perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Andrew Lake <>]

All,

The next major version of perfSONAR 4.2.0 is now available. This is a final release that has been uploaded to our production package repositories. That means if you are running auto-updates on a supported operating system, you will automatically get this version in the next couple days (as mirrors update). 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/

Information on getting the latest version of the software can be found here: http://docs.perfsonar.net/install_getting.html

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

Thank you,

The perfSONAR Development Team