GT 4.0.2 Incremental Release Notes: RFT

1. Introduction

These release notes are for the incremental release 4.0.2. It includes a summary of changes since 4.0.1, bug fixes since 4.0.1 and any known problems that still exist at the time of the 4.0.2 release. This page is in addition to the top-level 4.0.2 release notes at http://www.globus.org/toolkit/releasenotes/4.0.2.

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

2. Changes Summary

No significant changes occured in RFT from last version

3. Bug Fixes

The following bugs were fixed for RFT:

  • Bug 2419: Need for RFT Package
  • Bug 3326: Remove globus_common dependency from RFT setup
  • Bug 3719: RFT Client doesn't retries after a transient transfer error
  • Bug 3685: RFT loosing connection with MySQL
  • Bug 3633: Directory removal not workinoth MySQL schema for RFT
  • Bug 3634: Problem with RFT IDs when using MySQL database
  • Bug 3640: RFT Unit Tests - System.err - Badly formatted numbers in ...
  • Bug 3644: MySQL Schema - duplicate primary key constraint name
  • Bug 3646: RFT Test - change default authzVal to "host" from "self
  • Bug 3653: patch to RFTTest.java - add log4j logging
  • Bug 3661: rft comman - default port should be 8443 instead of 8080
  • Bug 3662: rft command - fails with NegativeArraySizeException
  • Bug 3717: RFT client hangs up if all the transfers fail
  • Bug 3745: AllOrNone Notifications
  • Bug 3833: Problems with rft-delete
  • Bug 3925: Misconfigured database + Index service registration == me...
  • Bug 3943: RFT -help text and on-line doc are out of sync and need i....
  • Bug 3944: RFT messages on missing input file
  • Bug 3959: MT issues in RFT?
  • Bug 4225: error deleting a directory
  • Bug 3864: RFT errors impact GRAM stability

4. Known Problems

The following problems are known to exist for RFT at the time of 4.0.2 release:

  • Bug 3121: Bug in enforcing maximum active transfers in a container

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