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:

• enanched Delegation service, in charge for providing local services with delegated credentials, actually proxed by
• enanched 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

• 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 gHN (in seconds).

Both of the are taken into consideration only in case of secure distribution.

Changes Related to Services

None

Changes Related to the Documentation

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

Adiminstrator's Guide has an enriched section on context components about new configuration parameters.