Dear all, When should we expect the final 5.3.1 release ?
Best Regards Guillaume On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Stephen C. Phillips <s...@it-innovation.soton.ac.uk> wrote: > GRIA 5.3.1-rc1 is now available for download: > > http://www.gria.org/downloads > > This release is primarily to improve the ease of use of the client GUI. > In addition many bugs have been fixed including some important ones > affecting the monitoring and management of jobs by the SLA service. > > Client > ------ > > The 5.3.1 release makes the GRIA client GUI much easier to use, for > instance: > > * The interface for managing the client's identity is improved. > * The "Add policy rule" interface is easier to use. > * Existing jobs can easily be resubmitted with different arguments. > * When a job finishes, the status of its data stagers is > automatically updated. > * The user of the client can choose to trust a service's certificate > permanently. > > In addition there are two useful new features for developers: > > * The mechanism for generating a GRIA DLL for use on .NET platforms > is improved. > * A new AttributeSelector (SAMLGenerator) has been added to allow > clients embedded in portals to generate their own SAML assertions. > > SLA Service > ----------- > > There have been many bug fixes and improvements in the SLA Service for > this release: > > * Views of SLAs and SLA templates now show all constraints and > pricing terms. > * The SLA Service is robust to incorrect usage reports. > * The job service sends better usage reports and is therefore > managed by the SLA Service more effectively. > * A database transaction error could cause the SLA service to resend > bills to the Account Service unnecessarily. > * In the pull-point management system, not all activities at a > pull-point were always displayed. > * The SLA template editor now deals with different numerical formats > from different locales. > * A better error message is returned to the client when trying to > create a new activity on a closed SLA. > * The security policy management interface has been reorganised to > make it clearer. > * Compatibility fixes for the latest versions of Tomcat. > > There are also two useful new features: > > * The ConstraintManager uses a new management action > (ConstrainActivity) to stop but not destroy jobs that are exceeding > their constraints. > * The SLA Service warns about SLA templates that will soon expire in > the Atom feed. > > It is strongly recommended that the GRIA Basic Applications Services > package is also upgraded to v5.3.1 to take full advantage of the better > job management facilities. > > Job and Data Services > --------------------- > > There have been several bug fixes and improvements for the job and data > service for this release, including: > > * The usage reports coming from the resource manager and application > scripts are now handled correctly. > * Jobs can now have zero inputs and/or zero outputs. > * The security policy management interface has been reorganised to > make it clearer. > * Compatibility fixes for the latest versions of Tomcat. > > There are also three useful new features: > > * Adding a ".debug" file to a job's work directory means that the > files in the directory will not be deleted when the job completes. > * A new "watermark" tutorial application is included which > demonstrates all the features of the application wrappers including > custom application metric reporting and a custom kill script. > * If a job exceeds its SLA constraints it will now be stopped > instead of destroyed. > > It is strongly recommended that the GRIA Service Provider Management > package is also upgraded to v5.3.1 to take full advantage of the > improved job management by the SLA service. > > Please contact supp...@gria.org if you have any questions or problems > about GRIA. > > Regards, > Stephen Phillips. > > -- > Stephen C Phillips > IT Innovation Centre > 2 Venture Road > Chilworth Science Park > Southampton, SO16 7NP, UK > > tel: +44 23 8076 0834 > fax: +44 23 8076 0833 > > mailto:s...@it-innovation.soton.ac.uk > 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