoGetter, for handling special case of FreeDisk policies

*WorkloadManagementSystem
FIX: (#3767) corrected inconsistent option name for pilotFileServer CS option

*TransformationSystem
CHANGE: (#3766) TransformationCleaningAgent can now run without a shifterProxy, it uses
        the author of the transformation for the cleanup actions instead.
CHANGE: (#3766) TransformationCleaningAgent: the default value for shifterProxy was removed
FIX: (#3766) TaskManagerAgent: RequestTasks/WorkflowTasks: value for useCertficates to `False`
     instead of `None`. Fixes the broken submission when using a shifterProxy for the TaskManagerAgents

[v6r20p6]

*Tests
CHANGE: (#3757) generate self signed certificate TLS compliant

*Interfaces
FIX: (#3754) classmethods should not have self! (Dirac.py)

*WorkloadManagementSystem
FIX: (#3755) JobManager - bug fix in __deleteJob resulting in exceptions

*DataManagementSystem
NEW: (#3736) FTS3 add kicking of stuck jobs
FIX: (#3736) FTS3 update files in sequence to avoid mysql deadlock
CHANGE: (#3736) Canceled is not a final state for FTS3 Files
CHANGE: (#3736) FTS3Operations are finalized if the Request is in a final state (instead of Scheduled)
FIX: (#3724) change the ps_delete_files and ps_delete_replicas_from_file_ids to not lock on MySQL 5.7

*TransformationSystem
CHANGE: (#3758) re-written a large test as pytest (much less verbosity, plan to extend it)
FIX: (#3758) added BulkSubmission option in documentation for WorkflowTaskAgent

*RequestManagementSystem
FIX: (#3759) dirac-rms-request: silence a warning, when not using the old FTS Services

*ResourceStatusSystem
FIX: (#3753) - style changes

[v6r20p5]

*Docs

FIX: (#3747) fix many warnings
FIX: (#3735) GetReleaseNotes.py no longer depends on curl, but the python requests packe
FIX: (#3740) Fix fake environments for sqlalchemy.ext import, some code documentation pages were not build, e.g. FTS3Agent
NEW: (#3762) Add --repo option, e.g. --repo DiracGrid/DiracOS, or just --repo DiracOS, fixes DIRACGrid/DIRACOS#30

*TransformationSystem

FIX: (#3726) If the result can not be evaluated, it can be converted to list
FIX: (#3723) TaskManagerAgentBase - add option ShifterCredentials to set the credentials to
     use for all submissions, this is single VO only
FIX: (#3723) WorkflowTasks/RequestTasks: pass ownerDN and ownerGroup parameter to all the submission
     clients if using shifterProxy ownerDN and ownerGroup are None thus reproducing the original behaviour
FIX: (#3723) TaskManagerAgentBase - refactor adding operations for transformation to separate function to
     ensure presence of Owner/DN/Group in dict entries RequestTaskAgent no longer sets shifterProxy by default.

*Resources

CHANGE: (#3745) Add the deprecated decorator to native XROOT plugin

[v6r20p4]

*DMS
FIX: (#3727) use proxy location in the SECache

*RMS
FIX: (#3727) use downloadVOMSProxyToFile in RequestTask

*TS
FIX: (#3720) TaskManager - pass output data arguments as lists rather
     than strings to the parametric job description

Docs:
FIX: (#3725) AdministratorGuide TransformationSystem spell check and added a few
     phrases, notably for bulk submission working in v6r20p3

[v6r20p3]

*Framework
FIX: SystemAdministrator - Get the correct cpu usage data for each component

*TS
NEW: new command dirac-transformation-replication to create replication transformation to copy files from some SEs to other SEs, resolves #3700

*RMS
FIX: fix integration tests to work with privileged and non privileged proxies

*RSS
FIX: Fix for downtime publisher: wrong column names. Avoiding dates (not reflected in web app)

[v6r20p2]

*Core

CHANGE: (#3713) Fixes the infamous "invalid action proposal" by speeding up the handshake and not looking up the user/group in the baseStub

*RequestManagementSystem
CHANGE: (#3713) FowardDISET uses the owner/group of Request to execute the stub
CHANGE: (#3713) owner/group of the Requests are evaluated/authorized on the server side
CHANGE: (#3713) LimitedDelegation or FullDelegation are required to set requests on behalf of others -> pilot user and hosts should must them (which should already be the case)

*docs

NEW: (#3699) documentation on Workflow
CHANGE: (#3699) update on documentation for integration tests

*ConfigurationSystem

CHANGE: (#3699) for pilotCS2JSONSynchronizer: if pilotFileServer is not set, still print out the content

*WorkloadManagementSystem

CHANGE: (#3693) introduce options for sites to choose usage of Singularity

*TransformationSystem

FIX: (#3706) TaskManger with bulksubmission might have occasional exception, depending on order of entries in a dictionary
FIX: (#3709) TaskManager - fix the generated JobName to be of the form ProdID_TaskID
FIX: (#3709) TaskManager - check the JOB_ID and PRODUCTION_ID parameters are defined in the workflow

*Interfaces

FIX: (#3709) Job API - do not merge workflow non-JDL parameters with the sequence parameters of the same name

[v6r20p1]

*WorkloadManagementSystem

FIX: (#3697) Ensure retrieveTaskQueues doesn't return anything when given an empty list of TQ IDs.
FIX: (#3698) Call optimizer fast-path for non-bulk jobs

[v6r20]

*Core
NEW: MJF utility added, providing a general interface to Machine/Job Features values.
NEW: DEncode - added unit tests
NEW: JEncode for json based serialization
NEW: Add conditional printout of the traceback when serializing/deserializing non json compatible
     object in DEncode (enabled with DIRAC_DEBUG_DENCODE_CALLSTACK environment variable)
NEW: File.py - utility to convert file sizes between different unit
NEW: new flag in dirac-install script to install DIRAC-OS on demand
CHANGE: Removed deprecated option "ExtraModules" (dirac-configure, dirac-install scripts)
CHANGE: dirac-deploy-scripts, dirac-install - allow command modules with underscores in
        their names in order for better support for the code checking tools
CHANGE: dirac-distribution and related scripts - compile web code while release
        generation
CHANGE: dirac-external-requirements - reimplemented to use preinstalled pip command rather than
the pip python API
FIX: dirac-distribution - fixed wrong indentation
NEW: new command name for voms proxy
FIX: dirac-install default behaviour preserved even with diracos options
New: Add additional check in MJF utility to look for a shutdown file located at '/var/run/shutdown_time'
FIX: The hardcoded rule was not taken into account when the query was coming from the web server
CHANGE: VOMSService - reimplemented using VOMS REST interface
FIX: MJF utility won't throw exceptions when MJF is not fully deployed at a site

*Framework
NEW: WebAppCompiler methods is implemented, which is used to compile the web framework
NEW: add JsonFormatter for logs
NEW: add default configuration to CS: only TrustedHost can upload file
CHANGE: ComponentInstaller - remove the old web portal configuration data used during the installation
CHANGE: MessageQueue log handler uses JsonFormatter

*Monitoring
CHANGE: fixes for testing in Jenkins with locally-deployed ElasticSearch
FIX: fixes in the query results interpretation

*Configuration
FIX: ConfigurationHandler, PilotCStoJSONSynchronizer - fixes for enabling pilotCStoJSONSynchronizer, and doc
NEW: dirac-admin-voms-sync - command line for VOMS to CS synchronization
NEW: VOMS2CSSynchronizer - new class encapsulating VOMS to CS synchronization
CHANGE: VOMS2CSAgent - reimplemented to use VOMS2CSSynchronizer

*WorkloadManagementSystem
NEW: StopSigRegex, StopSigStartSeconds, StopSigFinishSeconds, StopSigNumber added to JDL, which cause Watchdog to send a signal StopSigNumber to payload processes matching StopSigRegex when there are less than StopSigFinishSeconds of wall clock remaining according to MJF.
NEW: PilotLoggingDB, Service and Client for handling extended pilot logging
NEW: added a new synchronizer for Pilot3: sync of subset of CS info to JSON file,
     and sync of pilot3 files
NEW: dirac-admin-get-pilotslogging script for viewing PilotsLogging
NEW: Bulk job submission with protection of the operation transaction
NEW: WMSHistoryCorrector and MonitoringHistoryCorrector classes inheriting from a common BaseHistoryCorrector class
CHANGE: SiteDirector - refactored Site Director for better extensibility
CHANGE: dirac-wms-cpu-normalization uses the abstracted DB12 benchmark script used by the HEPiX Benchmarking Working Group, and the new MJF utility to obtain values from the system and to save them into the DIRAC LocalSite configuration.
CHANGE: Removed TaskQueueDirector and the other old style (WMS) *PilotDirector
CHANGE: TaskQueueDB - removed PilotsRequirements table
CHANGE: TaskQueueDB - added FOREIGN KEYS
CHANGE: Removed gLite pilot related WMS code
FIX: always initialize gPilotAgentsDB object
FIX: JobManager - Added some debug message when deleting jobs
FIX: Job.py - fixing finding XML file
NEW: SiteDirector - added flag for sending pilot3 files
CHANGE: SiteDirector - changed the way we create the pilotWrapper (better extensibility)
NEW: SiteDirector - added possibility for deploying environment variables in the pilot wrapper

*Workflow
CHANGE: Script.py: created _exitWithError method for extension possibilities

*TS
FIX: TranformationCleaningAgent - just few simplifications

*DMS
NEW: FTS3Agent working only with the FTS3 service to replace the existing one
NEW: FTS3Utilities - use correct FTS Server Selection Policy
NEW: StorageElement service - getFreeDiskSpace() and getTotalDiskSpace() take into account
     MAX_STORAGE_SIZE parameter value
CHANGE: Adding vo name argument for StorageElement
CHANGE: Fixing rss to fetch fts3 server status
NEW: Add a feature to the DFC LHCbManager to dump the content of an SE as a CSV file
FIX: FTS3DB: sqlalchemy filter statements with "is None" do not work and result in no lines being selected
NEW: FTS3Agent and FTS3DB: add functionality to kick stuck requests and delete old requests
NEW: FTS3Agent - add accounting report

*RMS
FIX: Really exit the RequestExecutingAgent when the result queue is buggy

*RSS
CHANGE: Using StorageElement.getOccupancy()
FIX: Initialize RPC to WMSAdministrator only once
FIX: Using MB as default for the size
FIX: flagged some commands that for the moment are unusable
FIX: fixed documentation of how to develop commands

*Resources
NEW: New SingularityComputingElement to submit jobs to a Singularity container
NEW: Added StorageElement.getOccupancy() method for DIP and GFAL2_SMR2 SE types
CHANGE: enable Stomp logging only if DIRAC_DEBUG_STOMP environment variable is set to any value

*Interfaces
CHANGE: Dirac.py - saving output of jobs run with 'runLocal' when they fail (for DEBUG purposes)

*Docs
CHANGE: WebApp release procedure
FIX: Update of the FTS3 docs

*Tests
FIX: add MonitoringDB to the configuration
FIX: Installing elasticSeach locally in Jenkins, with ComponentInstaller support.

[v6r19p25]

*TransformationSystem
FIX: (#3742) TransformationDB - when adding files to transformations with a multi-threaded agent,
     it might happen that 2 threads are adding the same file at the same time. The LFN was not
     unique in the DataFiles table, which was a mistake... This fix assumes the LFN is unique,
     i.e. if not the table had been cleaned and the table updated to be unique.

[v6r19p24]

*WMS
FIX: (#3739) pilotTools - added --tag and --requiredTag options
FIX: (#3739) pilotCommands - make NumberOfProcessors = 1 if nowhere defined (default)

*Resources
FIX: (#3739) CREAMComputingElement - possibility to defined CEQueueName to be used in the pilot submission command

[v6r19p23]

*TS
FIX: (#3734) catch correct exception for ast.literal_eval

[v6r19p22]

*Core
CHANGE: Backport from v6r20 - fixes the infamous "invalid action proposal" by speeding up
        the handshake and not looking up the user/group in the baseStub

RMS:
CHANGE: Backport from v6r20 - FowardDISET uses the owner/group of Request to execute the stub
CHANGE: Backport from v6r20 - owner/group of the Requests are evaluated/authorized on the server side
CHANGE: Backport from v6r20 - LimitedDelegation or FullDelegation are required to set requests on behalf
        of others -> pilot user and hosts should must them (which should already be the case)

*API
NEW: Dirac.py - running jobs locally now also works for parametric jobs. Only the first sequence will be run
FIX: Dirac.py - running jobs locally will now properly work with LFNs in the inputSanbdox

*DMS
FIX: DMSHelpers - in getLocalSiteForSE() return None as LocalSite if an SE is at no site

[v6r19p21]

*Configuration
FIX: Bdii2CSAgent - make the GLUE2 information gathering less verbose; Silently ignore StorageShares

*Test
CHANGE: backported some of the CI tools from the integration branch

[v6r19p20]

*StorageManagement
FIX: StorageManagementDB - fixed buggy group by with MySQL 5.7

[v6r19p19]

*Configuration

NEW: BDII2CSAgent - new options: GLUE2URLs, if set this is queried in addition to the other BDII;
    GLUE2Only to turn off looking on the old schema, if true only the main BDII URL is queried;
    Host to set the BDII host to search

NEW: dirac-admin-add-resources new option G/glue2 , enable looking at GLUE2 Schema,
     H/host to set the host URL to something else

[v6r19p18]

*Configuration
CHANGE: Better logging of the Configuration file write exception

*RSS
FIX: SummarizeLogsAgent - fix the case when no previous history

[v6r19p17]

*Framework
FIX: ProxyManager - if an extension has a ProxyDB, use it

*RSS
FIX: CSHelpers.py minor fixes

[v6r19p16]

*WMS
FIX: pilotCommands - cast maxNumOfProcs to an int.
CHANGE: pilotTools - change maxNumOfProcs short option from -P to -m.

[v6r19p15]

*Framework
NEW: ProxyDB - allow FROM address to be set for proxy expiry e-mails

*DMS
CHANGE: FTSJob - FailedSize is now BIGINT in FTSJob
CHANGE: FTSJob - increase the bringonline time

*WMS
FIX: SiteDirector won't set CPUTime of the pilot
FIX: convert MaxRAM inside the pilots to int

*RSS
FIX: SummarizeLogsAgent: comparison bug fix
FIX: Fixed sites synchronizer

[v6r19p14]

*WMS
NEW: pilotCommands/Tools - added possibility to specify a maxNumberOfProcessors parameter for pilots
CHANGE: MultiProcessorSiteDirector - allow kwargs to SiteDirector getExecutable & _getPilotOptions functions

*RMS
FIX: Fix a bug in ReplicateAndRegister Operation preventing files having failed once to be retried

*DMS
FIX: FileCatalogWithFkAndPsDB.sql - Fixes for the DFC to be compatible with strict group by mode
     (https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/sql-mode.html#sqlmode_only_full_group_by)

*docs
CHANGE: added little documentation for lcgBundles

[v6r19p13]

*WMS
FIX: JobWrapper - added a debug message
FIX: Allow non-processor related tags to match TQ in MultiProcessorSiteDirector.

*Test
CHANGE: improve Gfal2 integration tests by checking the metadata

[v6r19p12]

*Core
CHANGE: QualityMapGraph - change the color map of the Quality plots

*Framework
FIX: Logging - remove the space after log messages if no variable message is printed, fixes #3587

*MonitoringSystem
CHANGE: ElasticSearch 6 does not support multiple types, only one type is created instead.

*RSS
FIX: GOCDBClient - encode in utf-8, update goc db web api URL
FIX: fixed bug in creation of history of status (avoid repetition of entries)

*DMS
FIX: fixed bug in FTSAgent initialization

*WMS
FIX: fix bug in dirac-wms-job-select: treating the case of jobGroup(s) not requested

[v6r19p11]

*Framework:
CHANGE: moved column "Instance" of InstalledComponentsDB.InstalledComponent
        table from 64 to 32 characters

*WMS
FIX: JobWrapperTemplate - fix exception handling
CHANGE: dirac-wms-select-jobs - new option to limit the number of selected jobs
CHANGE: returning an error when sandboxes can't be unassigned from jobs (JobCleaningAgent)

*RMS
FIX: RequestDB - add missing JOIN in the web summary query
NEW: dirac-rms-request - add option to allow resetting the NotBefore member even
     for non-failed requests

*DMS
FIX: FTSAgent - change data member names from uppercase to lower case

*Interfaces
CHANGE: autopep8 on the API/Dirac module

*docs:
NEW: added some doc about shifterProxy

[v6r19p10]

*Core
FIX: MySQL - catch exception when closing closed connection

*TS
CHANGE: add possibility to get extension-specific tasks and files statuses in TransformationMonitor web application

*RMS
NEW: dirac-rms-request - add option --ListJobs to list the jobs for a set of requests

*Resources
FIX: Use parameters given at construction for SRM2 protocols List

*StorageManagement
FIX: use StorageElement object to get disk cache size

*DMS
FIX: DMSHelpers - fix case when no site is found for an SE
FIX: ReplicateAndRegister - don't try and get SE metadata is replica is inactive

[v6r19p9]

*WMS
CHANGE: DownloadInputData was instantiating all local SEs which is not necessary... Only instantiate those that are needed
CHANGE: JobWrapper - use resolveSEGroup in order to allow defining SE groups including other SE groups
FIX: JobDB - fixed typo in getSiteMaskStatus() method
FIX: Fix getSiteMaskStatus in SiteDirector and MultiProcessSiteDirector
CHANGE: WatchdogLinux - using python modules in  instead of shell calls

*DMS
FIX: in DMSHelpers don't complain if an SE is at 0 sites

*Interfaces
CHANGE: Job.py - using the deprecated decorator for 2 deprecated methods

*RSS
FIX: EmailAction considers also CEs, not only SEs

*Resources
FIX: removed a useless/broken method in Resources helper
FIX: marked as obsoleted two methods in Resources helper (FTS2 related)

[v6r19p8]

*Configuration
FIX; Resources - don't overwrite queue tags if requiredtags are set.

*Framework
CHANGE: dirac-proxy-init - increase dirac-proxy-init CRL update frequency

*Accounting
CHANGE: AccountingDB - if the bucket length is part of the selected conditions,
        add to the grouping

*WorkloadManagement
FIX: ConfigTemplate.cfg - allow user access to getSiteMaskStatus

*DataManagementSystem
FIX: DMSHelpers - recursive resolution of SEGroup was keeping the SEGroup in the list

*RSS
FIX: CSHelper - getting FTS from the correct location
CHANGE: use the SiteStatus object wherever possible

*Resources
FIX: CREAMComputingElement - added CS option for extra JDL parameters

*Documentation
CHANGE: point README to master and add badges for integration

[v6r19p7]

*WorkloadManagement
FIX: SiteDirector - correct escaping in pilot template
FIX: dirac-wms-get-wn-parameters - added some printouts to dirac-wms-get-wn-parameters

[v6r19p6]

*Core
FIX: SocketInfo - log proper message on CA's init failure.

*Accounting
CHANGE: NetworkAgent - remove support of perfSONAR summaries and add support of raw metrics.

*WMS
FIX: JobDB - don't trigger exception in webSummary if a site with a single dot is in the system
CHANGE: SiteDirector - added logging format and UTC timestamp to pilot wrapper
FIX: JobMonitoring - fix in getJobPageSummaryWeb() for showing correct sign of life for stalled jobs

*TS
FIX: TransformationManager - fix for wrong method called by the Manager

*RSS
NEW: SiteStatus object uses the RSS Cache
FIX: expiration time is a date (dirac-rss-query-db)

[v6r19p5]

*WMS
CHANGE: ParametricJob - added getParameterVectorLength() to replace getNumberOfParameters with a more detailed check of the job JDL validity
FIX: JobManagerHandler - restored the use of MaxParametricJobs configuration option

*Interfaces
FIX: Always use a list of LFNs for input data resolution (local run, mostly)

*tests
FIX: use rootPath instead of environment variable


[v6r19p4]

NEW: Added dummy setup.py in anticipation for standard installation procedure

*Core
CHANGE: SocketInfoFactory - version check of GSI at run time is removed

*Configuration
FIX: Resources - fix RequiredTags in getQueue() function

*Interfaces
FIX: fix exception when using Dirac.Job.getJobJDL

*WMS
FIX: SiteDirector - fix proxy validity check in updatePilotStatus, a new proxy was
     never created because isProxyValid returns non-empty dictionary
FIX: JobMonitoring - web table was not considering correctly Failed jobs because
     stalled for setting the LastSignOfLife

*DMS
FIX: StorageFactory - avoid complaining if Access option is not in SE section
CHANGE: dirac-dms-user-lfns - the wildcard flag will always assume leading "*" to match files,
       unless the full path was specified in the wildcard no files were previously matched

*RSS
FIX: CacheFeederAgent resilient to command exceptions

*Resources
FIX: ARCComputingElement - the proxy environment variable was assumed before the
     return value of the prepareProxy function was checked, which could lead to exceptions

[v6r19p3]

CHANGE: .pylintrc - disable redefined-variable-type
CHANGE: .pylintrc - max-nested-blocks=10 due to the many tests of result['OK']
CHANGE: use autopep8 for auto-formatting with following exceptions:
        tabs = 2 spaces and not 4
        line length check disabled (i.e. 120 characters instead of 80)
        Option for autopep8 are: --ignore E111,E101,E501

*Configuration
FIX: retrigger the initialization of the logger and the ObjectLoader after
     all the CS has been loaded

*WMS
FIX: pilot commands will add /DIRAC/Extensions=extensions if requested
FIX: SiteDirector, pilotCommands - fix support for multiple values in the
     RequiredTag CE parameter
FIX: MultiProcessorSiteDirector - fix dictionary changed size exception

*Workflow
FIX: application log name can also come from step_commons.get['logFile']

*Resources
CHANGE: Condor, SLURM, SSHComputingElement - added parameters to force allocation
        of multi-core job slots

[v6r19p2]

*DMS
FIX: dirac-admin-allow-se: fix crash because of usage of old RSS function

*RSS
FIX: ResourceStatusDB - microseconds should always be 0
FIX: Multiple fixes for the RSS tests

[v6r19p1]

*Core
FIX: ElasticSearchDB - certifi package was miscalled
FIX: ElasticSearchDB - added debug messages for DB connection

*Framework
FIX: ComponentInstaller - handling correctly extensions of DBs found in sql files

*WMS
FIX: SudoComputingElement - prevent message overwriting application errors
FIX: JobDB.getInputData now returns list of cleaned LFNs strings, possible "LFN:"
     prefix is removed

*Interfaces
FIX: Dirac.py - bring back treatment of files in working local submission directory

[v6r19]

FIX: In multiple places - use systemCall() rather than shellCall() to avoid
     potential shell injection problems

FIX: All Databases are granting also REFERENCES grant to Dirac user to comply with
     more strict policies of MySQL version >= 5.7

*Accounting
NEW: new functionality to plot the data gathered by perfSONARs. It allows to
     present jitter, one-way delay, packet-loss rate and some derived functions.
FIX: compatibility of AccountingDB with MySQL 5.7

*ConfigurationSystem
NEW: Allow to define FailoverURLs and to reference MainServers in the URLs

*FrameworkSystem
NEW: gLogger is replaced by the new logging system based on the python logging module
NEW: Added ElasticSearch backend for the logging
NEW: Central Backends configuration to customize their use by multiple components
NEW: BundleDelivery - serves also CA's and CRL's all-in-one files
NEW: added shell scripts for generating CAs and CRLs with the possibility to specify the Input and/or output directories
CHANGE: can now send mails to multiple recipients using the NotificationClient
CHANGE: Make the new logging system thread-safe
FIX: Adapting query to MySLQ 5.7 "GROUP BY" clause
FIX: TopErrorMessagesReporter - more precise selection to please stricter versions of MySQL
CHANGE: ProxyGeneration - make RFC proxies by default, added -L/--legacy flag to dirac-proxy-init
        to force generation of no-RFC proxies

*Core
FIX: dirac-install - allow to use local md5 files
CHANGE: X509Chain - fixes to allow robot proxies with embedded DIRAC group extension
        ( allow DIRAC group extension not in the first certificate chain step )
CHANGE: BaseClient - recheck the useServerCertificate while establishing connection
        and take it into account even if it has changed after the client object creation
FIX: PlainTransport - fixed socket creation in initAsClient()
NEW: Technology preview of new logging system, based on standard python logging module
CHANGE: Added graphviz extension to sphinx builds
FIX: Added documentation of low level RPC/DISET classes
FIX: Gateway service - multiple fixes to resurrect the service and to correctly instantiate it
NEW: dirac-install will change the shebang of the python scripts to use the environment
     python instead of the system one
NEW: Security.Utilities - methods to generate all-in-one CA certificates and CRLs files
NEW: ElasticSearchDB - gets CA's all-in-one file from the BundleDelivery service if needed
NEW: genAllCAs.sh, genRevokedCerts.sh - DIRAC-free commands to generate all-in-one CA
     certificates and CRLs files
CHANGE: dirac-create-distribution-tarball - removing docs and tests directories when
        creating release tarballs

*DMS
CHANGE: FTSJob - use Request wrapper for the fts3 REST interface instead of pycurl based
        client
CHANGE: FTSHistoryView - drop FTSServer field from the view description
CHANGE: FTSFile DB table: increased length of fields LFN(955), SourceSURL(1024), TargetSURL(1024)
CHANGE: Uniform length of LFN to 255 across DIRAC dbs
FIX: FTSJob - fix the serialization of 0 values
FIX: FTSFile, FTSJob - fix SQL statement generation for stricter versions of MySQL

*Resources
NEW: New method in the StorageElement to generate pair of URLs for third party copy.
     Implement the logic to generate pair of URLs to do third party copy.
     This will be used mostly by FTS, but is not enabled as of now
FIX: StorageElement - fix different weird behaviors in Storage Element, in particular,
     the inheritance of the protocol sections
FIX: GFAL2 storage element: update for compatibility with GFAL2 2.13.3 APIs
NEW: Introduced Resources/StorageElementBases configuration section for definitions
     of abstract SEs to be used in real SEs definition by inheritance

*RMS
NEW: dirac-rms-request - command including functionality of several other commands:
     dirac-rms-cancel|reset|show-request which are dropped. The required functionality
     is selected by the appropriate switches

*RSS
NEW: Put Sites, ComputingElements, FTS and Catalogs under the status control of the
     RSS system
NEW: Rewrote RsourceStatus/ResourceManagementDB tables with sqlAlchemy (RM DB with declarative base style)
NEW: SiteStatus client to interrogate site status with respect to RSS
CHANGE: introduced backward compatibility of RSS services with DIRAC v6r17 clients
CHANGE: moved some integration tests from pytest to unittest
CHANGE: Moved ResourceStatusDB to sqlAlchemy declarative_base
FIX: Automated setting of lastCheckTime and Dateffective in ResourceStatusDB and ResourceManagementDB
FIX: fixes for tables inheritance and extensions
FIX: fixes for Web return structure ("meta" column)
FIX: ResourceStatus, RSSCacheNoThread - fixed RSS cache generation
FIX: ResourceStatus - fixes for getting status from the CS information
FIX: ResourceManagement/StatusDB - fixed bugs in meta parameter check
FIX: fixed incompatibility between Active/InActive RSS clients return format
FIX: SiteStatus - bug fixed in getSites() method - siteState argument not propagated to
     the service call
FIX: ResourceStatus - return the same structure for status lookup in both RSS and CS cases
FIX: Bug fixes in scripts getting data out of DB


*Monitoring
CHANGE: DBUtils - change the bucket sizes for the monitoring plots as function of the time span

*WMS
NEW: SiteDirector - checks the status of CEs and Sites with respect to RSS
NEW: pilotCommands - new ReplaceDIRACCode command mostly for testing purposes
NEW: JobAgent, JobWrapper - several fixes to allow the work with PoolComputingElement
     to support multiprocessor jobs
NEW: JobScheduling - interpret WholeNode and NumberOfProcessors job JDL parameters and
     convert then to corresponding tags
NEW: SiteDirector - CEs can define QueryCEFlag in the Configuration Service which can be
     used to disallow querying the CE status and use information from PiltAgentsDB instead
NEW: The application error codes, when returned, are passed to the JobWrapper, and maybe interpreted.
NEW: The JobWrapperTemplate can reschedule a job if the payload exits with status DErrno.EWMSRESC & 255 (222)
FIX: SiteDirector - unlink is also to be skipped for Local Condor batch system
FIX: JobDB - fixes necessary to suite MySQL 5.7
FIX: dirac-pilot, pilotTools - PYTHONPATH is cleared on pilot start, pilot option keepPP
     can override this
FIX: WMSAdministratorHandler - make methods static appropriately
FIX: Bug fix for correctly excluding WebApp extensions
CHANGE: JobScheduling - more precise site name while the job is Waiting, using the set of
        sites at which the input files are online rather than checking Tier1s in eligible sites
FIX: SiteDirector - aggregate tags for the general job availability test
FIX: JobScheduling - bug fix in __sendToTQ()
FIX: pilotTools,pilotCommands - pick up all the necessary settings from the site/queue configuration
     related to Tags and multi-processor
NEW: SiteDirector - added option to force lcgBundle version in the pilot
FIX: SiteDirector - if MaxWaitingJobs or MaxTotalJobs not defined for a queue, assume a default value of 10
FIX: MatcherHandler - preprocess resource description in getMatchingTaskQueues()
FIX: JobDB - set CPUTime to a default value if not defined when rescheduling jobs

*TS
FIX: TransformationClient - fix issue #3446 for wrong file error counting in TS
FIX: TransformationDB - set ExternalID before ExternalStatus in tasks
BUGFIX: TransformationClient - fix a bug in the TS files state machine (comparing old status.lower()
        with new status)

*Interfaces
CHANGE: Dirac API - expose the protocol parameter of getAccessURL()
CHANGE: Dirac API - added runLocal as an API method

*Docs
NEW: Documentation for developing with a container (includes Dockerfile)
NEW: Add script to collate release notes from Pull Request comments
NEW: Chapter on scaling and limitations
CHANGE: Added documentation about runsv installation outside of DIRAC

*tests
NEW: Added client (scripts) system test
CHANGE: Add to the TS system test, the test for transformations with meta-filters
FIX: Minor fixes in the TS system test
FIX: correctly update the DFC DB configuration in jenkins' tests

[v6r17p35]

*Core
FIX: GOCDBClient - add EXTENSIONS & SCOPE tag support to GOCDB service queries.

[v6r17p34]

*SMS
FIX: StorageManagerClient - fix logic for JobScheduling executor when CheckOnlyTapeSEs is
     its default true and the lfn is only on a tapeSE

[v6r17p33]

*WMS
FIX: StalledJobAgent - if no PilotReference found in jobs parameters, do as if there would be
     no pilot information, i.e. set Stalled job Failed immediately
CHANGE: DownloadInputData - job parameters report not only successful downloads but also failed ones
FIX: JobDB - back port - set CPUTime to 0 if not defined at all for the given job
FIX: JobDB - back port - use default CPUTime in the job description when rescheduling jobs

*Resources
FIX: ARCComputingElement - fix job submission issue due to timeout for newer lcg-bundles

[v6r17p32]

Resources:
CHANGE: /Computing/BatchSystems/Condor.py: do not copy SiteDirector's shell environment variables into the job environment

*WMS
CHANGE: Add option to clear PYTHONPATH on pilot start

[v6r17p31]

*RMS
FIX: ReqClient - avoid INFO message in client
*WMS
CHANGE: JobWrapper - allow SE-USER to be defined as another SE group (e.g. Tier1-USER)
*DMS
CHANGE: DMSHelpers - make resolveSEGroup recursive in order to be able to define SE groups in terms of SE groups

[v6r17p30]

*DMS
CHANGE: StorageElement - added status(), storageElementName(), checksumType() methods returning
        values directly without the S_OK structure. Remove the checks of OK everywhere
NEW: dirac-dms-add-file, DataManager - added option (-f) to force an overwrite of an existing file

*TS:
FIX: TransformationDB.py - set the ExternalID before the ExternalStatus in order to avoid inconsistent
     tasks if setting the ExternalID fails

*StorageManagementSystem
FIX: StorageManagementClient.py - return the full list of onlineSites while it was previously happy
     with only one

*Resources
FIX: HTCondorCEComputingElement.py - transfer output files(only log and err) for remote scheduler

[v6r17p29]

*WMS
CHANGE: split time left margins in cpuMargin and wallClockMargin. Also simplified check.


[v6r17p28]

*WMS
BUGFIX: JobScheduling - fix a bug introduced in 6r17p27 changes

*Monitoring
BUGFIX: MonitoringReporter - do not try to close the MQ connection if MD is not used

[v6r17p27]

*Configuration
FIX: ConfigurationClient - allow default value to be a tuple, a dict or a set

*Monitoring
CHANGE: DBUtils - change bucket sizes and simplify settings

*DMS
FIX: DMSRequestOperationsBase, RemoveFile - allow request to not fail if an SE is temporarily banned
FIX: dirac-admin-allow-se - first call of gLogger after its import

*RMS
CHANGE: remove scripts dirac-rms-show-request, dirac-rms-cancel-request and dirac-rms-reset-request
        and replace with a single script dirac-rms-request with option (default is "show")
CHANGE: allow script to finalize a request if needed and set the job status appropriately

*Resources
FIX: LocalComputingElement - pilot jobIDs start with ssh to be compatible with pilotCommands.
     Still original jobIDs are passed to getJobStatus. To be reviewed

*WMS
CHANGE: JobScheduling - assign a job to Group.<site>.<country>, if input files are at <site>.<country>.
        If several input replicas, assign Waiting to "MultipleInput"

[v6r17p26]

*Core
FIX: dirac-install.py to fail when installation of lcgBundle has failed
FIX: ClassAdLight - getAttributeInt() and getAttributeFloat() return None
     if the corresponding JDL attribute is not defined

*MonitoringSystem
CHANGE: The Consumer and Producer use separate connections to the MQ;
        If the db is not accessible, the messaged will not be consumed.

*WMS
FIX: JobDB - fix the case where parametric job placeholder %j is used in the JobName attribute
FIX: JobDB - take into account that ClassAdLight methods return None if numerical attribute is not defined
FIX: ParametricJob utility - fixed bug in evaluation of the ParameterStart|Step|Factor.X job numerical attribute

[v6r17p25]

*Monitoring
NEW: Implemented the support of monthly indexes and the unit tests are fixed

*RMS
FIX: RequestExecutingAgent - fix infinite loop for duplicate requests

*WMS
NEW: ARCComputingElement - add support for multiprocessor jobs

[v6r17p24]

*WMS
FIX: SiteDirector - unlink is also to be skipped for Local Condor batch system

[v6r17p23]

*WMS
FIX: get job output for remote scheduler in the case of HTCondorCE

[v6r17p22]

*Framework
FIX: NotificationClient - added avoidSpam flag to sendMail() method which is propagated to
     the corresponding service call

*Integration
FIX: several fixes in integration testing scripts

[v6r17p21]

*Core
NEW: Mail.py - added mechanism to compare mail objects
FIX: Grid.py - take into account the case sometimes happening to ARC CEs
     where ARC-CE BDII definitions have SubClusters where the name isn't set to
     the hostname of the machine

*Framework
FIX: Notification service - avoid duplicate emails mechanism

[v6r17p20]

*Core
NEW: API.py - added __getstate__, __setstate__ to allow pickling objects inheriting
     API class by special treatment of internal Logger objects, fixes #3334

*Framework
FIX: SystemAdministrator - sort software version directories by explicit versions in the
     old software cleaning logic
FIX: MonitoringUtilities - sets a suitable "unknown" username when installing DIRAC from scratch,
     and the CS isn't initialized fully when running dirac-setup-site
CHANGE: Logger - added getter methods to access internal protected variables, use these methods
        in various places instead of access Logger protected variables

*WMS
CHANGE: JobDB - removed unused CPUTime field in the Jobs table
CHANGE: JobScheduling - make check for requested Platform among otherwise eligible sites
        for a given job, fail jobs if no site with requested Platform are available

*RSS
FIX: Commands - improved logging messages

*SMS
FIX: StorageManagerClient - instantiate StorageElement object with an explicit vo argument,
     fixes #3335

*Interfaces
NEW: dirac-framework-self-ping command for a server to self ping using it's own certificate

[v6r17p19]

*Core
FIX: Adler - fix checksum with less than 8 characters to be 8 chars long

*Configuration
FIX: VOMS2CSAgent - fix to accomodate some weird new user DNs (containing only CN field)

*DMS
FIX: FileCatalog - fix for the doc strings usage in file catalog CLI, fixes #3306
FIX: FileCatalog - modified recursive file parameter setting to enable usage of the index

*SMS
CHANGE: StorageManagerClient - try to get sites with data online if possible in getFilesToStage

*RMS
FIX: RequestExecutingAgent - tuning of the request caching while execution

*WMS
FIX: DownloadInputData - do not mistakenly use other metadata from the replica info than SEs
FIX: JobScheduling - put sites holding data before others in the list of available sites
FIX: JobScheduling - try and select replicas for staging at the same site as online files
FIX: SiteDirector - keep the old pilot status if the new one can not be obtained in updatePilotStatus()

*Resources
FIX: CREAMComputingElement - return error when pilot output is missing in getJobOutput()

*Monitoring
FIX: DBUtils - change the buckets in order to support queries which require more than one year
     data. The maximum buckets size is 7 weeks

[v6r17p18]

*Framework
NEW: SystemAdministrator - added possibility to remove old software installations keeping
     only a predefined number of the most recent ones.

*DMS
FIX: RemoveReplica - removing replica of a non-existing file is considered successful

*SMS
CHANGE: StorageManagerClient - restrict usage of executeWithUserProxy decorator
        to calling the SE.getFileMetadata only; added flag to check only replicas
        at tape SEs

*WMS
FIX: JobScheduling - added CS option to flag checking only replicas at tape SEs;
     fail jobs with input data not available in the File Catalog

[v6r17p17]

*DMS
NEW: FTSAgent has a new CS parameter ProcessJobRequests to be able to process job
     requests only. This allows to run 2 FTS agents in parallel

*Resources
FIX: GFAL2_StorageBase - only set the space token if there is one to avoid problems
     with some SEs

[v6r17p16]

*Configuration
FIX: VOMS2CSAgent - create user home directory in the catalog without
     recursion in the chown command

*RMS
FIX: RequestExecutingAgent - catch error of the cacheRequest() call
FIX: ReqClient - enhanced log error message

*SMS
FIX: StorageManagerClient - treat the case of absent and offline files on an SE
     while staging

*TS
FIX: TaskManagerBase - process tasks in chunks of 100 in order to
     update faster the TS (tasks and files)

*WMS
FIX: JobScheduling - do not assume that all non-online files required staging

[v6r17p15]

*WMS
CHANGE: StalledJobAgent - ignore or prolong the Stalled state period for jobs
        at particular sites which can be suspended, e.g. Boinc sites

[v6r17p14]

*Core
FIX: PrettyPrint.printTable utility enhanced to allow multi-row fields and
     justification specification for each field value

*Accounting
NEW: DataStore - allow to run several instances of the service with only one which
     is enabled to do the bucketing

*RMS
NEW: new dirac-rms-list-req-cache command to list the requests in the ReqProxies services

*Interfaces
CHANGE: Dirac API - make several private methods visible to derived class

[v6r17p13]

*Core
NEW: Proxy - added executeWithoutServerCertificate() decorator function

*Resources
FIX: CREAMComputingElement - split CREAM proxy renewal operation into smaller chunks for
     improved reliability

[v6r17p12]

*Framework
FIX: SecurityFileLog  - when the security logs are rotated, the buffer size is reduced
     to 1 MB to avoid gzip failures ( was 2 GBs )

*WMS
FIX: pilotCommands - fix for interpreting DNs when saving the installation environment
FIX: SandboxStoreClient - do not check/make destination directory if requested sandbox
     is returned InMemory

*TS
FIX: TransformationAgent CS option MaxFiles split in MaxFilesToProcess and MaxFilesPerTask,
     MaxFiles option is interpreted as MaxFilesPerTask for backward compatibility

*Resources
NEW: Added plug-ins for GSIFTP and HTTPS Storage protocols

[v6r17p11]

*Core
FIX: ElasticSearchDB - set a very high number (10K) for the size of the ElasticSearch result

*Monitoring
FIX: MonitoringDB - et a very high number (10K) for the size of the ElasticSearch result

*WMS
FIX: pilotCommands - get the pilot environment from the contents of the bashrc script

*DMS
FIX: RemoveReplica - fix for the problem that if an error was set it was never reset
FIX: SE metadata usage in several components: ConsistencyInspector, DataIntwgrityClient,
     FTSRequest, dirac-dms-replica-metadata, StageMonitorAgent, StageRequestAgent,
     StorageManagerClient, DownloadInputData, InputDataByProtocol

[v6r17p10]

*Core
NEW: Logger - printing methods return True/False if the message was printed or not
FIX: ElastocSearchDB - error messages demoted to warnings

*Monitoring
FIX: MonitoringReporter - create producers if the CS definitions are properly in place

*TS
CHANGE: TaskManagerPlugin - allow to redefine the AutoAddedSites for each job type

[v6r17p9]

*WMS
BUGFIX: JobScheduling - bug fixed introduced in the previous patch
NEW: pilotTools - introduced -o swicth for a generic CS option

*SMS
FIX: StorageManagerClient - fixes in the unit test

*DMS
FIX: FileManagerPs - in _getFileLFNs() - break a long list of LFNs into smaller chunks

[v6r17p8]

*Core
NEW: DErrno.ENOGROUP error to denote proxies without DIRAC group extension embedded
CHANGE: X509Chain - use DErrno.ENOGROUP error
FIX: dirac-install, dirac-deploy-scripts - fixes to allow DIRAC client installation on
     recent MacOS versions with System Integrity Protection feature
CHANGE: Proxy - added executionLock optional argument to executeWithUserProxy() decorator
        to lock while executing the function with user proxy
FIX: Proxy - fix indentation in getProxy() preventing looping on the DNs

*Framework
FIX: ProxyDB - fix of error message check in completeDelegation()

*WMS
FIX: TaskQueueDB - when an empty TaskQueue is marked for deletion, it can still get matches
     which result in no selected jobs that produced unnecessary error messages
FIX: JobScheduling executor - calls getFilesToStage() with a flag to lock while file lookup
     with user proxy; same for InputData executor for calling _resolveInputData()

*TS
FIX: FileReport - fix in setFileStatus() for setting status for multiple LFNs at once

*SMS
FIX: StorageManagerClient - in getFilesToStage() avoid using proxy if no files to check
     on a storage element

*Resources
FIX: GFAL2_XROOTStorage - fix to allow interactive use of xroot plugin
FIX: GFAL2_StorageBase - enable IPV6 for gsiftp

[v6r17p7]

*DMS
FIX: dirac-dms-user-lfns - do not print out empty directories

*WMS
FIX: InputData Executor, JobWrapper - use DataManager.getReplicasForJobs() for
     getting input data replicas

*TS
FIX: TransformationAgent - use DataManager.getReplicasForJobs() for transformations
     creating jobs

[v6r17p6]

*DMS
NEW: DataManager - add key argument forJobs (default False) in getReplicas() in order
     to get only replicas that can be used for jobs (as defined in the CS); added
     getReplicasForJobs(), also used in the Dirac API

*SMS
FIX: Stager agents - monitor files even when there is no requestID, e.g. dCache returns None
     when staging a file that is already staged

*Resources
FIX: StorageFactory - bug fixes when interpreting SEs inheriting other SE parameters
NEW: Test_StorageFactory unit test and corresponding docs
FIX: Torque - some sites put advertising in the command answer that can not be parsed:
     redirect stderr to /dev/null

[v6r17p5]

*Resources
FIX: LcgFileCatalogClient - do not evaluate GUID if it is not a string

[v6r17p4]

*Configuration
FIX: Utilities - fixed interpretation of weird values of GlueCEPolicyMaxWallClockTime
     BDII parameter; newMaxCPUTime should is made integer

*Framework
FIX: Logger - make subloggers processing messages with the same level
     as the parent logger

*Docs
NEW: Updated documentation in several sections

*DMS
FIX: RemoveReplica operation - don't set file Done in RemoveReplicas if there is an error

[v6r17p3]

*RSS
FIX: Synchronizer - the sync method removes the resources that are no longer
     in the CS from the DowntimeCache table

*DMS
CHANGE: dirac-dms-find-lfns - added SE switch to look for files only having
        replicas on a given SE (list)

*TS
FIX: TaskManager - optimization of the site checking while preparing job; optimized
     creation of the job template

*Resources
CHANGE: GFAL2_SRM2Storage, SRM2Storage - added gsiftp to the list of OUTPUT protocols

[v6r17p2]

*Monitoring
FIX: ElasticSearchDB - fixes required to use host certificate for connection;
     fixes required to pass to version 5.0.1 of the elasticsearch.py binding

[v6r17p1]

*RSS
FIX: GOCDBSync - make commmand more verbose and added some minor fixes

[v6r17]

*Core
FIX: Adler - check explicitly if the checksum value is "False"
FIX: install_site.sh - added command line option to choose DIRAC version to install
NEW: ComponentInstaller - added configuration parameters to setup NoSQL database

*Framework
CHANGE: Logger - test level before processing string (i.e. mostly converting objects to strings)
CHANGE: dirac-proxy-init - check and attempt to update local CRLs at the same time as
        generating user proxy
CHANGE: ProxyManager service - always store the uploaded proxy even if the already stored
        one is of the same validity length to allow replacement in case of proxy type
        changes, e.g. RFC type proxies

*DMS
NEW: Next in implementation multi-protocol support for storage elements. When performing
     an action on the StorageElement, instead of looping over all the protocol plugins,
     we loop over a filtered list. This list is built taking into account which action
     is taken (read vs write), and is also sorted according to lists defined in the CS.
     The negotiation for third party transfer is also improved: it takes into account all
     possible protocols the source SE is able to produce, and all protocols the target is
     able to receive as input.
NEW: StorageElement - added methods for monitoring used disk space
FIX: ReplicateAndRegister - fix the case when checksum is False in the FC
NEW: DMSHelpers - get list of sites from CS via methods; allow to add automatically sites
     with storage

*RSS
NEW: FreeDiskSpace - added new command which is used to get the total and the remaining
     disk space of all dirac storage elements that are found in the CS and inserts the
     results in the SpaceTokenOccupancyCache table of ResourceManagementDB database.
NEW: GOCDBSync command to ensure that all the downtime dates in the DowntimeCache
     table are up to date

Resources*
NEW: Updated Message Queue interface: MQ service connection management, support for
     SSL connections, better code arrangement

*Workflow
FIX: Modulebase, Script - avoid too many unnecessarily different application states

*WMS
FIX: JobStateUpdate service - in setJobStatusBulk() avoid adding false information when adding
     an application status

*TS
FIX: TaskManager, TaskManagerAgentBase - standardize the logging information; removed unnecessary
     code; use iterators wherever possible
NEW: Introduced metadata-based filters when registering new data in the TS as catalog

[v6r16p6]

*WMS
NEW: Added MultiProcessorSiteDirector section to the ConfigTemplate.cfg

*DMS
FIX: FileCatalogClient - added missing read methods to the interface description
     getDirectoryUserMetadata(), getFileUserMetadata()

[v6r16p5]

FIX: included patches from v6r15p27

[v6r16p4]

FIX: applied fixes from v6r15p26

[v6r16p3]

FIX: incorporated fixes from v6r15p25

[v6r16p2]

*Configuration
CHANGE: VOMS2CSAgent - remove user DNs which are no more in VOMS. Fixes #3130

*Monitoring
CHANGE: WMSHistory - added user, jobgroup and usergroup selection keys

*DMS
FIX: DataManager - retry checksum calculation on putAndRegister, pass checksum to the DataManager
     object in the FailoverTransfer object.
FIX: DatasetManager, FileCatalogClientCLI - bug fixes in the dataset management and commands

*WMS
CHANGE: JobManager - added 'Killed' to list of jobs status that can be deleted

[v6r16p1]

*Monitoring
CHANGE: MonitorinDB - allow to use more than one filter condition

*WMS
CHANGE: StalledJobAgent - send a kill signal to the job before setting it Failed. This should
        prevent jobs to continue running after they have been found Stalled and then Failed.

[v6r16]

*Core
CHANGE: dirac-install, dirac-configure - use Extensions options consistently, drop
        ExtraModule option
CHANGE: dirac-install - use insecure ssl context for downloading files with urllib2.urlopen
CHANGE: GOCDBClient - replaced urllib2 with requests module
        FIX: dirac-setup-site - added switch to exitOnError, do not exit on error by default
CHANGE: Added environment variables to rc files to enable certificates verification (necessary for python 2.7.9+)
FIX: ComponentInstaller - always update CS when a database is installed, even if it is
     already existing in the db server
FIX: SSLSocketFactory - in __checkKWArgs() use correct host address composed of 2 parts

*Framework
FIX: SystemAdministrator service - do not install WebAppDIRAC by default, only for the host
     really running the web portal

*Accounting
FIX: JobPolicy - remove User field from the policy conditions to fix a problem that
     non-authenticated user gets more privileges on the Accounting info.

*Monitoring
NEW: New Monitoring system is introduced to collect, analyze and display various
     monitoring information on DIRAC components status and behavior using ElasticSearch
     database. The initial implementation is to collect WMSHistory counters.

*DMS
NEW: MoveReplica operation for the RMS system and a corresponding dirac-dms-move-replica-request
     comand line tool

*Resources
NEW: MessageQueue resources to manage MQ connections complemented with
     MQListener and MQPublisher helper classes
NEW: SudoComputingElement - computing element to execute payload with a sudo to a dedicated
     UNIX account

[v6r15p27]

*Configuration
FIX: CSAPI - changed so that empty but existing options in the CS can be still
     modified

[v6r15p26]

*WMS
FIX: SandboxStoreClient - ensure that the latest sandbox is returned in the Web
     portal in the case the job was reset.

[v6r15p25]

*Resources
FIX: HTCondorCEComputingElement - cast useLocalSchedd to bool value even if it
     is defined as srting

[v6r15p24]

*Resources
CHANGE: HTCondorCE - added option to use remote scheduler daemon

[v6r15p23]

*DMS
FIX: dirac-dms-find-lfns - fixed bug causing generl script failure

[v6r15p22]

*Interfaces
CHANGE: Dirac API - add possibility to define the VO in the API
CHANGE: Dirac API - add checkSEAccess() method for checking SE status

[v6r15p21]

*WMS
FIX: removed default LCG version from the pilot (dirac-install will use the one of the requested release)

*RMS
FIX: reject bad checksum

[v6r15p20]

*Framework
FIX: SystemAdministratorHandler - in updateSoftware() put explicitly the project
     name into the command
FIX: ComponentInstaller - added baseDir option to the mysql_install_db call
     while a fresh new database server installation

[v6r15p19]

*Core
FIX: dirac-install - lcg-binding version specified in the command switch
     overrides the configuration option value

*DMS
FIX: RemoveFile operation - Remove all files that are not at banned SEs

*TMS
FIX: FileReport - after successful update of input files status, clear the
     cache dictionary to avoid double update

[v6r15p18]

*Configuration
FIX: Utilities - take into account WallClock time limit while the MaxCPUTime
     evaluation in the Bdii@CSAgent

*DMS
FIX: FTSJob - specify checksum type at FTS request submission

*StorageManagement
FIX: StorageManagerClient - in getFilesToStage() avoid exception in case
     of no active replicas

*Resources
FIX: StorageBase - in getParameters() added baseURL in the list of parameters returned

*WMS
FIX: CPUNormalization - minor code rearrangement

[v6r15p17]

*Core
CHANGE: GOCDBClient - catch all downtimes, independently of their scope
FIX: LSFTimeLeft - accept 2 "word" output from bqueues command
CHANGE: dirac-install - create bashrc/cshrc with the possibility to define
        installation path in the $DIRAC env variable, this is needed for
        the cvmfs DIRAC client installation

[v6r15p16]

*Core
CHANGE: AgentModule - added a SIGALARM handler to set a hard timeout for each Agent
        cycle to avoid agents stuck forever due to some faults in the execution code

*DMS
FIX: DataManager - cache SE status information in filterTapeReplicas() to speed up execution

*WMS
BUGFIX: InputDataByProtocol - the failed resolution for local SEs was not considered correctly:
        if there were other SEs that were ignored (e.g. because on tape)

*TS
FIX: TransformationAgent - in getDataReplicasDM() no need to get replica PFNs

[v6r15p15]

*Configuration
CHANGE: VOMS2CSAgent - added new features: deleting users no more registered in VOMS;
        automatic creation of home directories in the File Catalog for new users

*WMS
CHANGE: JobScheduling - correct handling of user specified sites in the executor,
        including non-existent (misspelled) site names
FIX: CPUNormalization - accept if the JOBFEATURES information is zero or absent

[v6r15p14]

*Core
FIX: BaseClient - proper error propagation to avoid excessive output in the logger

*Configuration
CHANGE: Resources helper - in getStorageElementOptions() dereference SEs containing
        BaseSE and Alias references

*Accounting
FIX: AccountingDB - changes to use DB index to speed-up removal query

*DMS
CHANGE: DMSHelpers - define SE groups SEsUsedForFailover, SEsNotToBeUsedForJobs,
        SEsUsedForArchive in the Operations/DataManagement and use them in the
        corresponding helper functions
FIX: FTSJob - temporary fix for the FTS rest interface Request object until it is
     fixed in the FTS REST server

*Resources
FIX: HTCondorCEComputingElement - check that some path was found in findFile(), return with error otherwise
CHANGE: ARCComputingElement - consider jobs in Hold state as Failed as they never come back
CHANGE: ARCComputingElement - do not use JobSupervisor tool for bulk job cancellation as
        it does not seem to work, cancel jobs one by one
FIX: ARCComputingElement - ensure that pilot jobs that are queued also get their proxies renewed on ARC-CE

*WMS
FIX: SiteDirector - ensure that a proxy of at least 3 hours is available to the updatePilotStatus
     function so that if it renews any proxies, it's not renewing them with a very short proxy

[v6r15p13]

*Resources
FIX: HTCondorCEComputingElement - fixed location of log/output files

*TS
FIX: ValidateOutputDataAgent - works now with the DataManager shifter proxy

[v6r15p12]

*Core
FIX: Graphs - make sure matplotlib package is always using Agg backend
FIX: cshrc - added protection for cases with undefined environment variables
NEW: AuthManager - added possibility to define authorization rules by VO
     and by user group

*Configuration
NEW: Resources, ComputingElement(Factory) - added possibility to define site-wide
     CE parameters; added possibility to define common parameters for a given
     CE type.

*Framework
FIX: SystemAdministrator service - avoid using its own client to connect
     to itself for storing host information
FIX: SystemAdministratorClientCLI, dirac-populate-component-db - fix insertion
     of wrongly configured component to the ComponentMonitorDB

*DMS
FIX: FileCatalog service - fix the argument type for getAncestor(), getDescendents()

*WMS
NEW: JobCleaningAgent - add an option (disabled by default) to remove Jobs from the
     dirac server irrespective of their state

*Resources
CHANGE: HTCondorCE - added new configurable options - ExtraSubmitString, WorkingDirectory
        DaysToKeepLogs

[v6r15p11]

*Framework
NEW: dirac-proxy-destroy command to destroy proxy locally and in the ProxyManager
     service
CHANGE: ProxyManagerClient - reduce the proxy caching time to be more suitable
        for cases with short VOMS extensions

*Configuration
FIX: VOMS2CSAgent - fixed typo bug in execute()

*RMS
FIX: RequestTask - fix if the problem when the processing of an operation times out,
     there was no increment of the attempts done.

*DMS
FIX: FTSAgent - avoid FTS to fetch a request that was canceled

*Resources
FIX: HTCondorCE - protect against non-standard line in 'job status' list in the getJobStatus()
CHANGE: ComputingElement - reduce the default time length of the payload proxy to accomodate
        the case with short VOMS extensions

[v6r15p10]

*Core
FIX: MySQL - do not print database access password explicitly in the logs

*Configuration
CHANGE: VOMS2CSAgent - show in the log if there are changes ready to be committed
CHANGE: Bdii2CSAgent - get information from alternative BDII's for sites not
        existing in central BDII

*Framework
FIX: ComponentInstaller - fixed location of stop_agent file in the content of t file
     of the runsv tool

*RMS
FIX: Changed default port of ReqProxy service to 9161 from 9198

*Resources
FIX: BatchSystem/Condor, HYCondroCEComputingElement - more resilient parsing
     of the status lookup command
FIX: CREAMComputingElement - in case of glite-ce-job-submit error print our both
     std.err and std.out for completeness and better understanding

*DMS
FIX: FileCatalogClient - bug fix in getDirectoryUserMetadata()

*Interfaces
FIX: Dirac - in replicateFile() in case of copying via the local cache check if
     there is another copy for the same file name is happening at the same time

[v6r15p9]

*Configuration
FIX: fixed CS agents initialization bug

*DMS
FIX: fixed inconsistency between DataIntegrity and ConsistencyInspector modules

*Interfaces
FIX: Fix download of LFNs in InputSandbox when running job locally

[v6r15p8]

*Configuration
NEW: Added DryRun option for CS agents (false by default, True for new installations)

[v6r15p7]

*Core
CHANGE: Enabled attachments in the emails

*TS
*CHANGE: Added possibility for multiple operations in Data Operation Transformations

[v6r15p6]

*Resources
FIX: FCConditionParser: ProxyPlugin handles the case of having no proxy

*WMS
FIX: MJF messages correctly parsed from the pilot
NEW: Added integration test for TimeLeft utility and script calling it

[v6r15p5]

Included fixes from v6r14p36 patch release

*Framework
FIX: added GOCDB2CSAgent in template
FIX: Fixed permissions for HostLogging

*DMS
FIX: Introduced hopefully temporary fix to circumvent globus bug in gfal2

*WMS:
FIX: added test for MJF and made code more robust

*RSS
NEW: HTML notification Emails


[v6r15p4]

Included fixes from v6r14p35 patch release

*Core
NEW: Added a new way of doing pfnparse and pfnunparse using the standard python library.
     The two methods now contains a flag to know which method to use. By default, the old
     hand made one is used. The new one works perfectly for all standard protocols, except SRM

*RSS
FIX: dirac-rss-sync - command fixed to work with calling services rather than
     databases directly

*Resources
CHANGE: In multiple Storage classes use pfnparse and pfnunparse methods to manipulate
        url strings instead of using just string operations
NEW: A new attribute is added to the storage plugins: DYNAMIC_OPTIONS. This allows to construct
     URLs with attributes going at the end of the URL, in the form ?key1=value1&key2=value2
     This is useful for xroot and http.

[v6r15p3]

Included changes from v6r14p34 patch release

*Accounting
FIX: DataStoreClient - catch all exceptions in sending failover accounting
     requests as it could disrupt the logic of the caller

*DMS
CHANGE: dirac-dms-show-se-status - added switches to show SEs only accessible by
        a given VO and SEs not assigned to any VO
FIX: dirac-dms-replicate-and-register-request - prints out the new request IDs
     to allow their monitoring by ID rather than possibly ambiguous request name

[v6r15p2]

*WMS
FIX: pilotCommands - protect calls to external commands in case of empty
     or erroneous output
FIX: Matcher - fixed bug in the tag matching logic: if a site presented an empty
     Tag list instead of no Tag field at all, it was interpreted as site accepts
     all the tags
FIX: Matcher - matching parameters are printed out in the Matcher rather than
     in the TaskQueueDB, MaxRAM and Processors are not expanded into tags

[v6r15p1]

Included patches for v6r14p32

*Configuration
CHANGE: Resources helper - remove "dips" protocol from the default list of third party
        protocols

*Resources
FIX: XROOTStorage - bug fixed in __createSingleDirectory() - proper interpretation
     of the xrootClient.mkdir return status
FIX: XROOTStorage unit test reenabled by mocking the xrootd import

[v6r15]

Removed general "from DIRAC.Core.Utilities import *" in the top-level __init__.py

Made service handlers systematically working with unicode string arguments
Added requirements.txt and Makefile in the root of the project to support pip style installation

DIRAC documentation moved to the "docs" directory if the DIRAC project from the
DIRACDocs separate project.

*Accounting
CHANGE: INTEGER -> BIGINT for "id" in "in" accountingDB tables

*Core
NEW: The S_ERROR has an enhanced structure containing also the error code and the call
     stack from where the structure was created
NEW: DErrno module to contain definitions of the DIRAC error numbers and standard
     descriptions to be used from now on in any error code check
CHANGE: gMonitor instantiation removed from DIRAC.__init__.py to avoid problems in
        documentation generation
CHANGE: removed Core.Utilities.List.sortList (sorted does the job)
CHANGE: removed unused module Core.Utilities.TimeSeries
NEW: dirac-install - makes us of the DIRAC tar files in CVMFS if available
NEW: dirac-install-client - a guiding script to install the DIRAC client from A to Z
CHANGE: dirac-install - when generating bashrc and cshrc scripts prepend DIRAC paths
        to the ones existing in the environment already
NEW: MJFTimeLeft - using Machine JOb features in the TimeLeft utility
FIX: BaseClient - only give warning log message "URL banned" when one of the
     service URLs is really banned
CHANGE: DISET components - improved logic of service URL retries to speedup queries
        in case of problematic services
NEW: dirac-rss-policy-manager - allows to interactively modify and test only the
     policy section of Dirac.cfg
FIX: XXXTimeLeft - do not mix CPU and WallTime values
FIX: ComponentInstaller - longer timeout for checking components PID (after restart)
CHANGE: Proxy - in executeWithUserProxy() when multiple DNs are present, try all of them
CHANGE: List utility - change uniqueElements() to be much faster
NEW: Platform - added getPlatform() and getPlatformTuple() utilities to evaluate lazily the
     DIRAC platform only when it is needed, this accelerates DIRAC commands not needing
     the platform information.

*Configuration
NEW: GOCDB2CSAgent agent to synchronize GOCDB and CS data about perfSONAR services
NEW: VOMS2CSAgent to synchronize VOMS user data with the DIRAC Registry
CHANGE: ConfigurationData - lazy config data compression in getCompressedData()

*Framework
CHANGE: SystemAdministratorIntegrator - make initial pinging of the hosts in parallel
        to speed up the operation
CHANGE: InstalledComponentsDB - table to cache host status information populated
        by a periodic task
NEW: ComponentInstaller Client class to encapsulate all the installation utilities
     from InstallTools module
NEW: SystemAdministratorClientCLI - added uninstall host command
NEW: SystemAdministratorClientCLI - added show ports command
NEW: SystemAdministratorHandler - added getUsedPorts() interface
NEW: SystemAdministratorHandler - show host command shows also versions of the Extensions
NEW: InstalledComponentsDB - added Extension field to the HostLogging table
FIX: SystemLoggingDB - fixed double creation of db tables

*Accounting
FIX: DataStoreClient - Synchronizer based decorators have been replaced with a simple
     lock as they were blocking addRegister() during every commit();

*RSS
NEW: CE Availability policy, closing #2373
CHANGE: Ported setStatus and setToken rpc calls to PublisherHandler from LHCb implementation
NEW: E-mails generated while RSS actions are now aggregated to avoid avalanches of mails
NEW: dirac-rss-sync is also synchronizing Sites now

*DMS
CHANGE: FileCatalogClient - make explicit methods for all service calls
CHANGE: DataManager, StorageElement - move physical accounting the StorageElement
CHANGE: FileCatalog - added recursive changePathXXX operations
CHANGE: FileCatalog contained objects have Master attribute defined in the CS. Extra check of eligibility of the catalogs specified explicitely. No-LFN write methods return just the Master result to be compatible with the current use in the clients.
CHANGE: Removed LcgFileCatalogXXX obsoleted classes
NEW: ConsistencyInspector class to perform data consistency checks between
     different databases
CHANGE: FileCatalog(Client) - refactored to allow clients declare which interface
        they implement
NEW: FileCatalog - conditional FileCatalog instantiation based on the configured
     Operations criteria

*TS
CHANGE: TransformationDB table TaskInputs: InputVector column from BLOB to MEDIUMTEXT
FIX: TaskManager - fix bug in case there is no InputData for a task, the Request created
     for the previous task was reassigned
NEW: TaskManager - possibility to submit one bulk job for a series of tasks

*WMS
NEW: TaskQueueDB - possibility to present requirements in a form of tags from the
     site( pilot ) to the jobs to select ones with required properties
FIX: JobWrapper - the InputData optimizer parameters are now DEncoded
CHANGE: JobAgent - add Processors and WholeNode tags to the resources description
CHANGE: SiteDirector - flag to always download pilot output is set to False by default
FIX: SiteDirector - using PilotRunDirectory as WorkingDirectory, if available at the CE
     level in the CS. Featire requested in issue #2746
NEW: MultiProcessorSiteDirector - new director to experiment with the multiprocessor/
     wholeNode queues
CHANGE: JobMemory utility renamed to JobParameters
CHANGE: CheckWNCapabilities pilot command changed to get WN parameters from the
        Machine Job Features (MJF) - NumberOfProcessors, MaxRAM
NEW: JobManager, ParametricJob - utilities and support for parametric jobs with multiple
     parameter sequences
NEW: SiteDirector - added logic to send pilots to sites with no waiting pilots even if
     the number of already sent pilots exceeds the number of waiting jobs. The functionality
     is switched on/off by the AddPilotsToEmptySites option.

*RMS
FIX: Request - fix for the case when one of the request is malformed, the rest of
     the requests could not be swiped
FIX: ReqProxyHandler - don't block the ReqProxy sweeping if one of the request is buggy
CHANGE: ReqProxyHandler - added monitoring counters
NEW: ReqProxyHandler - added interface methods to list and show requests in a ReqProxy

*Resources
FIX: SRM2Storage - do not add accounting to the output structure as it is done in
     the container StorageElement class
CHANGE: Add standard metadata in the output of all the Storage plugins

*Interfaces
NEW: Job API - added setParameterSequence() to add an arbitrary number of parameter
     sequences for parametric jobs, generate the corresponding JDL

*tests
NEW: The contents of the TestDIRAC package is moved into the tests directory here

[v6r14p39]

Patch to include WebApp version v1r6p32

[v6r14p38]

*Core
CHANGE: Unhashable objects as DAG graph nodes

*RMS
CHANGE: Added possibility of constant delay for RMS operations

[v6r14p37]

*Core
NEW: Added soft implementation of a Direct Acyclic Graph

*Configuration
FIX: Bdii2CSAgent finds all CEs of a site (was finding only one)

*Resources
FIX: Make sure transferClient connects to the same ProxyStorage instance

[v6r14p36]

*Core
FIX: Sending mails to multiple recipients was not working

*WMS
FIX: Allow staging from SEs accessible by protocol


[v6r14p35]

*Core
FIX: SOAPFactory - fixes for import statements of suds module to work with the
     suds-jurko package that replaces the suds package

*Resources
FIX: BatchSystems.Torque - take into account that in some cases jobID includes
     a host name that should be stripped off
FIX: SSHComputingElement - in _getJobOutputFiles() fixed bug where the output
     of scpCall() call was wrongly interpreted
FIX: ProxyStorage - evaluate the service url as simple /DataManagement/StorageElementProxy
     to solve the problem with redundant StorageElementProxy services with multiple
     possible urls

*RSS
CHANGE: Configurations.py - Added DTScheduled3 policy (3 hours before downtime)

*WMS
FIX: pilotCommands - take into account that in the case of Torque batch system
     jobID includes a host name that should be stripped off

[v6r14p34]

*Configuration
FIX: Bdii2CSAgent - reinitilize the BDII info cache at each cycle in order not to
     carry on obsoleted stuff. Fixes #2959

*Resources
FIX: Slurm.py - use --partition rather --cluster for passing the DIRAC queue name
FIX: DIPStorage - fixed bug in putFile preventing third party-like transfer from
     another DIPS Storage Element. Fixes #2413

*WMS
CHANGE: JobWrapper - added BOINC user ID to the job parameters
FIX: pilotCommands - interpret SLURM_JOBID environment if present
FIX: WMSClient - strip of comments in the job JDL before any processing.
     Passing jdl with comments to the WMS could provoke errors in the
     job checking.

[v6r14p33]

*WMS
FIX: JobAgent - included a mechanism to stop JobAgent if the host operator
     creates /var/lib/dirac_drain
FIX: CPUNormalization - fixed a typo in getPowerFromMJF() in the name of the
     exception log message

[v6r14p32]

*Core
FIX: InstallTools - getStartupComponentStatus() uses "ps -p <pid>" variant of the
     system call to be independent of the OS differences

*DMS
FIX: RemoveReplica - bulkRemoval() was modifying its input dict argument and returning it,
     which was useless, only modify argument

*WMS
CHANGE: CPUNormalization - get HS'06 worker node value from JOBFEATURES if available

*RMS
FIX: ReqClient - bug fixed preventing the client to contact multiple instances of ReqManager
     service

[v6r14p31]

*DMS
FIX: FTSAgent - if a file was not Scheduled, the FTSAgent was setting it Done even if it had
     not been replicated.

*Workflow
FIX: FailoverRequest - forcing setting the input file Unused if it was already set Processed

[v6r14p30]

*Framework
BUGFIX: MonitoringHandler - in deleteActivities() use retVal['Message'] if result is not OK

*Resources
FIX: XROOTStorage - in getFile() evaluate file URL without URL parameters
                    in __putSingleFile() use result['Message'] in case of error

*RMS
FIX: dirac-rms-cancel-request - fixed crash because of gLogger object was not imported

*TS
FIX: TransformationCLI - in resetProcessedFile() added check that the Failed dictionary
     is present in the result of a call

[v6r14p29]

*Core
FIX: Time - skip the effect of timeThis decorator if not running interractively

*DMS
FIX: DataManager - in getFile(), select preferentially local disk replicas, if none disk replicas,
     if none tape replicas
FIX: DataManager - avoid changing argument of public method checkActiveReplicas()
FIX: FTSAgent - wait 3 times longer for monitoring FTS jobs if Staging

*Accounting
CHANGE: Jobs per pilot plot is presented as Quality plot rather than a histogram

*WMS
CHANGE: dirac-wms-cpu-normalization - reduce memory usage by using xrange() instead of range()
        in the large test loop

[v6r14p28]

*TS
FIX: TaskManager - protection against am empty task dictionary in
     prepareTransformationTasks()
FIX: Test_Client_TransformationSystem - fixes ti run in the Travis CI
     environment

*WMS
FIX: JobMemory - use urllib instead of requests Python module as the latter
     can be unavailable in pilots.

[v6r14p27]

*Core
FIX: PlainTransport,SocketInfoFactory - fix for the IPv6 "Address family not supported
     by protocol" problems

*Interfaces
NEW: Dirac.py - in ping()/pingService() allow to ping a specific URL

*Resources
FIX: LcgFileCatalogClient - convert LFN into str in __fullLfn to allow LFNs
     in a unicode encoding

*WMS
FIX: JobWrapper - set the job minor status to 'Failover Request Failed'
     if the failover request fails sending

*TS
FIX: TransformationDB - in getTransformationTasks(),getTaskInputVector
     forward error result to the callers
FIX: TaskManager - in case there is no InputData for a task, the Request created
     for the previous task was reassigned. This fixes this bug.

*tests
FIX: several fixes to satisfy on-the-fly unit tests with teh Travis CI service

[v6r14p26]

NEW: Enabled on-the-fly tests using the Travis-CI service

*Core
FIX: Subprocess - fix two potential infinite loops which can result in indefinite
     output buffer overflow

*WMS
FIX: JobScheduling executor - check properly if staging is allowed, it was always True before

[v6r14p25]

*Core
FIX: Subprocess - more detailed error log message in case ov output buffer
     overflow

*DMS
FIX: DataManager - fix for getActiveReplicas(): first check Active replicas before
     selecting disk SEs

*Resources
FIX: StorageElementCache - fixes to make this class thread safe
FIX: StorageFactory - fix in getConfigStorageProtocols() to properly get options
     for inheriting SE definitions

[v6r14p24]

*Accounting
FIX: Plots, JobPlotter - fix sorting by plot labels in case the enddata != "now"

*DMS
FIX: dirac-dms-user-lfns - add error message when proxy is expired

[v6r14p23]

*Interfaces
FIX: Job.py - setCPUTime() method sets both CPUTime and MaxCPUTime JDL parameters
     for backward compatibility. Otherwise this setting was ignored by scheduling

*TS
BUGFIX: TaskManager - bug fixed in submitTransformationTasks in getting the TransformationID

[v6r14p22]

CHANGE: Multiple commands - permissions bits changed from 644 to 755

*Framework
FIX: UserProfileDB - in case of desktop name belonging to two different users we have
     to use both desktop name and user id to identify the desktop

*WMS
BUGFIX: JobWrapperTemplate - bug fixed in evaluation of the job arguments

*TMS
CHANGE: TaskManager - added TransformationID to the log messages

[v6r14p21]

*DMS
CHANGE: dirac-admin-allow(ban)-se - allow an SE group to be banned/allowed

*SMS
FIX: RequestPreparationAgent - fix crash in execute() in case no replica information
     available

*WMS
FIX: TaskQueueDB, PilotAgentsDB - escape DN strings to avoid potential SQL injection
FIX: JobWrapperTemplate - pass JobArguments through a json file to fix the case
     of having apostrophes in the values

*TMS
FIX: TransformationAgent - in processTransformation() fix reduction of number of files

[v6r14p20]

*WMS
FIX: SandboxMetadataDB - escape values in SandboxMetadataDB SQL queries to accommodate
     DNs containing apostrophe

[v6r14p19]

*Core
NEW: CLI base class for all the DIRAC CLI consoles, common methods moved to the new class,
     XXXCLI classes updated to inherit the base class
FIX: Network - fix crash when path is empty string, fixes partly #2413

*Configuration
FIX: Utilities.addToChangeSet() - fix the case when comma is in the BDII Site description
     followed by a white space, the description string was constantly updated in the CS

*Interfaces
FIX: Dirac.py - in retrieveRepositorySandboxes/Data - "Retrieved" and "OutputData" key values
     are strings '0' in the jobDict when a repository file is read, need to cast it to int

*DMS
FIX: RegisterReplica - if operation fails on a file that no longer exists and has no
     replica at that SE, consider the operation as Done.

*Resources
FIX: ARCComputingElement - bug fix in getJobOutput in using the S_ERROR()

[v6r14p18]

*Core
FIX: VOMSService - attGetUserNickname() can only return string type values
FIX: dirac-deploy-scripts - install DIRAC scripts first so that they can be
     overwritten by versions from extensions

*Framework
FIX: dirac-populate-component-db - bug fixed to avoid duplicate entries in the
     database

*TS
FIX: TaskManager - do not use ReqProxy when submitting Request for Tasks, otherwise
     no RequestID can be obtained

*Interfaces
CHANGE: Dirac.py - increase verbosity of a error log message in selectJobs

*Resources
FIX: XROOTStorage - fixed KeyError exception while checking file existence
FIX: ARCComputingElement - in getJobOutput test for existence of an already
     downloaded pilot log

[v6r14p17]

*Core
FIX: Service.py - use the service name as defined in the corresponding section in the CS
     and not the name defined in service Module option. This fixes the problem with the
     StorageElement service not interpreting properly the PFN name and using a wrong local
     data path.

*Resources
CHANGE: ARCComputingElement - if the VO is not discoverable from the environment, use ARC API
        call in the getCEStatus, use ldapsearch otherwise

[v6r14p16]

*Resources
CHANGE: ARC Computing Element automatically renew proxies of jobs when needed

[v6r14p15]

*Core
FIX: VOMS.py - Fixed bug that generates proxies which are a mix between legacy and rfc proxies.

*DMS
CHANGE: Allow selecting disk replicas in getActiveReplicas() and getReplicas()

*WMS
CHANGE: Use the preferDisk option in the InputData optimizer, the TransformationAgent and in the Interface splitter


[v6r14p14]

*Core
FIX: VOMS.py - return RFC proxy if necessary after adding the VOMS extension

*Configuration
FIX: Validate maxCPUTime and Site description value

*Resources
FIX: XROOTStorage - changes to allow third party transfers between XROOT storages
CHANGE: HTCondorCEComputingElement - the Condor logging can now be obtained in the webinterface;
        SIGTERM (instead of SIGKILL) is send to the application in case jobs are killed by the host site;
        when pilots are put in held status we kill them in condor and mark them as aborted.

*WMS
FIX: pilotCommands - fixes for intrepreting tags in the pilot

[v6r14p13]

*WMS
FIX: pilot commands CheckCECapabilities and CheckWNCapabilities were not considering the case of missing proxy

[v6r14p12]

*Core
FIX: allow a renormalization of the estimated CPU power
FIX: dirac-install: Make hashlib optional again (for previous versions of python, since the pilot may end up on old machines)

*Framework
FIX: allow to install agents with non-standard names (different from the module name)

*DMS
CHANGE: Consider files to reschedule and submit when they are Failed in FTS

*WMS
CHANGE: Move getCEStatus function back to using the ARC API

[v6r14p11]

*Core
FIX: XXXTimeLeft - set limit to CPU lower than wall clock if unknown
FIX: Logger - fix exception printing in gLogger.exception()
CHANGE: InstallTools - added more info about the process in getStartupComponentStatus()
CHANGE: Time - better report from timeThis() decorator

*DMS
CHANGE: FTSAgent - wait some time between 2 monitorings of each job

*WMS
NEW: pilotCommands - added CheckCECapabilities, CheckWNCapabilities commands
NEW: Added dirac-wms-get-wn-parameters command

*TS
NEW: Added dirac-production-runjoblocal command
FIX: TransformationAgent(Plugin) - clean getNextSite() and normalizeShares()
FIX: TransformationPlugin - added setParameters() method

*RSS
FIX: dirac-rss-sync - move imports to after the Script.getPositionalArguments()

*Resources
NEW: Added dirac-resource-get-parameters command

[v6r14p10]
*Configuration
FIX: Resources - getQueue() is fixed to get properly Tag parameters

*Framework
FIX: SecurityFileLog - fix for zipping very large files

*Resources
NEW: added dirac-resource-get-parameters command

*WMS
NEW: JobMonitoringHandler - add getJobsParameters() method
NEW: pilotCommands - added CheckCECapabilities, CheckWNCapabilities
NEW: Added dirac-wms-get-wn-parameters command
NEW: Matcher - generate internal tags for MaxRAM and NumberOfProcessors parameters
CHANGE: SiteDirector does not pass Tags to the Pilot
FIX: Matcher(Handler) - do not send error log message if No match found,
     fixed Matcher return value not correctly interpreted

[v6r14p9]

*Core
FIX: BaseClient - enhance retry connection logic to minimize the overall delay
FIX: MessageBroker - fix of calling private __remove() method from outside
     of the class

*Framework
BUGFIX: dirac-(un)install-component - bug in importing InstallTools module

*WMS:
FIX: JobWrapper - fix in getting the OutputPath defined in the job

*Resources
FIX: ARCComputingElement - add queue to the XRSL string

[v6r14p8]

*Core
FIX: XXXTimeLeft - minor fixes plus added the corresponding Test case
FIX: ReturnValues - fixes in the doc strings to comply with the sphinx syntax
FIX: SocketInfoFactory - in __sockConnect() catch exception when creating a
     socket

*Interfaces
FIX: Job.py - fixes in the doc strings to comply with the sphinx syntax

*RSS
NEW: Configurations.py - new possible configuration options for Downtime Policies

*WMS
CHANGE: StatesAccountingAgent - retry once and empty the local messages cache
        in case of failure to avoid large backlog of messages
CHANGE: SiteDirector - do not send SharedArea and ClientPlatform as pilot
        invocation arguments
CHANGE: Matcher - allow matching by hosts in multi-VO installations

[v6r14p7]

*Core
CHANGE: XXXTimeLeft utilities revisited - all return real seconds,
        code refactoring - use consistently always the same CPU power

*WMS
FIX: JobAgent - code refactoring for the timeLeft logic part

*Resources
BUGFIX: ComputingElement - get rid of legacy getResourcesDict() call

[v6r14p6]

*Configuration
FIX: Bdii2CSAgent - refresh configuration from Master before updating
FIX: Bdii2CSAgent - distinguish the CE and the Cluster in the Glue 1.0 schema

*DMS
CHANGE: FTSAgent - make the amount of scheduled requests fetched by the
        FTSAgent a parameter in the CS
CHANGE: RMS Operations - check whether the always banned policy is applied for SEs
        to a given access type

*RMS
FIX: RequestClient(DB,Manager) - fix bulk requests, lock the lines when selecting
     the requests to be assigned, update the LastUpdate time, and expose the
     assigned flag to the client

*WMS
FIX: JobAgent - when the application finishes with errors but the agent continues
     to take jobs, the timeLeft was not evaluated
FIX: JobAgent - the initial timeLeft value was always set to 0.0

[v6r14p5]

*Core
FIX: X509Certificate - protect from VOMS attributes that are not decodable


*Resources
FIX: GFAL2_StorageBase - fixed indentation and a debug log typo

*WMS
BUGFIX: Matcher - only the first job was associated with the given pilot
FIX: pilotTools - 0o22 is only a valid int for recent python interpreters,
     replaced by 18

[v6r14p4]

*Core
FIX: DictCache - fix the exception in the destructor preventing the final
     cache cleaning

*Framework
FIX: SystemAdministratorClientCLI - corrected info line inviting to update
     the pilot version after the software update

*DMS
FIX: FTSAgent - Add recovery of FTS files that can be left in weird statuses
     when the agent dies
CHANGE: DataManager - allow to not get URLs of the replicas
CHANGE: FTSJob - keep and reuse the FTS3 Context object

*Storage
CHANGE: StorageManagerClient - don't fail getting metadata for staging if at
        least one staged replica found

*WMS
FIX: CPUNormalization - protect MJF from 0 logical cores
FIX: JobScheduling - fix printout that was saying "single site" and "multiple sites"
     in two consecutive lines
NEW: pilotTools,Commands - added CEType argument, e.g. to specify Pool CE usage
FIX: WatchDog - added checks of function return status, added hmsCPU initialization to 0,
     removed extra printout

*Resources
FIX: GFAL2 plugins - multiple bug fixes

[v6r14p3]

*Core
BUGFIX: small bug fixed in dirac-install-component, dirac-uninstall-component
BUGFIX: VOMS - remove the temporary file created when issuing getVOMSProxyInfo
FIX: FileHelper - support unicode file names
FIX: DictCache - purges all the entry of the DictCache when deleting the DictCache object

*Framework
BUGFIX: dirac-populate-component-db - avoid return statement out of scope

*Interfaces
BUGFIX: Dirac - in submitJob() faulty use of os.open

*WMS
FIX: JobWrapper - avoid evaluation of OutputData to ['']
FIX: Matcher - the Matcher object uses a VO dependent Operations helper
CHANGE: JobAgent - stop agent if time left is too small (default 1000 HS06.s)
FIX: CPUNormalization - use correct denominator to get power in MJF

*Resources
FIX: ARCComputingElement - changed implementation of ldap query for getCEStatus

[v6r14p2]

*Core
FIX: Use GSI version 0.6.3 by default
CHANGE: Time - print out the caller information in the timed decorator
CHANGE: dirac-install - set up ARC_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable

*Framework
FIX: dirac-proxy-info - use actimeleft VOMS attribute

*Accounting
CHANGE: Removed SRMSpaceTokenDeployment Accounting type

*RSS
CHANGE: ResourceStatus - re-try few times to update the RSS SE cache before giving up
FIX: XXXCommand, XXXAction - use self.lof instead of gLogger
CHANGE: Added support for all protocols for SEs managed by RSS

*RMS
FIX: Request - produce enhanced digest string
FIX: RequestDB - fix in getDigest() in case of errors while getting request

*Resources
CHANGE: Propagate hideExceptions flag to the ObjectLoader when creating StorageElements
FIX: ARCComputingElement - multiple fixes after experience in production

*WMS
FIX: Pilot commands - fixed an important bug, when using the
     dirac-wms-cpu-normalization script

[v6r14p1]

The version is buggy when used in pilots

*Core
NEW: dirac-install-component command replacing dirac-install-agent/service/executor
     commands

*Resources
NEW: FileStorage - plugin for "file" protocol
FIX: ARCComputingElement - evaluate as int the job exit code

*RSS
FIX: CSHelpers - several fixes and beautifications

[v6r14]

*Core
NEW: CSGlobals - includes Extensions class to consistently check the returned
     list of extensions with proper names
NEW: ProxyManagerXXX, ProxyGeneration, X509XXX - support for RFC proxies
NEW: ProxyInfo - VOMS proxy information without using voms commands
NEW: LocalConfiguration - option to print out license information
FIX: SocketInfo.py - check the CRL lists while handshaking

Configuration
NEW: ConfigurationClient - added getSectionTree() method

*Framework
NEW: InstalledComponentsDB will now store information about the user who did the
     installation/uninstallation of components.

*Resources
NEW: ARCComputingElement based on the ARC python API

*RSS
FIX: Improved logging all over the place

*DMS
NEW: New FileCatalog SecurityManager with access control based on policies,
     VOMSPolicy as one of the policy implementations.
NEW: lfc_dfc_db_copy - script used by LHCb to migrate from the LFC to the DFC with
     Foreign Keys and Stored Procedures by accessing the databases directly
NEW: FileManagerPs.py - added _getFileLFNs() to serve info for the Web Portal
CHANGE: Moving several tests to TestDIRAC

*Interfaces
CHANGE: use jobDescription.xml as a StringIO object to avoid multiple disk
        write operations while massive job submission

*WMS
FIX: Watchdog - review for style and pylint
CHANGE: Review of the Matcher code, extracting Limiter and Matcher as standalone
        utilities


*Transformation
NEW: New ported plugins from LHCb, added unit tests


[v6r13p21]

*TS
FIX: Registering TargetSE for Standard TransformationAgent plugin

[v6r13p20]

*DMS
FIX: DMSHelpers - allow for more than one Site defined to be local per SE

*Resources
FIX: XRootStorage - fix in getURLBase()

[v6r13p19]

FIX: changes incorporated from v6r12p53 patch

[v6r13p18]

*WMS
FIX: JobWrapper - ported back from v6r14p9 the fix for getting OutputPath

[v6r13p17]

FIX: changes incorporated from v6r12p52 patch

[v6r13p16]

FIX: changes incorporated from v6r12p51 patch

[v6r13p15]

Included patches from v6r12p50 release

[v6r13p14]

*DMS
FIX: ReplicateAndRegister - fix a problem when a file is set Problematic
     in the FC but indeed doesn't exist at all

*Resources
CHANGE: StorageFactory - enhance the logic of BaseSE inheritance in the
        SE definition in the CS

*WMS
CHANGE: CPUNormalization, dirac-wms-cpu-normalization - reading CPU power
        from MJF for comparison with the DIRAC evaluation
FIX: SiteDirector - create pilot working directory in the batch system working
     directory and not in "/tmp"

[v6r13p13]

*DMS
BUGFIX: FileCatalogClient - bug fixed in getDirectoryMetadata()

[v6r13p12]

*Resources
FIX: StorageElement - bug fixed in inValid()
CHANGE: StorageFactory - do not interpret VO parameter as mandatory

[v6r13p11]

*DMS
BUGFIX: RemoveReplica - fix in singleRemoval()
FIX: dirac-dms-user-lfns - increased timeout

[v6r13p10]

CHANGE: Use sublogger to better identify log source in multiple places

*Core
CHANGE: Review / beautify code in TimeLeft and LSFTimeLeft
FIX: LSFTimeLeft - is setting shell variables, not environment variables,
     therefore added an "export" command to get the relevant variable
     and extract then the correct normalization

*Accounting
FIX: DataOperationPlotter - add better names to the data operations

*DMS:
FIX: DataManager - add mandatory vo parameter in __SEActive()
CHANGE: dirac-dms-replicate-and-register-request - submit multiple requests
        to avoid too many files in a single FTS request
FIX: FileCatalog - typo in getDirectoryMetadata()
FIX: FileCatalog - pass directory name to getDirectoryMetadata and not file name
FIX: DataManager - in __SEActive() break LFN list in smaller chunks when
     getting replicas from a catalog

*WMS
FIX: WMSAdministratorHandler - fix in reporting pilot statistics
FIX: JobScheduling - fix in __getSitesRequired() when calling self.jobLog.info
CHANGE: pilotCommands - when exiting with error, print out current processes info

[v6r13p9]

*Framework
FIX: SystemLoggingDB - schema change for ClientIPs table to store IPv6 addresses

*DMS
BUGFIX: DMSRequestOperationsBase - bug fix in checkSEsRSS()
FIX: RemoveFile - in __call__(): bug fix; fix in the BannedSE treatment logic

*RMS
BUGFIX: Operation - in catalogList()
BUGFIX: ReqClient - in printOperation()

*Resources
FIX: GFAL2_StorageBase - added Lost, Cached, Unavailable in getSingleFileMetadata() output
BUGFIX: GFAL2_StorageBase - fixed URL construction in put(get)SingleFile() methods

*WMS
FIX: InputDataByProtocol - removed StorageElement object caching

[v6r13p8]

*Framework
FIX: MonitoringUtilities - minor bug fix

*DMS
FIX: DataManager - remove local file when doing two hops transfer

*WMS
FIX: SandboxStoreClient - get the VO info from the delegatedGroup argument to
     use for the StorageElement instantiation

*TMS
CHANGE: Transformation(Client,DB,Manager) - multiple code clean-up without
        changing the logic

[v6r13p7]

*Core
NEW: X509CRL - class to handle certificate revocation lists

*DMS
FIX: RequestOperations/RemoveFile.py - check target SEs to be online before
     performing the removal operation.
FIX: SecurityManager, VOMSPolicy - make the vomspolicy compatible with the old client
     by calling in case of need the old SecurityManager

*Resources
BUGFIX: Torque, GE - methods must return Message field in case of non-zero return status
FIX: SRM2Storage - when used internaly, listDirectory should return urls and not lfns

*WMS
FIX: ConfigureCPURequirements pilot command - add queue CPU length to the extra local
     configuration
FIX: JobWrapper - load extra local configuration of any

*RMS
FIX: RequestDB - fix in getRequestSummaryWeb() to suit the Web Portal requirements

*Transformation
FIX: TransformationManagerHandler - fix in getTransformationSummaryWeb() to suit
     the Web Portal requirements

[v6r13p6]

*Core
FIX: X509Chain - use SHA1 signature encryption in all tha cases

*Resources
FIX: ComputingElement - take CPUTime from its configuration defined in the
     pilot parameters

*WMS
FIX: SiteDirector - correctly configure jobExecDir and httpProxy Queue parameters

[v6r13p5]

*Resources
BUGFIX: Torque - getCEStatus() must return integer job numbers
FIX: StorageBase - removed checking the VO name inside the LFN

*WMS
FIX: InputData, JobScheduling - StorageElement needs to know its VO

*DMS
FIX: ReplicateAndRegister - Add checksumType to RMS files when adding
     checksum value
FIX: DataManager - remove unnecessary access to RSS and use SE.getStatus()
FIX: DMHelpers - take into account Alias and BaseSE in site-SE relation

*RMS
FIX: Request - bug fixed in optimize() in File reassignment from one
     Operation to another

*Transformation
FIX: TransformationDB - set derived transformation to Automatic

[v6r13p4]

*Core
FIX: VOMSService - treat properly the case when the VOMS service returns no result
     in attGetUserNickname()

*DMS
FIX: FTSAgent, ReplicateAndRegister - make sure we use source replicas with correct
     checksum

*RMS
FIX: Request - minor fix in setting the Request properties, suppressing pylint
     warnings
CHANGE: File, Reques, Operation, RequestDB - remove the use of sqlalchemy on
        the client side

*Resources
FIX: StorageElement - import FileCatalog class rather than the corresponding module
FIX: SLURM - proper formatting commands using %j, %T placeholders
FIX: SSHComputingElement - return full job references from getJobStatus()

*RSS
FIX: DowntimeCommand - checking for downtimes including the time to start in hours

*Workflow
CHANGE: FailoverRequest - assign to properties rather than using setters

*Transformation
FIX: TransformationClient(DB,Utilities) - fixes to make derived transformations work

[v6r13p3]

*DMS
FIX: DataManager - in putAndRegister() specify explicitly registration protocol
     to ensure the file URL available right after the transfer

*Resources
FIX: SRM2Storage - use the proper se.getStatus() interface ( not the one of the RSS )

[v6r13p2]

*Framework
FIX: SystemAdministratorHandler - install WebAppDIRAC extension only in case
     of Web Portal installation
CHANGE: dirac-populate-component-db - check the setup of the hosts to register
        into the DB only installations from the same setup; check the MySQL installation
        before retrieving the database information

*DMS
FIX: FTSAgent - fix in parsing the server result
FIX: FTSFile - added Waiting status
FIX: FTSJob - updated regexps for the "missing source" reports from the server;
     more logging message

*Resources
FIX: SRM2Storage - fix in treating the checksum type
FIX: StorageElement - removed getTransportURL from read methods

*RMS
FIX: Request - typo in the optimize() method

[v6r13p1]

*Framework
CHANGE: SystemAdminstratorIntegrator - can take a list of hosts to exclude from contacting

*DMS
FIX: DataManager - fix in __getFile() in resolving local SEs
FIX: dirac-dms-user-lfns - sort result, simplify logic

*RMS
FIX: Request - Use DMSHelper to resolve the Failovers SEs
FIX: Operation - treat the case where the SourceSE is None

*WMS
FIX: WMSAdministratorHandler - return per DN dictionary from getPilotStatistics

[v6r13]

CHANGE: Separating fixed and variable parts of error log messages for multiple systems
        to allow SystemLogging to work

*Core
FIX: MySQL.py - treat in detailed way datetime functions in __escapeString()
FIX: DictCache.get() returns now None instead of False if no or expired value
NEW: InstallTools - allow to define environment variables to be added to the component
     runit run script
NEW: Changes to make the DISET protocol IP V6 ready
CHANGE: BaseClient - retry service call on another instance in case of failure
CHANGE: InnerRPCClient - retry 3 times in case of exception in the transport layer
CHANGE: SocketInfo - retry 3 times in case of handshaking error
CHANGE: MySQL - possibility to specify charset in the table definition
FIX: dirac-install, dirac-distribution - removed obsoleted defaults
NEW: Proxy utility module with executeWithUserProxy decorator function

*Configuration
NEW: CSAPI,dirac-admin-add-shifter - function, and script, for adding or modifying a
     shifter in the CS

*Framework
FIX: NotificationDB - escape fields for sorting in getNotifications()
NEW: Database, Service, Client, commands for tracking the installed DIRAC components

*Interfaces
CHANGE: Dirac - changed method names, keeping backward compatibility
CHANGE: multiple commands updated to use the new Dirac API method names

*DMS
NEW: Native use of the FTS3 services
CHANGE: Removed the use of current DataLogging service
CHANGE: DataManager - changes to manage URLs inside StorageElement objects only
FIX: DataManager - define SEGroup as accessible at a site
CHANGE: DirectoryListing - extracted from FileCatalogClientCLI as an independent utility
CHANGE: MetaQuery - extracted from FileCatalogClientCLI as an independent utility
CHANGE: FileCatalogClientCLI uses external DirectoryListing, MetaQuery utilities
CHANGE: FileCatalog - replace getDirectoryMetadata by getDirectoryUserMetadata
NEW: FileCatalog - added new getDirectoryMetadata() interface to get standard directory metadata
NEW: FileCatalog - possibility to find files by standard metadata
NEW: FileCatalog - possibility to use wildcards in the metadata values for queries
NEW: DMSHelpers class
NEW: dirac-dms-find-lfns command

*WMS
NEW: SiteDirector - support for the MaxRAM queue description parameter
CHANGE: JobScheduling executor uses the job owner proxy to evaluate which files to stage
FIX: DownloadInputData - localFile was not defined properly
FIX: DownloadInputData - could not find cached files (missing [lfn])

*RMS
CHANGE: Removed files from the previous generation RMS
CHANGE: RMS refactored based on SQLAlchemy
NEW: ReqClient - added options to putRequest(): useFailoverProxy and retryMainServer
CHANGE: DMSRequestOperationsBase - delay execution or cancel request based on SE statuses
        from RSS/CS
FIX: Fixes to make use of RequestID as a unique identifier. RequestName can be used in
     commands in case of its uniqueness

*Resources
NEW: Computing - BatchSystem classes introduced to be used both in Local and SSH Computing Elements
CHANGE: Storage - reworked Storage Element/Plugins to encapsulate physical URLs
NEW: GFAL2_StorageBase.py, GFAL2_SRM2Storage.py, GFAL2_XROOTStorage.py

*RSS:
NEW: dirac-admin-allow(ban)-se - added RemoveAccess status
CHANGE: TokenAgent - added more info to the mail

*TS
CHANGE: Task Manager plugins

[v6r12p53]

*DMS
CHANGE: FileCatalogClientCLI - ls order by size, human readable size value
FIX: DirectoryMetadata - enhanced error message in getDirectoryMetadata

*WMS
BUGFIX: JobAgent - bug when rescheduling job due to glexec failure

*TS
NEW: TransformationCLI - added getOutputFiles, getAllByUser commands
NEW: Transformation - added getAuthorDNfromProxy, getTransformationsByUser methods

*Resources
CHANGE: GlobusComputingElement - simplify creating of pilotStamp

[v6r12p52]

*DMS
NEW: dirac-dms-directory-sync - new command to synchronize the contents of a
     local and remote directories
FIX: DataManager - in removeFile() return successfully if empty input file list

*TS
NEW: TransformationCLI - getInputDataQuery command returning inputDataQuery
     of a given transformation

[v6r12p51]

*Core
FIX: dirac-install - fix to work with python version prior to 2.5

*DMS
CHANGE: FileCatalogClientCLI - possibility to set multiple metadata with one command

*Resources
FIX: HTCondorComputingElement - multiple improvements

[v6r12p50]

*Core
FIX: dirac-install - define TERMINFO variable to include local sources as well

*Framework
FIX: SystemAdministratorHandler - show also executors in the log overview

*DMS
FIX: FileCatalogClientCLI - use getPath utility systematically to normalize the
     paths passed by users

*WMS
FIX: PilotStatusAgent - split dynamic and static parts in the log error message

*Resources
NEW: HTCondorCEComputingElement class

[v6r12p49]

*Resources
FIX: GlobusComputingElement - in killJob added -f switch to globus-job-clean command
FIX: ARCComputingElement - create working directory if it does not exist

*DMS
CHANGE: DataManager - added XROOTD to registration protocols

*TMS
FIX: TransformationCLI - doc string

[v6r12p48]

*DMS
FIX: DirectoryTreeBase - fix in changeDirectoryXXX methods to properly interpret input

[v6r12p47]

*DMS
BUGFIX: FileCatalogClientCLI - wrong signature in the removeMetadata() service call

[v6r12p46]

*Core
FIX: GraphData - check for missing keys in parsed_data in initialize()

*WMS
CHANGE: PilotStatusAgent - kill pilots being deleted; do not delete pilots still
        running jobs

*RSS
CHANGE: Instantiate RequestManagementDB/Client taking into account possible extensions

*Resources
FIX: GlobusComputingElement - evaluate WaitingJobs in getCEStatus()
FIX: SRM2Storage - error 16 of exists call is interpreted as existing file
FIX: XROOTStorage - added Lost, Cached, Unavailable in the output of getSingleMetadata()

*WMS
FIX: pilotCommands - removed unnecessary doOSG() function

[v6r12p45]

*Resources
FIX: SRM2Storage - error 22 of exists call is interpreted as existing file
     ( backport from v6r13 )

[v6r12p44]

*WMS
FIX: SiteDirector - consider also pilots in Waiting status when evaluating
     queue slots available

*Resources
NEW: SRM2Storage - makes use of /Resources/StorageElements/SRMBusyFilesExist option
     to set up the mode of interpreting the 22 error code as existing file

[v6r12p43]

*DMS:
FIX: DirectoryTreeBase - avoid double definition of FC_DirectoryUsage table
     in _rebuildDirectoryUsage()

[v6r12p42]

FIX: added fixes from v6r11p34 patch release

[v6r12p41]

*WMS
CHANGE: dirac-wms-job-submit - "-r" switch to enable job repo

[v6r12p40]

*DMS
FIX: DirectoryTreeBase.py - set database engine to InnoDB

[v6r12p39]

FIX: imported fixes from rel-v6r11

[v6r12p38]

*DMS
CHANGE: DataManager - enhanced real SE name resolution

*RMS
FIX: Request - fixed bug in the optimization of requests with failover operations

*Resources
CHANGE: StorageFactory - allow for BaseSE option in the SE definition

[v6r12p37]

*Core
FIX: InstallTools - force $HOME/.my.cnf to be the only defaults file

[v6r12p36]

*Configuration
FIX: Utilities.py - bug fix getSiteUpdates()

[v6r12p35]

*Core
CHANGE: VOMSService - add URL for the method to get certificates

*DMS
FIX: DataManager - in __replicate() set do not pass file size to the SE if no
     third party transfer
FIX: RemoveFile, ReplicateAndRegister - regular expression for "no replicas"
     common for both DFC and LFC

*WMS
FIX: WMSHistoryCorrector - make explicit error if no data returned from WMSHistory
     accounting query

[v6r12p34]

*DMS
BUGFIX: FileCatalogWithFkAndPsDB - fix storage usage calculation

[v6r12p33]

*Core
NEW: VOMSService - added method admListCertificates()

*DMS
BUGFIX: dirac-dms-put-and-register-request - missing Operation in the request

*Resources
FIX: sshce - better interpretation of the "ps" command output

[v6r12p32]

*RMS
FIX: ReqManager - in getRequest() possibility to accept None type
     argument for any request

[v6r12p31]

*WMS
FIX: pilotCommands - import json module only in case it is needed

[v6r12p30]

*Core
FIX: InstallTools - 't' file is deployed for agents installation only
FIX: GOCDBClient - creates unique DowntimeID using the ENDPOINT

*Framework
FIX: SystemAdministratorHandler - use WebAppDIRAC extension, not just WebApp

*DMS:
FIX: FileCatalogComponents.Utilities - do not allow empty LFN names in
     checkArgumentDict()

[v6r12p29]

*CS
CHANGE: CSCLI - use readline to store and resurrect command history

*WMS
FIX: JobWrapper - bug fixed in the failoverTransfer() call
CHANGE: dirac-wms-job-submit - added -f flag to store ids

*DMS
FIX: DataManager - make successful removeReplica if missing replica
     in one catalog

*RMS
FIX: Operation, Request - limit the length of the error message

[v6r12p28]

*RMS
FIX: Request - do not optimize requests already in the DB

[v6r12p27]

*Core
CHANGE: InstallTools - install "t" script to gracefully stop agents

*DMS
FIX: FileCatalog - return GUID in DirectoryParameters

*Resource
CHANGE: DFC/LFC clients - added setReplicaProblematic()

[v6r12p26]

*DMS
BUGFIX: FileCatalog - getDirectoryMetadata was wrongly in ro_meta_methods list

*RMS
FIX: Operation - temporary fix in catalog names evaluation to smooth
     LFC->DFC migration - not to forget to remove afterwards !

*WMS
CHANGE: JobWrapper - added MasterCatalogOnlyFlag configuration option

[v6r12p25]

*DMS
BUGFIX: PutAndRegister, RegitserFile, RegisterReplica, ReplicateAndRegister - do not
        evaluate the catalog list if None

[v6r12p24]

*DMS:
FIX: DataManager - retry RSS call 5 times - to be reviewed

[v6r12p23]

*DMS
FIX: pass a catalog list to the DataManager methods
FIX: FileCatalog - bug fixed in the catalog list evaluation

[v6r12p22]

*DMS
FIX: RegisterFile, PutAndRegister - pass a list of catalogs to the DataManager instead of a comma separated string
FIX: FTSJob - log when a job is not found in FTS
CHANGE: dropped commands dirac-admin-allow(ban)-catalog

*Interfaces
CHANGE: Dirac, JobMonitoringHandler,dirac-wms-job-get-jdl - possibility to retrieve original JDL

*WMS
CHANGE: JobManifest - make MaxInputData a configurable option

[v6r12p21]

*RMS
BUGFIX: File,Operation,RequestDB - bug making that the request would always show
        the current time for LastUpdate

*WMS
FIX: JobAgent - storing on disk retrieved job JDL as required by VMDIRAC
     ( to be reviewed )

[v6r12p20]

*DMS
FIX: DataManager - more informative log messages, checking return structure
FIX: FileCatalog - make exists() behave like LFC file catalog client by checking
     the unicity of supplied GUID if any
FIX: StorageElementProxyHandler - do not remove the cache directory

*Framework
FIX: SystemAdministratorClient - increase the timeout to 300 for the software update

*RMS
FIX: Operation.py - set Operation Scheduled if one file is Scheduled
CHANGE: Request - group ReplicateAndRegister operations together for failover
        requests: it allows to launch all FTS jobs at once

*Resources
FIX: LcgFileCatalogClient - fix longstanding problem in LFC when several files
     were not available (only one was returned)

*TS
BUGFIX: TransformationCleaning,ValidateOutputDataAgent - interpret correctly
        the result of getTransformationParameters() call
FIX: TaskManager - fix exception in RequestTaskAgent

[v6r12p19]

*Core
FIX: Core.py - check return value of getRecursive() call

*DMS
FIX: FileCatalog - directory removal is successful if does not exist
     special treatment of Delete operation

*WMS
FIX: InputDataByProtocol - fix interpretation of return values

[v6r12p18]

*DMS
FIX: FTSStrategy - config option name
FIX: DataManager - removing dirac_directory flag file only of it is there
     in __cleanDirectory()

*RMS
FIX: Operation - MAX_FILES limit set to 10000
FIX: ReqClient - enhanced log messages

*TMS
FIX: TaskManager - enhanced log messages

*RSS
FIX: DowntimeCommand - fixed mix of SRM.NEARLINE and SRM

*WMS
FIX: InputDataByProtocol - fixed return structure

[v6r12p16]

*DMS
FIX: IRODSStorageElement more complete implementation
FIX: FileCatalogHandler(DB) - make removeMetadata bulk method

*Resources
FIX: FileCatalog - make a special option CatalogList (Operations) to specify catalogs used by a given VO

[v6r12p15]

*Core
FIX: ProcessPool - kill the working process in case of the task timeout
FIX: FileHelper - count transfered bytes in DataSourceToNetwork()

*DMS
BUGFIX: FileCatalogCLI - changed interface in changePathXXX() methods
NEW: IRODSStorageElementHandler class
CHANGE: FileCatalog - separate metadata and file catalog methods,
        apply metadata methods only to Metadata Catalogs

*Resources
FIX: SSHTorqueComputingElement - check the status of the ssh call for qstat

*WMS
FIX: WatchdogLinux - fixed typo

[v6r12p14]

*TS
FIX: TaskManagerAgentBase: avoid race conditions when submitting to WMS

*DMS
NEW: FileCatalog - added new components ( directory tree, file manager )
     making use of foreign keys and stored procedures
FIX: DataManager returns properly the FileCatalog errors

[v6r12p13]

*TS
BUGFIX: TransformationAgent - data member not defined

*WMS
FIX: InputData(Resolution,ByProtocol) - possibility to define RemoteProtocol

[v6r12p12]

*WMS
BUGFIX: pilotTools - missing comma

[v6r12p11]

*WMS
FIX: CPUNormalization - dealing with the case when the maxCPUTime is not set in the queue
     definition
FIX: pilotTools - added option pilotCFGFile

[v6r12p10]

*DMS
FIX: StorageElementProxy - BASE_PATH should be a full path

*Resources
FIX: SRM2Storage - return specific error in putFile

*TS
FIX: TransformationAgent - fix to avoid an exception in finalize and double printing
     when terminating the agent
BUGFIX: TransformationDB - fix return value in setTransformationParameter()

[v6r12p9]

*Core
CHANGE: SiteCEMapping - getSiteForCE can take site argu

ment to avoid confusion

*Interfaces
FIX: Job - provide optional site name in setDestinationCE()

*WMS
FIX: pilotCommands - check properly the presence of extra cfg files
     when starting job agent
FIX: JobAgent - can pick up local cfg file if extraOptions are specified

[v6r12p8]

*Core
FIX: dirac-configure - correctly deleting useServerCertificate flag
BUGFIX: InstallTools - in fixMySQLScript()

*DMS
BUGFIX: DatasetManager - bug fixes
CHANGE: StorageElementProxy - internal SE object created with the VO of the requester

*TS
FIX: dirac-transformation-xxx commands - do not check the transformation status
CHANGE: Agents - do not use shifter proxy
FIX: TransformationAgent - correct handling of replica cache for transformations
     when there were more files in the transformation than accepted to be executed
FIX: TransformationAgent - do not get replicas for the Removal transformations

*RMS
NEW: new SetFileStatus Operation

[v6r12p7]

*Core
FIX: dirac-configure - always removing the UseServerCertificate flag before leaving
FIX: ProcessPool - one more check for the executing task ending properly

*Interfaces
FIX: Dirac.py - use printTable in loggingInfo()

[v6r12p6]

FIX: fixes from v6r11p26 patch release

[v6r12p5]

*Core
FIX: VOMS.py - do not use obsoleted -dont-verify-ac flag with voms-proxy-info

*TS
FIX: TransformationManager - no status checked at level service

[v6r12p4]

FIX: fixes from v6r11p23 patch release

[v6r12p3]

*Configuration
CHANGE: dirac-admin-add-resources - define VOPath/ option when adding new SE

*Resources
NEW: StorageFactory - modify protocol Path for VO specific value

*DMS
FIX: FileCatalog - check for empty input in checkArgumentFormat utility
FIX: DataManager - protect against FC queries with empty input

[v6r12p2]

*Core
FIX: dirac-install - svn.cern.ch rather than svnweb.cern.ch is now needed for direct
     HTTP access to files in SVN

*WMS
FIX: dirac-wms-cpu-normalization - when re-configuring, do not try to dump in the
     diracConfigFilePath

[v6r12p1]

*Configuration
FIX: Core.Utilities.Grid, dirac-admin-add-resources - fix to make a best effort to
     guess the proper VO specific path of a new SE
*WMS
FIX: dirac-configure, pilotCommands, pilotTools - fixes to use server certificate

[v6r12]

*Core
CHANGE: ProcessPool - do not stop working processes by default
NEW: ReturnValue - added returnSingleResult() utility
FIX: MySQL - correctly parse BooleanType
FIX: dirac-install - use python 2.7 by default
FIX: dirac-install-xxx commands - complement installation with the component setup
     in runit
NEW: dirac-configure - added --SkipVOMSDownload switch, added --Output switch
     to define output configuration file
CHANGE: ProcessPool - exit from the working process if a task execution timed out
NEW: ProcessMonitor - added evaluation of the memory consumed by a process and its children
NEW: InstallTools - added flag to require MySQL installation
FIX: InstallTools - correctly installing DBs extended (with sql to be sourced)
FIX: InstallTools - run MySQL commands one by one when creating a new database
FIX: InstallTools - fixMySQLScripts() fixes the mysql start script to ognore /etc/my.cnf file
CHANGE: Os.py - the use of "which" is replaced by distutils.spawn.find_executable
NEW: Grid.py - ldapSA replaced by ldapSE, added getBdiiSE(CE)Info() methods
CHANGE: CFG.py - only lines starting with ^\s*# will be treated as comments
CHANGE: Shifter - Agents will now have longer proxies cached to prevent errors
        for heavy duty agents, closes #2110
NEW: Bdii2CSAgent - reworked to apply also for SEs and use the same utilities for the
     corresponding command line tool
NEW: dirac-admin-add-resources - an interactive tool to add and update sites, CEs, SEs
     to the DIRAC CS
CHANGE: dirac-proxy-init - added message in case of impossibility to add VOMS extension
FIX: GOCDBClient - handle correctly the case of multiple elements in the same DT


*Accounting
NEW: Allow to have more than one DB for accounting
CHANGE: Accounting - use TypeLoader to load plotters

*Framework
FIX: Logger - fix FileBackend implementation

*WMS
NEW: Refactored pilots ( dirac-pilot-2 ) to become modular following RFC #18,
     added pilotCommands.py, SiteDirector modified accordingly
CHANGE: InputData(Executor) - use VO specific catalogs
NEW: JobWrapper, Watchdog - monitor memory consumption by the job ( in a Warning mode )
FIX: SandboxStoreHandler - treat the case of exception while cleaning sandboxes
CHANGE: JobCleaningAgent - the delays of job removals become CS parameters
BUGFIX: JobDB - %j placeholder not replaced after rescheduling
FIX: JobDB - in the SQL schema description reorder tables to allow foreign keys
BUGFIX: JobAgent, Matcher - logical bug in using PilotInfoReported flag
FIX: OptimizerExecutor - when a job fails the optimization chain set the minor status
     to the optimiser name and the app status to the fail error

*Resources
NEW: StorageElement - added a cache of already created SE objects
CHANGE: SSHTorqueComputingElement - mv getCEStatus to remote script

*ResourceStatus
NEW: ResourceManagementClient/DB, DowntimeCommand - distinguish Disk and Tape storage
FIX: GODDBClient  - downTimeXMLParsing() can now handle the "service type" parameter properly
CHANGE: dirac-rss-xxx commands use the printTable standard utility
FIX: dirac-dms-ftsdb-summary - bug fix for #2096

*DMS
NEW: DataManager - add masterCatalogOnly flag in the constructor
FIX: DataManager - fix to protect against non valid SE
CHANGE: FC.DirectoryLevelTree - use SELECT ... FOR UPDATE lock in makeDir()
FIX: FileCatalog - fixes in using file and replica status
CHANGE: DataManager - added a new argument to the constructor - vo
CHANGE: DataManager - removed removeCatalogFile() and dirac-dms-remove-catalog-file adjusted
CHANGE: Several components - field/parameter CheckSumType all changed to ChecksumType
CHANGE: PoolXMLCatalog - add the SE by default in the xml dump and use the XML library
        for dumping the XML
FIX: XROOTStorageElement - fixes to comply with the interface formalism

*SMS
FIX: StorageManagementDB - small bugfix to avoid SQL errors

*RMS
NEW: Added 'since' and 'until' parameters for getting requests
NEW: Request - added optimize() method to merge similar operations when
     first inserting the request
NEW: ReqClient, RequestDB - added getBulkRequest() interface. RequestExecutingAgent
     can use it controlled by a special flag
FIX: Operation, Request - set LastUpdate time stamp when reaching final state
FIX: OperationHandlerBase - don't erase the original message when reaching the max attempts
FIX: removed some deprecated codes
FIX: RequestTask - always set useServerCerificate flag to tru in case of executing inside
     an agent
CHANGE: gRequestValidator removed to avoid object instantiation at import
NEW: dirac-rms-cancel-request command and related additions to the db and service classes

*TMS
NEW: WorkflowTaskAgent is now multi-threaded
NEW: Better use of threads in Transformation Agents
CHANGE: TransformationDB - modified such that the body in a transformation can be updated
FIX: TransformationCleaningAgent - removed non-ASCII characters in a comment

[v6r11p34]

*Resources
NEW: GlobusComputingElement class

[v6r11p33]

*Configuration
FIX: Resources - avoid white spaces in OSCompatibility

[v6r11p32]

*Core
CHANGE: BaseClient, SSLSocketFactory, SocketInfo - enable TLSv1 for outgoing
        connections via suds, possibility to configure SSL connection details
        per host/IP

[v6r11p31]

*Core
FIX: CFG - bug fixed in loadFromBuffer() resulting in a loss of comments

*Resources
FIX: SSHTorqueComputingElement - check the status of ssh call for qstat

*DMS
FIX: FileCatalog - return LFN name instead of True from exists() call if LFN
     already in the catalog

[v6r11p30]

*DMS
CHANGE: FileCatalogCLI - add new -D flag for find to print only directories

[v6r11p29]

*DMS
FIX: FTS(Agent,Startegy,Gragh) - make use of MaxActiveJobs parameter, bug fixes

*TMS
FIX: Transformation(Agent,Client) - Operations CS parameters can be defined for each plugin: MaxFiles, SortedBy, NoUnusedDelay. Fixes to facilitate work with large numbers of files.

[v6r11p28]

*Core
FIX: InstallTools - check properly the module availability before installation

*WMS
FIX: JobScheduling - protection against missing dict field RescheduleCounter

*TMS
FIX: TransformationCleaningAgent - execute DM operations with the shifter proxy

[v6r11p27]

*Core
BUGFIX: InstallTools - bug fix in installNewPortal()

*WMS
FIX: Watchdog - disallow cputime and wallclock to be negative

*TS
FIX: TransformationAgent - correct handling of replica caches when more than 5000 files


BUGFIX: ModuleBase - bug fix in execute()
BUGFIX: Workflow - bug fix in createStepInstance()

*DMS
BUGFIX: DiractoryTreeBase - bug fix in getDirectoryPhysicalSizeFromUsage()

*Resources
FIX: XROOTStorage - back ported fixes from #2126: putFile would place file in
     the wrong location on eos

[v6r11p26]

*Framework
FIX: UserProfileDB.py - add PublishAccess field to the UserProfileDB

*RSS
FIX: Synchronizer.py - fix deletion of old resources

*DMS
FIX: DataManager - allow that permissions are OK for part of a list of LFNs ( __verifyWritePermission() )
     (when testing write access to parent directory). Allows removal of replicas
     even if one cannot be removed
FIX: DataManager - test SE validity before removing replica

*RMS
FIX: RequestTask - fail requests for users who are no longer in the system
FIX: RequestExecutingAgent - fix request timeout computation

[v6r11p25]

*Interfaces
FIX: Job.py - bring back different logfile names if they have not been specified by the user

[v6r11p24]

*DMS
BUGFIX: SEManagerDB - bug fixed in getting connection in __add/__removeSE

[v6r11p23]

*DMS
CHANGE: FTSRequest is left only to support dirac-dms-fts-XXX commands

[v6r11p22]

*DMS
FIX: FTSJob - fixes in the glite-transfer-status command outpu parsing
FIX: TransformationClient - allow single lfn in setFileStatusForTransformation()

*WMS
FIX: StatesMonitoringAgent - install pika on the fly as a temporary solution

[v6r11p21]

*DMS
BUGFIX: dirac-dms-remove-replicas - continue in case of single replica failure
FIX: dirac-rms-xxx scripts - use Script.getPositionalArgs() instead of sys.argv

*Workflow
FIX: Test_Modules.py - fix in mocking functions, less verbose logging

[v6r11p20]

*DMS
BUGFIX: DataManager - in __SEActive() use resolved SE name to deal with aliases
BUGFIX: FileMetadata - multiple bugs in __buildUserMetaQuery()

[v6r11p19]

*DMS
FIX: FTSJob - fix FTS job monitoring a la FTS2

*RMS
CHANGE: ReqClient - added setServer() method
FIX: File,Operation,Request - call the getters to fetch the up-to-date information
     from the parent

[v6r11p18]

*DMS
FIX: FTSAgent(Job) - fixes for transfers requiring staging (bringOnline) and adaptation
     to the FTS3 interface

*WMS
FIX: StatesMonitoringAgent - resend the records in case of failure

[v6r11p17]

*DMS
FIX: FileCatalog - in multi-VO case get common catalogs if even VO is not specified

*Resources
FIX: ComputintgElement - bugfix in available() method

*WMS
FIX: SiteDirector - if not pilots registered in the DB, pass empty list to the ce.available()

[v6r11p16]

*RMS
BUGFIX: Request,Operation,File - do not cast to str None values

[v6r11p15]

*DMS
FIX: ReplicateAndRegister - do not create FTSClient if no FTSMode requested
CHANGE: FTSAgent(Job,File) - allow to define the FTS2 submission command;
        added --copy-pin-lifetime only for a tape backend
        parse output of both commands (FTS2, FTS3)
        consider additional state for FTS retry (Canceled)

*RMS
FIX: Operation, Request - treat updates specially for Error fields

*TMS
FIX: TransformationAgent - fixes in preparing json serialization of requests

*WMS
NEW: StateMonitoringAgent - sends WMS history data through MQ messages

[v6r11p14]

*WMS
CHANGE: JobDB - removed unused tables and methods
CHANGE: removed obsoleted tests

*DMS
FIX: FTSAgent - recover case when a target is not in FTSDB
CHANGE: FTSAgent(Job) - give possibility to specify a pin life time in CS

*RMS
FIX: Make RMS objects comply with Python Data Model by adding __nonzero__ methods

[v6r11p13]

*DMS
BUGFIX: SEManager - in SEManagerDB.__addSE() bad _getConnection call, closes #2062

[v6r11p12]

*Resources
CHANGE: ARCComputingElement - accomodate changes in the ARC job reported states

*Configuration
CHANGE: Resources - define a default FTS server in the CS (only for v6r11 and v6r12)

*DMS
FIX: FTSStrategy - allow to use a given channel more than once in a tree
FIX: FTSAgent - remove request from cache if not found
FIX: FTSAgent - recover deadlock situations when FTS Files had not been correctly
     updated or were not in the DB

*RMS
FIX: RequestExecutingAgent - fix a race condition (cache was cleared after the request was put)
FIX: RequestValidator - check that the Operation handlers are defined when inserting a request

[v6r11p11]

*Core
FIX: TransportPool - fixed exception due to uninitialized variable
FIX: HTTPDISETSocket - readline() takes optional argument size ( = 0 )

*DMS
FIX: FTSAgent - check the type of the Operation object ( can be None ) and
     some other protections
FIX: FTSClient - avoid duplicates in the file list

*RMS
FIX: ReqClient - modified log message
CHANGE: dirac-dms-fts-monitor - allow multiple comma separated LFNs in the arguments

[v6r11p10]

*RSS
FIX: DowntimeCommand, Test_RSS_Command_GOCDBStatusCommand - correctly interpreting list of downtimes

*RMS
FIX: ReplicateAndRegister - Create a RegisterReplica (not RegisterFile) if ReplicateAndRegister
     fails to register
FIX: OperationHandlerBase - handle correctly Attempt counters when SEs are banned
FIX: ReplicateAndRegister - use FC checksum in case of mismatch request/PFN
FIX: FTSAgent - in case a file is Submitted but the FTSJob is unknown, resubmit
FIX: FTSAgent - log exceptions and put request to DB in case of exception
FIX: FTSAgent - handle FTS error "Unknown transfer state NOT_USED", due to same file
     registered twice (to be fixed in RMS, not clear origin)

*WMS
FIX: JobStateUpdateHandler - status not updated while jobLogging is, due to time skew between
     WN and DB service
FIX: JobStateUpdateHandler - stager callback not getting the correct status Staging
     (retry for 10 seconds)

[v6r11p9]

*Core
NEW: AgentModule - set AGENT_WORKDIRECTORY env variable with the workDirectory
NEW: InstallTools - added methods for the new web portal installation

*DMS
FIX: ReplicateAndRegister - apply same error logic for DM replication as for FTS

*Resources:
FIX: SRM2Storage - fix log message level
FIX: SRM2Storage - avoid useless existence checks

*RMS
FIX: ForwardDISET - a temporary fix for a special LHCb case, to be removed asap
FIX: ReqClient - prettyPrint is even prettier
FIX: RequestTask - always use server certificates when executed within an agent

[v6r11p8]

*TMS
FIX: TransformationDB - fix default value within ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE mysql statement

[v6r11p7]

*Framework
BUGFIX: ProxyDB.py - bug in a MySQL table definition

*DMS
FIX: ReplicateAndRegister.py - FTS client is not instantiated in the c'tor as it
     might not be used,

*WMS
FIX: JobWrapper - don't delete the sandbox tar file if upload fails
FIX: JobWrapper - fix in setting the failover request

*RMS
FIX: RequestDB - add protections when trying to get a non existing request

[v6r11p6]

*WMS
FIX: InpudDataResolution - fix the case when some files only have a local replica
FIX: DownloadInputData, InputDataByProtocol - fix the return structure of the
     execute() method

*Resources
NEW: LocalComputingElement, CondorComputingElement

[v6r11p5]

FIX: Incorporated changes from v6r10p25 patch

*Framework
NEW: Added getUserProfileNames() interface

*WMS
NEW: WMSAdministrator - added getPilotStatistics() interface
BUGFIX: JobWrapperTemplate - use sendJobAccounting() instead of sendWMSAccounting()
FIX: JobCleaningAgent - skip if no jobs to remove

*DMS
BUGFIX: FileCatalogClientCLI - bug fix in the metaquery construction

*Resources
CHANGE: StorageElement - enable Storage Element proxy configuration by protocol name

*TMS
NEW: TransformationManager - add Scheduled to task state for monitoring

[v6r11p4]

*Framework
NEW: ProxyDB - added primary key to ProxyDB_Log table
CHANGE: ProxyManagerHandler - purge logs once in 6 hours

*DMS
FIX: DataManager - fix in the accounting report for deletion operation
CHANGE: FTSRequest - print FTS GUID when submitting request
FIX: dirac-dms-fts-monitor - fix for using the new FTS structure
FIX: DataLoggingDB - fix type of the StatusTimeOrder field
FIX: DataLoggingDB - take into account empty date argument in addFileRecord()
FIX: ReplicateAndRegister - use active replicas
FIX: FTS related modules - multiple fixes

*WMS
NEW: SiteDirector - pass the list of already registered pilots to the CE.available() query
FIX: JobCleaningAgent - do not attempt job removal if no eligible jobs

*Resources
FIX: LcgFileCatalogClient - if replica already exists while registration, reregister
NEW: CREAM, SSH, ComputingElement - consider only registered pilots to evaluate queue occupancy

[v6r11p3]

FIX: import gMonitor from it is original location

*Core
FIX: FC.Utilities - treat properly the LFN names starting with /grid ( /gridpp case )

*Configuration
FIX: LocalConfiguration - added exitCode optional argument to showHelp(), closes #1821

*WMS
FIX: StalledJobAgent - extra checks when failing Completed jobs, closes #1944
FIX: JobState - added protection against absent job in getStatus(), closes #1853

[v6r11p2]

*Core
FIX: dirac-install - skip expectedBytes check if Content-Length not returned by server
FIX: AgentModule - demote message "Cycle had an error:" to warning

*Accounting
FIX: BaseReporter - protect against division by zero

*DMS
CHANGE: FileCatalogClientCLI - quite "-q" option in find command
FIX: DataManager - bug fix in __initializeReplication()
FIX: DataManager - less verbose log message
FIX: DataManager - report the size of removed files only for successfully removed ones
FIX: File, FTSFile, FTSJob - SQL tables schema change: Size filed INTEGER -> BIGINT

*RMS
FIX: dirac-rms-reset-request, dirac-rms-show-request - fixes
FIX: ForwardDISET - execute with trusted host certificate

*Resources
FIX: SSHComputingElement - SSHOptions are parsed at the wrong place
NEW: ComputingElement - evaluate the number of available cores if relevant

*WMS
NEW: JobMonitoringHander - added export_getOwnerGroup() interface

*TMS
CHANGE: TransformationCleaningAgent - instantiation of clients moved in the initialize()

[v6r11p1]

*RMS
FIX: ReqClient - failures due to banned sites are considered to be recoverable

*DMS
BUGFIX: dirac-dms-replicate-and-register-request - minor bug fixes

*Resources
FIX: InProcessComputingElement - stop proxy renewal thread for a finished payload

[v6r11]

*Core
FIX: Client - fix in __getattr__() to provide dir() functionality
CHANGE: dirac-configure - use Registry helper to get VOMS servers information
BUGFIX: ObjectLoader - extensions must be looked up first for plug-ins
CHANGE: Misc.py - removed obsoleted
NEW: added returnSingleResult() generic utility by moving it from Resources/Utils module

*Configuration
CHANGE: Resources.getDIRACPlatform() returns a list of compatible DIRAC platforms
NEW: Resources.getDIRACPlatforms() used to access platforms from /Resources/Computing/OSCompatibility
     section
NEW: Registry - added getVOs() and getVOMSServerInfo()
NEW: CE2CSAgent - added VO management

*Accounting
FIX: AccountingDB, Job - extra checks for invalid values

*WMS
NEW: WMS tags to allow jobs require special site/CE/queue properties
CHANGES: DownloadInputData, InputDataByProtocol, InputDataResolution - allows to get multiple
         PFNs for the protocol resolution
NEW: JobDB, JobMonitoringHandler - added traceJobParameters(s)() methods
CHANGE: TaskQueueDirector - use ObjectLoader to load directors
CHANGE: dirac-pilot - use Python 2.7 by default, 2014-04-09 LCG bundles

*DMS
NEW: DataManager to replace ReplicaManager class ( simplification, streamlining )
FIX: InputDataByProtocol - fix the case where file is only on tape
FIX: FTSAgent - multiple fixes
BUGFIX: ReplicateAndRegister - do not ask SE with explicit SRM2 protocol

*Interfaces
CHANGE: Dirac - instantiate SandboxStoreClient and WMSClient when needed, not in the constructor
CHANGE: Job - removed setSystemConfig() method
NEW: Job.py - added setTag() interface

*Resources
CHANGE: StorageElement - changes to avoid usage PFNs
FIX: XROOTStorage, SRM2Storage - changes in PFN construction
NEW: PoolComputingElement - a CE allowing to manage multi-core slots
FIX: SSHTorqueComputingElement - specify the SSHUser user for querying running/waiting jobs

*RSS
NEW: added commands dirac-rss-query-db and dirac-rss-query-dtcache

*RMS
CHANGE: ReqDB - added Foreign Keys to ReqDB tables
NEW: dirac-rms-reset-request command
FIX: RequestTask - always execute operations with owner proxy

*SMS
FIX: few minor fixes to avoid pylint warnings

[v6r10p25]

*DMS
CHANGE: FileCatalog - optimized file selection by metadata

[v6r10p24]

*DMS
FIX: FC.FileMetadata - optimized queries for list interception evaluation

[v6r10p23]

*Resoures
CHANGE: SSHComputingElement - allow SSH options to be passed from CS setup of SSH Computing Element
FIX: SSHComputingElement - use SharedArea path as $HOME by default

[v6r10p22]

*CS
CHANGE: Operations helper - if not given, determine the VO from the current proxy

*Resources
FIX: glexecComputingElement - allows Application Failed with Errors results to show through,
     rather than be masked by false "glexec CE submission" errors

*DMS
CHANGE: ReplicaManager - in getReplicas() rebuild PFN if
        <Operations>/DataManagement/UseCatalogPFN option is set to False ( True by default )

[v6r10p21]

*Configuration
FIX: CSGlobals - allow to specify extensions in xxxDIRAC form in the CS

*Interfaces
FIX: Job - removed self.reqParams
FIX: Job - setSubmitPools renamed to setSubmitPool, fixed parameter definition string

*WMS
FIX: JobMonitorigHandler, JobPolicy - allow JobMonitor property to access job information

[v6r10p20]

*DMS
FIX: FTSAgent/Client, ReplicateAndRegister - fixes to properly process failed
     FTS request scheduling

[v6r10p19]

*DMS
FIX: FTSAgent - putRequest when leaving processRequest
FIX: ReplicaManager - bug in getReplicas() in dictionary creation

[v6r10p18]

*DMS
FIX: ReplicateAndRegister - dictionary items incorrectly called in ftsTransfer()

[v6r10p17]

*RMS
FIX: RequestDB.py - typo in a table name
NEW: ReqManagerHandler - added getDistinctValues() to allow selectors in the web page

*DMS
CHANGE: ReplicaManager - bulk PFN lookup in getReplicas()

[v6r10p16]

*Framework
NEW: PlottingClient - added curveGraph() function

*Transformation
FIX: TaskManagerAgentBase - add the missing Scheduled state

*WMS
FIX: TaskQueueDB - reduced number of lines in the matching parameters printout

*DMS
FIX: dirac-dms-show-se-status - exit on error in the service call, closes #1840

*Interface
FIX: API.Job - removed special interpretation of obsoleted JDLreqt type parameters

*Resources
FIX: SSHComputingElement - increased timeout in getJobStatusOnHost() ssh call, closes #1830

[v6r10p15]

*DMS
FIX: FTSAgent - added missing monitoring activity
FIX: FileCatalog - do not check directory permissions when creating / directory

*Resources
FIX: SSHTorqueComputingElement - removed obsoleted stuff

[v6r10p14]

*SMS
FIX: RequestPreparationAgent - typo fixed

[v6r10p13]

*SMS
FIX: RequestPreparationAgent - use ReplicaManager to get active replicas

*DMS
FIX: ReplicaManager - getReplicas returns all replicas ( in all statuses ) by default
CHANGE: FC/SecurityManager - give full ACL access to the catalog to groups with admin rights

*WMS
CHANGE: SiteDirector - changes to reduce the load on computing elements
FIX: JobWrapper - do not set Completed status for the case with failed application thread

[v6r10p12]

*WMS
CHANGE: Replace consistently everywhere SAM JobType by Test JobType
FIX: JobWrapper - the outputSandbox should be always uploaded (outsized, in failed job)

*DMS
FIX: RemoveFile - bugfix
FIX: ReplicateAndRegister - fixes in the checksum check, retry failed FTS transfer
     with RM transfer
NEW: RegisterReplica request operation

*RMS
FIX: ReqClient - fix in the request state machine
FIX: Request - enhance digest string
NEW: dirac-dms-reset-request command
CHANGE: dirac-rms-show-request - allow selection of a request by job ID

*TS
FIX: TransformationDB - in getTransformationParameters() dropped "Submitted" counter
     in the output

[v6r10p11]

*Core
FIX: X509Chain - cast life time to int before creating cert

*Accounting
FIX: DataStoreClient - self.__maxRecordsInABundle = 5000 instead of 1000
FIX: JobPolicy - allow access for JOB_MONITOR property

*RMS
FIX: ReqClient - fix the case when a job is Completed but in an unknown minor status

*Resources
BUGFIX: ProxyStorage - use checkArgumentFormat() instead of self.__checkArgumentFormatDict()

[v6r10p10]

*DMS
FIX: Several fixes to make FTS accounting working (FTSAgent/Job, ReplicaManager, File )

[v6r10p9]

*Core
BUGFIX: LineGraph - Ymin was set to a minimal plot value rather than 0.

*DMS
CHANGE: FTSJob(Agent) - get correct information for FTS accounting (registration)

[v6r10p8]

*Core
FIX: InstallTools - admin e-mail default location changed

*Framework
FIX: SystemAdministratorClientCLI - allow "set host localhost"
FIX: BundleDelivery - protect against empty bundle

*WMS
FIX: SiteDirector - Pass siteNames and ceList as None if any is accepted
FIX: WorkloadManagement.ConfigTemplate.SiteDorectory - set Site to Any by default

*DMS
FIX: FileCatalogCLI - ignore Datasets in ls command for backward compatibility

*Resources
FIX: SSH - some platforms use Password instead of password prompt

[v6r10p7]

*Core
FIX: dirac-install - execute dirac-fix-mysql-script and dirac-external-requirements after sourcing the environment
FIX: InstallTools - set basedir variable in fixMySQLScript()
FIX: InstallTools - define user root@host.domain in installMySQL()

*Framework
BUGFIX: SystemAdministratorCLI - bug fixed in default() call signature

*DMS
FIX: FTSRequest - handle properly FTS server in the old system
FIX: ReplicaManager - check if file is in FC before removing
FIX: Request/RemovalTask - handle properly proxies for removing files
BUGFIX: DatasetManager - in the table description

[v6r10p6]

*Core
FIX: X509Certificate - reenabled fix in getDIRACGroup()

*Configuration
FIX: CSAPI - Group should be taken from the X509 chain and not the certificate

*RMS
CHANGE: ReqClient - if the job does not exist, do not try further finalization

[v6r10p5]

*Core
FIX: X509Certificate - reverted fix in getDIRACGroup()

[v6r10p4]

*Core
NEW: dirac-info - extra printout
CHANGE: PrettyPrint - extra options in printTable()
FIX: X509Certificate - bug fixed in getDIRACGroup()

*Framework
NEW: SystemAdministratorCLI - new showall command to show components across hosts
NEW: ProxyDB - allow to upload proxies without DIRAC group

*RMS
CHANGE: ReqClient - requests from failed jobs update job status to Failed
CHANGE: RequestTask - retry in the request finalize()

[v6r10p3]

*Configuration
CHANGE: Registry - allow to define a default group per user

*WMS
BUGFIX: JobReport - typo in generateForwardDISET()

[v6r10p2]

*TMS
CHANGE: Backward compatibility fixes when setting the Transformation files status

*DMS
BUGFIX: ReplicateAndRegister - bugfix when replicating to multiple destination by ReplicaManager

*WMS
BUGFIX: JobManager - bug fix when deleting no-existing jobs

[v6r10p1]

*RMS
FIX: ReqDB.Operations - Arguments field changed type from BLOB to MEDIUMBLOB

*DMS
FIX: FileCatalog - check for non-exiting directories in removeDirectory()

*TMS
FIX: TransformationDB - removed constraint that was making impossible to derive a production

[v6r10]

*Core
FIX: Several fixes on DB classes(AccountingDB, SystemLoggingDB, UserProfileDB, TransformationDB,
     JobDB, PilotAgentsDB) after the new movement to the new MySQL implementation with a persistent
     connection per running thread
NEW: SystemAdministratorCLI - better support for executing remote commands
FIX: DIRAC.__init__.py - avoid re-definition of platform variable
NEW: Graphs - added CurveGraph class to draw non-stacked lines with markers
NEW: Graphs - allow graphs with negative Y values
NEW: Graphs - allow to provide errors with the data and display them in the CurveGraph
FIX: InstallTools - fix for creation of the root@'host' user in MySQL
FIX: dirac-install - create links to permanent directories before module installation
CHANGE: InstallTools - use printTable() utility for table printing
CHANGE: move printTable() utility to Core.Utilities.PrettyPrint
NEW: added installation configuration examples
FIX: dirac-install - fixBuildPath() operates only on files in the directory
FIX: VOMSService - added X-VOMS-CSRF-GUARD to the html header to be compliant with EMI-3 servers

*CS
CHANGE: getVOMSVOForGroup() uses the VOMSName option of the VO definition
NEW: CE2CSAgent - added ARC CE information lookup

*Framework
FIX: SystemAdministratorIntegrator - use Host option to get the host address in addition to the section name, closes #1628
FIX: dirac-proxy-init - uses getVOMSVOForGroup() when adding VOMS extensions

*DMS
CHANGE: DFC - optimization and bug fixes of the bulk file addition
FIX: TransferAgent - protection against badly defined LFNs in collectFiles()
NEW: DFC - added getDirectoryReplicas() service method support similar to the LFC
CHANGE: DFC - added new option VisibleReplicaStatus which is used in replica getting commands
CHANGE: FileCatalogClientCLI client shows number of replicas in the 2nd column rather than
        unimplemented number of links
CHANGE: DFC - optimizations for the bulk replica look-up
CHANGE: DFC updated scalability testing tool FC_Scaling_test.py
NEW: DFC - methods returning replicas provide also SE definitions instead of PFNs to construct PFNs on the client side
NEW: DFC - added getReplicasByMetadata() interface
CHANGE: DFC - optimized getDirectoryReplicas()
CHANGE: FileCatalogClient - treat the reduced output from various service queries restoring LFNs and PFNs on the fly
NEW: DFC - LFNPFNConvention flag can be None, Weak or Strong to facilitate compatibility with LFC data
CHANGE: FileCatalog - do not return PFNs, construct them on the client side
CHANGE: FileCatalog - simplified FC_Scaling_test.py script
NEW: FileCatalog/DatasetManager class to define and manipulate datasets corresponding to meta queries
NEW: FileCatalogHandler - new interface methods to expose DatasetManager functionality
NEW: FileCatalogClientCLI - new dataset family of commands
FIX: StorageFactory, ReplicaManager - resolve SE alias name recursively
FIX: FTSRequest, ReplicaManager, SRM2Storage - use current proxy owner as user name in accounting reports, closes #1602
BUGFIX: FileCatalogClientCLI - bug fix in do_ls, missing argument to addFile() call, closes #1658
NEW: FileCatalog - added new setMetadataBulk() interface, closes #1358
FIX: FileCatalog - initial argument check strips off leading lfn:, LFN:, /grid, closes #448
NEW: FileCatalog - added new setFileStatus() interface, closes #170, valid and visible file and replica statuses can be defined in respective options.
CHANGE: multiple new FTS system fixes
CHANGE: uniform argument checking with checkArgumentFormat() in multiple modules
CHANGE: FileCatalog - add Trash to the default replica valid statuses
CHANGE: ReplicaManager,FTSRequest,StorageElement - no use of PFN as returned by the FC except for file removal,
        rather constructing it always on the fly

*SMS
CHANGE: PinRequestAgent, SENamespaceCatalogCheckAgent - removed
CHANGE: Use StorageManagerClient instead of StorageDB directly

*WMS
CHANGE: JobPolicy - optimization for bulk job verification
NEW: JobPolicy - added getControlledUsers() to get users which jobs can be accessed for
     a given operation
CHANGE: JobMonitoringHandler - Avoid doing a selection of all Jobs, first count matching jobs
        and then use "limit" to select only the required JobIDs.
NEW: JobMonitoringHandler - use JobPolicy to filter jobs in getJobSummaryWeb()
NEW: new Operations option /Services/JobMonitoring/GlobalJobsInfo ( True by default ) to
     allow or not job info lookup by anybody, used in JobMonitoringHandler
BUGFIX: SiteDirector - take into account the target queue Platform
BUGFIX: JobDB - bug in __insertNewJDL()
CHANGE: dirac-admin-show-task-queues - enhanced output
CHANGE: JobLoggingDB.sql - use trigger to manage the new LoggingInfo structure
CHANGE: JobWrapper - trying several times to upload a request before declaring the job failed
FIX: JobScheduling executor - fix race condition that causes a job to remain in Staging
NEW: SiteDirector - do not touch sites for which there is no work available
NEW: SiteDirector - allow sites not in mask to take jobs with JobType Test
NEW: SiteDirector - allow 1 hour grace period for pilots in Unknown state before aborting them
CHANGE: Allow usage of non-plural form of the job requirement options ( PilotType, GridCE, BannedSite,
        SubmitPool ), keep backward compatibility with a plural form

*RSS
FIX: DowntimeCommand - take the latest Downtime that fits
NEW: porting new Policies from integration
NEW: RSS SpaceToken command querying endpoints/tokens that exist

*Resources
NEW: added SSHOARComputingElement class
NEW: added XROOTStorage class
FIX: CREAMComputingElement - extra checks for validity of returned pilot references

*TS
CHANGE: TransformationClient(DB,Manager) - set file status for transformation as bulk operation
CHANGE: TransformationClient - applying state machine when changing transformation status
BUGFIX: TransformationClient(Handler) - few minor fixes
NEW: TransformationDB - backported __deleteTransformationFileTask(s) methods
CHANGE: TransformationDB(Client) - fixes to reestablish the FileCatalog interface
FIX: TransformationAgent - added MissingInFC to consider for Removal transformations
BUGFIX: TransformationAgent - in _getTransformationFiles() variable 'now' was not defined
FIX: TransformationDB.sql - DataFiles primary key is changed to (FileID) from (FileID,LFN)
CHANGE: TransformationDB(.sql) - schema changes suitable for InnoDB
FIX: TaskManager(AgentBase) - consider only submitted tasks for updating status
CHANGE: TransformationDB(.sql) - added index on LFN in DataFiles table

*RMS
NEW: Migrate to use the new Request Management by all the clients
CHANGE: RequestContainer - Retry failed transfers 10 times and avoid sub-requests to be set Done
        when the files are failed
CHANGE: Use a unique name for storing the proxy as processes may use the same "random" name and
        give conflicts
NEW: RequestClient(Handler) - add new method readRequest( requestname)

*Workflow
NEW: Porting the LHCb Workflow package to DIRAC to make the use of general purpose modules and
     simplify construction of workflows

[v6r9p33]

*Accounting
BUGFIX: AccountingDB - wrong indentation

[v6r9p32]

*Accounting
FIX: AccountingDB - use old style grouping if the default grouping is altered, e.g. by Country

[v6r9p31]

*Accounting
CHANGE: AccountingDB - changes to speed up queries: use "values" in GROUP By clause;
        drop duplicate indexes; reorder fields in the UniqueConstraint index of the
        "bucket" tables

[v6r9p30]

*DMS
CHANGE: FileCatalogFactory - construct CatalogURL from CatalogType by default

*SMS
FIX: dirac-stager-stage-files - changed the order of the arguments

[v6r9p29]

*TS
FIX: TaskManager(AgentBase) - fix for considering only submitted tasks

[v6r9p28]

*TS
FIX: TransformationDB(ManagerHandler) - several portings from v6r10

[v6r9p27]

*SMS
FIX: StorageManagementDB - in removeUnlinkedReplicas() second look for CacheReplicas
     for which there is no entry in StageRequests

[v6r9p26]

*Resources
CHANGE: CREAMComputigElement - Make sure that pilots submitted to CREAM get a
        fresh proxy during their complete lifetime
*Framework
FIX: ProxyDB - process properly any SQLi with DNs/groups with 's in the name

[v6r9p25]

*TS
CHANGE: TransformationClient - changed default timeout values for service calls
FIX: TransformationClient - fixes for processing of derived transformations

[v6r9p24]

*TS
FIX: TransformationClient - in moveFilesToDerivedTransformation() set file status
     to Moved-<prod>

[v6r9p23]

*Core
BUGFIX: InstallTools - improper configuration prevents a fresh new installation

*WMS
BUGFIX: PilotDirector - Operations Helper non-instantiated

[v6r9p22]

*WMS
FIX: PilotDirector - allow to properly define extensions to be installed by the
     Pilot differently to those installed at the server
FIX: Watchdog - convert pid to string in ProcessMonitor

*TS
FIX: TransformationDB - splitting files in chunks

*DMS
NEW: dirac-dms-create-removal-request command
CHANGE: update dirac-dms-xxx commands to use the new RMS client,
        strip lines when reading LFNs from a file

[v6r9p21]

*TS
FIX: Transformation(Client,DB,Manager) - restored FileCatalog compliant interface
FIX: TransformationDB - fix in __insertIntoExistingTransformationFiles()

[v6r9p20]

*Core
BUGFIX: ProxyUpload - an on the fly upload does not require a proxy to exist

*DMS
CHANGE: TransferAgent - use compareAdler() for checking checksum
FIX: FailoverTransfer - recording the sourceSE in case of failover transfer request

*WMS
FIX: ProcessMonitor - some fixes added, printout when <1 s of consumed CPU is found

*Transformation
BUGFIX: TransformationClient - fixed return value in moveFilesToDerivedTransformation()

*RMS
BUGFIX: CleanReqDBAgent - now() -> utcnow() in initialize()

*Resources
FIX: ARCComputingElement - fix the parsing of CE status if no jobs are available

[v6r9p19]

*DMS
FIX: FileCatalog/DirectoryMetadata - inherited metadata is used while selecting directories
     in findDirIDsByMetadata()

[v6r9p18]

*DMS
FIX: FTSSubmitAgent, FTSRequest - fixes the staging mechanism in the FTS transfer submission
NEW: TransferDBMonitoringHandler - added getFilesForChannel(), resetFileChannelStatus()

[v6r9p17]

*Accounting
FIX: DataStoreClient - send accounting records in batches of 1000 records instead of 100

*DMS:
FIX: FailoverTransfer - catalog name from list to string
FIX: FTSSubmitAgent, FTSRequest - handle FTS3 as new protocol and fix bad submission time
FIX: FTSSubmitAgent, FTSRequest - do not submit FTS transfers for staging files

*WMS
FIX: TaskQueueDB - do not check enabled when TQs are requested from Directors
FIX: TaskQueueDB - check for Enabled in the TaskQueues when inserting jobs to print an alert
NEW: TaskQueueDB - each TQ can have at most 5k jobs, if beyond the limit create a new TQ
     to prevent long matching times when there are way too many jobs in a single TQ

[v6r9p16]

*TS
BUGFIX: typos in TransformationCleaningAgent.py

*DMS
CHANGE: DownloadInputData - check the available disk space in the right input data directory
FIX: DownloadInputData - try to download only Cached replicas

[v6r9p15]

*Core
FIX: MySQL - do not decrease the retry counter after ping failure

*DMS
CHANGE: FC/DirectoryMetadata - Speed up findFilesByMetadataWeb when many files match
FIX: RemovalTask - fix error string when removing a non existing file (was incompatible
     with the LHCb BK client).

*WMS
FIX: JobReport - minor fix ( removed unused imports )
FIX: JobMonitoring(JobStateUpdate)Handler - jobID argument can be either string, int or long

*TS
CHANGE: TransformationClient - change status of Moved files to a deterministic value
FIX: FileReport - minor fix ( inherits object )

[v6r9p14]

*DMS
CHANGE: FTSDB - changed schema: removing FTSSite table. From now on FTS sites
        would be read from CS Resources

[v6r9p13]

FIX: included fixes from v6r8p26 patch release

[v6r9p12]

FIX: included fixes from v6r8p25 patch release

[v6r9p11]

*DMS
BUGFIX: FTSRequest - in __resolveFTSServer() type "=" -> "=="

[v6r9p10]

FIX: included fixes from v6r8p24 patch release

*Core
NEW: StateMachine utility

*DMS
BUGFIX: in RegisterFile operation handler

*Interfaces
FIX: Dirac.py - in splitInputData() consider only Active replicas

[v6r9p9]

*RMS
FIX: RequestDB - added getRequestFileStatus(), getRequestName() methods

[v6r9p8]

*DMS
FIX: RequestDB - get correct digest ( short request description ) of a request

[v6r9p7]

FIX: included fixes from v6r8p23 patch release

*RSS
FIX: SpaceTokenOccupancyPolicy - SpaceToken Policy decision was based on
     percentage by mistake

*RMS
NEW: new scripts dirac-dms-ftsdb-summary, dirac-dms-show-ftsjobs
FIX: FTSAgent - setting space tokens for newly created FTSJobs

[v6r9p6]

*DMS
BUGFIX: dirac-admin-add-ftssite - missing import

*RMS
NEW: RequestDB, ReqManagerHandler - added getRequestStatus() method

*TS
FIX: fixes when using new RequestClient with the TransformationCleaningAgent

*WMS
BUGFIX: typo in SandboxStoreHandler transfer_fromClient() method

[v6r9p5]

*DMS
BUGFIX: missing proxy in service env in the FTSManager service. By default service
        will use DataManager proxy refreshed every 6 hours.

*Resources
NEW: StorageElement - new checkAccess policy: split the self.checkMethods in
     self.okMethods. okMethods are the methods that do not use the physical SE.
     The isValid returns S_OK for all those immediately

*RSS
FIX: SpaceTokenOccupancyPolicy - Policy that now takes into account absolute values
     for the space left

*TS
FIX: TransformationCleaningAgent - will look for both old and new RMS

[v6r9p4]

*Stager
NEW: Stager API: dirac-stager-monitor-file, dirac-stager-monitor-jobs,
     dirac-stager-monitor-requests, dirac-stager-show-stats

[v6r9p3]

*Transformation
FIX: TransformationCleaning Agent status was set to 'Deleted' instead of 'Cleaned'

[v6r9p2]

*RSS
NEW: Added Component family tables and statuses
FIX: removed old & unused code
NEW: allow RSS policies match wild cards on CS

*WMS
BUGFIX: FailoverTransfer,JobWrapper - proper propagation of file metadata

[v6r9p1]

*RMS
NEW: FTSAgent - update rwAccessValidStamp,
     update ftsGraphValidStamp,
     new option for staging files before submission,
     better log handling here and there
CHANGE: FTSJob - add staging flag in in submitFTS2
CHANGE: Changes in WMS (FailoverTransfer, JobReport, JobWrapper, SandboxStoreHandler)
        and TS (FileReport) to follow the new RMS.
NEW: Full CRUD support in RMS.

*RSS
NEW: ResourceManagementDB - new table ErrorReportBuffer
NEW: new ResourceManagementClient methods - insertErrorReportBuffer, selectErrorReportBuffer,
     deleteErrorReportBuffer

[v6r9]

NEW: Refactored Request Management System, related DMS agents and FTS management
     components

[v6r8p28]

*Core
BUGFIX: RequestHandler - the lock Name includes ActionType/Action

*DMS
FIX: dirac-dms-filecatalog-cli - prevent exception in case of missing proxy

[v6r8p27]

*DMS
BUGFIX: dirac-dms-add-file - fixed typo item -> items

[v6r8p26]

*Core
NEW: RequestHandler - added getServiceOption() to properly resolve inherited options
     in the global service handler initialize method
NEW: FileCatalogHandler, StorageElementHandler - use getServiceOption()

[v6r8p25]

FIX: included fixes from v6r7p40 patch release

*Resources
FIX: SRM2Storage - do not account gfal_ls operations

[v6r8p24]

FIX: included fixes from v6r7p39 patch release

*Core
FIX: SiteSEMapping was returning wrong info

*DMS
FIX: FTSRequest - choose explicitly target FTS point for RAL and CERN
BUGFIX: StrategyHandler - wrong return value in __getRWAccessForSE()

*Resources
CHANGE: SRM2Storage - do not account gfal_ls operations any more

[v6r8p23]

FIX: included fixes from v6r7p37 patch release

*TS
FIX: TransformationDB - allow tasks made with ProbInFC files
FIX: TransformationCleaingAgent,Client - correct setting of transformation
     status while cleaning

[v6r8p22]

FIX: included fixes from v6r7p36 patch release

[v6r8p21]

*DMS
FIX: FileCatalog/DirectoryMetadata - even if there is no meta Selection
     the path should be considered when getting Compatible Metadata
FIX: FileCatalog/DirectoryNodeTree - findDir will return S_OK( '' ) if dir not
     found, always return the same error from DirectoryMetadata in this case.

*RSS
FIX: DowntimeCommand - use UTC time stamps

*TS
FIX: TransformationAgent - in _getTransformationFiles() get also ProbInFC files in
     addition to Used

[v6r8p20]

*Stager
NEW: Stager API: dirac-stager-monitor-file, dirac-stager-monitor-jobs,
     dirac-stager-monitor-requests, dirac-stager-show-stats

[v6r8p19]

*Transformation
FIX: TransformationCleaning Agent status was set to 'Deleted' instead of 'Cleaned'

[v6r8p18]

*TS
BUGFIX: TransformationAgent - regression in __cleanCache()

[v6r8p17]

FIX: included fixes from v6r7p32 patch release

*WMS
FIX: StalledJobAgent - for accidentally stopped jobs ExecTime can be not set,
     set it to CPUTime for the accounting purposes in this case

[v6r8p16]

FIX: included fixes from v6r7p31 patch release

*WMS
BUGFIX: TaskQueueDB - fixed a bug in the negative matching conditions SQL construction

*RSS
NEW: improved doc strings of PEP, PDP modules ( part of PolicySystem )
FIX: Minor changes to ensure consistency if ElementInspectorAgent and
     users interact simultaneously with the same element
CHANGE: removed DatabaseCleanerAgent ( to be uninstalled if already installed )
FIX: SummarizeLogsAgent - the logic of the agent was wrong, the agent has been re-written.

[v6r8p15]

*Core
FIX: X509Chain - fix invalid information when doing dirac-proxy-info without CS
     ( in getCredentials() )

*RSS
NEW: PDP, PEP - added support for option "doNotCombineResult" on PDP

[v6r8p14]

*Core
FIX: dirac-deploy-scripts - can now work with the system python

*WMS
NEW: dirac-wms-cpu-normalization - added -R option to modify a given configuration file
FIX: Executor/InputData - Add extra check for LFns in InputData optimizer, closes #1472

*Transformation
CHANGE: TransformationAgent - add possibility to kick a transformation (not skip it if no
        unused files), by touching a file in workDirectory
BUGFIX: TransformationAgent - bug in __cleanCache() dict modified in a loop

[v6r8p13]

*Transformation
BUGFIX: TransformationDB - restored import of StringType

[v6r8p12]

NEW: Applied patches from v6r7p29

*WMS
FIX: JobDB - check if SystemConfig is present in the job definition and convert it
     into Platform

*DMS
FIX: ReplicaManager - do not get metadata of files when getting files in a directory
     if not strictly necessary

*RSS
NEW: ported from LHCb PublisherHandler for RSS web views

[v6r8p11]

NEW: Applied patches from v6r7p27

*RSS
NEW: SpaceTokenOccupancyPolicy - ported from LHCbDIRAC
NEW: db._checkTable done on service initialization ( removed dirac-rss-setup script doing it )

*Transformation
FIX: TaskManager - reset oJob for each task in prepareTransformationTasks()
BUGFIX: ValidateOutputDataAgent - typo fixed in getTransformationDirectories()
FIX: TransformationManagerHandler - use CS to get files statuses not to include in
     processed file fraction calculation for the web monitoring pages

[v6r8p10]

NEW: Applied patches from v6r7p27

[v6r8p9]

*DMS
FIX: TransferAgent,dirac-dms-show-se-status, ResourceStatus,TaskManager - fixes
     needed for DMS components to use RSS status information
NEW: ReplicaManager - allow to get metadata for an LFN+SE as well as PFN+SE

[v6r8p8]

*RSS
BUGFIX: dirac-rss-setup - added missing return of S_OK() result

[v6r8p7]

NEW: Applied patches from v6r7p24

*DMS
BUGFIX: LcgFileCatalogClient - bug in addFile()

*RSS
BUGFIX: fixed script dirac-rss-set-token, broken in the current release.
NEW: Statistics module - will be used in the future to provide detailed information
     from the History of the elements

[v6r8p6]

NEW: Applied patches from v6r7p23

*Transformation
FIX: TaskManager - allow prepareTransformationTasks to proceed if no OutputDataModule is defined
FIX: TransformationDB - remove INDEX(TaskID) from TransformationTasks. It produces a single counter
     for the whole table instead of one per TransformationID

*WMS
FIX: WMSUtilities - to allow support for EMI UI's for pilot submission we drop support for glite 3.1

[v6r8p5]

NEW: Applied patches from v6r7p22

*RSS
CHANGE: removed old tests and commented out files

*WMS
FIX: PoolXMLCatalog - proper addFile usage

*Transformation
CHANGE: TransformationAgent - clear replica cache when flushing or setting a file in the workdirectory

[v6r8p4]

*Transformation
FIX: The connection to the jobManager is done only at submission time
FIX: Jenkins complaints fixes

*WMS
BUGFIX: JobDB - CPUtime -> CPUTime
FIX: Jenkins complaints fixes

[v6r8p3]

*DMS
BUGFIX: LcgFileCatalogClient

[v6r8p2]

*DMS:
FIX: LcgFileCatalogClient - remove check for opening a session in __init__ as credentials are not yet set

*Transformation
CHANGE: reuse RPC clients in Transformation System

[v6r8p1]

*Core
FIX: dirac-deploy-scripts - restored regression w.r.t. support of scripts starting with "d"

*DMS
BUGFIX: LcgFileCatalogClient - two typos fixed

[v6r8]

CHANGE: Several fixes backported from the v7r0 integration branch

*Core
CHANGE: DictCache - uses global LockRing to avoid locks in multiprocessing
FIX: X509Chain - proxy-info showing an error when there's no CS

*DMS
FIX: TransferAgent - inside loop filter out waiting files dictionary
BUGFIX: dirac-admin-allow-se - there was a continue that was skipping the complete loop for
        ARCHIVE elements
NEW: LcgFileCatalogClient - test return code in startsess lfc calls

*WMS:
FIX: OptimizerExecutor, InputData, JobScheduling - check that site candidates have all the
     replicas

*RSS:
BUGFIX: ResourceStatus, RSSCacheNoThread - ensure that locks are always released

*Transformation
FIX: TaskManager - site in the job definition is taken into account when submitting
NEW: Transformation - get the allowed plugins from the CS /Operations/Transformations/AllowedPlugins
FIX: ValidateOutputDataAgent - self not needed for static methods

[v6r7p40]

*Resources
FIX: StorageElement class was not properly passing the lifetime argument for prestageFile method

[v6r7p39]

*Core
CHANGE: Grid - in executeGridCommand() allow environment script with arguments needed for ARC client

*DMS
FIX: DFC SEManager - DIP Storage can have a list of ports now

*Resources
FIX: ARCComputingElement - few fixes after debugging

[v6r7p38]

*Core
NEW: DISET FileHelper, TransferClient - possibility to switch off check sum

*Resources
NEW: ARCComputingElement - first version
NEW: StorageFactory - possibility to pass extra protocol parameters to storage object
NEW: DIPStorage - added CheckSum configuration option
BUGFIX: SSHComputingElement - use CE name in the pilot reference construction

*WMS
FIX: StalledJobAgent - if ExecTime < CPUTime make it equal to CPUTime

[v6r7p37]

*Framework
BUGFIX: NotificationDB - typos in SQL statement in purgeExpiredNotifications()

*WMS
NEW: JobCleaningAgent - added scheduling sandbox LFN removal request
     when deleting jobs
CHANGE: JobWrapper - report only error code as ApplicationError parameter
        when payload finishes with errors
NEW: SiteDirector - possibility to specify extensions to be installed in
     pilots in /Operations/Pilots/Extensions option in order not to install
     all the server side extensions

*DMS
CHANGE: FileCatalogFactory - use service path as default URL
CHANGE: FileCatalogFactory - use ObjectLoader to import catalog clients

*SMS
BUGFIX: StorageManagementDB, dirac-stager-monitor-jobs - small bug fixes ( sic, Daniela )

*Resources
CHANGE: DIPStorage - added possibility to specify a list of ports for multiple
        service end-points
CHANGE: InProcessComputingElement - demote log message when payload failure
        to warning, the job will fail anyway
FIX: StalledJobAgent - if pilot reference is not registered, this is not an
     error of the StalledJobAgent, no log.error() in  this case

*RMS
CHANGE: RequestTask - ensure that tasks are executed with user credentials
        even with respect to queries to DIRAC services ( useServerCertificate
        flag set to false )

[v6r7p36]

*WMS
FIX: CREAMCE, SiteDirector - make sure that the tmp executable is removed
CHANGE: JobWrapper - remove sending mails via Notification Service in case
        of job rescheduling

*SMS
FIX: StorageManagementDB - fix a race condition when old tasks are set failed
     between stage submission and update.

[v6r7p35]

*Stager
NEW: Stager API: dirac-stager-monitor-file, dirac-stager-monitor-jobs,
     dirac-stager-monitor-requests, dirac-stager-show-stats

[v6r7p34]

*Transformation
FIX: TransformationCleaning Agent status was set to 'Deleted' instead of 'Cleaned'

[v6r7p33]

*Interfaces
FIX: Job.py - in setExecutable() - prevent changing the log file name string type

*StorageManagement
NEW: StorageManagementDB(Handler) - kill staging requests at the same time as
     killing related jobs, closes #1510
FIX: StorageManagementDB - demote the level of several log messages

[v6r7p32]

*DMS
FIX: StorageElementHandler - do not use getDiskSpace utility, use os.statvfs instead
CHANGE: StorageManagementDB - in getStageRequests() make MySQL do an UNIQUE selection
        and use implicit loop to speed up queries for large results

*Resources
FIX: lsfce remote script - use re.search instead of re.match in submitJob() to cope with
     multipline output

[v6r7p31]

*WMS
FIX: SiteDirector - make possible more than one SiteDirector (with different pilot identity) attached
     to a CE, ie sgm and pilot roles. Otherwise one is declaring Aborted the pilots from the other.

[v6r7p30]

*Core
CHANGE: X509Chain - added groupProperties field to the getCredentials() report
BUGFIX: InstallTools - in getSetupComponents() typo fixed: agent -> executor

[v6r7p29]

*DMS
CHANGE: FileCatalog - selection metadata is also returned as compatible metadata in the result
        of getCompatibleMetadata() call
NEW: FileCatalog - added path argument to getCompatibleMetadata() call
NEW: FileCatalogClient - added getFileUserMetadata()
BUGFIX: dirac-dms-fts-monitor - exit with code -1 in case of error

*Resources
FIX: CREAMComputingElement - check globus-url-copy result for errors when retrieving job output

[v6r7p28]

*DMS
BUGFIX: FileCatalog/DirectoryMetadata - wrong MySQL syntax

[v6r7p27]

*Core
FIX: Mail.py - fix of the problem of colons in the mail's body

*Interfaces
NEW: Job API - added setSubmitPools(), setPlatform() sets ... "Platform"

*WMS
FIX: TaskQueueDB - use SystemConfig as Platform for matching ( if Platform is not set explicitly

*Resources
FIX: SSHComputingElement - use ssh host ( and not CE name ) in the pilot reference
BUGFIX: SSHGEComputingElement - forgotten return statement in _getJobOutputFiles()

*Framework
NEW: dirac-sys-sendmail - email's body can be taken from pipe. Command's argument
     in this case will be interpreted as a destination address

[v6r7p26]

*DMS
FIX: ReplicaManager - status names Read/Write -> ReadAccess/WriteAccess

[v6r7p25]

*Core
CHANGE: X509Chain - in getCredentials() failure to contact CS is not fatal,
        can happen when calling dirac-proxy-init -x, for example

[v6r7p24]

*DMS
NEW: FileCatalog - added getFilesByMetadataWeb() to allow pagination in the Web
     catalog browser

*WMS
CHANGE: WMSAdministrator, DiracAdmin - get banned sites list by specifying the status
        to the respective jobDB call

[v6r7p23]

*Transformation
BUGFIX: TransformationDB - badly formatted error log message

*RMS
CHANGE: RequestDBMySQL - speedup the lookup of requests

*WMS
BUGFIX: dirac-dms-job-delete - in job selection by group

*DMS
FIX: LcgFileCatalogClient - getDirectorySize made compatible with DFC
BUGFIX: LcgFileCatalogClient - proper call of __getClientCertInfo()

[v6r7p22]

*Transformation
CHANGE: InputDataAgent - treats only suitable transformations, e.g. not the extendable ones.
CHANGE: TransformationAgent - make some methods more public for easy overload

[v6r7p21]

*Core
FIX: Shifter - pass filePath argument when downloading proxy

[v6r7p20]

*DMS
CHANGE: StrategyHandler - move out SourceSE checking to TransferAgent
CHANGE: ReplicaManager, InputDataAgent - get active replicas
FIX: StorageElement, SRM2Storage - support for 'xxxAccess' statuses, checking results
     of return structures

*RSS
NEW: set configurable email address on the CS to send the RSS emails
NEW: RSSCache without thread in background
FIX: Synchronizer - moved to ResourceManager handler

[v6r7p19]

*DMS
BUGFIX: ReplicaManager - in putAndRegister() SE.putFile() singleFile argument not used explicitly

[v6r7p18]

*WMS
FIX: StalledJobAgent - do not exit the loop over Completed jobs if accounting sending fails
NEW: dirac-wms-job-delete - allow to specify jobs to delete by job group and/or in a file
FIX: JobManifest - If CPUTime is not set, set it to MaxCPUTime value

[v6r7p17]

*Resources
FIX: SRM2Storage - treat properly "22 SRM_REQUEST_QUEUED" result code

[v6r7p16]

*DMS
FIX: StrategyHandler - do not proceed when the source SE is not valid for read
BUGFIX: StorageElement - putFile can take an optional sourceSize argument
BUGFIX: ReplicaManager - in removeFile() proper loop on failed replicas

*RSS
FIX: SpaceTokenOccupancyCommand, CacheFeederAgent - add timeout when calling lcg_util commands

*WMS
FIX: JobManifest - take all the SubmitPools defined in the TaskQueueAgent
NEW: StalledJobAgent - declare jobs stuck in Completed status as Failed

[v6r7p15]

*Core
BUGFIX: SocketInfo - in host identity evaluation

*DMS
BUGFIX: FileCatalogHandler - missing import os

*Transformation
CHANGE: JobManifest - getting allowed job types from operations() section

[v6r7p14]

*DMS
CHANGE: StorageElementProxy - removed getParameters(), closes #1280
FIX: StorageElementProxy - free the getFile space before the next file
FIX: StorageElement - added getPFNBase() to comply with the interface

*Interfaces
CHANGE: Dirac API - allow lists of LFNs in removeFile() and removeReplica()

*WMS
CHANGE: JobSchedulingAgent(Executor) - allow both BannedSite and BannedSites JDL option

*RSS
FIX: ElementInspectorAgent - should only pick elements with rss token ( rs_svc ).
FIX: TokenAgent - using 4th element instead of the 5th. Added option to set admin email on the CS.

[v6r7p13]

*Core
FIX: Resources - in getStorageElementSiteMapping() return only sites with non-empty list of SEs

*DMS
FIX: StorageElement - restored the dropped logic of using proxy SEs
FIX: FileCatalog - fix the UseProxy /LocalSite/Catalog option

*Transformation
FIX: TransformationDB - use lower() string comparison in extendTransformation()

[v6r7p12]

*WMS
BUGFIX: JobManifest - get AllowedSubmitPools from the /Systems section, not from /Operations

*Core
NEW: Resources helper - added getSites(), getStorageElementSiteMapping()

*DMS
CHANGE: StrategyHandler - use getStorageElementSiteMapping helper function
BUGFIX: ReplicaManager - do not modify the loop dictionary inside the loop

[v6r7p11]

*Core
CHANGE: Subprocess - put the use of watchdog in flagging

[v6r7p10]

*Core
NEW: Logger - added getLevel() method, closes #1292
FIX: Subprocess - returns correct structure in case of timeout, closes #1295, #1294
CHANGE: TimeOutExec - dropped unused utility
FIX: Logger - cleaned unused imports

*RSS
CHANGE: ElementInspectorAgent - do not use mangled name and removed shifterProxy agentOption

[v6r7p9]

*Core
BUGFIX: InstallTools - MySQL Port should be an integer

[v6r7p8]

*Core
FIX: Subprocess - consistent timeout error message

*DMS
NEW: RemovalTask - added bulk removal
FIX: StrategyHandler - check file source CEs
CHANGE: DataIntegrityClient - code beautification
CHANGE: ReplicaManager - do not check file existence if replica information is queried anyway,
        do not fail if file to be removed does not exist already.

[v6r7p7]

FIX: Several fixes to allow automatic code documentation

*Core
NEW: InstallTools - added mysqlPort and mysqlRootUser

*DMS
CHANGE: ReplicaManager - set possibility to force the deletion of non existing files
CHANGE: StrategyHandler - better handling of checksum check during scheduling

[v6r7p6]

*Core
FIX: dirac-install - restore signal alarm if downloadable file is not found
FIX: Subprocess - using Manager proxy object to pass results from the working process

*DMS:
CHANGE: StorageElement - removed overwride mode
CHANGE: removed obsoleted dirac-dms-remove-lfn-replica, dirac-dms-remove-lfn
NEW: FTSMonitorAgent - filter out sources with checksum mismatch
FIX: FTSMonitorAgent, TransferAgent - fix the names of the RSS states

*RSS
NEW: ElementInspectorAgent runs with a variable number of threads which are automatically adjusted
NEW: Added policies to force a particular state, can be very convenient to keep something Banned for example.
NEW: policy system upgrade, added finer granularity when setting policies and actions

*WMS
NEW: SiteDirector- allow to define pilot DN/Group in the agent options
CHANGE: JobDescription, JobManifest - take values for job parameter verification from Operations CS section

[v6r7p5]

*Interfaces
BUGFIX: dirac-wms-job-get-output - properly treat the case when output directory is not specified

[v6r7p4]

*Core
FIX: Subprocess - avoid that watchdog kills the executor process before it returns itself

*Framework
BUGFIX: ProxuManagerClient - wrong time for caching proxies

*RSS
FIX: removed obsoleted methods

*DMS
NEW: FileCatalog - added findFilesByMetadataDetailed - provides detailed metadata for
     selected files

[v6r7p3]

*DMS
FIX: FTSMonitorAgent - logging less verbose

*Transformation
FIX: TransformationAgent - use the new CS defaults locations
FIX: Proper agent initialization
NEW: TransformationPlaugin - in Broadcast plugin added file groupings by number of files,
     make the TargetSE always defined, even if the SourceSE list contains it

*ResourceStatus
FIX: Added the shifter's proxy to several agents

*RMS
FIX: RequestContainer - the execution order was not properly set for the single files

*Framework:
BUGFIX: ProxyManagerClient - proxy time can not be shorter than what was requested

[v6r7p2]

*Core
FIX: dirac-configure - switch to use CS before checking proxy info

*Framework
NEW: dirac-sys-sendmail new command
NEW: SystemAdmininistratorCLI - added show host, uninstall, revert commands
NEW: SystemAdmininistratorHandler - added more info in getHostInfo()
NEW: SystemAdmininistratorHandler - added revertSoftware() interface

*Transformation
FIX: TransformationCleaningAgent - check the status of returned results

[v6r7p1]

*Core
FIX: Subprocess - finalize the Watchdog closing internal connections after a command execution
CHANGE: add timeout for py(shell,system)Call calls where appropriate
CHANGE: Shifter - use gProxyManager in a way that allows proxy caching

*Framework
NEW: ProxyManagerClient - allow to specify validity and caching time separately
FIX: ProxyDB - replace instead of delete+insert proxy in __storeVOMSProxy

*DMS
NEW: FTSMonitorAgent - made multithreaded for better efficiency
FIX: dirac-dms-add-file - allow LFN: prefix for lfn argument

*WMS
NEW: dirac-wms-job-get-output, dirac-wms-job-status - allow to retrieve output for a job group
FIX: TaskQueueDB - fixed selection SQL in __generateTQMatchSQL()
CHANGE: OptimizerExecutor - reduce diversity of MinorStatuses for failed executors

*Resources
FIX: CREAMComputingElement - remove temporary JDL right after the submission

[v6r6p21]

*DMS
BUGFIX: TransformationCleaningAgent - use the right signature of cleanMetadataCatalogFiles() call

[v6r6p20]

*DMS
FIX: RegistrationTask - properly escaped error messages
BUGFIX: DirectoryMetadata - use getFileMetadataFields from FileMetadata in addMetadataField()
NEW: When there is a missing source error spotted during FTS transfer, file should be reset
     and rescheduled again until maxAttempt (set to 100) is reached

*WMS
FIX: JobScheduling - fix the site group logic in case of Tier0

[v6r6p19]

*DMS
BUGFIX: All DMS agents  - set up agent name in the initialization

*Core
NEW: Subprocess - timeout wrapper for subprocess calls
BUGFIX: Time - proper interpreting of 0's instead of None
CHANGE: DISET - use cStringIO for ANY read that's longer than 16k (speed improvement)
        + Less mem when writing data to the net
FIX: Os.py - protection against failed "df" command execution
NEW: dirac-info prints lcg bindings versions
CHANGE: PlotBase - made a new style class
NEW: Subprocess - added debug level log message

*Framework
NEW: SystemAdministratorIntegrator client for collecting info from several hosts
NEW: SystemAdministrator - added getHostInfo()
FIX: dirac-proxy-init - always check for errors in S_OK/ERROR returned structures
CHANGE: Do not accept VOMS proxies when uploading a proxy to the proxy manager

*Configuration
FIX: CE2CSAgent - get a fresh copy of the cs data before attempting to modify it, closes #1151
FIX: Do not create useless backups due to slaves connecting and disconnecting
FIX: Refresher - prevent retrying with 'Insane environment'

*Accounting
NEW: Accounting/Job - added validation of reported values to cope with the weird Yandex case
FIX: DBUtils - take into account invalid values, closes #949

*DMS
FIX: FTSSubmitAgent - file for some reason rejected from submission should stay in 'Waiting' in
     TransferDB.Channel table
FIX: FTSRequest - fix in the log printout
CHANGE: dirac-dms-add-file removed, dirac-dms-add-files renamed to dirac-dms-add-file
FIX: FileCatalogCLI - check the result of removeFile call
FIX: LcgFileCatalogClient - get rid of LHCb specific VO evaluation
NEW: New FileCatalogProxy service - a generalization of a deprecated LcgFileCatalog service
FIX: Restored StorageElementProxy functionality
CHANGE: dirac-dms-add-file - added printout
NEW: FileCatalog(Factory), StorageElement(Factory) - UseProxy flag moved to /Operations and /LocalSite sections

*RSS
NEW:  general reimplementation:
      New DB schema using python definition of tables, having three big blocks: Site, Resource and Node.
      MySQLMonkey functionality almost fully covered by DB module, eventually will disappear.
      Services updated to use new database.
      Clients updated to use new database.
      Synchronizer updated to fill the new database. When helpers will be ready, it will need an update.
      One ElementInspectorAgent, configurable now is hardcoded.
      New Generic StateMachine using OOP.
      Commands and Policies simplified.
      ResourceStatus using internal cache, needs to be tested with real load.
      Fixes for the state machine
      Replaced Bad with Degraded status ( outside RSS ).
      Added "Access" to Read|Write|Check|Remove SE statuses wherever it applies.
      ResourceStatus returns by default "Active" instead of "Allowed" for CS calls.
      Caching parameters are defined in the CS
FIX: dirac-admin-allow/ban-se - allow a SE on Degraded ( Degraded->Active ) and ban a SE on Probing
     ( Probing -> Banned ). In practice, Active and Degraded are "usable" states anyway.

*WMS
FIX: OptimizerExecutor - failed optimizations will still update the job
NEW: JobWrapper - added LFNUserPrefix VO specific Operations option used for building user LFNs
CHANGE: JobDB - do not interpret SystemConfig in the WMS/JobDB
CHANGE: JobDB - Use CPUTime JDL only, keep MaxCPUTime for backward compatibility
CHANGE: JobWrapper - use CPUTime job parameter instead of MaxCPUTime
CHANGE: JobAgent - use CEType option instead of CEUniqueID
FIX: JobWrapper - do not attempt to untar directories before having checked if they are tarfiles
NEW: dirac-wms-job-status - get job statuses for jobs in a given job group

*SMS
FIX: StorageManagementDB - when removing unlinked replicas, take into account the case where a
     staging request had been submitted, but failed

*Resources
NEW: glexecCE - add new possible locations of the glexec binary: OSG specific stuff and in last resort
     looking in the PATH
NEW: LcgFileCatalogClient - in removeReplica() get the needed PFN inside instead of providing it as an argument

*TS
CHANGE: Transformation types definition are moved to the Operations CS section

*Interfaces
FIX: Dirac.py - CS option Scratchdir was in LocalSite/LocalSite
FIX: Dirac.py - do not define default catalog, use FileCatalog utility instead

[v6r6p19]

*DMS
BUGFIX: All DMS agents  - set up agent name in the initialization

[v6r6p18]

*Transformation
CHANGE: /DIRAC/VOPolicy/OutputDataModule option moved to <Operations>/Transformations/OutputDataModule

*Resources
FIX: ComputingElement - properly check if the pilot proxy has VOMS before adding it to the payload
     when updating it

*WMS
BUGFIX: JobSanity - fixed misspelled method call SetParam -> SetParameter

[v6r6p17]

*Transformation
BUGFIX: TransformationAgent - corrected  __getDataReplicasRM()

[v6r6p16]

*DMS
FIX: Agents - proper __init__ implementation with arguments passing to the super class
FIX: LcgFileCatalogClient - in removeReplica() reload PFN in case it has changed

[v6r6p15]

*Framework
BUGFIX: ErrorMessageMonitor - corrected updateFields call

*DMS:
NEW: FTSMonitorAgent completely rewritten in a multithreaded way

*Transformation
FIX: InputDataAgent - proper instantiation of TransformationClient
CHANGE: Transformation - several log message promoted from info to notice level

[v6r6p14]

*Transformation
FIX: Correct instantiation of agents inside several scripts
CHANGE: TransformationCleaningAgent - added verbosity to logs
CHANGE: TransformationAgent - missingLFC to MissingInFC as it could be the DFC as well
FIX: TransformationAgent - return an entry for all LFNs in __getDataReplicasRM

*DMS
FIX: TransferAgent - fix exception reason in registerFiles()

[v6r6p13]

*DMS
CHANGE: TransferAgent - change RM call from getCatalogueReplicas to getActiveReplicas.
        Lowering log printouts here and there

[v6r6p12]

*DMS
BUGFIX: RemovalTask - Replacing "'" by "" in error str set as attribute for a subRequest file.
        Without that request cannot be updated when some nasty error occurs.

[v6r6p11]

*RMS:
BUGFIX: RequestClient - log string formatting

*DMS
BUGFIX: RemovalTask - handling for files not existing in the catalogue

*Transformation
FIX: TransformationManager - ignore files in NotProcessed status to get the % of processed files

*Interfaces
FIX: Fixes due to the recent changes in PromptUser utility

[v6r6p10]

*RMS
FIX: RequestDBMySQL - better escaping of queries

*WMS
FIX: SiteDirector - get compatible platforms before checking Task Queues for a site

[v6r6p9]

*Core
FIX: Utilities/PromptUser.py - better user prompt

*Accounting
NEW: Add some validation to the job records because of weird data coming from YANDEX.ru

*DMS
BUGFIX: ReplicaManager - typo errStr -> infoStr in __replicate()
FIX: FTSRequest - fixed log message

*WMS
FIX: SiteDirector - use CSGlobals.getVO() call instead of explicit CS option

[v6r6p8]

*Transformation
BUGFIX: TransformationDB - typo in getTransformationFiles(): iterValues -> itervalues

[v6r6p7]

*Resources
FIX: StorageFactory - uncommented line that was preventing the status to be returned
BUGFIX: CE remote scripts - should return status and not call exit()
BUGFIX: SSHComputingElement - wrong pilot ID reference

[v6r6p6]

*WMS
FIX: TaskQueueDB - in findOrphanJobs() retrieve orphaned jobs as list of ints instead of list of tuples
FIX: OptimizerExecutor - added import of datetime to cope with the old style optimizer parameters

*Transformation
FIX: TransformationAgent - fix finalization entering in an infinite loop
NEW: TransformationCLI - added resetProcessedFile command
FIX: TransformationCleaningAgent - treating the archiving delay
FIX: TransformationDB - fix in getTransformationFiles() in case of empty file list

[v6r6p5]

*Transformation
FIX: TransformationAgent - type( transClient -> transfClient )
FIX: TransformationAgent - self._logInfo -> self.log.info
FIX: TransformationAgent - skip if no Unused files
FIX: TransformationAgent - Use CS option for replica cache lifetime
CHANGE: TransformationAgent - accept No new Unused files every [6] hours

[v6r6p4]

*DMS
FIX: TransferAgent - protection for files that can not be scheduled
BUGFIX: TransferDB - typo (instIDList - > idList ) fixed

*Transformation
BUGFIX: TransformationAgent - typo ( loginfo -> logInfo )

[v6r6p3]

FIX: merged in patch v6r5p14

*Core
BUGFIX: X509Chain - return the right structure in getCredentials() in case of failure
FIX: dirac-deploy-scripts.py - allow short scripts starting from "d"
FIX: dirac-deploy-scripts.py - added DCOMMANDS_PPID env variable in the script wrapper
FIX: ExecutorReactor - reduced error message dropping redundant Task ID

*Interfaces
BUGFIX: Dirac.py - allow to pass LFN list to replicateFile()

*DMS
FIX: FileManager - extra check if all files are available in _findFiles()
BUGFIX: FileCatalogClientCLI - bug in DirectoryListing

[v6r6p2]

FIX: merged in patch v6r5p13

*WMS
FIX: SiteDirector - if no community set, look for DIRAC/VirtualOrganization setting

*Framework
FIX: SystemLoggingDB - LogLevel made VARCHAR in the MessageRepository table
FIX: Logging - several log messages are split in fixed and variable parts
FIX: SystemLoggingDB - in insertMessage() do not insert new records in auxiliary tables if they
     are already there

[v6r6p1]

*Core:
CHANGE: PromptUser - changed log level of the printout to NOTICE
NEW: Base Client constructor arguments are passed to the RPCClient constructor

*DMS:
NEW: FTSRequest - added a prestage mechanism for source files
NEW: FileCatalogClientCLI - added -f switch to the size command to use raw faile tables
     instead of storage usage tables
NEW: FileCatalog - added orphan directory repair tool
NEW: FIleCatalog - more counters to control the catalog sanity

*WMS:
FIX: SandboxStoreClient - no more kwargs tricks
FIX: SandboxStoreClient returns sandbox file name in case of upload failure to allow failover
FIX: dirac-pilot - fixed VO_%s_SW_DIR env variable in case of OSG

*TS:
FIX: TransformationManagerHandler - avoid multiple Operations() instantiation in
     getTransformationSummaryWeb()

[v6r6]

*Core
CHANGE: getDNForUsername helper migrated from Core.Security.CS to Registry helper
NEW: SiteSEMapping - new utilities getSitesGroupedByTierLevel(), getTier1WithAttachedTier2(),
     getTier1WithTier2
CHANGE: The DIRAC.Core.Security.CS is replaced by the Registry helper
BUGFIX: dirac-install - properly parse += in .cfg files
FIX: Graphs.Utilities - allow two lines input in makeDataFromCVS()
FIX: Graphs - allow Graphs package usage if even matplotlib is not installed
NEW: dirac-compile-externals will retrieve the Externals compilation scripts from it's new location
     in github (DIRACGrid/Externals)
NEW: Possibility to define a thread-global credentials for DISET connections (for web framework)
NEW: Logger - color output ( configurable )
NEW: dirac-admin-sort-cs-sites - to sort sites in the CS
CHANGE: MessageClient(Factor) - added msgClient attribute to messages
NEW: Core.Security.Properties - added JOB_MONITOR and USER_MANAGER properties

*Configuration
NEW: Registry - added getAllGroups() method

*Framework
NEW: SystemAdministratorClientCLI - possibility to define roothPath and lcgVersion when updating software

*Accounting
NEW: JobPlotter - added Normalized CPU plots to Job accounting
FIX: DBUtils - plots going to greater granularity

*DMS
NEW: FileCatalog - storage usage info stored in all the directories, not only those with files
NEW: FileCatalog - added utility to rebuild storage usage info from scratch
FIX: FileCatalog - addMetadataField() allow generic types, e.g. string
FIX: FileCatalog - path argument is normalized before usage in multiple methods
FIX: FileCatalog - new metadata for files(directories) should not be there before for directories(files)
NEW: FileCatalog - added method for rebuilding DirectoryUsage data from scratch
NEW: FileCatalog - Use DirectoryUsage mechanism for both logical and physical storage
CHANGE: FileCatalog - forbid removing non-empty directories
BUGFIX: FileCatalogClientCLI - in do_ls() check properly the path existence
FIX: FileCatalogClientCLI - protection against non-existing getCatalogCounters method in the LFC client
FIX: DMS Agents - properly call superclass constructor with loadName argument
FIX: ReplicaManager - in removeFile() non-existent file is marked as failed
FIX: Make several classes pylint compliant: DataIntegrityHandler, DataLoggingHandler,
     FileCatalogHandler, StorageElementHandler, StorageElementProxyHandler, TransferDBMonitoringHandler
FIX: LogUploadAgent - remove the OSError exception in __replicate()
FIX: FileCatalogClientCLI - multiple check of proper command inputs,
     automatic completion of several commands with subcommands,
     automatic completion of file names
CHANGE: FileCatalogClientCLI - reformat the output of size command
FIX: dirac-admin-ban-se - allow to go over all options read/write/check for each SE
NEW: StrategyHandler - new implementation to speed up file scheduling + better error reporting
NEW: LcgFileCatalogProxy - moved from from LHCbDirac to DIRAC
FIX: ReplicaManager - removed usage of obsolete "/Resources/StorageElements/BannedTarget"
CHANGE: removed StorageUsageClient.py
CHANGE: removed obsoleted ProcessingDBAgent.py

*WMS
CHANGE: RunNumber job parameter was removed from all the relevant places ( JDL, JobDB, etc )
NEW: dirac-pilot - add environment setting for SSH and BOINC CEs
NEW: WMSAdministrator - get output for non-grid CEs if not yet in the DB
NEW: JobAgent - job publishes BOINC parameters if any
CHANGE: Get rid of LHCbPlatform everywhere except TaskQueueDB
FIX: SiteDirector - provide list of sites to the Matcher in the initial query
FIX: SiteDirector - present a list of all groups of a community to match TQs
CHANGE: dirac-boinc-pilot dropped
CHANGE: TaskQueueDirector does not depend on /LocalSite section any more
CHANGE: reduced default delays for JobCleaningAgent
CHANGE: limit the number of jobs received by JobCleaningAgent
CHANGE: JobDB - use insertFields instead of _insert
CHANGE: Matcher, TaskQueueDB - switch to use Platform rather than LHCbPlatform retaining LHCbPlatform compatibility
BUGFIX: Matcher - proper reporting pilot site and CE
CHANGE: JobManager - improved job Killing/Deleting logic
CHANGE: dirac-pilot - treat the OSG case when jobs on the same WN all run in the same directory
NEW: JobWrapper - added more status reports on different failures
FIX: PilotStatusAgent - use getPilotProxyFromDIRACGroup() instead of getPilotProxyFromVOMSGroup()
CHANGE: JobMonitoringHandler - add cutDate and condDict parameters to getJobGroup()
NEW: JobMonitoringHandler - check access rights with JobPolicy when accessing job info from the web
NEW: JobManager,JobWrapper - report to accounting jobs in Rescheduled final state if rescheduling is successful
FIX: WMSAdministrator, SiteDirector - store only non-empty pilot output to the PilotDB
NEW: added killPilot() to the WMSAdministrator interface, DiracAdmin and dirac-admin-kill-pilot command
NEW: TimeLeft - renormalize time left using DIRAC Normalization if available
FIX: JobManager - reconnect to the OptimizationMind in background if not yet connected
CHANGE: JobManifest - use Operations helper
NEW: JobCleaningAgent - delete logging records from JobLoggingDB when deleting jobs

*RMS
FIX: RequestDBFile - better exception handling in case no JobID supplied
FIX: RequestManagerHandler - make it pylint compliant
NEW: RequestProxyHandler - is forwarding requests from voboxes to central RequestManager.
     If central RequestManager is down, requests are dumped into file cache and a separate thread
     running in background is trying to push them into the central.
CHANGE: Major revision of the code
CHANGE: RequestDB - added index on SubRequestID in the Files table
CHANGE: RequestClient - readRequestForJobs updated to the new RequetsClient structure

*RSS
NEW: CS.py - Space Tokens were hardcoded, now are obtained after scanning the StorageElements.

*Resources
FIX: SSHComputingElement - enabled multiple hosts in one queue, more debugging
CHANGE: SSHXXX Computing Elements - define SSH class once in the SSHComputingElement
NEW: SSHComputingElement - added option to define private key location
CHANGE: Get rid of legacy methods in ComputingElement
NEW: enable definition of ChecksumType per SE
NEW: SSHBatch, SSHCondor Computing Elements
NEW: SSHxxx Computing Elements - using remote control scripts to better capture remote command errors
CHANGE: put common functionality into SSHComputingElement base class for all SSHxxx CEs
NEW: added killJob() method tp all the CEs
NEW: FileCatalog - take the catalog information info from /Operations CS section, if defined there,
     to allow specifications per VO

*Interfaces
CHANGE: Removed Script.initialize() from the API initialization
CHANGE: Some general API polishing
FIX: Dirac.py - when running in mode="local" any directory in the ISB would not get untarred,
     contrary to what is done in the JobWrapper

*TS
BUGFIX: TaskManager - bug fixed in treating tasks with input data
FIX: TransformationCleaningAgent - properly call superclass constructor with loadName argument
NEW: TransformationCleaningAgent - added _addExtraDirectories() method to extend the list of
     directories to clean in a subclass if needed
CHANGE: TransformationCleaningAgent - removed usage of StorageUsageClient
NEW: TransformationAgent is multithreaded now ( implementation moved from LHCbDIRAC )
NEW: added unit tests
NEW: InputDataAgent - possibility to refresh only data registered in the last predefined period of time
NEW: TransformationAgent(Client) - management of derived transformations and more ported from LHCbDIRAC
BUGFIX: TransformationDB - wrong SQL statement generation in setFileStatusForTransformation()

[v6r5p14]

*Core
NEW: Utilities - added Backports utility

*WMS
FIX: Use /Operations/JobScheduling section consistently, drop /Operations/Matching section
NEW: Allow VO specific share correction plugins from extensions
FIX: Executors - several fixes

[v6r5p13]

*WMS
FIX: Executors - VOPlugin will properly send and receive the params
NEW: Correctors can be defined in an extension
FIX: Correctors - Properly retrieve info from the CS using the ops helper

[v6r5p12]

FIX: merged in patch v6r4p34

[v6r5p11]

FIX: merged in patch v6r4p33

*Core
FIX: MySQL - added offset argument to buildConditions()

[v6r5p10]

FIX: merged in patch v6r4p32

[v6r5p9]

FIX: merged in patch v6r4p30

[v6r5p8]

FIX: merged in patch v6r4p29

[v6r5p7]

FIX: merged in patch v6r4p28

[v6r5p6]

FIX: merged in patch v6r4p27

*Transformation
BUGFIX: TransformationDB - StringType must be imported before it can be used

*RSS
NEW: CS.py - Space Tokens were hardcoded, now are obtained after scanning the StorageElements.

[v6r5p5]

FIX: merged in patch v6r4p26

[v6r5p4]

FIX: merged in patch v6r4p25

[v6r5p3]

*Transformation
FIX: merged in patch v6r4p24

[v6r5p2]

*Web
NEW: includes DIRACWeb tag web2012092101

[v6r5p1]

*Core
BUGFIX: ExecutorMindHandler - return S_OK() in the initializeHandler
FIX: OptimizationMindHandler - if the manifest is not dirty it will not be updated by the Mind

*Configuration
NEW: Resources helper - added getCompatiblePlatform(), getDIRACPlatform() methods

*Resources
FIX: SSHComputingElement - add -q option to ssh command to avoid banners in the output
FIX: BOINCComputingElement - removed debugging printout
FIX: ComputingElement - use Platform CS option which will be converted to LHCbPlatform for legacy compatibility

*DMS
FIX: RequestAgentBase - lowering loglevel from ALWAYS to INFO to avoid flooding SystemLogging

*WMS:
FIX: SiteDirector - provide CE platform parameter when interrogating the TQ
FIX: GridPilotDirector - publish pilot OwnerGroup rather than VOMS role
FIX: WMSUtilities - add new error string into the parsing of the job output retrieval

[v6r5]

NEW: Executor framework

*Core
NEW: MySQL.py - added Test case for Time.dateTime time stamps
NEW: MySQL.py - insertFields and updateFields can get values via Lists or Dicts
NEW: DataIntegrityDB - use the new methods from MySQL and add test cases
NEW: DataIntegrityHandler - check connection to DB and create tables (or update their schema)
NEW: DataLoggingDB - use the new methods from MySQL and add test cases
NEW: DataLoggingHandler - check connection to DB and create tables (or update their schema)
FIX: ProcessPool - killing stuck workers after timeout
CHANGE: DB will throw a RuntimeException instead of a sys.exit in case it can't contact the DB
CHANGE: Several improvements on DISET
CHANGE: Fixed all DOS endings to UNIX
CHANGE: Agents, Services and Executors know how to react to CSSection/Module and react accordingly
NEW: install tools are updated to deal with executors
FIX: dirac-install - add -T/--Timeout option to define timeout for distribution downloads
NEW: dirac-install - added possibility of defining dirac-install's global defaults by command line switch
BUGFIX: avoid PathFinder.getServiceURL and use Client class ( DataLoggingClient,LfcFileCatalogProxyClient )
FIX: MySQL - added TIMESTAMPADD and TIMESTAMPDIFF to special values not to be scaped by MySQL
NEW: ObjectLoader utility
CHANGE: dirac-distribution - added global defaults flag and changed the flag to -M or --defaultsURL
FIX: Convert to string before trying to escape value in MySQL
NEW: DISET Services - added PacketTimeout option
NEW: SystemLoggingDB - updated to use the renewed MySQL interface and SQL schema
NEW: Added support for multiple entries in /Registry/DefaultGroup, for multi-VO installations
CHANGE: Component installation procedure updated to cope with components inheriting Modules
CHANGE: InstallTools - use dirac- command in runit run scripts
FIX: X509Chain - avoid a return of error when the group is not valid
FIX: MySQL - reduce verbosity of log messages when high level methods are used
CHANGE: Several DB classes have been updated to use the MySQL buildCondition method
NEW: MySQL - provide support for greater and smaller arguments to all MySQL high level methods
FIX: Service.py - check all return values from all initializers

*Configuration
CHANGE: By default return option and section lists ordered as in the CS
NEW: ConfigurationClient - added function to refresh remote configuration

*Framework
FIX: Registry.findDefaultGroup will never return False
CHANGE: ProxyManager does not accept proxies without explicit group
CHANGE: SystemAdministratorHandler - force refreshing the configuration after new component setup

*RSS
CHANGE: removed code execution from __init__
CHANGE: removed unused methods
NEW: Log all policy results

*Resources
NEW: updated SSHComputingElement which allows multiple job submission
FIX: SGETimeLeft - better parsing of the batch system commands output
FIX: InProcessComputingElement - when starting a new job discard renewal of the previous proxy
NEW: BOINCComputingElement - new CE client to work with the BOINC desktop grid infrastructure

*WMS
CHANGE: WMS Optimizers are now executors
CHANGE: SandboxStoreClient can directly access the DB if available
CHANGE: Moved JobDescription and improved into JobManifest
FIX: typo in JobLoggingDB
NEW: JobState/CachedJobState allow access to the Job via DB/JobStateSync Service automatically
BUGFIX: DownloadInputData - when not enough disk space, message was using "buffer" while it should be using "data"
FIX: the sandboxmetadataDB explosion when using the sandboxclient without direct access to the DB
NEW: Added support for reset/reschedule in the OptimizationMind
CHANGE: Whenever a DB is not properly initialized it will raise a catchable RuntimeError exception
        instead of silently returning
FIX: InputDataResolution - just quick mod for easier extensibility, plus removed some LHCb specific stuff
NEW: allow jobids in a file in dirac-wms-job-get-output
NEW: JobManager - zfill in %n parameter substitution to allow alphabetical sorting
NEW: Directors - added checking of the TaskQueue limits when getting eligible queues
CHANGE: Natcher - refactor to simpify the logic, introduced Limiter class
CHANGE: Treat MaxCPUTime and CPUTime the same way in the JDL to avoid confusion
NEW: SiteDirector - added options PilotScript, MaxPilotsToSubmit, MaxJobsInFillMode
BUGFIX: StalledJobAgent - use cpuNormalization as float, not string
FIX: Don't kill an executor if a task has been taken out from it
NEW: dirac-boinc-pilot - pilot script to be used on the BOINC volunteer nodes
FIX: SiteDirector - better handling of tokens and filling mode
NEW: Generic pilot identities are automatically selected by the TQD and the SiteDirector
     if not explicitly defined in /Pilot/GenericDN and GenericGroup
NEW: Generic pilot groups can have a VO that will be taken into account when selecting generic
     credentials to submit pilots
NEW: Generic pilots that belong to a VO can only match jobs from that VO
NEW: StalledJobAgent - added rescheduling of jobs stuck in Matched or Rescheduled status
BUGFIX: StalledJobAgent - default startTime and endTime to "now", avoid None value
NEW: JobAgent - stop after N failed matching attempts (nothing to do), use StopAfterFailedMatches option
CHANGE: JobAgent - provide resource description as a dictionary to avoid extra JDL parsing by the Matcher
CHANGE: Matcher - report pilot info once instead of sending it several times from the job
CHANGE: Matcher - set the job site instead of making a separate call to JobStateUpdate
NEW: Matcher - added Matches done and matches OK statistics
NEW: TaskQueue - don't delete fresh task queues. Wait 5 minutes to do so.
CHANGE: Disabled TQs can also be matched, if no jobs are there, a retry will be triggered

*Transformation
FIX: TransformationAgent - a small improvement: now can pick the prods status to handle from the CS,
     plus few minor corrections (e.g. logger messages)
FIX: TransformationCLI - take into accout possible failures in resetFile command

*Accounting
NEW: AccountingDB - added retrieving RAW records for internal stuff
FIX: AccountingDB - fixed some logic for readonly cases
CHANGE: Added new simpler and faster bucket insertion mechanism
NEW: Added more info when rebucketing
FIX: Calculate the rebucket ETA using remaining records to be processed instead of the total records to be processed
FIX: Plots with no data still carry the plot name

*DMS
NEW: SRM2Storage - added retry in the gfal calls
NEW: added new FTSCleaningAgent cleaning up TransferDB tables
FIX: DataLoggingClient and DataLoggingDB - tests moved to separate files
CHANGE: request agents cleanup

*RMS
CHANGE: Stop using RequestAgentMixIn in the request agents

[v6r4p34]

*DMS
BUGFIX: FileCatalogCLI - fixed wrong indentation
CHANGE: RegistrationTask - removed some LHCb specific defaults

[v6r4p33]

*DMS
CHANGE: FTSRequest - be more verbose if something is wrong with file

[v6r4p32]

*WMS
FIX: StalledJobAgent - avoid exceptions in the stalled job accounting reporting

*DMS
NEW: FTSMonitorAgent - handling of expired FTS jobs

*Interfaces
CHANGE: Dirac.py - attempt to retrieve output sandbox also for Completed jobs in retrieveRepositorySandboxes()

[v6r4p30]

*Core
BUGFIX: dirac-admin-bdii-ce-voview - proper check of the result structure

*Interfaces
FIX: Dirac.py, Job.py - allow to pass environment variables with special characters

*DMS
NEW: FileCatalogCLI - possibility to sort output in the ls command

*WMS:
FIX: JobWrapper - interpret environment variables with special characters

[v6r4p29]

*RMS
BUGFIX: RequestDBMySQL - wrong indentation in __updateSubRequestFiles()

[v6r4p28]

*Interfaces
CHANGE: Dirac.py, DiracAdmin.py - remove explicit timeout on RPC client instantiation

*RSS
FIX: CS.py - fix for updated CS location (backward compatible)

*DMS
BUGFIX: StrategyHandler - bug fixed determineReplicationTree()
FIX: FTSRequest - add checksum string to SURLs file before submitting an FTS job

*WMS
FIX: JobWrapper - protection for double quotes in JobName
CHANGE: SiteDirector - switched some logging messages from verbose to info level

*RMS
NEW: Request(Client,DBMySQL,Manager) - added readRequestsForJobs() method

[v6r4p27]

*DMS
FIX: SRM2Storage - removed hack for EOS (fixed server-side)

*Transformation
CHANGE: TransformationClient - limit to 100 the number of transformations in getTransformations()
NEW: TransformationAgent - define the transformations type to use in the configuration

*Interfaces
FIX: Job.py -  fix for empty environmentDict (setExecutionEnv)

[v6r4p26]

*Transformation
BUGFIX: TransformationClient - fixed calling sequence in rpcClient.getTransformationTasks()
NEW: TransformationClient - added log messages in verbose level.

[v6r4p25]

*DMS
BUGFIX: StrategyHandler - sanity check for wrong replication tree

[v6r4p24]

*Core
NEW: MySQL - add 'offset' argument to the buildCondition()

*Transformation
FIX: TransformationAgent - randomize the LFNs for removal/replication case when large number of those
CHANGE: TransformationClient(DB,Manager) - get transformation files in smaller chunks to
        improve performance
FIX: TransformationAgent(DB) - do not return redundant LFNs in getTransformationFiles()

[v6r4p23]

*Web
NEW: includes DIRACWeb tag web2012092101

[v6r4p22]

*DMS
FIX: SRM2Storage - fix the problem with the CERN-EOS storage

[v6r4p21]

*Core
BUGFIX: SGETimeLeft - take into account dd:hh:mm:ss format of the cpu consumed

[v6r4p20]

*WMS
BUGFIX: PilotDirector, GridPilotDirector - make sure that at least 1 pilot is to be submitted
BUGFIX: GridPilotDirector - bug on how pilots are counted when there is an error in the submit loop.
BUGFIX: dirac-pilot - proper install script installation on OSG sites

[v6r4p19]

*RMS
FIX: RequestDBMySQL - optimized request selection query

[v6r4p18]

*Configuration
BUGFIX: CE2CSAgent.py - the default value must be set outside the loop

*DMS
NEW: dirac-dms-create-replication-request
BUGFIX: dirac-dms-fts-submit, dirac-dms-fts-monitor - print out error messages

*Resources
BUGFIX: TorqueComputingElement.py, plus add UserName for shared Queues

*WMS
BUGFIX: JobManagerHandler - default value for pStart (to avoid Exception)

[v6r4p17]

*Core
FIX: dirac-configure - setup was not updated in dirac.cfg even with -F option
FIX: RequestHandler - added fix for Missing ConnectionError

*DMS
FIX: dirac-dms-clean-directory - command fails with `KeyError: 'Replicas'`.

*WMS
FIX: SiteDirector - adapt to the new method in the Matcher getMatchingTaskQueue
FIX: SiteDirector - added all SubmitPools to TQ requests

[v6r4p16]

*Core:
FIX: dirac-install - bashrc/cshrc were wrongly created when using versionsDir

*Accounting
CHANGE: Added new simpler and faster bucket insertion mechanism
NEW: Added more info when rebucketing

*WMS
CHANGE: Matcher - refactored to take into account job limits when providing info to directors
NEW: JoAgent - reports SubmitPool parameter if applicable
FIX: Matcher - bad codition if invalid result

[v6r4p15]

*WMS
FIX: gLitePilotDirector - fix the name of the MyProxy server to avoid crasehs of the gLite WMS

*Transformation
FIX: TaskManager - when the file is on many SEs, wrong results were generated

[v6r4p13]

*DMS
FIX: dirac-admin-allow-se - added missing interpreter line

[v6r4p12]

*DMS
CHANGE: RemovalTask - for DataManager shifter change creds after failure of removal with her/his proxy.

*RSS
NEW: Added RssConfiguration class
FIX: ResourceManagementClient  - Fixed wrong method name

[v6r4p11]

*Core
FIX: GGUSTicketsClient - GGUS SOAP URL updated

*DMS
BUGFIX: ReplicaManager - wrong for loop

*RequestManagement
BUGFIX: RequestClient - bug fix in finalizeRequest()

*Transformation
FIX: TaskManager - fix for correctly setting the sites (as list)

[v6r4p10]

*RequestManagement
BUGFIX: RequestContainer - in addSubrequest() function

*Resources
BUGFIX: SRM2Storage - in checksum type evaluation

*ResourceStatusSystem
BUGFIX: InfoGetter - wrong import statement

*WMS
BUGFIX: SandboxMetadataDB - __init__() can not return a value

[v6r4p9]

*DMS
CHANGE: FailoverTransfer - ensure the correct execution order of the subrequests

[v6r4p8]

Bring in fixes from v6r3p17

*Core:
FIX: Don't have the __init__ return True for all DBs
NEW: Added more protection for exceptions thrown in callbacks for the ProcessPool
FIX: Operations will now look in 'Defaults' instead of 'Default'

*DataManagement:
FIX: Put more protection in StrategyHandler for neither channels  not throughput read out of TransferDB
FIX: No JobIDs supplied in getRequestForJobs function for RequestDBMySQL taken into account
FIX: Fix on getRequestStatus
CHANGE: RequestClient proper use of getRequestStatus in finalizeRequest
CHANGE: Refactored RequestDBFile

[v6r4p7]

*WorkloadManagement
FIX: SandboxMetadataDB won't explode DIRAC when there's no access to the DB
CHANGE: Whenever a DB fails to initialize it raises a catchable exception instead of just returning silently

*DataManagement
CHANGE: Added Lost and Unavailable to the file metadata

[v6r4p6]

Bring fixes from v6r4p6

[v6r4p5]

*Configuration
NEW: Added function to generate Operations CS paths

*Core
FIX: Added proper ProcessPool checks and finalisation

*DataManagement
FIX: don't set Files.Status to Failed for non-existign files, failover transfers won't go
FIX: remove classmethods here and there to unblock requestHolder
CHANGE: RAB, TA: change task timeout: 180 and 600 (was 600 and 900 respectively)
FIX: sorting replication tree by Ancestor, not hopAncestorgit add DataManagementSystem/Agent/TransferAgent.py
NEW: TA: add finalize
CHANGE: TransferAgent: add AcceptableFailedFiles to StrategyHandler to ban FTS channel from scheduling
FIX: if there is no failed files, put an empty dict


*RSS
FIX: RSS is setting Allowed but the StorageElement checks for Active

*Workflows
FIX: Part of WorfklowTask rewritten to fix some issues and allow 'ANY' as site

*Transformation
FIX: Wrong calls to TCA::cleanMetadataCatalogFiles

[v6r4p4]

*Core
FIX: Platform.py - check if Popen.terminate is available (only from 2.6)

[v6r4p3]

*Core
FIX: ProcessPool with watchdog and timeouts - applied in v6r3 first

[v6r4p2]

*StorageManagement
BUGFIX: StorageElement - staging is a Read operation and should be allowed as such

*WMS
BUGFIX: InProcessComputingElement, JobAgent - proper return status code from the job wrapper

*Core
FIX: Platform - manage properly the case of exception in the ldconfig execution

[v6r4p1]

*DMS
FIX: TransferDB.getChannelObservedThroughput - the channelDict was created in a wrong way

*RSS
FIX: ResourceStatus was not returning Allowed by default

[v6r4]

*Core
FIX: dirac-install-db.py: addDatabaseOptionsToCS has added a new keyed argument
NEW: SGETimeLeft.py: Support for SGE backend
FIX: If several extensions are installed, merge ConfigTemplate.cfg
NEW: Service framework - added monitoring of file descriptors open
NEW: Service framework - Reduced handshake timeout to prevent stuck threads
NEW: MySQL class with new high level methods - buildCondition,insertFields,updateFields
     deleteEntries, getFields, getCounters, getDistinctAttributeValues
FIX: ProcessPool - fixes in the locking mechanism with LockRing, stopping workers when the
     parent process is finished
FIX: Added more locks to the LockRing
NEW: The installation tools are updated to install components by name with the components module specified as an option

*DMS
FIX: TransferDB.py - speed up the Throughput determination
NEW: dirac-dms-add-files: script similar to dirac-dms-remove-files,
     allows for 1 file specification on the command line, using the usual dirac-dms-add-file options,
     but also can take a text file in input to upload a bunch of files. Exit code is 0 only if all
     was fine and is different for every error found.
NEW: StorageElementProxy- support for data downloading with http protocol from arbitrary storage,
     needed for the web data download
BUGFIX: FileCatalogCLI - replicate operation does a proper replica registration ( closes #5 )
FIX: ReplicaManager - __cleanDirectory now working and thus dirac-dms-clean-directory

*WMS
NEW: CPU normalization script to run a quick test in the pilot, used by the JobWrapper
     to report the CPU consumption to the accounting
FIX: StalledJobAgent - StalledTimeHours and FailedTimeHours are read each cycle, refer to the
     Watchdog heartBeat period (should be renamed); add NormCPUTime to Accounting record
NEW: SiteDirector - support for the operation per VO in multi-VO installations
FIX: StalledJobAgent - get ProcessingType from JDL if defined
BUGFIX: dirac-wms-job-peek - missing printout in the command
NEW: SiteDirector - take into account the number of already waiting pilots when evaluating the number of pilots to submit
FIX: properly report CPU usage when the Watchdog kill the payload.

*RSS
BUGFIX: Result in ClientCache table is a varchar, but the method was getting a datetime
NEW: CacheFeederAgent - VOBOX and SpaceTokenOccupancy commands added (ported from LHCbDIRAC)
CHANGE: RSS components get operational parameters from the Operations handler

*DataManagement
FIX: if there is no failed files, put an empty dict

*Transformation
FIX: Wrong calls to TCA::cleanMetadataCatalogFiles

[v6r3p19]

*WMS
FIX: gLitePilotDirector - fix the name of the MyProxy server to avoid crashes of the gLite WMS

[v6r3p18]

*Resources
BUGFIX: SRM2Storage - in checksum type evaluation

[v6r3p17]

*DataManagement
FIX: Fixes issues #783 and #781. Bugs in ReplicaManager removePhisicalReplica and getFilesFromDirectory
FIX: Return S_ERROR if missing jobid arguments
NEW: Checksum can be verified during FTS and SRM2Storage

[v6r3p16]

*DataManagement
FIX: better monitoring of FTS channels
FIX: Handle properly None value for channels and bandwidths

*Core
FIX: Properly calculate the release notes if there are newer releases in the release.notes file

[v6r3p15]

*DataManagement
FIX: if there is no failed files, put an empty dict

*Transformation
FIX: Wrong calls to TCA::cleanMetadataCatalogFiles


[v6r3p14]

* Core

BUGFIX: ProcessPool.py: clean processing and finalisation
BUGFIX: Pfn.py: don't check for 'FileName' in pfnDict

* DMS

NEW: dirac-dms-show-fts-status.py: script showing last hour history for FTS channels
NEW: TransferDBMonitoringHandler.py: new function exporting FST channel queues
BUGFIX: TransferAgent.py,RemovalAgent.py,RegistrationAgent.py - unlinking of temp proxy files, corection of values sent to gMonitor
BUGFIX: StrategyHandler - new config option 'AcceptableFailedFiles' to unblock scheduling for channels if problematic transfers occured for few files
NEW: TransferAgent,RemovalAgent,RegistrationAgent - new confing options for setting timeouts for tasks and ProcessPool finalisation
BUGFIX: ReplicaManager.py - reverse sort of LFNs when deleting files and directories to avoid blocks
NEW: moved StrategyHandler class def to separate file under DMS/private

* TMS

FIX: TransformationCleaningAgent.py: some refactoring, new way of disabling/enabline execution by 'EnableFlag' config option

[v6r3p13]

*Core
FIX: Added proper ProcessPool checks and finalisation

*DataManagement
FIX: don't set Files.Status to Failed for non-existign files, failover transfers won't go
FIX: remove classmethods here and there to unblock requestHolder
CHANGE: RAB, TA: change task timeout: 180 and 600 (was 600 and 900 respectively)
FIX: sorting replication tree by Ancestor, not hopAncestorgit add DataManagementSystem/Agent/TransferAgent.py
NEW: TA: add finalize
CHANGE: TransferAgent: add AcceptableFailedFiles to StrategyHandler to ban FTS channel from scheduling

[v6r3p12]

*Core
FIX: Platform.py - check if Popen.terminate is available (only from 2.6)

[v6r3p11]

*Core
FIX: ProcessPool with watchdog and timeouts

[v6r3p10]

*StorageManagement
BUGFIX: StorageElement - staging is a Read operation and should be allowed as such

*WMS
BUGFIX: InProcessComputingElement, JobAgent - proper return status code from the job wrapper

*Core
FIX: Platform - manage properly the case of exception in the ldconfig execution

[v6r3p9]

*DMS
FIX: TransferDB.getChannelObservedThroughput - the channelDict was created in a wrong way

[v6r3p8]

*Web
CHANGE: return back to the release web2012041601

[v6r3p7]

*Transformation
FIX: TransformationCleaningAgent - protection from deleting requests with jobID 0

[v6r3p6]

*Core
FIX: dirac-install-db - proper key argument (follow change in InstallTools)
FIX: ProcessPool - release all locks every time WorkignProcess.run is executed, more fixes to come
FIX: dirac-configure - for Multi-Community installations, all vomsdir/vomses files are now created

*WMS
NEW: SiteDirector - add pilot option with CE name to allow matching of SAM jobs.
BUGFIX: dirac-pilot - SGE batch ID was overwriting the CREAM ID
FIX: PilotDirector - protect the CS master if there are at least 3 slaves
NEW: Watchdog - set LocalJobID in the SGE case

[v6r3p5]

*Core:
BUGFIX: ProcessPool - bug making TaskAgents hang after max cycles
BUGFIX: Graphs - proper handling plots with data containing empty string labels
FIX: GateWay - transfers were using an old API
FIX: GateWay - properly calculate the gateway URL
BUGFIX: Utilities/Pfn.py - bug in pfnunparse() when concatenating Path and FileName

*Accounting
NEW: ReportGenerator - make AccountingDB readonly
FIX: DataCache - set daemon the datacache thread
BUGFIX: BasePlotter - proper handling of the Petabyte scale data

*DMS:
BUGFIX: TransferAgent, RegistrationTask - typos

[v6r3p4]

*DMS:
BUGFIX: TransferAgent - wrong value for failback in TA:execute

[v6r3p3]

*Configuration
BUGFIX: Operations helper - typo

*DMS:
FIX: TransferAgent - change the way of redirecting request to task

[v6r3p2]

*DMS
FIX: FTSRequest - updating metadata for accouting when finalizing FTS requests

*Core
FIX: DIRAC/__init__.py - default version is set to v6r3

[v6r3p1]

*WMS
CHANGE: Use ResourcesStatus and Resources helpers in the InputDataAgent logic

*Configuration
NEW: added getStorageElementOptions in Resources helper

*DMS
FIX: resourceStatus object created in TransferAgent instead of StrategyHandler

[v6r3]

*Core
NEW: Added protections due to the process pool usage in the locking logic

*Resources
FIX: LcgFileCatalogClient - reduce the number of retries: LFC_CONRETRY = 5 to
     avoid combined catalog to be stuck on a faulty LFC server

*RSS
BUGFIX: ResourceStatus - reworked helper to keep DB connections

*DMS
BUGFIX: ReplicaManager::CatalogBase::_callFileCatalogFcnSingleFile() - wrong argument

*RequestManagement
FIX: TaskAgents - set timeOut for task to 10 min (15 min)
NEW: TaskAgents - fill in Error fields in case of failing operations

*Interfaces
BUGFIX: dirac-wms-select-jobs - wrong use of the Dirac API

[v6r2p9]

*Core
FIX: dirac-configure - make use of getSEsForSite() method to determine LocalSEs

*WMS
NEW: DownloadInputData,InputDataByProtocol - check Files on Tape SEs are on Disk cache
     before Download or getturl calls from Wrapper
CHANGE: Matcher - add Stalled to "Running" Jobs when JobLimits are applied
CHANGE: JobDB - allow to specify required platform as Platform JDL parameter,
        the specified platform is taken into account even without /Resources/Computing/OSCompatibility section

*DMS
CHANGE: dirac-admin-allow(ban)-se - removed lhcb-grid email account by default,
        and added switch to avoid sending email
FIX: TaskAgents - fix for non-existing files
FIX: change verbosity in failoverReplication
FIX: FileCatalog - remove properly metadata indices
BUGFIX: FileManagerBase - bugfix in the descendants evaluation logic
FIX: TransferAgent and TransferTask - update Files.Status to Failed when ReplicaManager.replicateAndRegister
     will fail completely; when no replica is available at all.

*Core
FIX: dirac-pilot - default lcg bindings version set to 2012-02-20

[v6r2p8]

*DMS:
CHANGE: TransferAgent - fallback to task execution if replication tree is not found

[v6r2p7]

*WMS
BUGFIX: SiteDirector - wrong CS option use: BundleProxy -> HttpProxy
FIX: SiteDirector - use short lines in compressed/encoded files in the executable
     python script

[v6r2p6]

*DataManagement
FIX: Bad logic in StrategyHandler:MinimiseTotalWait

*Core
CHANGE: updated GGUS web portal URL

*RSS
BUGFIX: meta key cannot be reused, it is popped from dictionary

*Framework
FIX: The Gateway service does not have a handler
NEW: ConfingTemplate entry for Gateway
FIX: distribution notes allow for word wrap

*WorkloadManagement
FIX: avoid unnecessary call if no LFN is left in one of the SEs
FIX: When Uploading job outputs, try first Local SEs, if any


[v6r2p5]

*RSS
BUGFIX: several minor bug fixes

*RequestManagement
BUGFIX: RequestDBMySQL - removed unnecessary request type check

*DMS
BUGFIX: FileCatalogClienctCLI - wrong evaluation of the operation in the find command
NEW: FileCatalog - added possibility to remove specified metadata for a given path
BUGFIX: ReplicaManager - wrong operation order causing failure of UploadLogFile module

*Core
NEW: dirac-install - generate cshrc DIRAC environment setting file for the (t)csh

*Interfaces
CHANGE: Job - added InputData to each element in the ParametricInputData

*WMS
CHANGE: dirac-jobexec - pass ParametericInputData to the workflow as a semicolon separated string

[v6r2p4]

*WMS
BUGFIX: StalledJobAgent - protection against jobs with no PilotReference in their parameters
BUGFIX: WMSAdministratorHandler - wrong argument type specification for getPilotInfo method

*StorageManagement
BUGFIX: RequestFinalizationAgent - no method existence check when calling RPC method

[v6r2p3]

*WMS
CHANGE: Matcher - fixed the credentials check in requestJob() to simplify it

*ConfigurationSystem
CHANGE: Operations helper - fix that allow no VO to be defined for components that do not need it

*Core
BUGFIX: InstallTools - when applying runsvctrl to a list of components make sure that the config server is treated first and the sysadmin service - last

[v6r2p2]

*WMS
BUGFIX: Matcher - restored logic for checking private pilot asking for a given DN for belonging to the same group with JOB_SHARING property.

[v6r2p1]

*RequestManagementSystem
BUGFIX: RequestCleaningAgent - missing import of the "second" interval definition

[v6r2]

*General
FIX: replaced use of exec() python statement in favor of object method execution

*Accounting
CHANGE: Accounting 'byte' units are in powers of 1000 instead of powers of 1024 (closes #457)

*Core
CHANGE: Pfn.py - pfnparse function rewritten for speed up and mem usage, unit test case added
FIX: DISET Clients are now thread-safe. Same clients used twice in different threads was not
closing the previous connection
NEW: reduce wait times in DISET protocol machinery to improve performance
NEW: dirac-fix-mysql-script command to fix the mysql start-up script for the given installation
FIX: TransferClient closes connections properly
FIX: DISET Clients are now thread-safe. Same client used twice in different threads will not close the previous connection
CHANGE: Beautification and reduce wait times to improve performance
NEW: ProcessPool - added functionality to kill all children processes properly when destroying ProcessPool objects
NEW: CS Helper for LocalSite section, with gridEnv method
NEW: Grid module will use Local.gridEnv if nothing passed in the arguments
CHANGE: Add deprecated sections in the CS Operations helper to ease the transition
FIX: dirac-install - execute dirac-fix-mysql-script, if available, to fix the mysql.server startup script
FIX: dirac-distribution - Changed obsoleted tar.list file URL
FIX: typo in dirac-admin-add-host in case of error
CHANGE: dirac-admin-allow(ban)-se - use diracAdmin.sendMail() instead of NotificationClient.sendMail()

*Framework
BUGFIX: UserProfileDB - no more use of "type" variable as it is a reserved keyword

*RequestManagement:
FIX: RequestDBFile - more consistent treatment of requestDB Path
FIX: RequestMySQL - Execution order is evaluated based on not Done state of subrequests
NEW: RequestCleaningAgent - resetting Assigned requests to Waiting after a configurable period of time

*RSS
CHANGE: RSS Action now inherits from a base class, and Actions are more homogeneous, they all take a uniform set of arguments. The name of modules has been changed from PolType to Action as well.
FIX: CacheFeederAgent - too verbose messages moved to debug instead of info level
BUGFIX: fixed a bug preventing RSS clients to connect to the services
FIX: Proper services synchronization
FIX: Better handling of exceptions due to timeouts in GOCDBClient
FIX: RSS.Notification emails are sent again
FIX: Commands have been modified to return S_OK, S_ERROR inside the Result dict. This way, policies get a S_ERROR / S_OK object. CacheFeederAgent has been updated accordingly.
FIX: allow clients, if db connection fails, to reconnect ( or at least try ) to the servers.
CHANGE: access control using CS Authentication options. Default is SiteManager, and get methods are all.
BUGFIX: MySQLMonkey - properly escaped all parameters of the SQL queries, other fixes.
NEW: CleanerAgent renamed to CacheCleanerAgent
NEW: Updated RSS scripts, to set element statuses and / or tokens.
NEW: Added a new script, dirac-rss-synch
BUGFIX: Minor bugfixes spotted on the Web development
FIX: Removed useless decorator from RSS handlers
CHANGE: ResourceStatus helper tool moved to RSS/Client directory, no RSS objects created if the system is InActive
CHANGE: Removed ClientFastDec decorator, using a more verbose alternative.
CHANGE: Removed useless usage of kwargs on helper functions.
NEW: added getSESitesList method to RSSClient
FIX: _checkFloat() checks INTEGERS, not datetimes

*DataManagement
CHANGE: refactoring of DMS agents executing requests, allow requests from arbitrary users
NEW: DFC - allow to specify multiple replicas, owner, mode when adding files
CHANGE: DFC - optimization of the directory size evaluation
NEW: Added CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES privilege to FileCatalogDB
CHANGE: DFC - getCatalogCounters() update to show numbers of directories
NEW: lfc_dfc_copy script to migrate data from LFC to DFC
FIX: dirac-dms-user-lfns - fixed the case when the baseDir is specified
FIX: FTS testing scripts were using sys.argv and getting confused if options are passed
NEW: DFC - use DirectoryUsage tables for the storage usage evaluations
NEW: DFC - search by metadata can be limited to a given directory subtree
NEW: DFC - search by both directory and file indexed metadata
BUGFIX: DFC - avoid crash if no directories or files found in metadata query
NEW: DFC FileCatalogHandler - define database location in the configuration
NEW: DFC - new FileCatalogFactory class, possibility to use named DFC services
FIX: FTSMonitor, FTSRequest - fixes in handling replica registration, setting registration requests in FileToCat table for later retry
FIX: Failover registration request in the FTS agents.
FIX: FTSMonitor - enabled to register new replicas if even the corresponding request were removed from the RequestManagement
FIX: StorageElement - check if SE has been properly initialized before executing any method
CHANGE: LFC client getReplica() - make use of the new bulk method lfc.lfc_getreplicasl()
FIX: LFC client - protect against getting None in lfc.lfc_readdirxr( oDirectory, "" )
FIX: add extra protection in dump method of StorageElement base class
CHANGE: FailoverTransfer - create subrequest per catalog if more than one catalog

*Interface
NEW: Job.py - added method to handle the parametric parameters in the workflow. They are made available to the workflow_commons via the key 'GenericParameters'.
FIX: Dirac.py - fix some type checking things
FIX: Dirac.py - the addFile() method can now register to more than 1 catalog.

*WMS
FIX: removed dependency of the JobSchedulingAgent on RSS. Move the getSiteTier functionality to a new CS Helper.
FIX: WMSAdministratorHandler - Replace StringType by StringTypes in the export methods argument type
FIX: JobAgent - Set explicitly UseServerCertificate to "no" for the job executable
NEW: dirac-pilot - change directory to $OSG_WN_TMP on OSG sites
FIX: SiteDirector passes jobExecDir to pilot, this defaults to "." for CREAM CEs. It can be set in the CS. It will not make use of $TMPDIR in this case.
FIX: Set proper project and release version to the SiteDirector
NEW: Added "JobDelay" option for the matching, refactored and added CS options to the matcher
FIX: Added installation as an option to the pilots and random MyProxyServer
NEW: Support for parametric jobs with parameters that can be of List type

*Resources
NEW: Added SSH Grid Engine Computing Element
NEW: Added SSH Computing Element
FIX: make sure lfc client will not try to connect for several days

*Transformation
FIX: TransformationDB - in setFileStatusForTransformation() reset ErrorCount to zero if "force" flag and    the new status is "unused"
NEW: TransformationDB - added support for dictionary in metadata for the InputDataQuery mechanism

[v6r1p13]

*WMS
FIX: JobSchedulingAgent - backported from v6r2 use of Resources helper

[v6r1p12]

*Accounting
FIX: Properly delete cached plots

*Core
FIX: dirac-install - run externals post install after generating the versions dir

[v6r1p11]

*Core
NEW: dirac-install - caches locally the externals and the grid bundle
FIX: dirac-distribution - properly generate releasehistory and releasenotes

[v6r1p10]

*WorloadManagement
FIX: JobAgent - set UseServerCertificate option "no" for the job executable

[v6r1p9]

*Core
FIX: dirac-configure - set the proper /DIRAC/Hostname when defining /LocalInstallation/Host

*DataManagement
FIX: dirac-dms-user-lfns - fixed the case when the baseDir is specified
BUGFIX: dirac-dms-remove-files - fixed crash in case of returned error report in a form of dictionary

[v6r1p8]

*Web
FIX: restored Run panel in the production monitor

*Resources
FIX: FileCatalog - do not check existence of the catalog client module file

[v6r1p7]

*Web
BUGFIX: fixed scroll bar in the Monitoring plots view

[v6r1p6]

*Core
FIX: TransferClient closes connections properly

[v6r1p5]

*Core
FIX: DISET Clients are now thread-safe. Same clients used twice in different threads was not
     closing the previous connection
NEW: reduce wait times in DISET protocol machinery to improve performance

[v6r1p4]

*RequestManagement
BUGFIX: RequestContainer - in isSubRequestDone() treat special case for subrequests with files

*Transformation
BUGFIX: TransformationCleaningAgent - do not clear requests for tasks with no associated jobs

[v6r1p3]

*Framework
NEW: Pass the monitor down to the request RequestHandler
FIX: Define the service location for the monitor
FIX: Close some connections that DISET was leaving open

[v6r1p2]

*WorkloadManagement
BUGFIX: JobSchedulingAgent - use getSiteTiers() with returned direct value and not S_OK

*Transformation
BUGFIX: Uniform use of the TaskManager in the RequestTaskAgent and WorkflowTaskAgent

[v6r1p1]

*RSS
BUGFIX: Alarm_PolType now really send mails instead of crashing silently.

[v6r1]

*RSS
CHANGE: Major refactoring of the RSS system
CHANGE: DB.ResourceStatusDB has been refactored, making it a simple wrapper round ResourceStatusDB.sql with only four methods by table ( insert, update, get & delete )
CHANGE: DB.ResourceStatusDB.sql has been modified to support different statuses per granularity.
CHANGE: DB.ResourceManagementDB has been refactored, making it a simple wrapper round ResourceStatusDB.sql with only four methods by table ( insert, update, get & delete )
CHANGE: Service.ResourceStatusHandler has been refactored, removing all data processing, making it an intermediary between client and DB.
CHANGE: Service.ResourceManagementHandler has been refactored, removing all data processing, making it an intermediary between client and DB.
NEW: Utilities.ResourceStatusBooster makes use of the 'DB primitives' exposed on the client and does some useful data processing, exposing the new functions on the client.
NEW: Utilities.ResourceManagementBooster makes use of the 'DB primitives' exposed on the client and does some useful data processing, exposing the new functions on the client.
CHANGE: Client.ResourceStatusClient has been refactorerd. It connects automatically to DB or to the Service. Exposes DB and booster functions.
CHANGE: Client.ResourceManagementClient has been refactorerd. It connects automatically to DB or to the Service. Exposes DB and booster functions.
CHANGE: Agent.ClientsCacheFeederAgent renamed to CacheFeederAgent. The name was not accurate, as it also feeds Accouting Cache tables.
CHANGE: Agent.InspectorAgent, makes use of automatic API initialization.
CHANGE: Command. refactor and usage of automatic API initialization.
CHANGE: PolicySystem.PEP has reusable client connections, which increase significantly performance.
CHANGE: PolicySystem.PDP has reusable client connections, which increase significantly performance.
NEW: Utilities.Decorators are syntactic sugar for DB, Handler and Clients.
NEW: Utilities.MySQLMonkey is a mixture of laziness and refactoring, in order to generate the SQL statements automatically. Not anymore sqlStatemens hardcoded on the RSS.
NEW: Utilities.Validator are common checks done through RSS modules
CHANGE: Utilities.Synchronizer syncs users and DIRAC sites
CHANGE: cosmetic changes everywhere, added HeadURL and RCSID
CHANGE: Removed all the VOExtension logic on RSS
BUGFIX: ResourceStatusHandler - getStorageElementStatusWeb(), access mode by default is Read
FIX: RSS __init__.py will not crash anymore if no CS info provided
BUGFIX: CS.getSiteTier now behaves correctly when a site is passed as a string

*dirac-setup-site
BUGFIX: fixed typos in the Script class name

*Transformation
FIX: Missing logger in the TaskManager Client (was using agent's one)
NEW: Added UnitTest class for TaskManager Client

*DIRAC API
BUGFIX: Dirac.py. If /LocalSite/FileCatalog is not define the default Catalog was not properly set.
FIX: Dirac.py - fixed __printOutput to properly interpret the first argument: 0:stdout, 1:stderr
NEW: Dirac.py - added getConfigurationValue() method

*Framework
NEW: UsersAndGroups agent to synchronize users from VOMRS server.

*dirac-install
FIX: make Platform.py able to run with python2.3 to be used inside dirac-install
FIX: protection against the old or pro links pointing to non-existent directories
NEW: make use of the HTTP proxies if available
FIX: fixed the logic of creating links to /opt/dirac directories to take into account webRoot subdirs

*WorkloadManagement
FIX: SiteDirector - change getVO() function call to getVOForGroup()

*Core:
FIX: Pfn.py - check the sanity of the pfn and catch the erroneous case

*RequestManagement:
BUGFIX: RequestContainer.isSubrequestDone() - return 0 if Done check fails

*DataManagement
NEW: FileCatalog - possibility to configure multiple FileCatalog services of the same type

[v6r0p4]

*Framework
NEW: Pass the monitor down to the request RequestHandler
FIX: Define the service location for the monitor
FIX: Close some connections that DISET was leaving open

[v6r0p3]

*Framework
FIX: ProxyManager - Registry.groupHasProperties() wasn't returning a result
CHANGE: Groups without AutoUploadProxy won't receive expiration notifications
FIX: typo dirac-proxy-info -> dirac-proxy-init in the expiration mail contents
CHANGE: DISET - directly close the connection after a failed handshake

[v6r0p2]

*Framework
FIX: in services logs change ALWAYS log level for query messages to NOTICE

[v6r0p1]

*Core
BUGFIX: List.uniqueElements() preserves the other of the remaining elements

*Framework
CHANGE: By default set authorization rules to authenticated instead of all
FIX: Use all required arguments in read access data for UserProfileDB
FIX: NotificationClient - dropped LHCb-Production setup by default in the __getRPSClient()

[v6r0]

*Framework
NEW: DISET Framework modified client/server protocol, messaging mechanism to be used for optimizers
NEW: move functions in DIRAC.Core.Security.Misc to DIRAC.Core.Security.ProxyInfo
CHANGE: By default log level for agents and services is INFO
CHANGE: Disable the log headers by default before initializing
NEW: dirac-proxy-init modification according to issue #29:
     -U flag will upload a long lived proxy to the ProxyManager
     If /Registry/DefaultGroup is defined, try to generate a proxy that has that group
     Replaced params.debugMessage by gLogger.verbose. Closes #65
     If AutoUploadProxy = true in the CS, the proxy will automatically be uploaded
CHANGE: Proxy upload by default is one month with dirac-proxy-upload
NEW: Added upload of pilot proxies automatically
NEW: Print info after creating a proxy
NEW: Added setting VOMS extensions automatically
NEW: dirac-proxy-info can also print the information of the uploaded proxies
NEW: dirac-proxy-init will check that the lifetime of the certificate is less than one month and advise to renew it
NEW: dirac-proxy-init will check that the certificate has at least one month of validity
FIX: Never use the host certificate if there is one for dirac-proxy-init
NEW: Proxy manager will send notifications when the uploaded proxies are about to expire (configurable via CS)
NEW: Now the proxyDB also has a knowledge of user names. Queries can use the user name as a query key
FIX: ProxyManager - calculate properly the dates for credentials about to expire
CHANGE: ProxyManager will autoexpire old proxies, also auto purge logs
CHANGE: Rename dirac-proxy-upload to dirac-admin-proxy-upload
NEW: dirac-proxy-init will complain if the user certificate has less than 30 days
CHANGE: SecurityLogging - security log level to verbose
NEW: OracleDB - added Array type
NEW: MySQL - allow definition of the port number in the configuration
FIX: Utilities/Security - hash VOMS Attributes as string
FIX: Utilities/Security - Generate a chain hash to discover if two chains are equal
NEW: Use chain has to discover if it has already been dumped
FIX: SystemAdministrator - Do not set  a default lcg version
NEW: SystemAdministrator - added Project support for the sysadmin
CHANGE: SysAdmin CLI - will try to connect to the service when setting the host
NEW: SysAdmin CLI - colorization of errors in the cli
NEW: Logger - added showing the thread id in the logger if enabled

*Configuration
NEW: added getVOfromProxyGroup() utility
NEW: added getVoForGroup() utility, use it in the code as appropriate
NEW: added Registry and Operations Configuration helpers
NEW: dirac-configuration-shell - a configuration script for CS that behaves like an UNIX shellCHANGE: CSAPI - added more functionality required by updated configuration console
NEW: Added possibility to define LocalSE to any Site using the SiteLocalSEMapping
     section on the Operations Section
NEW: introduce Registry/VO section, associate groups to VOs, define SubmitPools per VO
FIX: CE2CSAgent - update the CEType only if there is a relevant info in the BDII

*ReleaseManagement
NEW: release preparations and installation tools based on installation packages
NEW: dirac-compile-externals will try go get a DIRAC-free environment before compiling
NEW: dirac-disctribution - upload command can be defined via defaults file
NEW: dirac-disctribution - try to find if the version name is a branch or a tag in git and act accordingly
NEW: dirac-disctribution - added keyword substitution when creating a a distribution from git
FIX: Install tools won't write HostDN to the configuration if the Admin username is not set
FIX: Properly set /DIRAC/Configuration/Servers when installing a CS Master
FIX: install_site.sh - missing option in wget for https download: --no-check-certificate
FIX: dirac-install-agent(service) - If the component being installed already has corresponding
     CS section, it is not overwritten unless explicitly asked for
NEW: dirac-install functionality enhancement: start using the switches as defined in issue #26;
CHANGE: dirac-install - write the defaults if any under defaults-.cfg so dirac-configure can
        pick it up
FIX: dirac-install - define DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH ( for Mac installations )
NEW: dirac-install - put all the goodness under a function so scripts like lhcb-proxy-init can use it easily
FIX: dirac-install - Properly search for the LcgVer
NEW: dirac-install will write down the releases files in -d mode
CHANGE: use new dirac_install from gothub/integration branch in install_site.sh
NEW: Extensions can request custom external dependencies to be installed via pip when
     installing DIRAC.
NEW: LCG bundle version can be defined on a per release basis in the releases.cfg
NEW: dirac-deploy-scripts - when setting the lib path in the deploy scripts.
     Also search for subpaths of the libdir and include them
NEW: Install tools - plainly separate projects from installations

*Accounting
CHANGE: For the WMSHistory type, send as JobSplitType the JobType
CHANGE: Reduced the size of the max key length to workaround mysql max bytes for index problem
FIX: Modified buckets width of 1week to 1 week + 1 day to fix summer time end week (1 hour more )

*WorkloadManagement
CHANGE: SiteDirector - simplified executable generation
NEW: SiteDirector - few more checks of error conditions
NEW: SiteDirector - limit the queue max length to the value of MaxQueueLengthOption
     ( 3 days be default )
BUGFIX: SiteDirector - do not download pilot output if the flag getPilotOutput is not set
NEW: JobDB will extract the VO when applying DIRAC/VOPolicy from the proper VO
FIX: SSHTorque - retrieve job status by chunks of 100 jobs to avoid too long
NEW: glexecComputingElement - allow glexecComputingElement to "Reschedule" jobs if the Test of
     the glexec fails, instead of defaulting to InProcess. Controlled by
     RescheduleOnError Option of the glexecComputingElement
NEW: SandboxStore - create a different SBPath with the group included
FIX: JobDB - properly treat Site parameter in the job JDL while rescheduling jobs
NEW: JobSchedulingAgent - set the job Site attribute to the name of a group of sites corresponding
     to a SE chosen by the data staging procedure
CHANGE: TimeLeft - call batch system commands with the ( default ) timeout 120 sec
CHANGE: PBSTimeLeft - uses default CPU/WallClock if not present in the output
FIX: PBSTimeLeft - proper handling of (p)cput parameter in the batch system output, recovery of the
     incomplete batch system output
NEW: automatically add SubmitPools JDL option of the job owner's VO defines it
NEW: JobManager - add MaxParametericJobs option to the service configuration
NEW: PilotDirector - each SubmitPool or Middleware can define TargetGrids
NEW: JobAgent - new StopOnApplicationFailure option to make the agent exiting the loop on application failure
NEW: PilotAgentsDB - on demand retrieval of the CREAM pilot output
NEW: Pilot - proper job ID evaluation for the OSG sites
FIX: ComputingElement - fixed proxy renewal logic for generic and private pilots
NEW: JDL - added %j placeholder in the JDL to be replaced by the JobID
BUGFIX: DownloadInputData - bug fixed in the naming of downloaded files
FIX: Matcher - set the group and DN when a request gets to the matcher if the request is not
     coming from a pilot
FIX: Matcher = take into account JobSharing when checking the owner for the request
CHANGE: PilotDirector, dirac-pilot - interpret -V flag of the pilot as Installation name

*DataManagement
FIX: FileCatalog/DiractoryLevelTree - consistent application of the max directory level using global
     MAX_LEVELS variable
FIX: FileCatalog - Directory metadata is deleted together with the directory deletion, issue #40
CHANGE: FileCatalog - the logic of the files query by metadata revisited to increase efficiency
FIX: LcgFileCatalog - use lfcthr and call lfcthr.init() to allow multithread
     try the import only once and just when LcgFileCatalogClient class is intantiated
NEW: LcgFileCatalogClient - new version of getPathPermissions relying on the lfc_access method to solve the problem
     of multiple user DNs in LFC.
FIX: StorageElement - get service CS options with getCSOption() method ( closes #97 )
FIX: retrieve FileCatalogs as ordered list, to have a proper default.
CHANGE: FileCatalog - allow up to 15 levels of directories
BUGFIX: FileCatalog - bug fixes in the directory removal methods (closes #98)
BUGFIX: RemovalAgent - TypeError when getting JobID in RemovalAgent
BUGFIX: RemovalAgent - put a limit to be sure the execute method will end after a certain number of iterations
FIX: DownloadInputData - when files have been uploaded with lcg_util, the PFN filename
     might not match the LFN file name
FIX: putting FTSMonitor web page back
NEW: The default file catalog is now determined using /LocalSite/FileCatalog. The old behavior
     is provided as a fallback solution
NEW: ReplicaManager - can now deal with multiple catalogs. Makes sure the surl used for removal is
the same as the one used for registration.
NEW: PoolXMLCatalog - added getTypeByPfn() function to get the type of the given PFN
NEW: dirac-dms-ban(allow)-se - added possibility to use CheckAccess property of the SE

*StorageManagement
FIX: Stager - updateJobFromStager(): only return S_ERROR if the Status sent is not
recognized or if a state update fails. If the jobs has been removed or
has moved forward to another status, the Stager will get an S_OK and
should forget about the job.
NEW: new option in the StorageElement configuration "CheckAccess"
FIX: Requests older than 1 day, which haven't been staged are retried. Tasks older than "daysOld"
     number of days are set to Failed. These tasks have already been retried "daysOld" times for staging.
FIX: CacheReplicas and StageRequests records are kept until the pin has expired. This way the
     StageRequest agent will have proper accounting of the amount of staged data in cache.
NEW: FTSCleaningAgent will allow to fix transient errors in RequestDB. At the moment it's
     only fixing Requests for which SourceTURL is equal to TargetSURL.
NEW: Stager - added new command dirac-stager-stage-files
FIX: Update Stager code in v6 to the same point as v5r13p37
FIX: StorageManager - avoid race condition by ensuring that Links=0 in the query while removing replicas

*RequestManagement
FIX: RequestDBFile - get request in chronological order (closes issue #84)
BUGFIX: RequestDBFile - make getRequest return value for getRequest the same as for

*ResourceStatusSystem
NEW: Major code refacoring. First refactoring of RSS's PEP. Actions are now function
     defined in modules residing in directory "Actions".
NEW: methods to store cached environment on a DB and ge them.
CHANGE: command caller looks on the extension for commands.
CHANGE: RSS use now the CS instead of getting info from Python modules.
BUGFIX: Cleaned RSS scripts, they are still prototypes
CHANGE: PEP actions now reside in separate modules outside PEP module.
NEW: RSS CS module add facilities to extract info from CS.
CHANGE: Updating various RSS tests to make them compatible with
changes in the system.
NEW: CS is used instead of ad-hoc configuration module in most places.
NEW: Adding various helper functions in RSS Utils module. These are
functions used by RSS developers, including mainly myself, and are
totally independant from the rest of DIRAC.
CHANGE: Mostly trivial changes, typos, etc in various files in RSS
CHANGE: TokenAgent sends e-mails with current status

*Transformation
CHANGE: allow Target SE specification for jobs, Site parameter is not set in this case
CHANGE: TransformationAgent  - add new file statuses in production monitoring display
CHANGE: TransformationAgent - limit the number of files to be treated in TransformationAgent
        for replication and removal (default 5000)
BUGFIX: TransformationDB - not removing task when site is not set
BUGFIX: TransformationCleaningAgent - archiving instead of cleaning Removal and Replication
        transformations
FIX: TransformationCleaningAgent - kill jobs before deleting them

*Workflow
NEW: allow modules to define Input and Output parameters that can be
     used instead of the step_commons/workflow_commons (Workflow.py, Step.py, Module.py)

*Various fixes
BUGFIX: Mail.py uses SMTP class rather than inheriting it
FIX: Platform utility will properly discover libc version even for the new Ubuntu
FIX: Removed old sandbox and other obsoleted components