-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2018-f676b11c72 2018-04-30 21:34:37.814203 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Name : xrootd Product : Fedora EPEL 7 Version : 4.8.2 Release : 2.el7 URL : http://xrootd.org/ Summary : Extended ROOT file server Description : The Extended root file server consists of a file server called xrootd and a cluster management server called cmsd.

The xrootd server was developed for the root analysis framework to serve root files. However, the server is agnostic to file types and provides POSIX-like access to any type of file.

The cmsd server is the next generation version of the olbd server, originally developed to cluster and load balance Objectivity/DB AMS database servers. It provides enhanced capability along with lower latency and increased throughput.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:

## Release Notes ### Version 4.8.2 #### Major bug fixes * **[Proxy]** Make sure to use N2N even when only localroot specified, fixes #650. * **[Proxy]** Fully support third party copy in proxy servers. * **[Server]** Correct faulty logic for sendq backlog warning message. * **[XrdCl]** Correctly handler error/wait response to endsess request. * **[XrdCl]** MsgHandler must not be enqueued in InQueue on virtual redirect, fixes #682 * **[XrdCl]** Add ZIP64 support, fixes #402 * **[XrdHttp]** Always have OpenSSL read/write data through the XrdLink object. #### Minor bug fixes * **[Net]** Optimize formatting corresponding to RFC 1178 and RFC 3696. * **[XrdHttp]** Fix HTTP PUT flags, fixes #637. * **[XrdHttp]** Close file handle for simple HTTP reads. * **[All]** Fix compilation with gcc 8. * **[CMake]** Make sure plugins are declared as MODULEs, fixes #653 * **[SSI]** Ruggedize server-side SSI interactions. * **[SSI]** Prevent request ID conflicts with reusable resources. * **[XrdCl]** Validate URLs comming from metalinks. #### Miscellaneous * **[Server]** Correct lock handling in commit 2c169141. * **[Server]** Make endsess more reliable. * **[Server]** Make sure no temporary opens occur during error recovery. * **[Server]** Add method to get logging mask. * **[XrdHttp]** Support HTTP chunked transfer encoding. * **[XrdHttp]** Allow parsing of unknown HTTP verbs. * **[XrdOss]** Improve XrdPosix 'rename' POSIX compliancy * **[Proxy]** Make sure to pass through TPC requests in outgoing proxies. * **[Proxy]** Support progress bar during TPC transfers. * **[Proxy]** Do not fail a TPC fstat() due to bad timing. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use su -c 'yum update xrootd' at the command line. For more information, refer to "YUM", available at https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/htm...

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