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Release history and use in Alma
This is the second ACS development to be used in Cycle 10. Below is the list of addressed tickets.
Summary of Changes
- Python 3.8 is now the default Python interpreter
- Log4j2 version upgraded to 2.17.1 to avoid several vulnerabilities found during the last months
- Made ACS compatible with newer operating systems (CentOS Stream 9/Fedora 36)
- Prepared the road to increas ACS compatibility with more operating systems
- CentOS Stream 8 and 9 + Fedora 34, 35 and 36 build and Phase A tests jobs
- We expect to add Debian/Ubuntu in upcoming releases
- Objexp bug-fixes
- Clean-up of duplicated Java dependencies
- BulkDataNT parallel compilation improvements
- New Makefile fixes and improvements
- Consider $ALMASW_INSTDIR/ExternalDependencies for include and library paths
- Script getTemplateForDirectory MODROOT_WS or MODROOT_WS_LCU should now include Makefile.mk and module.mk
- Avoid installing some software if it's provided by the operating system:
- Xerces-C, astyle, Boost and Swig
- It is recommended to install them as part of the operating system
- Clients no no longer hangs when trying to retrieve an ill-configured component
- Workaround for intermittent failures for the manager to reach containers on reconnection after a hard reboot
Addressed JIRA tickets
Release Notes
git status On branch integration/COMMON-2022FEB Your branch is up to date with 'origin/integration/COMMON-2022FEB'. git log --no-merges --oneline --reverse origin/master..origin/integration/COMMON-2022FEB -- ACS d12dfa9b21 (origin/feature/ICT-19206, feature/ICT-19206) ICT-19206: Python 3.8.6 as default, removed 2.7.16 and 3.6.9 37c50d3849 (origin/task/ICT-19800, task/ICT-19800) ICT-19800: Changed ACS version to 2022FEB 3c239bfd10 (origin/bugfix/ICT-19803, bugfix/ICT-19803) ICT-19803: Change the check on argv for argc for new compilers ab17d2da03 (origin/bugfix/ICT-19804, bugfix/ICT-19804) ICT-19804: bulkDataNT compatibility with GCC 11+ 13b6389a45 ICT-19813: tat_parser.py handles different file encodings c946634faa ICT-19797: Added several OSs Dockerfiles and updated others 794e61fa4c ICT-19813: Small fix for a typo and added default encoding f8cae71c1e ICT-19813: Adding sys package for default encoding c1c90aca05 (origin/task/ICT-19813, task/ICT-19813) ICT-19813: utf-8, then iso-8859-1, then autodetect 6e4dd5c9a1 ICT-19850: First implementation of log4j2 on acsjlog 4f4d610043 ICT-19850: Added log4j changes for ACSLaser f7780c76fa ICT-19850: Missing change of class name in acsalarmidl c03c6e2998 ICT-19850: Configuration files and acStartJava script for log4j2 ad79ccac2b ICT-19850: Correcting conversion of one missing Category class efa36333f5 ICT-19797: Added Jenkins support for Fedora 36 1f4b7cbc34 (origin/feature/ICT-19726, feature/ICT-19726) ICT-19726: Clean up of duplicated and hard-coded jar files a8d908b193 (origin/bugfix/ICT-19840, bugfix/ICT-19840) ICT-19840: Phony target hack for codegen lib found in vpath a5d0c485f0 ICT-19850: Correct log4j in codegen configuration files 401c9e20a4 ICT-19754: Added support to list the packages using each package on Java 3b9d584bac ICT-19754: Support to list the packages using each package on Python c4ea044af5 ICT-19754: Fix small bug when used-by flag is not present d49d76a3dc (origin/feature/ICT-19754, feature/ICT-19754) ICT-19754: Removed some unwanted prints d8e15d8ba7 (origin/feature/ICT-19902, feature/ICT-19902) ICT-19902: Cleanup of Python dependencies according to ticket 540bfd107a ICT-19903: Swig is not installed if OS offers appropriate version 0855f8a949 ICT-19903: Small improvement to the algorithm detecting swig version 3225ccdea9 ICT-19904: Boost is not installed if OS offers appropriate version 138ebfb004 (origin/feature/ICT-19905, feature/ICT-19905) ICT-19905: Added check of version for astyle available packages 1d20199098 (origin/feature/ICT-19906, feature/ICT-19906) ICT-19906: Added check of version for xercesc available packages 3f35555314 (origin/feature/ICT-19904, feature/ICT-19904) ICT-19904: Just a small aesthetic change in buildBoost aab777a88f (origin/feature/ICT-19907, feature/ICT-19907) ICT-19907: Upgraded cppunit fallback library to 1.14.0 be363c0fe0 (origin/feature/ICT-19903, feature/ICT-19903) ICT-19903: Fixing small bug in logic for swig detection ccef0901dd (origin/feature/ICT-19908, feature/ICT-19908) ICT-19908: Updated fallback version of graphviz and doxygen be99349911 (origin/task/ICT-19797, task/ICT-19797) ICT-19797: Fixing typo in xerces-c-devel package 1093832514 (origin/bugfix/ICT-19859, bugfix/ICT-19859) ICT-19859: Avoid clients hanging when module fails to load in Python b20b562f1c (origin/bugfix/ICT-18617, bugfix/ICT-18617) ICT-18617: Workaround for COMM_FAILURE on container login after FAR 3ff77e1d7a (origin/bugfix/ICT-19918, bugfix/ICT-19918) ICT-19918: Added ExternalDependencies to new makefile 9b896de4f5 (origin/bugfix/ICT-19850, bugfix/ICT-19850) ICT-19850: Changing log4j version to 2.17.1 due to new vulnerability ea1072609e (origin/feature/ICT-19855, feature/ICT-19855) ICT-19855: Avoid the creation of tmp log files 0608df9b8b ICT-19934: Allow parallel compilation on BulkDataNT module b3cc61487f (origin/feature/ICT-19998, feature/ICT-19998) ICT-19998: Add capability to support Set of code-generate POJO classes f256c6c4a5 (origin/bugfix/ICT-20005, bugfix/ICT-20005) ICT-20005: Updated objexp classpath to current jar files provided by ACS 7312eb7b6d ICT-19909: Updated templates and added them to code-gen tools ef5df9eabd (origin/feature/ICT-19909, feature/ICT-19909) ICT-19909: Fixed small typo in Makefile for templates bba85cd8cf ICT-20013: Compatibility with Python 3.8 logging 8ff8265861 ICT-20013: ErrorTrace fix for tests due Python 3.8 additional stacklevel f769e15172 (origin/bugfix/ICT-20013, bugfix/ICT-20013) ICT-20013: Thread.isAlive marked as deprecated changed to is_alive git log --no-merges --oneline --reverse origin/master..origin/integration/COMMON-2022FEB -- ARCHIVE 1f4b7cbc34 (origin/feature/ICT-19726, feature/ICT-19726) ICT-19726: Clean up of duplicated and hard-coded jar files git log --no-merges --oneline --reverse origin/master..origin/integration/COMMON-2022FEB -- ICD b9d4d378d0 Included code to avoid null pointer exception when no configuration is selected 7ca6851782 (origin/bugfix/ICT-17861-tmcdb-explorers-find-configuration-wizard-nullpointerexception) removed print out message, minor change 31ab441ab9 Updated maven version to 2022.02 1f4b7cbc34 (origin/feature/ICT-19726, feature/ICT-19726) ICT-19726: Clean up of duplicated and hard-coded jar files 127752aa17 (origin/bugfix/ICT-19955, bugfix/ICT-19955) ICT-19955: Jakarta package back to javax on an ACA test file
OS Support:
- The officially supported OS is the 64 bit version of "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 8.5 (Ootpa)"
- The binary distribution of ACS (tarball) is made for this OS
- We also successfully use its clone "CentOS Stream 8"
- For all machines the expected kernel is 4.18.0
- Unofficially, "CentOS Stream 9" has also been used successfully
The expected and actual versions of compilers, ORBs and various RPMs can be found by running the command =acsConfigReport=, both for required RPMs and for software shipped together with ACS. To get a rough overview before installing ACS, here are the most basic ones:
- Gcc: 8.5 RHEL 8.5.0
- Java: openjdk-11.0.4
- Python: 3.8.6
- ACE: 6.5.11
- TAO: 2.5.11
- JacORB: 3.9
- omniorb: 4.2.4
The operating system dependencies are:
- redhat-lsb-core
- ksh
- gcc
- gcc-c++
- gcc-fortran
- libX11-devel
- libffi-devel
- perl
- readline-devel
- bzip2
- bzip2-devel
- openssl-devel
- openldap-devel
- libxml2-devel
- freetype-devel
- libxslt-devel
- sqlite-devel
- expat-devel
- bison
- flex
- autoconf
- unzip
- dos2unix
- tcl-devel
- tk-devel
- procmail
- cppunit-devel
- doxygen
- graphviz
There are new requirements needed to replace swig, boost, astyle and xerces-c (Since 2022FEB):
- astyle
- boost-devel
- swig
- xerces-c-devel
If you need to build doxygen/graphviz instead of installing at OS level, you also need (Since 2022FEB):
- cmake
- libarchive