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Updates since last Meeting:

Highlights

• Maintenance
  • ACS Command center properly handling Python container output
• Obsolescence Management
• C++ Modernization and Best Practices
  • C++ Logging performance improvements
  • Some C++11 features adopted
• Security

Releases

COMMON-2022JUN

• Obsolescence management
  • Maven (3.8.5)
  • Eclipse (4.23) 
  • Removal of loki library – Replacement with standard C++11 functionality
  • Python Dependencies (10)
  • Java Dependencies (11)
• C++ Logging
  • Performance study 
  • New C++ logging macro allowing to reuse logger instance
  • Performance improvement in logger XML parsing
• C++ modernization and best practices
  • The "using" statement was removed from header files
  • ACE_TSS replaced by C++11 TLS (Thread Local Storage)
  • Loki singleton replaced by C++11 functionality
  • ACS exceptions passed by reference
• ACS Command Center to properly handle Python output
• Component Caller API security proposal
• BulkDataNTOpenDDS now aligned with several improvements from BulkDataNT (RTI DDS) implementation
• ACS jar files artifacts deployed on ALMA's Maven repository along each release
• Python packages are being deployed on JAO's prototype PyPI server
• Modules' test stabilization (10+ additional tests now working properly)
• OBSPREP alternative compilation using Maven

COMMON-2022AUG:

• Maintenance
  • RHEL 8 bug-fixes
  • Prevent flooding of logs from Castor
  • Prevent errors parsing log4j configuration files
  • Monitoring Sync Tool falling back to base XSD file if final is not present
  • Clean up of warnings in ACS' codebase
  • Component Caller fix for current version of Tornado
• Component Caller API - Security Proposal
• Component generator is now installed with ACS
  • Added Characteristic Component and BACI Properties support
  New build farm job in ACS namespace for building ALMA SW for early pre-releases
• Maven and PyPI deploy version now configurable with ACS_DEPLOY_VERSION variableAdded 'deploy' target to ARCHIVE and ICD group Makefiles
• ACS Exception stack trace in Python should now be easier to read

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• CDB API REST service implemented
• BPCT
  • Extended functionality to work with CDB API REST
  • Script to generate YAML configuration files from a currently configured CDB
• acsStartRemoteTmcdb script now has two additional options
  

  • --no-services: should only start up the containers.

  • --no-containers: should only start up the services.

  Jenkins jobs for ExtProd, ACS and COMMON were updated to generate a tar file with a suffix "-M2" at the end of the name, which contains the Maven artifactories

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• Fixed bugs related to CDB script commands (cdbRead and cdbjClearCache).
• Added report mechanism of Maven and Pip dependencies licenses

• Reduced critical zone protection block in loggingService, resulting in cleaner code and slight performance improvement

• Refactoring of NC Publisher in Java to better handle errors, including CORBA timeouts

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