********************************************************* Announcement: New VLET Release: 1.0.1 (15 - July - 2009) *********************************************************

Hello users, developers and other interested people, (Apologies if you receive this email more then once).

There is a new VLET Release available. Version: 1.0.1

This is a bug fix release for 1.0.0. I attached the release notes.

Downloads, see: - https://gforge.vl-e.nl/frs/?group_id=19

Happy Browsing,

Piter T. de Boer

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=== Release notes for 1.0.1 ===

Date: 15 july 2009

This is a bug fix release.

About the release: === - vlet-1.0.zip contains VLET "Core" without application plugins. - vlet-all-1.0.zip contains VLET with the VLEMED and AID plugins. - vlet-all-gars-1.0.zip contains the GAR files (grid services). Note that the LFC Grid Service is NOT needed anymore to access LFC servers.

Updates: === - UserGuide has been updated to cover most of the significant changes in 1.0

Fixed bugs: === - The value of 'replicasNrOfTries' was always reset to 0. This has been fixed. - Replicas from SRM V1 Storage Elements can now be read. Storing at a V1 SRM service is still not supported as most storage element support a V2.2 interface as well which will be used if available. - Under certain conditions uploading a file to an LFC location would try the upload only once instead of the specified 'replicaNrOfTries'. - A bug in the parsing or user and domain settings of an SRB location has been fixed which garbled the SRB Server Settings. - Under Cygwin the local filesystem implementation would try to use the 'stat' command which failed. This has been disabled. - When editing a text using the embedded text editor, the original file permissions would be reset. These are now kept. - Port numbers have been removed from replicas registered in the LFC server to stay compatible with the lcg-* commands. - As of VLET 1.0, all JavaGAT libraries and dependencies have been removed. It wasn't never used and no plugins ever have been developed using JavaGAT. - See bugtracker for more details about the above bugs.

=== Release notes for 1.0 ===

Date: 27 May 2009

Features: ===

VBrowser: - Added monitoring (still work in progress). Some methods now will display a 'Task Monitor' similar to the already existing "Transfer Dialog". - New Properties editor. Shows resource properties in separate tabs.

VRS/VFS: - New API. See vrs.* and vfs.* classes. - SSH Passphrase authentication added ! Use ~/.ssh/id_rsa file or change it from the SSH option to point to your SSH key needed for passphrase authentication. - LFC: Added New Pure Java implementation for LFC - BDII Service is now used to query VO allowed Storage Elements. Replica URIs are automatically matched against these Storage Elements. - Old 'WrapperLFC' is not supported anymore. The grid service has been removed from the gar distribution. - Updated SRM driver to work correctly and efficient with LFC. - Third party copying between GridFTP,SRM and LFC has been updated to work with all possible combinations between them, since the default transport protocol used in SRM and LFC is GridFTP. - Added transfer monitoring in 3rd party GridFTP transfers.

uricopy.sh: - added "-info" and "-mkdirs" option to uricopy.sh script. The latter create the full path of the target directory if not existing yet. Script tested with new LFC driver. Seems to work.

Other: - VLTerm supports more vt100 and xterm codes and is now an almost working terminal emulator. - Image viewer support zoom: double click maximize/minimize and use mouse wheel to zoom in/out.

API: - Updated Virtual Resource/FileSystem API to "1.0" See JavaDOCs for details.

Bugs: === - Resource Folders now correctly save a multilevel hierarchy of Resource Descriptions. - Default SRB and LFC properties were not correctly read from vletrc.prop. Use "srb.<server property>=..." and lfc.<server property>=..." to specify installation defaults. - Fixed a lot a bugs due to asynchronous browsing. VBrowser panels now can be populated in the background by for example a Query Plug-in without corrupting the internal VBrowser data structure. - Fixed DataChannel Authentication mismatch when using third party transfer between old (1.x) Grid FTP servers and new (2.x). Needed for true 3rd party copying between GFTP, SRM and LFC servers. - For more bug fixed see the bugtracker.