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These release notes are for the incremental release 4.0.1. It includes a summary of changes since 4.0.0, bug fixes since 4.0.0 and any known problems that still exist at the time of the 4.0.1 release. This page is in addition to the top-level 4.0.1 release notes at http://www.globus.org/toolkit/releasenotes/4.0.1.
For release notes about 4.0.0 (including feature summary, technology dependencies, etc) go to the GridFTP 4.0.0 Release Notes.
The following change has occurred for GridFTP:
- A protocol change was made to match a wuftpd extension regarding listings. This resolved an issue with a function in the Java Cog Kit. This breaks technical protocol compatibility with RFC959 (FTP), but matches the behavior of 2.4.x servers. See Bug 3507 for details.
The following bugs were fixed for GridFTP:
- Bug 3351: Initialization errors are ignored
- Bug 3369: globus-gridftp-server single mode operation fails.
- Bug 3364: authz callback bug in case of negative authorization decisions?
- Bug 3487: SRB DSI does not authenticate properly with SRB
- Bug 3453: ~ expansion does not work in CWD argument
- Bug 3402: Running GridFTP in privilege separation mode on non-Linux platforms
- Bug 3465: SITE VERSION
- Bug 3386: hostname and interface options require an ip address
- Bug 3507: cannot list with jglobus 1.2
- Bug 3568: list function terminates after 200 files
- Bug 3608: threaded gridftp hangs on lists (LIST, MLSx)
The following problems are known to exist for GridFTP at the time of the 4.0.1 release:
- Bug 3324: gridftpd croaking on startup - globus_l_io_tcp_contact_string failed
- Bug 3214: Backend of GT4 GridFTPd should ignore ~/.globus/certificates
- Bug 3387: client library doesn't respect GLOBUS_HOSTNAME
- Bug 3618: GridFTP fails to transfer a file if I've only group permissions
- Bug 3622: gridftp server improperly handles detach option in config file
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