GT 4.0.4 Incremental Release Notes: XIO

1. Introduction

These release notes are for the incremental release 4.0.4. It includes a summary of changes since 4.0.3, bug fixes since 4.0.3 and any known problems that still exist at the time of the 4.0.4 release. This page is in addition to the top-level 4.0.4 release notes at http://www.globus.org/toolkit/releasenotes/4.0.4.

For release notes about 4.0 (including feature summary, technology dependencies, etc) go to the XIO 4.0 Release Notes.

2. Changes Summary

No changes have been made for XIO since 4.0.3 other than the listed bugfixes.

3. Bug Fixes

  • Bug 4726: uninitialized read in gsi driver
  • Bug 4851: assertion failure in http driver cancellation code

4. Known Problems

  • Bug 2219: xio_close in an xio callback hangs
  • Bug 2530: END_OF_ENTITY
  • Bug 3082: context leak
  • Bug 3147: XIO doesn't provide for multiplexed drivers passing down driver_handle_cntl
  • Bug 4186: Some GRAM security errors less informative than before
  • Bug 4354: Encryption may cause a deadlock.
  • Bug 4429: Memory leaks when using GSI driver from XIO library.
  • Bug 4624: globus_xio_close() dumps a core
  • Bug 4995: occasional hanging in threaded XIO
  • Bug 5004: Failed assert in globus_l_xio_system_unregister_write on x86_64 platform

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