1.0 Release Notes

gCore 1.0 introduces the following changes:

Changes Related to the gHN

• distribution: there are now two distributions of the gHN, secure and standard distribution

• the secure distribution includes Local Services and Libraries from the standard onf plus:

• enhanced Delegation service, in charge for providing local services with delegated credentials
• enhanced Security library, with support for authentication and authorisation of gCube calls and policies management.
• new gcore-stop-container script, to shutdown a secure container

• configuration: a set of new configuration settings is available:

• the GHNConfig.xml has been extended with two additional configuration parameters:

• allowedScopes, letting the Site Manager to decide to which VOs the gHN can be joined in the future (upon VO Manager decisions)
• trustedGHNSynchInterval, how often the gHN refreshes the list of trusted gHNs (in seconds).

• the Security descriptor ($GLOBUS_LOCATION/etc/globus_wsrf_core/global_security_descriptor.xml) for the gHN must be enabled (by removing the comment surrounding the containerSecDesc element in the $GLOBUS_LOCATION/etc/globus_wsrf_core/server-config.wsdd) and configured to load the appropriate host credentials
• $X509_USER_PROXY environment variable is now exploited to contact the gContainer from outside the process. It is expected to contain a valid proxy accepted by the local gContainer process.

All of these above are taken into consideration only in case of secure distribution.

• $START_OPTIONS has been renamed to $GCORE_START_OPTIONS. It can be now either set in the external environment or in the gcore-start-container script

Changes Related to Services

None

Changes Related to the Documentation

• new/revised sections in the Administrator's Guide.

Administrator's Guide has an enriched configuration section on how to setup a secure gHN.