*********************************** * XWHEP-5.9.0 * *---------------------------------* * Released date : Apr 28th, 2010 * * Author : Oleg Lodygensky * * lodygens@lal.in2p3.fr * *********************************** -A- Corrections -A.1- Mac OS X installers updated : it is now compliant with all versions (including 10.6) -A.2- XML (un)marshalling from/to stream cleaned : performances increased at more than 20% -A.3- Removed scripts : xwhepgenserverkey, xwhepgenworkerkey, xwhepgenclientkey Replaced by script : xwhepgenkeys This last is generated by xwconfigure -B- New features -B.1- the platform is now able to update the server public key This works if and only if the server key has not expired yet Purpose : keep a deployment alive even if the server keys expires What : distribute new server public key (automatically) to workers and (on demand) to client When : before the actual server key expires How : use the script xwhepgenkeys to add new key to keystores insert worker keystore (containing both actual and new server public keys) as public data in XWHEP server stop the server set keystore.uri variable in xtremweb.server.conf restart the server Security : This does not break security since - workers and clients must have the current server public key to connect to server - updated keystore is then distributed through encrypted communication channel - workers and client must have valid credentials to connect to server - workers and client safely keep keystores - distributed keytore contains server public keys only -C- Known Bugs -C.1- Result download errors reported using 'xwdownload', but not with 'xwresult' We have not been able to reproduce them If you encounter these, please send us log file in DEBUG mode -C.2- xtremweb.gmond.pl does not scale