GT 4.0.7 Incremental Release Notes: XIO

1. Introduction

These release notes are for the incremental release 4.0.7. It includes a summary of changes since 4.0.6, bug fixes since 4.0.6 and any known problems that still exist at the time of the 4.0.7 release. This page is in addition to the top-level 4.0.7 release notes at http://www.globus.org/toolkit/releasenotes/4.0.7.

For release notes about 4.0 (including feature summary, technology dependencies, etc) go to the XIO 4.0 Release Notes.

2. Changes Summary

Other than bug fixes, no changes have been made for XIO since 4.0.6.

3. Bug Fixes

  • Bug 5004: A race in deactivation of globus_common caused a a seg fault. globus_mutex_lock() was being called on a destroyed mutex. This is solved now.
  • Bug 5503: UDP driver sendto() fails on Solaris

4. Known Problems

  • Bug 2530: END_OF_ENTITY
  • Bug 3147: XIO doesn't provide for multiplexed drivers passing down driver_handle_cntl
  • Bug 4186: Some GRAM security errors less informative than before
  • Bug 4354: Encryption may cause a deadlock.
  • Bug 4429: Memory leaks when using GSI driver from XIO library.

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