GT 4.0.6 Incremental Release Notes: GridFTP

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 4.0.6. It includes a summary of changes since 4.0.5, bug fixes since 4.0.5 and any known problems that still exist at the time of the 4.0.6 release. This page is in addition to the top-level 4.0.6 release notes at http://www.globus.org/toolkit/releasenotes/4.0.6.

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

2. Changes Summary

Other than bug fixes, no changes have been made for GridFTP since 4.0.5.

3. Bug Fixes

  • Bug 3622: gridftp server improperly handles detach option in config file
  • Bug 5590: gridftp2 server can send truncated control channel messages
  • Bug 5607: Assertion in libglobus_gridftp_server
  • Bug 5706: globus-url-copy returning "error: No files matched the source url" when asked to copy a directory

4. Known Problems

  • Bug 3324: gridftpd croaking on startup - globus_l_io_tcp_contact_string failed
  • Bug 3214: Backend of GT4 GridFTPd should ignore ~/.globus/certificates
  • Bug 3387: client library doesn't respect GLOBUS_HOSTNAME
  • Bug 3761: globus_ftp_control library hangs at various places (depending on os)
  • Bug 3807: "not a plain file" could be "file not found"
  • Bug 3845: data channel authentication failure
  • Bug 4119: Malformed UTF-8 character problem in globus-ftp-client tests
  • Bug 4274: client library has no default striping layout.

5. For More Information

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