{"id":697,"date":"2011-08-29T12:14:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T11:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lackovic.wordpress.com\/?p=697"},"modified":"2011-08-29T12:14:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T11:14:48","slug":"globus-toolkit-5-2-beta-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scalab.dimes.unical.it\/lackovic\/globus-toolkit-5-2-beta-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Globus Toolkit 5.2 beta released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globus.org\/toolkit\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82\" title=\"Globus Toolkit\" src=\"http:\/\/scalab.dimes.unical.it\/lackovic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/02\/gt_logo21.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"79\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 5.2 release is protocol and source compatible with Globus Toolkit 5.0.<\/p>\n<p>Major Changes between 5.0 and 5.2:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Native packaging for linux distributions based on RPM and Debian package managers<\/li>\n<li>The concept of &#8220;flavors&#8221; of Globus libraries has been obsoleted<\/li>\n<li>Elimination of the compile-time distinction between threaded and non-threaded builds. All libraries are built to be thread-safe, but most applications and services will run by default without threads. The GLOBUS_THREAD_MODEL environment variable can be used to select between &#8220;none&#8221; (nothreads) and &#8220;pthreads&#8221; event-handling model.<\/li>\n<li>The toolkit has been reorganized to be compliant with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.<\/li>\n<li>The environment variable GLOBUS_LOCATION is no longer required to be set at runtime (though it is still honored to allow non-native packages to be relocated).<\/li>\n<li>Shared library versioning to allow different versions of libraries to coexist.<\/li>\n<li>Simplified configuration: more default values for Globus service configurations (especially GRAM5), more admin tools for interacting with tools (GRAM gatekeeper, audit)<\/li>\n<li>Cleaner separate of configuration file and implementation for GRAM LRM modules.<\/li>\n<li>Elimination of GPT setup packages as a way to create default configuration files<\/li>\n<li>Much simplified globus-simple-ca package for managing a CA, including tools for distributing RPM and debian packages containing CA certificate and policy files.<\/li>\n<li>More user-installable documentation and man pages for tools and libraries<\/li>\n<li>Many bug fixes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information about GT 5.2 visit <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.globus.org\/wiki\/Globus_Toolkit\/5.2\">http:\/\/dev.globus.org\/wiki\/Globus_Toolkit\/5.2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 5.2 release is protocol and source compatible with Globus Toolkit 5.0. Major Changes between 5.0 and 5.2: Native packaging for linux distributions based on RPM and Debian package managers The concept of &#8220;flavors&#8221; of Globus libraries has been obsoleted Elimination of the compile-time distinction between threaded and non-threaded builds. All libraries are built to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scalab.dimes.unical.it\/lackovic\/globus-toolkit-5-2-beta-released\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Globus Toolkit 5.2 beta released<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scalab.dimes.unical.it\/lackovic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scalab.dimes.unical.it\/lackovic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scalab.dimes.unical.it\/lackovic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scalab.dimes.unical.it\/lackovic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scalab.dimes.unical.it\/lackovic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scalab.dimes.unical.it\/lackovic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scalab.dimes.unical.it\/lackovic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scalab.dimes.unical.it\/lackovic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scalab.dimes.unical.it\/lackovic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}