Release notes for version 5.16/00-PROOF.00

• New version of XROOTD
  • Support for multistream
  • Several enhancements in the olbd contro network, in particular about staging
  • Several bug fixes
• PROOF kernel
  • Added functionality to broadcast group priorities
  • Improved determination of the query initialization time
  • Extended support for processing data sets 'by name' also to drawing operations (TProof::DrawSelect).
  • Added support for entry-lists
  • Bug fixes:
    • Fix a synchronization problem after a worker fatal error
    • In TProof::CreateDataSet, fix de-synchronization problem due to incorrect number of calls to Collect.
• XrdProofd layout
  • Add support for multi-user mode for non-privileged daemons
  • Export the ROOT version tag to proofserv as ROOTVERSIONTAG; available to package builder scripts.
  • Bug fixes:
    • Fix problem affecting the creation of the dataset dirs when the type of the server is 'any'
    • Fix a problem affecting the setting of the dataset dir when the directive xpd.datasetdir was not specified
    • Add protection against sending process ID 0 to kill()
    • Fx a problem with version setting on the worker nodes.
    • Better registration of users of the default group

-- GerardoGanis - 31 Jul 2007