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ESGF Release Version 1.2

v1.2.0 (released: Bensonhurst)

  • Security:
    • Improved access control for TDS-based OpenDAP access
    • Support for registering in groups with non-automatic approval
    • Upgraded Yadis discovery service to conform to service identifiers as defined in the ESGF security ICD
  • Search:
    • Implementation of ESGF search API as agreed upon by Search Interface Working Group
    • Securing of publishing/un-publishing operations via the ESGF security framework (calls to Authorization Service and Policy Service, Registry Service, Attribute Service)
    • REST-like API for generation of download scripts, across the whole federation, for an arbitrary set of DRS parameters
    • Support of publishing and searching of replicas, both from the scripting REST endpoint, and the web portal interactive UI.
    • Improved RSS notification feeds: dataset-level and file-level, node-specific and federation-wide, and customizable to arbitrary search parameters
  • Web User Interface:
    • Improved search query syntax
    • Generation of wget scripts spanning multiple P2P Nodes
    • Improved selection of files in data cart
    • Integrated LAS computation service

v1.2.1 (staged)

  • Security:
    • ORP: support for configuration of additional trusted IdPs from static white list file.
  • Search:
    • Dynamic configuration of shards for distributed search from file /esg/config/esgf-shards.xml, continuously updated by the local node manager.
    • Support for returning results in JSON format.
    • Support for requesting the logical OR of two values of the same facet (example: variable=hus&variable=ta)
    • Improved wget script for file retrieval over HTTP.
    • Support for fault tolerance in distributed searches, re-attempting a non-distributed search.
    • Detecting replica nature of THREDDS catalogs from embedded “is_replica” flag.
    • Avoid stopping the harvesting process when single THREDDS catalogs generate parsing errors.
    • Support for negative facet syntax (example: model=!CCSM)

v1.2.2 (in test - ready to be staged)

  • Search:
    • Improvements in search speed when querying for datasets, and adding them to the data cart
    • Allowing seamless harvesting of new search facets from THREDDS catalogs into the Solr index, and easy configuration in the web UI.
    • Replication support
    • Version support
    • Enabled searching files by tracking_id and checksum
  • Security:
    • Use of dynamically generated files for service endpoints (attribute service and registration service), and policy statements.
    • Web front end:
    • Performance enhancement by using of dynamic sharding
    • Several bug fixes and UI improvements
    • OpenDAP access point support
  • Other:
    • Globus Toolkit upgrade (both ‘MyProxy’ and ‘GridFTP’)
    • Cleaner installation process

v1.2.3 (in development and testing)

  • Web front end:
    • Technotes Support
    • CIM (Metafor) Metadata Interface integration
    • Standard Names in facets
    • Improved Web Front End workflow
    • Change of user interaction metaphor
  • Search:
    • ESGF Shell - search mode
    • Faster Query return
    • Data Retrieval:
    • GridFTP / Globus Online
    • DML integration
    • BDM integration (in replication context)
    • OpenDAP
  • Other:
    • Tighter UV-CDAT integration
    • ESGF Client Toolkit.
    • Ability to install old versions of Node
    • Ability to run installer using off board database
    • LAS multi-dataset support