perfSONAR Announcements

[Andrew Lake <>]

All,

On Monday August 19th perfSONAR 4.2.0 will be officially released. That means if you are running auto-updates on a supported operating system, you will automatically get this version sometime after Monday. Changes in this version include:

- A new pScheduler disk-to-disk test with support for a GridFTP and curl tool

- pSConfig Web Administrator (PWA) RPMS

- Support for perfSONAR Ansible roles

- Support for task priorities in pScheduler

- End of BWCTL backward compatibility support in pScheduler

Full release notes can be found here: https://www.perfsonar.net/release-notes/version-4-2-0/

The only special note is for anyone running Debian 8 and Ubuntu 14. Support for these versions are discontinued in 4.2.0. Prior to the release you will want to lock you system on to the 4.1 repository until you have a chance to upgrade the operating system. Full instructions can be found here:  http://docs.perfsonar.net/release_candidates/4.2.0/install_debian.html#keeping-4-1-x-on-debian-8-and-ubuntu-14 (Note: this applies to less than 1% of our publicly registered instances)

We highly encourage everyone to update, but if you want to prevent auto-updates for any reason, instructions on how to do so can be found here: http://docs.perfsonar.net/release_candidates/4.2.0/manage_update.html#disabling-automatic-updates-for-perfsonar-packages.

Thank you to everyone that helped test, reported bugs and contributed patches. As always, please let us know if you have any questions.

Thank you,

The perfSONAR Development Team