v 5.0.23

What’s new

This release fixes a vulnerability in dCache’s XRootD protocol implementation. Details are published in the EGI SVG Advisory-SVG-2019-16022

List of RfCs

  • Changes affecting multiple services
    • The Apache Commons Compress library used in dCache was updated to version 1.19.
    • A rare deadlock situation in the Chimera database was eliminated.
  • Pool
    • There were reports of extraordinarily high CPU usage on pool nodes with a large number of cached files. Through an optimization of the sweeper, CPU usage was reduced significantly.
  • XRootD
    • This release fixes a vulnerability in dCache’s XRootD protocol implementation

Documentation

Please find bellow notes on how to enable and exploit the new features introduced in this verions:

List of Artifacts