| Taverna 2.5.4 Server Release Notes |
| ================================== |
| |
| This is the fourth public release of Taverna 2.5 Server. We welcome feedback |
| on both the things that are there and the things that are not. |
| |
| Key Features |
| ------------ |
| * Runs arbitrary Taverna 2 workflows |
| * Based on Taverna 2.5 Workflow Engine |
| * Includes support for Components and Interaction processors |
| * REST and SOAP interfaces |
| * All functionality available through both interfaces |
| * Manages files for workflows |
| * Make files, read files, delete files |
| * Create subdirectories, list directory contents |
| * Can download a whole directory structure as a ZIP |
| * Tidies up when workflow runs expire |
| * Expiry time fully configurable |
| * Can force immediate deletion of a workflow run |
| * Generates Run Bundles |
| * Contains formal description of the workflow run, designed for |
| sharing, including the inputs, outputs and provenance trace |
| * Security |
| * Encrypted communication supported |
| * Multiple users |
| * Users isolated from each other (via sudo) |
| * Workflows isolated from server |
| * Users may grant access to other users |
| * Specify credentials for workflows to access back-end services |
| * Notification framework |
| * Inform users when workflows terminate |
| * Many protocols: Atom feed, email, SMS, Twitter, Jabber |
| * Management interface |
| * Administrative access to all server's tunable parameters |
| * Authenticated web interface, JMX |
| * Usage monitoring/accounting |
| * General quality improvements |
| * Improved speed |
| * Improved robustness |
| * State can persist over (limited) server restarts |
| * Improved installation |
| * Self-contained server package |
| * Support for transfer of large data files |
| |
| Significant Changes |
| ------------------- |
| * Supports full Taverna 2.5.0 Enterprise execution platform |
| * Now requires Java 7 |
| |
| Planned Future Features |
| ----------------------- |
| * Support for Cluster Deployment |
| * Full WebDAV access to run working directory |
| |
| Specific Issues Addressed in This Release |
| ----------------------------------------- |
| See http://www.mygrid.org.uk/dev/issues/browse/TAVSERV |
| |
| TAVSERV-5 Need to detect interactive localworkers |
| TAVSERV-76 Support user-supplied functionality |
| TAVSERV-283 Invocation is spelt as invokation in the admin interface |
| TAVSERV-293 A HEAD or OPTIONS to the wsdl address returns a 500 error |
| TAVSERV-301 Interaction feed address is not a full URI |
| TAVSERV-309 Failure in getRunOutputDescription SOAP operation |
| TAVSERV-310 Support OPTIONS in main interface |
| ---- 2.5.0 release ---- |
| TAVSERV-219 Some server errors are reported as 403 when 500 is more |
| appropriate |
| TAVSERV-290 Support restricting what URLs to use workflows from |
| TAVSERV-307 Users created through the admin web interface are not properly |
| set up in "insecure" mode |
| TAVSERV-321 Interaction service internal bug |
| TAVSERV-322 Atom feed updated timestamp being rounded down |
| TAVSERV-325 Can't create run with long default name |
| TAVSERV-326 Log concatenation |
| TAVSERV-328 An OPTIONS request to any resource produces incorrect headers |
| ---- 2.5.1 release ---- |
| TAVSERV-42 Provenance: Access and Lifetime |
| TAVSERV-44 Managing Workflow Instances |
| TAVSERV-69 Provenance: core |
| TAVSERV-297 Running instance of Taverna Server 2.4.1 hangs after a while; |
| submitting a new workflow using REST API results in "HTTP 403 |
| Permission denied" |
| ---- 2.5.2 release ---- |
| TAVSERV-329 Master feed broken |
| TAVSERV-332 Massively degraded performance of 2.5.2 |
| ---- 2.5.3 release ---- |
| Updated to use Taverna 2.5.0 Enterprise Execution Core |
| TAVSERV-103 Generated WSDL interface incorrectly claims that parameters are |
| optional |
| TAVSERV-331 Add an option for the provenance export using the new -provbundle |
| command line tool switch |
| TAVSERV-336 Support splitting inputs |
| TAVSERV-337 RMI registry subprocess race condition |
| SERVINF-395 Fix race condition in XML parsing |
| ---- 2.5.4 release ---- |
