Releases

This page contains infomation about what is added or changed with each new release. The Critical section outlines any items the are highly likely to require changes from users. The Info section outlines informative items that may be helpful for users to know, but likely do not require action. All items described within a release are relative to the previous release.

4.0.5 (2019-10-29)

Critical

• All Globus tools setup steps will be skipped if the user does not provide Globus account credentials

Info

• Added developer documentation page
• Added compatability infomation page
• Tomcat updated to 8.5.46
• ESG-Search updated to v4.17.10
• CoG update to v3.15.3
• A number of updates within the ESGF-Publisher Conda environment
• Added playbook for node status tool install_ns.yml
• Updated ACME Challenge (for LetsEncrypt certifcates) to v2
• Added roles/httpd/templates/robots.txt to direct web crawlers to not crawl ESGF data nodes

4.0.4 (2019-07-10)

Critical

Info

• With the release of the latest versions of Globus tools it is now required to deploy all Globus services, even if all are not going to be used.
• Hostnames that are used in config files can be better controlled by using the hostname variables in group_vars/all.yml
• Solr 6.6.6 requires either a whitelist of shards or an explicit directive that no whitelist will be provided, the latter was chosen
• Cog updated to v3.14.3
• ESGF-ORP updated to v2.11.0
• ESGF-Security updated to v2.8.11
• esgpublisher updated to v3.7.0
• udunits2 updated to 2.2.27
• Small changes to the configuration of myproxy-server regarding the locations of certificates and keys

4.0.3 (2019-05-15)

Critical

Info

• A missing dependency for the Globus Transfer API was added to ensure Globus integration within CoG is operational.
• Tomcat webapps are now always cleaned out and re-installed
• Cog updated to v3.14.1
• Tomcat updated, 8.5.34 -> 8.5.39
• Solr updated, 6.6.5 -> 6.6.6
• Java 8 set to be updated to latest version of OpenJDK 8. This is also a switch to using yum to install Java.

4.0.2 (2019-04-15)

Critical

Info

• Resolve missing GridFTP directory mount points at node startup

4.0.1 (2019-04-10)

Critical

• Previous releases of ESGF-Ansible created entries in /etc/fstab for the bind mounts required by GridFTP. These are now setup to be created when starting GridFTP and removed when stopping GridFTP. Their presence in /etc/fstab may or may not cause unexpected behavior and they should be safely removed.

Info

• New status.yml playbook, see the new Verification Section.
• Default memory for Tomcat has been increased.

4.0.0-beta2 (2019-03-27)

Critical

• gftphost* variables renamed to globushost*
• Added variables generate_* which are required to be specified if the user would like esgf-ansible to generate required files (keys/certs) for the respective service
• Key, certificate, and other file paths specified in each host_vars/[hostname].yml file are now required to be on the managed machine, rather than the control machine
• Added requirements to more reliably manage keys/certifcates, users are now required to specify either the file paths as described in the previous bullet or the respective generate_* variable
• Added admin_pass variable and requirement for either the /esg/config/.esgf_pass file to be present on the Node or the admin_pass variable to be specified

Info

• New sample files within the host_vars/ directory to help with all the new changes above
• A new tag, publisher, has been added to the install.yml playbook to easily repeat the esg-publisher setup steps in the event of failure
• No longer managing SELinux state
• If setting up firewalld on CentOS 7, and it was not previously installed and enabled, a reboot will be required after installing and enabling
• Not deploying monitoring software if neither of the prometheus_* variables are specified

A number of reported bugs have been resolved and fragile setup steps were made more resilient.

4.0.0-beta1 (2019-02-25)

Critical

Info