GFAL2 RELEASE-NOTES
===================

## Mon Jul 27 2020 Mihai Patrascoiu <mipatras at cern.ch> - 2.18.2
###Bug
- [DMC-1220] - Filesize of GridFTP incomplete files reported as -1

###Task
- [DMC-1216] - Modify gfal2 Xrdfs query prepare to recognize both path_exists and exists fields

## Wed Jun 17 2020 Mihai Patrascoiu <mipatras at cern.ch> - 2.18.1
###Bug
- (DMC-1110) Set RequireChecksumVerification header to false also for checksum mode "both"
- Fix JSON headers for HTTP plugin

## Fri Jun 05 2020 Mihai Patrascoiu <mipatras at cern.ch> - 2.18.0
###Bug
- [DMC-1201] - gfal2-plugin-xrootd incompatible with the xrootd master (v5)

###Task
- [DMC-1059] - Extend the gfal2 HTTP plugin to implement CDMI QoS operations

## Thu May 07 2020 Mihai Patrascoiu <mipatras at cern.ch> - 2.17.3
###Bug
- [DMC-1203] - gfal attempts delegation with S3 / gcloud during third party copy
- [DMC-1210] - gfal2 recursive mkdir fails with file exist
- Fix incorrect parenthesis in GridFTP checksum validation
- Token credentials support for same-host HTTP TPC transfers

* Thank you to Petr Vokac for same-host HTTP TPC support using token credentials

## Tue Jan 28 2020 Michal Simon <msimon at cern.ch> - 2.17.2
###Bug
- [DMC-1198] - bring_online_poll_list: collapse redundant slashes in the path.

## Thu Nov 28 2019 Andrea Manzi <amanzi at cern.ch> - 2.17.1
###Task
- [DMC-1192] - Rewrite gfal_xrootd_bring_online_poll_list to use the Xrdfs Query Prepare implementation
- [DMC-1196] - Set IPV6=false by default for gridftp plugin

###Improvement
- [DMC-1187] - Add COPY_FAIL_NEARLINE option for  SRM  copy_file
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
## Tue Oct 22 2019 Andrea Manzi <amanzi at cern.ch> - 2.17.0
###Sub-task
- [DMC-1168] - add root and https to TURL_3RD_PARTY_PROTOCOLS

###Bug
- [DMC-1185] - When an Xrootd staging request part of a bulk fails, all staging requests are also set as failed 

###Task

- [DMC-1151] - Set IPV6=true by default for gridftp plugin
- [DMC-1167] - Make sure SRM<->http and SRM<->root TPC is supported
- [DMC-1176] - Stop building lfc and rfio plugins on Rawhide/F31/EPEL8

###Improvement

- [DMC-1061] - xrootd plugin: checksum logic broken
- [DMC-1182] - Add multistream support in Xrootd plugin
         
## Wed Sep 18 2019 Andrea Manzi <amanzi at cern.ch> - 2.16.4
###Bug
- [DMC-1173] - The xrootd plugin ignores the make parent option

###Task
- [DMC-1159] - Implement Xrootd prepare evict on sources when Xrootd TPC transfers succeed
- [DMC-1160] - Remove conditional compilation code to still support xrootd v3 on xrootd plugin
- [DMC-1166] - Add support for canceling HTTP TPC transfers 

## Fri May 17 2019 Andrea Manzi <amanzi at cern.ch> - 2.16.3
###Bug
- [DMC-1026] - gfal-copy segmentation fault on MacOSx
- [DMC-1137] - gfal2.Gfal2Context.cancel issue for Xrootd transfers
- [DMC-1147] - The autoCleanFileCopy function in gridftp plugin never executes the file unlink
- [DMC-1155] - gfal-rm with signed https URL gives 401 error

###Task
- [DMC-1152] - Map stat file flags for Xrootd to SRM user.status xattr
- [DMC-1156] - Sanitize gridftp checksum returned by globus 
- [DMC-1157] - Integrate new API for staging canceling in Xrootd

## Thu Feb 21 2019 Andrea Manzi <amanzi at cern.ch> - 2.16.2
###Bug
- [DMC-1131] - Transfers gridftp->ftp fail as GLOBUS_FTP_CONTROL_MODE_EXTENDED_BLOCK is not supported on FTP

###Task
- [DMC-1123] - Add ENABLE_FALLBACK_COPY variable to http plugin
- [DMC-1125] - Add X509 delegation to Xrootd TPC job properties
- [DMC-1129] - Add a query parameter to HTTP urls for the configuration of the copy mode

## Wed Oct 31 2018 Andrea Manzi <amanzi at cern.ch> - 2.16.1
###Bug
- [DMC-1099] - Checksum comparison in Xrootd is wrongly enabled for FTS transfers
- [DMC-1106] - HTTP to HTTP streamed transfers timeout after 300 secs
- [DMC-1107] - The instant throughut for HTTP Streamed transfers is wrongly calculated
- [DMC-1109] - HTTP TPC failures are not logged at INFO level
- [DMC-1110] - RequireChecksumVerification set to false only for HTTP TPC PULL
- [DMC-1112] - Setting BEARER_TOKEN breaks pre-signed URLa

###Task
- [DMC-1095] - Refactor http streamed copy to support s3 multipart upload via Davix
            
## Mon Seo 28 2018 Andrea Manzi <amanzi at cern.ch> - 2.16.0
### Bug 
- [DMC-1048] - Xrootd plugin: the query for the EOS-CTA extended attribute "sys.retrieve.error" should be asynchronous
- [DMC-1055] - The Xrootd checksum preset should not contain leading 0s
- [DMC-1057] - xattr.h is in glibc-headers >= 2.27
- [DMC-1066] - gfal-sum does not honour HTTP 202 responses
- [DMC-1067] - Xrootd plugin does not pass the checksum type
- [DMC-1068] - Remove file after error in HTTP COPY
- [DMC-1069] - Work with endpoints that support HTTP macaroons but not for COPY
- [DMC-1084] - TPC with destination/source http are not working with dCache

### Task

- [DMC-1046] - add support for gCloud in gfal2 http plugin
- [DMC-1060] - xrootd plugin should clean destination on failure
- [DMC-1064] - Add possibility to pass a BEARER token via ENV var

### Improvement

- [DMC-1028] - RD_NB_STREAM in /etc/gfal2.d/gsiftp_plugin.conf has no effect
- [DMC-1074] - Add DEFAULT_COPY_MODE to gfal2 http conf

## Mon May 28 2018 Andrea Manzi <amanzi at cern.ch> - 2.15.5
### Bug
- [DMC-1023] - Xrootd plugin:The checksum string provided by the user is not correctly parsed
- [DMC-1041] - Incorrect GridFTP listing output

### Improvement
- [DMC-1036] - gfal_http_get_token should read the credentials associated to the host

### New Feature
- [DMC-1038] - Implement abort files for Xrootd bringonline
- [DMC-1040] - Xrootd plugin: implement the query for the EOS-CTA extended attribute 'sys.retrieve.error'

## Thu Apr 05 2018 Andrea Manzi <amanzi at cern.ch> - 2.15.4
### Bug
- [DMC-1027] - DAVIX operation timeout incorrect for HTTP-based transfers 
- [DMC-1031] - gfal_http_get_token does not free the gchar* token
- [DMC-1034] - When ENABLE_STREAM_COPY is disabled the http copy process crashes

## Mon March 12 2018 Andrea Manzi <amanzi at cern.ch> - 2.15.3
### Bug
- [DMC-1017] - gfal2 examples don't compile

### Improvement
- [DMS-1014] - change the default copy method to PULL for HTTP
- [DMC-1015] - gfal_http_copy should try all available COPY modes regardless of the error

## Mon Feb 12 2018 Alejandro Alvarez <aalvarez at cern.ch> - 2.15.2
### Bug
- [DMC-1009] - Segfault on gfal_load_configuration_to_conf_manager when there is an error loading the configuration file
- [DMC-1010] - HTTP Plugin: Normalisation of destination url breaks S3 support for push third party copy
- [DMC-1011] - HTTP transfers wrongly reported with success

## Thu Feb 01 2018 Alejandro Alvarez <aalvarez at cern.ch> - 2.15.1
### Bug
- [DMC-998] - XRootD plugin: xrootd is not recognised as a valid prefix for copies
- [DMC-999] - GridFTP Plugin: Third party copy does not work for ftp => gridftp
- [DMC-1000] - GridFTP Plugin: Disable multistreams for plain FTP
- [DMC-1003] - Fix typo UNKNOW => UNKNOWN for replica locality
- [DMC-1004] - SRM Plugin: Map "None" locality
- [DMC-1006] - if GFAL_CRED_X509_CERT is not defined, the XROOTD PLUGIN options are skipped
- [DMC-1007] - Wrong default values in configuration files (TRUE instead of true)

## Thu Nov 09 2017 Alejandro Alvarez <aalvarez at cern.ch> - 2.15.0
### Bug
- [DMC-977] - Missing closing bracket on the space reporting output
- [DMC-979] - Total size reported incorrectly to be -1
- [DMC-991] - GridFTP Plugin: Reset credentials when reusing handle with a different endpoint

### New Feature
- [DMC-989] - HTTP Plugin: If checksum is MD5, send Content-MD5 header

### Improvement
- [DMC-954] - Drop davs+3rd, use only davs
- [DMC-965] - When copying into/from srm, if the other pair is *not* srm, it should appear first on the list of protocols
- [DMC-970] - Add Castor to the test endpoints
- [DMC-975] - XRootD Plugin: Make normalization configurable (disable by default?)
- [DMC-986] - Performance markers timeout should return ETIMEDOUT instead of ECANCEL

## Wed Jul 26 2017 Alejandro Alvarez <aalvarez at cern.ch> - 2.14.2
### Bug
- [DMC-976] - DMC-878 breaks GridFTP towards Castor

## Fri Jul 14 2017 Alejandro Alvarez <aalvarez at cern.ch> - 2.14.1
### Bug
- [DMC-973] - SRM Plugin: Revert multiple slash addition

## Wed Jun 21 2017 Alejandro Alvarez <aalvarez at cern.ch> - 2.14.0
### Bug
- [DMC-918] - LFC Plugin: Doesn't work with [X509] CERT and KEY configuration
- [DMC-921] - GridFTP plugin: When asking for server, there is a missing error check
- [DMC-923] - GridFTP Plugin: PASV plugin leaks
- [DMC-949] - SRM Plugin: Use double slash for absolute paths
- [DMC-955] - HTTP Plugin: For third party copies, fallback should be done for EPERM

### New Feature
- [DMC-878] - Allow to use different credentials for different storages/paths
- [DMC-931] - GridFTP Plugin: Striped Passive when IPv6 is used
- [DMC-932] - XRootD Plugin: Prototype staging implementation using XRootD
- [DMC-948] - LFC Plugin: Add checksum support
- [DMC-953] - Copy event should specify the copy mode
- [DMC-959] - Mock Plugin: Add signals on creation time, allow to disable by configuration

### Task
- [DMC-929] - XRootD Plugin: Allow to specify custom xrd.* flags

### Improvement
- [DMC-915] - Reorganize core
- [DMC-928] - Clean up gfal2-util timeout info
- [DMC-962] - Add a method to remove a configuration key

### Question
- [DMC-936] - Copyright clarification

## Mon May 29 2017 Alejandro Alvarez <aalvarez at cern.ch> - 2.13.4
### Bug
- [DMC-951] - Default checksum for local copy was removed

## Fri Mar 17 2017 Alejandro Alvarez <aalvarez at cern.ch> - 2.13.3
### Bug
- [DMC-924] - gfal2 breaks backwards compatibility for checksums

## Mon Feb 20 2017 Alejandro Alvarez <aalvarez at cern.ch> - 2.13.1
### Bug
- [DMC-919] - Remove calls to globus_module_deactivate

## Mon Feb 06 2017 Alejandro Alvarez <aalvarez at cern.ch> - 2.13.0
### Bug
- [DMC-895] - Recursive directory creation: EEXIST shouldn't cause a failure
- [DMC-901] - Xrootd succeeds to copy even if one of the storages does not support checksums
- [DMC-909] - SRM Plugin: When BDII is disabled, SRM endpoint is built incorrectly
- [DMC-910] - Leaks in BDII bindings and GridFTP plugin

### New Feature
- [DMC-885] - XrootD Plugin: Add space reporting to the API
- [DMC-886] - Consolidate space reporting between plugins
- [DMC-892] - Generalize checksum methods
- [DMC-896] - SFTP plugin

### Task
- [DMC-902] - Delete old deprecated methods
- [DMC-905] - Expose Low level parameters for local -> remote copies

### Improvement
- [DMC-880] - If the option -t is passed, make sure that Davix knows it
- [DMC-884] - XRootD Plugin: Pass desired checksum type to the storage
- [DMC-900] - Apply QA tools feedback
- [DMC-913] - Log a warning and keep going if loading a plugin fails

## Thu Oct 27 2016 Alejandro Alvarez <aalvarez at cern.ch> - 2.12.3
### Bug
- [DMC-891] - GridFTP Plugin: IPv6 detection misfire in some cases

## Tue Sep 06 2016 Alejandro Alvarez <aalvarez at cern.ch> - 2.12.2
### Bug
- [DMC-879] - XRootD Plugin: Segfault on 3rd party copy

## Tue Aug 16 2016 Alejandro Alvarez <aalvarez at cern.ch> - 2.12.1
### Bug
- [DMC-872] - SRM Plugin: DMC-860 broke directory listing when endpoint can not be resolved from BDII
### New Feature
- [DMC-870] - Add support for s3 alternate syntax URLs to gfal

## Mon Aug 01 2016 Alejandro Alvarez <aalvarez at cern.ch> - 2.12.0
### Bug
- [DMC-833] - gfal2_add_client_info should overwrite existing key
- [DMC-841] - Make scheme handling consistent across gfal2
- [DMC-846] - File Plugin: Only strict URIs must be accepted
- [DMC-848] - GridFTP Plugin: PASV plugin parses incorrectly some IPv6
- [DMC-853] - [Known Issue] Connection issues when a PUT and a GET are done through the same GridFTP connection
- [DMC-856] - Set user and password when accessing plain FTP
- [DMC-858] - XRootD: Urldecode path before passing to xrootd libraries
- [DMC-860] - SRM Plugin: Urldecode path before passing to srm-ifce
### New Feature
- [DMC-827] - GridFTP Plugin: Allow to configure blocksize
- [DMC-849] - GridFTP Plugin: Fire an event if IPv6 is used
- [DMC-866] - Expand '-' to stdout when used as destination for gfal-copy
- [DMC-868] - GridFTP Plugin: Add spacetoken xattr
### Task
- [DMC-852] - GridFTP: Workaround for Globus' higher priority to /etc/grid-security/hostcert.pem
### Improvement
- [DMC-837] - When an operation is not supported, include the url on the error
- [DMC-851] - Improve URI parser (breaks internal API)
- [DMC-855] - Accept xroot:// as well as root://
- [DMC-857] - GridFTP Plugin: Set ALLO to remote storages
- [DMC-864] - Can gfal2 indicate the origin of errors (source/destination) when using GridFTP?

## Thu Apr 14 2016 Alejandro Alvarez <aalvarez at cern.ch> - 2.11.1
### Bug
- [DMC-813] - XRootD plugin: gfal2_set_error called without format string
- [DMC-818] - SRM plugin not invoked when using a relative path to the source file

## Mon Mar 07 2016 Alejandro Alvarez <aalvarez at cern.ch> - 2.11.0
### Bug
- [DMC-758] - Add a Requires on glib2 >= 2.28
- [DMC-769] - GridFTP Plugin: Missing throw inside copy
- [DMC-783] - SRM endpoint resolution fails due to an off-by-one introduced when switched to g_strlcpy
- [DMC-798] - FIle Plugin: Readlink implemented but not exposed
- [DMC-803] - GridFTP Plugin: PASV plugin fails to extract IP
- [DMC-808] - gfal2_parse_uri does not support IPv6 URLS
- [DMC-811] - gfal2 error GLib-WARNING **: GError set over the top of a previous GError or uninitialized memory
### Improvement
- [DMC-793] - SRM Plugin: Set "GRIDFTP PLUGIN:STAT_ON_OPEN" to false when the endpoint is Castor
- [DMC-795] - XRootD Plugin: Generate better error messages
- [DMC-809] - XRootD Plugin: Copy from/to XRootD using the Client (as with 3rd party copy)
- [DMC-812] - Add open/read/write/close to the mock plugin
### New Feature
- [DMC-756] - Mock plugin: Add directory listing and signal raising
- [DMC-763] - Add plain FTP support (anonymous only)
- [DMC-781] - Add support for short-term S3 credentials
- [DMC-797] - HTTP Plugin: Add rename support
- [DMC-801] - dCache davs pull copy use checksum verification by default, should be disabled if checksums are not asked for
- [DMC-804] - Allow to pass arbitrary headers to davix

## Wed Dec 09 2015 Alejandro Alvarez <aalvarez at cern.ch> - 2.10.3
### Bug
- [DMC-783] - SRM endpoint resolution fails due to an off-by-one introduced when switched to g_strlcpy

## Fri Nov 06 2015 Alejandro Alvarez <aalvarez at cern.ch> - 2.10.2
### Bug
- [DMC-769] - GridFTP Plugin: Missing throw inside copy

## Tue Oct 20 2015 Alejandro Alvarez <aalvarez at cern.ch> - 2.10.1
### Bug
- [DMC-750] - Respect GLOBUS_THREAD_MODEL environment
### Improvement
- [DMC-738] - HTTP Plugin: Skip source validation checksum if the algorithm is not supported

## Mon Oct 12 2015 Alejandro Alvarez <aalvarez at cern.ch> - 2.10.0
### Bug
- [DMC-676] - SRM Plugin: Response for bringonline may be shorter than the request
- [DMC-682] - SURLS in responses may not contain full endpoint
- [DMC-692] - gfal_rw_seq_SRM_DPM hangs somewhere when the proxy is not initialized
- [DMC-694] - GridFTP Plugin: Malformed IPv6 printed on the logs
- [DMC-717] - Remove Boost dependency from gfal2
- [DMC-720] - SRM Plugin should handle transfers also for file:/path
- [DMC-722] - LFC Plugin registers the TURL rather than the SURL into the catalog
- [DMC-724] - XROOTD plugin: Case-insensitive checksum type comparison
- [DMC-731] - Segfault on xrootd 3rd party copies
- [DMC-741] - Replace G_LOG_LEVEL_INFO with other levels
- [DMC-742] - SRM Plugin: Convert UTC to local timestamp
### Improvement
- [DMC-674] - Validate version as part of the packaging
- [DMC-679] - SRM Plugin: Reduce log level for the unlinking messages
- [DMC-685] - All: Mark in a common way when a checksum comparison fails
- [DMC-698] - Port DMC clients to MacOSX
- [DMC-737] - File plugin: Avoid large allocation on the stack
- [DMC-744] - GridFTP Plugin: Parse uid and gid if available
### New Feature
- [DMC-669] - GridFTP Plugin: Hook a plugin to capture final endpoints on transfer
- [DMC-673] - SRM Plugin: Add srm.type extended attribute
- [DMC-697] - HTTP Plugin: Add support for pull copies
### Task
- [DMC-680] - Integrate gfal2-plugin-xrootd into mainline gfal2
- [DMC-712] - Improve mock plugin

## Tue Jun 08 2015 Alejandro Alvarez <aalvarez at cern.ch> - 2.9.3
### Bug
- [DMC-682] - SRM Plugin: SURLS in responses may not contain full endpoint
- [DMC-676] - SRM Plugin: Response for poll may be shorter too

## Mon Jun 01 2015 Alejandro Alvarez <aalvarez at cern.ch> - 2.9.2
### Bug
- [DMC-676] - SRM Plugin: Response for bringonline may be shorter than the request

## Fri Apr 10 2015  Alejandro Alvarez <aalvarez at cern.ch> - 2.9.1
### Bug
- [DMC-620] - HTTP Plugin: Normalize S3:host to S3:HOST on all cases
- [DMC-622] - Core: gfal2 crash when aborting staging operation
- [DMC-626] - LFC Plugin: Off by one bug when checking for parent directory
- [DMC-627] - LFC Plugin: When lfn:// is used, lfc_host was being left to NULL
- [DMC-632] - GridFTP Plugin: When the timeout expires, wait for the callback after cancellation
- [DMC-638] - GridFTP Plugin: Performance marker timeout causes abort
- [DMC-639] - SRM Plugin: Fix build in Rawhide
- [DMC-645] - GridFTP Plugin: Always register performance marker callback
- [DMC-647] - GridFTP Plugin: In some machines, the threading model is event, and writing to castor do not work
- [DMC-653] - SRM Plugin: Closing when reading must issue a release
- [DMC-661] - GridFTP Plugin: Error messages generated during transfer seem to be truncated
- [DMC-662] - GridFTP Plugin: Map correctly "Disk quota" errors
### Improvement
- [DMC-613] - HTTP Plugin: Davix already stats before deletion, so remove the check
- [DMC-617] - HTTP Plugin: Set Davix retrials to 0
- [DMC-619] - HTTP Plugin: Add KEEP_ALIVE option
- [DMC-640] - Conditionally enable C++11
- [DMC-648] - Core: Provide gfal2_ prefixed methods for uri methods
- [DMC-649] - Core: Improve logger system, deprecate old methods
- [DMC-650] - SRM Plugin: Log the request tokens
- [DMC-651] - Core and plugins: Allow to send custom key/value to the servers
### New Feature
- [DMC-641] - Core: Allow to register multiple event listeners
- [DMC-642] - Core: Give plugins a chance to register their own event listeners
- [DMC-643] - Core: Add an event for copies that is triggered at the beginning
- [DMC-657] - SRM Plugin: On prepare to get and put, get the desired request lifetime from the configuration file
- [DMC-663] - Add functionality to allow querying the versions of the plugins loaded

## Fri Feb 27 2015 Alejandro Alvarez <aalvarez at cern.ch> - 2.8.4
- [DMC-638] - GridFTP Plugin: Performance marker timeout causes abort

## Tue Feb 10 2015 Alejandro Alvarez <aalvarez at cern.ch> - 2.8.3
- [DMC-632] - GridFTP Plugin: When the timeout expires, wait for the callback after cancellation

## Thu Jan 29 2014 Alejandro Alvarez <aalvarez at cern.ch> - 2.8.2
- [DMC-622] - Core: gfal2 crash when aborting staging operation

## Tue Jan 06 2015 Alejandro Alvarez <aalvarez at cern.ch> - 2.8.1
- [DMC-529] - [EPEL7 Only] GridFTP fails to load the configured credentials
- [DMC-531] - GridFTP Plugin: Partial read and write missing EOF's
- [DMC-541] - GridFTP and SRM plugins: Transferring from Castor SRM to non-SRM fail with "Connection refused"
- [DMC-544] - GridFTP Plugin: Map "System error in name: Is a directory" to EISDIR
- [DMC-553] - SRM Plugin: TURLS retrieved from a SRM endpoint should be of one of the requested protocols
- [DMC-559] - SRM Plugin: gfal_srm_readdir_pipeline ignore errors
- [DMC-563] - SRM Plugin: Typo in TURL resolution when copying
- [DMC-566] - Mock plugin: Only size should be enough to specify the file size
- [DMC-570] - GridFTP Plugin: Establishing an lfc connection before loading GridFTP makes the GridFTP plugin freeze in most (all?) operations
- [DMC-580] - Core: Do not try to create parent on "transfer only" copies
- [DMC-582] - SRM Plugin: Missing parameter in call to gfal2_set_error when the protocol is not expected
- [DMC-584] - SRM Plugin: Cache does not invalidate entries when removing a directory
- [DMC-587] - File: CRC32 should be represented in decimal
- [DMC-596] - SRM Plugin: Getting file:// is a legitimate use case
- [DMC-597] - GridFTP Plugin: Sessions are not reused
- [DMC-598] - GridFTP Plugin: Transfer timeout is not taken into account
- [DMC-601] - Core: Streamed copy buffer should be moved to the heap
- [DMC-565] - Mock plugin: Reduce default sleep time for transferring to ~5 secs
- [DMC-530] - SRM plugin doesn't seem to handle urls without path
- [DMC-533] - GridFTP Plugin: Partial read and write, avoid seeking if not strictly required
- [DMC-540] - HTTP Plugin: Assume DAV when http/https urls are used
- [DMC-556] - SRM Plugin: On copies, an error on RELEASE should not be considered an error
- [DMC-558] - Core: Log when events are triggered
- [DMC-560] - Core: Notify events also in streamed copies
- [DMC-568] - GridFTP Plugin: Enforce thread model to pthread
- [DMC-574] - File Plugin: Package separately
- [DMC-575] - SRM Plugin: Try listing in chunks when the storage replies "too many results"
- [DMC-589] - HTTP Plugin: Reduce the verbosity level configured for Davix
- [DMC-592] - GridFTP Plugin: In bulk copies, avoid redundant parent creation
- [DMC-562] - SRM Plugin: Trigger events for TURL resolution when copying
- [DMC-583] - Core: Add call to recover list of installed plugins
- [DMC-487] - GridFTP Plugin: Refactoring
- [DMC-536] - SRM Plugin: Protect the srm context with recursive mutexes
- [DMC-550] - HTTP Plugin: Add option to configure davix log level for debugging
- [DMC-576] - Merge gfal2, gfal2-core and gfal2-transfer in one single package
- [DMC-603] - Core: Transfer logic from c++ to c
- [DMC-604] - Remove dependency on glibmm24

* Mon Nov 17 2014 Alejandro Alvarez <aalvarez at cern.ch> - 2.7.8
- [DMC-553] - TURLS retrieved from a SRM endpoint should be of one of the requested protocols

## Mon Nov 10 2014 Alejandro Alvarez <aalvarez at cern.ch> - 2.7.7
- [DMC-539] - GridFTP Plugin: Transfers from gridftp endpoints hang when a read operation fails
- [DMC-541] - GridFTP and SRM plugins: Transferring from Castor SRM to non-SRM fail with "Connection refused"

## Fri Nov 07 2014 Alejandro Alvarez <aalvarez at cern.ch> - 2.7.6
- [DMC-469] - LFC Plugin: Calling gfal2_set_error with wrong parameters
- [DMC-473] - HTTP Plugin: 3rd party copy should translate non canonical urls (davs+3rd...) to https
- [DMC-485] - Core: Recursive mkdir() fail when because of a race an intermediate directory is created
- [DMC-502] - GridFTP Plugin: if ucert == ukey, do not concatenate them
- [DMC-504] - SRM Plugin: mkdir-ing an existing directory must nor fail
- [DMC-509] - Core: Cannot use unix special files as a destination for file transfer
- [DMC-510] - srm-ifce is not mapping correctly status codes (Was Revert DMC-433)
- [DMC-515] - bring online timeout is not set correctly in gfal_srmv2_bring_online_internal
- [DMC-516] - SRM Plugin: Bringonline internals only checks for the status of the first file
- [DMC-523] - Core: Do not try to create parent directory if it exists already (local copy)
- [DMC-531] - GridFTP Plugin: Partial read and write missing EOF's
- [DMC-453] - Deprecate gfal_handle and gfal_context_t inside gfal2
- [DMC-463] - GridFTP Plugin: Log storage IPv6
- [DMC-465] - HTTP Plugin: Make possible dissabling certificate verification
- [DMC-507] - Core: Expose URI API publicly
- [DMC-508] - Deprecate direct inclusion of header files
- [DMC-533] - GridFTP Plugin: Partial read and write, avoid seeking if not strictly required
- [DMC-445] - HTTP Plugin: 3rd party copies explicit (davs+3rd://)
- [DMC-448] - SRM Plugin: Disable GridFTP session reuse if a castor srm endpoint is involved
- [DMC-452] - Core: For convenience, xattr user.checksum directly mapped to gfal2_checksum
- [DMC-459] - Core: New method to load configuration from a file (gfal2_load_opts_from_file)
- [DMC-466] - LFC Plugin: Handle replica deletion via extended attributes
- [DMC-490] - HTTP Plugin: Add support for AWS credentials
- [DMC-493] - Core: Add gfal2_get_opt_string_with_default
- [DMC-460] - GridFTP Plugin: Trimming bug in gridftp_readdir_parser
- [DMC-462] - GridFTP Plugin: Pipeline copy support

## Mon Jul 28 2014 Alejandro Alvarez <aalvarez at cern.ch> - 2.6.8
- [LCGUTIL-169] - GFAL 2.0 : Enable tests for xrootd and http supports
- [LCGUTIL-345] - GFAL 2.0: add support for dCache test bed for functional tests
- [LCGUTIL-45] - GFAL 2.0 : non third party transfer should respect all transfers options
- [LCGUTIL-166] - GFAL 2 : Update gfal 2.0 functional tests
- [LCGUTIL-348] - gfal-copy produces misleading error
- [LCGUTIL-355] - HTTP plugin does not do 3rd party copy when dav/davs is used as scheme
- [LCGUTIL-359] - GFAL 2.0 : GFAL2 copy does not manage properly spacetoken in file <-> SRM transfer
- [LCGUTIL-361] - Some transfers finish with GridFTP transferring 0 bytes, and keep going
- [LCGUTIL-363] - Some tests do not clean after themselves
- [LCGUTIL-365] - SRM Checksum fallback fails for IPv6
- [LCGUTIL-393] - Spacetoken operations do not handle null values
- [LCGUTIL-420] - Unhandled exception causes abort
- [LCGUTIL-422] - Memory leak in gfal_srm_cache_stat_add
- [LCGUTIL-428] - Bringonline does not support destination space token
- [LCGUTIL-429] - thread-safety issue with SSL
- [LCGUTIL-432] - gfal_srmv2_bring_online returns > 0 if the file is already pinned
- [LCGUTIL-433] - gfal2-srm: If the file is pinned (22), gfal_srmv2_bring_online_internal must return 1 too
- [LCGUTIL-358] - When rolling back a SRM PUT, it may be necessary to explicitly remove the file
- [LCGUTIL-362] - Clarify error messages coming from gfal2 on copies
- [LCGUTIL-385] - GridFTP listing improvement (RELNOTE: session reuse enabled by default!)
- [LCGUTIL-386] - Improvements to GridFTP 3rd party copy to achieve session reuse
- [LCGUTIL-395] - Do not fail on replica registration if the same replica is already there
- [LCGUTIL-412] - Delegate the grid authentication of GFAL 2.0 http plugin to davix
- [LCGUTIL-435] - SRM: Cache file locality
- [LCGUTIL-55] - GFAL 2.0 : set a clean API to set/get at runtime the different possible credential
- [LCGUTIL-306] - lcg-stmd equivalent
- [LCGUTIL-352] - support GridFTP UDT in gfal2
- [LCGUTIL-356] - Add an option to disable http 3rd party copies
- [LCGUTIL-360] - Copy to http(s) does not work if the file is bigger than the buffer
- [LCGUTIL-423] - Bulk bring online
- [LCGUTIL-424] - Bulk deletions
- [LCGUTIL-425] - srm-ifce KeepAlive is not honored
- [LCGUTIL-439] - Missing abort function for gfal2
- [LCGUTIL-440] - stop perf markers callback when transferred_bytes == filesize
- [LCGUTIL-326] - GFAL 2.0: Map Davix Checksum support to GFAL 2.0
- [LCGUTIL-347] - gfla2 lfc plugin: set serrno to 0 before readdir calls
- [LCGUTIL-353] - HTTP plugin does not clean up destination on failure
- [LCGUTIL-354] - GFAL2.0 : srm segfault problem related to GFAL 2.0
- [LCGUTIL-403] - gfal2 segfault when reading dir via srm
- [LCGUTIL-406] - symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/gfal2-plugins//libgfal_plugin_xrootd.so: undefined symbol: _ZN14XrdPosixXrootd8setDebugEi
- [LCGUTIL-417] - gfal-copy return success when there is some error in the plugin
- [LCGUTIL-460] - Issue with gfalFS and gridftp endpoints

## Wed Feb 26 2014 Adrien Devresse <adevress at cern.ch> - 2.5.5-1
- [LCGUTIL-40] - GFAL 2.0 : implement lfc logic that allows third party copy logic with SRM
- [LCGUTIL-268] - gfal2 returns no error when proxy is invalid
- [LCGUTIL-290] - Problems with dates in gfalFS
- [LCGUTIL-295] - GridFTP plugin returns the full path when listing an empty directory
- [LCGUTIL-284] - LFC registration (as 3rd party copy) should perform some validations
- [LCGUTIL-286] - GFAL2 doesn't support multiple BDII
- [LCGUTIL-287] - If LFC_HOST is not specified, it should be looked in the BDII
- [LCGUTIL-288] - Implement readdirpp directly in plugins that support it
- [LCGUTIL-46] - GFAL 2.0 : find a workaround for non posix file information that are not mapped to xattr
- [LCGUTIL-267] - gfal2 checksum doesn't work for local files
- [LCGUTIL-285] - Add gsiftp meta-data cache

## Fri Dec 06 2013 Alejandro Alvarez <aalvarez at cern.ch> - 2.4.8-0
- [LCGUTIL-216] - Checksum comparison must ignore heading '0'
- [LCGUTIL-220] - gfal2 crashes with SIGSEGV sometimes on bringonline
- [LCGUTIL-222] - Timeout doesn't seem to be honored
- [LCGUTIL-236] - Segfault inside GridFTP_Request_state::~GridFTP_Request_state
- [LCGUTIL-248] - GFAL 2.0 : Recent platform with recent glib2 version triggers "GLib-WARNING" in some case
- [LCGUTIL-255] - unlink on a dir returns ERR 22 (Invalid arg)
- [LCGUTIL-278] - seg fault - setxattr() in local files
- [LCGUTIL-297] - gfal2 perf markers 0 must be treated as no markers and respect timeout
- [LCGUTIL-160] - gfal2 needs to search the cache first (then BDII) if submitter not providing full srm url
- [LCGUTIL-217] - SRM plugin should allow empty checksums on source
- [LCGUTIL-303] - EOS GridFTP implementation does not return 'EEXIST' error properly
- [LCGUTIL-226] - Partial listing of directory to avoid loading too much the server
- [LCGUTIL-233] - GridFTP plugin should allow to skip the source checksum

## Tue Jul 02 2013 Adrien Devresse <adevress at cern.ch> - 2.3.0-0
- [LCGUTIL-99] gfal2_cancel crashes gfal2 if called twice
- [LCGUTIL-135] GFAL 2.0 : Migrate the http plugin support for PEM from the old manual one to the new Davix one
- [LCGUTIL-143] GFAL 2.0 : Regression bug of the stat() call against the dcache instance
- [LCGUTIL-145] GridFTP plugin tries to delete the destination when getting the source checksum fails (!)
- [LCGUTIL-147] GFAL 2.0 : bug on the session re-use mechanism
- [LCGUTIL-165] GFAL 2.0 : enable HTTP/Webdav support by default, packaged on EPEL with davix
- [LCGUTIL-179] manpage-section-mismatch
- [LCGUTIL-141] GFAL 2 : add a flag in the gsiftp standard option in order to allow the gsiftp redirection, this is needed for the DPM gsiftp redirection mechanism
- [LCGUTIL-51]  GFAL 2.0 : implement the last missing operation : srm_mv logic for file renaming
- [LCGUTIL-144] GFAL 2.0 : Update all functional test for a post-EMI usage
- First version fully compatible with a standard FTS 3.0 release
- Minor error correction from coverity  report
- bug fixes related to gridFTP thread safety for meta-data operations.

## Thu Jul 02 2013 Michail Salichos <msalicho at cern.ch> - 2.2.2-11
- pass gfal2 to coverity and fix minor issues reported

## Mon Jun 10 2013 Michail Salichos <msalicho at cern.ch> - 2.2.2-10
- fixed memory leaks and variables initialization
- moved event exit message outside try-catch block
- fix potential crash when can't resolve IP from hostname
- LCGUTIL-142: gfal2_context_t wrapped in shared_ptr to avoid early destruction

## Thu Jun 06 2013 Michail Salichos <msalicho at cern.ch> - 2.2.2-6
- log IP and port of gridftp server in IPv4/IPv6 compatible way

## Thu May 27 2013 Michail Salichos <msalicho at cern.ch> - 2.2.2-5
- log IP and port of gridftp server

## Thu May 16 2013 Michail Salichos <msalicho at cern.ch> - 2.2.2-1
- replace gridftp exists with mlst

## Wed Mar 20 2013 Adrien Devresse <adevress at cern.ch> - 2.2.0-0
- fix thread safety issue with gsiftp plugin
- add the bring online API
- support for the http plugin by default
- remove executable stack need
- remove openMP dependency
- add synchronous cancellation API
- add gsiftp performance marker timeout
- support for srm session reuse
- reduce memory footprint

## Thu Jan 10 2013 Adrien Devresse <adevress at cern.ch> - 2.1.1-0
- fix a minor memory issue with the gfal_transfer stack
- fix a wrong error report problem with srm third party copy

## Wed Dec 05 2012 Adrien Devresse <adevress at cern.ch> - 2.1.0-2
- fix an issue this surl to turl resolution for SRM third party copy

## Fri Nov 30 2012 Adrien Devresse <adevress at cern.ch> - 2.1.0-0
- One-globus session system for gsiftp plugin ( FTS 3.0 need )
- correct a major issue with the gass attribute system in gsiftp plugin
- change the lfc set/get env var for a one compatible with set/get opt
- add set/nb streams option for gsiftp
- add the mkdir rec function for SRM transfer
- correct an issue with opendir and srm_ls ( ENOTDIR error silent )
- correct a memory leak in the cache system
- correct timeout support for gsiftp transfer
- implement tcp buffer size support for gsiftp layer
- apply a correction on the SRM over-write logic, linked to a BeStMan errcode problem on File Not Found with srmRm ( EOS )
- apply a fix on the transfer gsiftp timeout ( protection against multiple cancel )
- fix for SRM filesize problem ( defined to 0, workaround ) related to globus 426 error bad filesize
- secure the callback system for globus gass timeout
- base implementation of the http plugin
- improve reliability of the bdii resolution
- add a fallback mechanism in case of bdii bad resolution
- correct several race conditions in the bdii layer
- add thread safe support for set/get variables in liblfc
- correct a deadlock problem with globus and gisftp plugin
- implement the mkdir_rec logic for general purpose
- implement the parent folder creation logic with gridftp
- add support for lfc://host/path URL style for the lfc plugin
- switch off_t to 64bits size by default ( _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64)
- provide a "nobdii" like option
- provide the choice of turl protocol resolution for srm plugin


## Fri Jul 20 2012 Adrien Devresse <adevress at cern.ch> - 2.0.0-1
- Official initial release candidate of gfal 2.0
- Transfer API is official
- gridftp support for performance marker, checksum
- gridftp support for gridftpv2, dcau param
- SRM support for spacetoken in transfer
- SRM abort auto-management
- parallel operations in transfers
- file protocol dedicated in a plugin
- configuration file support
- srm timeout support
- general purpose checksum operation support
- POSIX operation support for gridftp
- cleaner plugin API
- new documentation
- I hope that you will enjoy gfal 2.0 :)

## 2.0.0-0.10
- effective set/get opt support for lfc/srm/gsiftp
- checksum calculation management
- auto-check functionality on transfer
- support for user-defined checksum
- performance marker implementation for SRM/GSIFTP

## 2.0.0-0.9
- Without environment variable design implemented
- add set/get option calls
- add SRM src/dst spacetoken management for gfal transfer
- re-factor properly gfal-transfer and gfal2_context_t
- generate a new clean documentation with log/transfer/context support
- allow direct modification of the internal posix context
- fix memory leak with gsiftp error report


## 2.0.0-0.8
- big improvement on the gridftp support
- split the headers files properly
- remove the carriage return from the gridftp error messages
- add plugin dedicaded API.
- refactor the parameter management for the transfer library
- add the "transfer replace" logic for the transfer library ( FTS 3.0 requirement )
- add logger system based on the glib log system ( ARC requirement )
- correct memory leaks and a session-reuse memory corruption for gridftp
- improve gridFTP global speed with request optimisations.
- remove the old config/parameters system for the posix library.
- add several functional tests for the new features.
- add SRM to X and X to SRM modes to the SRM plugin ( FTS 3.0 requirement )

## 2.0.0-0.7
- major improvement for third party transfer
- initial gridftp support
- begin to switch to configuration without env var

## 2.0.0-0.6
- initial tagged release
