Globus Toolkit® 4.0.0 Stable Release Notes

The GT development team is pleased to make 4.0.0 available for download. This release is the newest stable release of GT and represents a major advance in toolkit quality.

Highlights of this release include:

Full-featured, state-of-the-art Web service hosting environments for Java, Python and C
Tools and libraries that enable the development of WSRF and WS compliant client and server applications
An improved WSS-compliant security infrastructure with an extensible authorization framework
A new GRAM implementation optimized for flexibility, stability and scalability
A new and improved GridFTP server
Significant stability and scalability improvements in RFT, RLS and GRAM
An updated version of OGSA-DAI that allows access to data via WSRF mechanisms
Improved Information Services infrastructure
Improved and extended documentation
Several usability improvements, including better error reporting and installer enhancements
Improved cross-platform support

Other important details:

GT4 includes a mechanism to collect usage statistics
This release is covered by an Apache-derived open source license

The following topics contain high level descriptions of what's new in the following technology areas:

What's New
Compatibility
Obtaining and Installing Software
Documentation
Support
Licensing

What's New

Click the component below for release notes to find out what's new for that component:

Security	Data Management	Execution Management	Information Services	Common Runtime Components
CAS Delegation Service WS A&A: Authorization Framework Message/ Transport-level Security Pre-WS Authentication Authorization Credential Management: SimpleCA MyProxy GSI-OpenSSH	RFT GridFTP RLS OGSA-DAI Data Replication Service (tech preview)	WS GRAM Pre-WS GRAM Globus Teleoperations Control Protocol (GTCP) Workspace Management Service (WMS)	WS MDS (MDS4) Aggregator Framework Index Service Trigger Service WebMDS Pre-WS MDS (MDS2)	Java WS Core C WS Core Python WS Core XIO C Common Libraries
				Cross-component Tools
				Java CoG Kit pyGlobus

Compatibility

Information about backwards compatibility is included in the release notes for each component. See the What's New section

Obtaining and Installing Software

To download this release, go to the Download page.

For information on installing this release, go to the Installation Guide.

Documentation

We've made many updates to the documentation for this final release. We've made an initial conversion of all 4.0 docs into DocBook format and will be adding many new features in the near future: glossaries, indexes, etc. For more information about how our new documentation is structured, please see the new Documentation Overview.

For documentation about GT4, click here.

Support

An overview on GT support can be found here.

Licensing

The Globus Toolkit is distributed and licensed for use under the terms of the Globus Toolkit Public License.

To view the licenses of the 3rd party software used by the developers of the Globus Toolkit, click here.