The Argus 1.2 release fixes some bugs and implement some new features.

PAP features:

• The pap-admin CLI now implements the obligation management commands 'add-obligation' and 'remove-obligation'. These commands can be used to add/remove obligations to/from existing policies.
• The pap-admin CLI add-policy command now supports the creation of policy containing obligations at resource or action scope.

PEP daemon features:

• The group mapfile now allows DN and FQAN based group names mapping.
• The gridmap POSIX account mapping obligation handler now handles DN and FQAN based account mapping. DN based mapping is preferred upon FQAN based mapping (configurable).
• The gridmap files now support FQAN pattern matching as described in EGEE document https://edms.cern.ch/file/975443/1/EGEE-III-JRA1_FQAN_wildcard_v1.1.pdf
• A new generic grid authorization profile PIP handles both the Grid CE v1.0 and Grid WN v1.0 authorization profiles.

What's new

• Fixed some problems in the new BLAH blparser for which in some cases jobs were wrongly reported as "lost" (done with reason 999)
• Addressed a performance problem affecting the proxy renewal operation
• PBS submission script created by BLAH is now compliant with newer versions of Torque wrt stagein/stageout directives (-W option)
• CREAM sandbox dir is now relocatable also at yaim level
• Other bug fixes

L&B 2.1 is an evolution of L&B 2.0

What's new

• IPv6 compliance
• Adoption of the common logging format
• Collection aware purging
• WebService interface supporting basic AGU / Glue 2.0
• Advanced authorization with unified configuration
• Elementary native support for CREAM jobs
• Ability to log sandbox transfer progress as a specific job type
• Configuration tuned to allow collocation with WMS
• Job rate and state transition time statistics