******************* This email originates from outside Imperial. Do not click on links and attachments unless you recognise the sender. If you trust the sender, add them to your safe senders list https://spam.ic.ac.uk/SpamConsole/Senders.aspx to disable email stamping for this address. ******************* Dear All, I just wanted to give a brief update on how the upgrade is going. The upgrade initially seemed to go smoothly, however after a while we discovered an issue with proxy renewals on ARC-CEs (HTCondorCEs are unaffected). We are currently debugging this and trying to apply a patch. As this is a major upgrade, previous UI installs are unlikely to fully work. We have updated the instructions at https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Quick_Guide_to_Dirac#Dirac_client_installation Note that at the moment you need to install the specified version of diracos *and* the specified version of DIRAC for it to work. Sorry for the inconvenience. Regards, Daniela On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 at 12:22, Daniela Bauer <daniela.bauer.grid@googlemail.com> wrote:
Dear All,
This is an advance warning that we are planning the next major version (v7.3 -> v8.0) upgrade of the GridPP DIRAC instance (https://dirac.gridpp.ac.uk) on Wednesday July 5th. This is necessary to prepare for the x509 to token transition (see [1] if you are interested, but note that this will not impact end users until ~2025) and as the version we are using will go out of support in the foreseeable future.
What does this mean for you ? As this is a major upgrade we cannot guarantee that jobs that are in a non-final state will survive, though we will try. If there is something that is very dear to you, you might want to ensure it has finished before we start. The upgrade will proceed in the following order: - Server upgrade - Web interface upgrade - cvmfs UI upgrade - cloud interface (in case of problems only) v8.0 is a python3 only release. No python-2 UIs will be supported. If this poses a problem for you, please let us (or even better the list) know and we will try to help. We have tested the new release version extensively on our various pre-prod servers, so we do not expect any major problems. The upgrade will start at 11:00 am and we expect the server to be back within the hour, but the upgrade of the other components might take longer. We will keep the list updated on our progress.
If you are maintaining your own DIRAC UI you will need to upgrade your UI afterwards, as unfortunately for a major release change there is no backwards compatibility. The upgrade procedure will not be significantly different to any previous DIRAC UI installs you may have done. We will supply instructions as usual. Note that you cannot pre-emptively upgrade your UI, so please don't try ;-)
Please let me know if you have any questions and/or if this date is the worst possible date for the upgrade we could have picked.
Regards, Daniela & Simon
[1] https://indico.jlab.org/event/459/contributions/11492/attachments/9358/13998...
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