GT 4.0.8 Incremental Release Notes: XIO

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Changes Summary
3. Bug Fixes
4. Known Problems
5. For More Information

1. Introduction

These release notes are for the incremental release 4.0.8. It includes a summary of changes since 4.0.7, bug fixes since 4.0.7 and any known problems that still exist at the time of the 4.0.8 release. This page is in addition to the top-level 4.0.8 release notes at http://www.globus.org/toolkit/releasenotes/4.0.8.

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

2. Changes Summary

Added randomness to the TCP port selection. When GLOBUS_TCP_SOURCE_RANGE is set, instead of starting from the lower bound and monotonically increasing to find the first open port, a random number in the specified range will be picked. see Bug 6185 for more details.

3. Bug Fixes

  • Bug 6185: Adding randomness to the TCP port selection

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.

5. For More Information

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