Advanced Resource Connector (ARC)
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Release Announcement for NorduGrid ARC 13.02                         February xx 2013
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The Advanced Resource Connector (ARC) middleware, introduced by NorduGrid
(www.nordugrid.org), is an open source software solution enabling production
quality computational and data Grids since May 2002. The previous production ARC
release, version 12.05u1, was released on November 8, 2012.

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New features highlights
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ARC components: detailed new features and deployment notes
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ARC components in release 13.02 are:

  * ARC Core (includes documents)
  * ARC Clients
  * ARC CE
  * ARC Infosys
  * ARC gridftp server
  * Nagios plugins
  * Common authentication library CaNL++


== ARC Core

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== ARC Clients

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== ARC Compute Element

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== ARC Information System

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== ARC gridftp server

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== Nagios plugins

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== Common authentication library CaNL++

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Fixed bugs
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Since ARC 12.05 update 1, the following bugs were fixed:

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Known issues
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Availability
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== Source

ARC release 12.05 consists of the following source packages:
* NorduGrid ARC, version 3.0.0 (main components)
* NorduGrid ARC "compat", version 1.0.1 (old client) ????????????????
* NorduGrid ARC Documents version 1.3.0 
* metapackages for client tools, computing element and information index,
  version 1.0.2
* Nagios probes for ARC CE, version 1.3.x
* Common authentication library caNl++, version 1.0.0

Source code for main components is available from here:
  http://svn.nordugrid.org/repos/nordugrid/doc/tags/3.0.0

Source for the compatibility package (old client) is available from:
  http://svn.nordugrid.org/repos/nordugrid/arc0/tags/compat_1.0.1 ????????????

Documentation source (mostly LaTeX) is available from:
  http://svn.nordugrid.org/repos/nordugrid/doc/tags/1.3.0

Source for metapackages is available from:
  http://svn.nordugrid.org/repos/packaging/{fedora,debian}/nordugrid-arc-meta/tags/1.0.2

Source for Nagios probes is available from:
  http://svn.nordugrid.org/repos/nordugrid/nagios/tags/release-1.3.x

Source for the common authentication library caNl++ is available from:
  http://svn.nordugrid.org/repos/workarea/caNl++/tags/1.0.0


== Repositories

See detailed description at:
  http://download.nordugrid.org/repos.html

These repositories provide binary packages for:

* Debian: 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0 (i386 and amd64)
* Fedora: from 3 to 16 (i386 and x86_64)
* RedHat: EL4, EL5 and EL6 (i386 and x86_64)
* Ubuntu: 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10, 10.04, 10.10, 11.04, 11.10 and 12.04 (i386 and amd64)

Scientific Linux and CentOS are implicitly supported through corresponding
RedHat repositories.

Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X versions are available from same repositories for
clients and some services.





