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Onedata 25.1 Released

Onedata 25.1 is out! This release adds file data replacement and QoS transfer statistics, extends user creation with linked accounts, supports custom sidebar styling, and improves Europeana metadata workflows.

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Smart Data Management and ML-Based Workflow Prediction for Cognitive Compute Continuum in SPICE

New paper: Smart Data Management and ML-Based Workflow Prediction for Cognitive Compute Continuum in SPICE

Read our recent paper, published in the proceedings of KUKDM 2026 in Zakopane (13–15 April 2026).

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Onedata 25.0 Released

Onedata 25.0 is out! This major release introduces Calendar Versioning, adds OpenAIRE and DataCite support for public data, expands OneS3 deployment options, and improves Web GUI performance and scalability.

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Integrated Data, Metadata, and Paradata Management System for 3D Digital Cultural Heritage Objects: Workflow Automation, Federated Authentication, and Publication

New paper: Integrated Data, Metadata, and Paradata Management System for 3D Digital Cultural Heritage Objects: Workflow Automation, Federated Authentication, and Publication

Explore our latest research, published in Future Generation Computer Systems.

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Automated Management of 3D Digital Cultural Heritage Objects in Eureka3D with Onedata

New paper: Automated Management of 3D Digital Cultural Heritage Objects in Eureka3D with Onedata

Discover our recent research, published in the proceedings of KUKDM 2025 in Zakopane (2–4 April 2025).

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Cultural Heritage 3D Object Management with Integrated Automation Workflows

New paper: Cultural Heritage 3D Object Management with Integrated Automation Workflows

Explore our latest research, published in the proceedings of PPAM 2024 in Ostrava (8–11 September 2024).

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Distributed Management and Processing of ALICE Monitoring Data with Onedata

New paper: Distributed Management and Processing of ALICE Monitoring Data with Onedata

Read our recent paper, published in the proceedings of CHEP 2024 in Kraków (19–25 October 2024).

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Onedata 21.02.8 Released

Onedata 21.02.8 is out! This release adds faster share listing with infinite scroll, improves Web GUI navigation and metadata management, and introduces read-only OneS3 tokens and better S3 error handling.

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Onedata 21.02.7 Released

Onedata 21.02.7 is out! This release improves sharing and metadata workflows, adds login screen customization, and provides customizable extended attributes columns in file browser.

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Onedata 21.02.6 Released

Onedata 21.02.6 is out! This release adds OneS3 readiness controls, improves Europeana metadata and public file URLs, introduces storage-health protection, and adds useful file columns in the Web GUI.

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Onedata 21.02.5 Released

Onedata 21.02.5 is out! This release expands S3 import and runtime configuration, improves Open Data and Europeana metadata, and adds Galaxy integration. It also brings the major redesign of the members management view.

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Onedata 21.02.4 Released

Onedata 21.02.4 is out! This release improves ACL and file-list refreshes, adds OneS3 regions and basic authentication, and expands archive statistics, automation dashboards, exports and token scopes.

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Achieving Decentralized Authority for Collaborative Data Sharing with Consensus

New paper: Achieving Decentralized Authority for Collaborative Data Sharing with Consensus

Discover our latest research, published in the proceedings of IEEE eScience 2023 in Limassol (9–14 October 2023).

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Global Access to Legacy Data-Sets in Multi-Cloud Applications with Onedata

New paper: Global Access to Legacy Data-Sets in Multi-Cloud Applications with Onedata

Explore our recent research, published in the proceedings of PPAM 2022 in Gdańsk (11–14 September 2022).

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Onedata 21.02.3 Released

Onedata 21.02.3 is out! This release improves Oneclient connection recovery, adds authenticated global file URLs and automation trace logs, and enhances WebSocket reconnects and workflow visibility.

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Indexing Legacy Data-Sets for Global Access and Processing in Multi-Cloud Environments

New paper: Indexing Legacy Data-Sets for Global Access and Processing in Multi-Cloud Environments

Discover our latest research, published in Future Generation Computer Systems.

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Onedata 21.02.2 Released

Onedata 21.02.2 is out! This release improves browsing of large spaces with configurable columns and list updates, adds OneS3 remote-block support and service journals, and fixes sharing and event-stream issues.

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Onedata 21.02.1 Released

Onedata 21.02.1 is out! This major release expands automation workflows, archive management, datasets and statistics, while adding Space Marketplace and SMTP support and improving S3, transfers and the Web GUI.

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Towards Open Science with Multi-Cloud Computing Using Onedata

New paper: Towards Open Science with Multi-Cloud Computing Using Onedata

Read our recent paper, published in the proceedings of KomPlasTech 2023 in Zakopane (5–8 March 2023).

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Group Membership Management Framework for Decentralized Collaborative Systems

New paper: Group Membership Management Framework for Decentralized Collaborative Systems

Explore our latest research, published in the Computer Science journal.

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Increasing Data Availability and Fault Tolerance for Decentralized Collaborative Data-Sharing Systems

New paper: Increasing Data Availability and Fault Tolerance for Decentralized Collaborative Data-Sharing Systems

Read our recent paper, published in the proceedings of FedCSIS 2022 in Sofia (4–7 September 2022).

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Onedata 20.02.19 Released

Onedata 20.02.19 is out! This release improves Oneprovider-domain routing and API caveats, and fixes multiple-upload hangs and concurrent file-location errors during getxattr operations.

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Onedata 20.02.18 Released

Onedata 20.02.18 is out! This maintenance release fixes restricted-registration handling on the Web GUI Add cluster page, so provider creation follows the configured registration policy.

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Onedata 20.02.17 Released

Onedata 20.02.17 is out! This release improves restricted-registration handling during token generation and provider deployment, fixes Oneclient dependencies, and hides sensitive storage settings.

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Onedata 20.02.16 Released

Onedata 20.02.16 is out! This release adds EGI COU-group mapping and import filtering, improves the privacy-policy editor, and fixes path-caveat visibility and a Oneclient deadlock.

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Onedata 20.02.15 Released

Onedata 20.02.15 is out! This release introduces support for configurable “Terms of Use” and "Privacy Policy" pages in Web GUI and includes minor fixes.

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Onedata 20.02.14 Released

Onedata 20.02.14 is out! This release adds a privacy-policy page and shows the service name and domain on the Control Panel login screen, making the accessed service easier to identify.

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Onedata 20.02.13 Released

Onedata 20.02.13 is out! This maintenance release fixes an error when accessing proxied space and a current directory rename issue in the Web GUI.

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Onedata 20.02.12 Released

Onedata 20.02.12 is out! This release fixes missing group privileges in the Web GUI and improves conversion of UTF-8 handle metadata to Dublin Core for more reliable metadata exchange.

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New Approach to Global Data Access in Computational Infrastructures

New paper: New Approach to Global Data Access in Computational Infrastructures

Discover our latest research, published in Future Generation Computer Systems.

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Onedata 20.02.11 Released

Onedata 20.02.11 is out! This release adds configurable POSIX UID/GID values for administrator contexts and storage-driver roots, making filesystem identities and permissions easier to align with existing environments.

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The eXtreme-DataCloud Project - Solutions for Data Management Services in Distributed e-Infrastructures

New paper: The eXtreme-DataCloud Project - Solutions for Data Management Services in Distributed e-Infrastructures

Discover our latest research, published in EPJ Web of Conferences.

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Scientific Workflow Management on Hybrid Clouds with Cloud Bursting and Transparent Data Access

New paper: Scientific Workflow Management on Hybrid Clouds with Cloud Bursting and Transparent Data Access

Explore our recent research, published in the proceedings of ICCS 2021 in Kraków (16–18 June 2021).

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Onedata 20.02.10 Released

Onedata 20.02.10 is out! This maintenance release improves CPU affinity for Oneprovider storage-driver threads, helping storage processing remain steadier and more efficient under demanding workloads.

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Onedata 20.02.9 Released

Onedata 20.02.9 is out! This release adds optional file-access audit logging with automatic rotation, giving administrators a practical way to monitor access activity while keeping audit files manageable.

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Onedata 20.02.8 Released

Onedata 20.02.8 is out! This maintenance release fixes file-operation problems that could occur while moving or deleting files, improving reliability in everyday file management workflows.

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Onedata 20.02.7 Released

Onedata 20.02.7 is out! In addition to stability and security improvements, this release introduces public Onezone REST endpoints for shares, improves the reliability of Oneclient, and adds an anonymous principal to ACL.

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Onedata 20.02.6 Released

Onedata 20.02.6 is out! It introduces a visual QoS expression editor, improves copying through the CLI, and adds support for duplicated storage names. Also, support for Python 2 OnedataFS Anaconda packages is dropped.

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Onedata 20.02.5 Released

Onedata 20.02.5 is out! This release improves HTTP storage connections and DNS handling, refines LUMA mappings and timestamps, and adds safer share handling, cancellable cleanup and token-template views.

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Onedata 20.02.4 Released

Onedata 20.02.4 is out! This release adds storage-import progress counters, QoS expression validation and file operation APIs, while improving I/O-proxy fallback, time synchronization and sparse-file handling.

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Onedata 20.02.3 Released

Onedata 20.02.3 is out! This release optimizes memory usage and fixes Web GUI issues in Safari.

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Onedata 20.02.2 Released

Onedata 20.02.2 is out! In addition to stability, security, and UX improvements, it introduces an enhanced API and Web GUI for importing data — the “storage import”, improves transfers perfomance on object storages, and adds support for Archivematica.

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Advancements in Data Management Services for Distributed e-Infrastructures: The eXtreme-DataCloud Project

New paper: Advancements in Data Management Services for Distributed e-Infrastructures: The eXtreme-DataCloud Project

Explore our recent research, published in EPJ Web of Conferences.

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Onedata 20.02.1 Released

The first stable 20.02 release features additional storage backends and read-only support, Quality of Service, and Open Data editors. It brings many performance and stability improvements, as well as powerful APIs and configuration extensions.

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Transparent Data Access for Scientific Workflows across Clouds

New paper: Transparent Data Access for Scientific Workflows across Clouds

Read our latest paper, published in the proceedings of Euro-Par 2019 in Göttingen (26–30 August 2019).

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Harmonizing Sequential and Random Access to Datasets in Organizationally Distributed Environments

New paper: Harmonizing Sequential and Random Access to Datasets in Organizationally Distributed Environments

Discover our recent research, published in the proceedings of ICCS 2019 in Faro (12–14 June 2019).

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Scientific Computing with Application Containers: Onedata and HyperFlow Use Cases

New paper: Scientific Computing with Application Containers: Onedata and HyperFlow Use Cases

Read our latest paper, published in the proceedings of KUKDM 2019 in Zakopane (6–8 March 2019).

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Trust-Driven, Decentralized Data Access Control for Open Network of Autonomous Data Providers

New paper: Trust-Driven, Decentralized Data Access Control for Open Network of Autonomous Data Providers

Discover our recent research, published in the proceedings of PST 2018 in Belfast (28–30 August 2018).

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Metadata Synchronization Protocol for a Decentralized Network of Data Providers

New paper: Metadata Synchronization Protocol for a Decentralized Network of Data Providers

Explore our latest research, published in the proceedings of CGW Workshop 2018 in Kraków (22–24 October 2018).

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Two-Layer Load Balancing for Onedata System

New paper: Two-Layer Load Balancing for Onedata System

Discover our recent research, published in the Computing and Informatics journal.

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Concept of Decentralized Access Control for Open Network of Autonomous Data Providers

New paper: Concept of Decentralized Access Control for Open Network of Autonomous Data Providers

Read our latest paper, published in the proceedings of CGW Workshop 2017 in Kraków (23–25 October 2017).

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Onedata Virtual Filesystem for Hybrid Clouds

New paper: Onedata Virtual Filesystem for Hybrid Clouds

Discover our recent research, published in the proceedings of CS3 2018 in Kraków (29–31 January 2018).

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Towards Transparent Data Access with Context Awareness

New paper: Towards Transparent Data Access with Context Awareness

Explore our latest research, published in the Computer Science journal.

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Consistency Models for Global Scalable Data Access Services

New paper: Consistency Models for Global Scalable Data Access Services

Discover our recent research, published in the proceedings of PPAM 2017 in Lublin (10–13 September 2017).

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Effective and Scalable Data Access Control in Onedata Large Scale Distributed Virtual File System

New paper: Effective and Scalable Data Access Control in Onedata Large Scale Distributed Virtual File System

Read our latest paper, published in the proceedings of ICCS 2017 in Zürich (12–14 June 2017).

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Using Onedata for Global Sharing and Processing of Legacy Large Data Sets

New paper: Using Onedata for Global Sharing and Processing of Legacy Large Data Sets

Explore our latest research, published in the proceedings of KUKDM 2017 in Zakopane (8–10 March 2017).

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Kademlia with Consistency Checks as a Foundation of Borderless Collaboration in Open Science Services

New paper: Kademlia with Consistency Checks as a Foundation of Borderless Collaboration in Open Science Services

Read our recent paper, published in the proceedings of the Young Scientist Conference on Computational Science.

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Onedata – A Data Management Platform Supporting Global Open Science

New paper: Onedata – A Data Management Platform Supporting Global Open Science

Discover our latest research, published in the proceedings of CGW Workshop 2016 in Kraków (24–26 October 2016).

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Metadata Organization and Management for Globalization of Data Access with Onedata

New paper: Metadata Organization and Management for Globalization of Data Access with Onedata

Explore our recent research, published in the proceedings of PPAM 2015 in Kraków (6–9 September 2015).

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Implementation of Open Data at Global Scale in Low-Trust Environment

New paper: Implementation of Open Data at Global Scale in Low-Trust Environment

Discover our latest research, published in the proceedings of KUKDM 2016 in Zakopane (16–18 March 2016).

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Delegation of Authority in a Distributed Data Access System

New paper: Delegation of Authority in a Distributed Data Access System

Discover our latest research, published in the proceedings of CGW Workshop 2015 in Kraków (26–28 October 2015).

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Efficient Storing of Metadata for Distributed Data Management

New paper: Efficient Storing of Metadata for Distributed Data Management

Explore our recent research, published in the proceedings of CGW Workshop 2015 in Kraków (26–28 October 2015).

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Onedata – A Step Forward towards Globalization of Data Access for Computing Infrastructures

New paper: Onedata – A Step Forward towards Globalization of Data Access for Computing Infrastructures

Read our recent paper, published in the proceedings of ICCS 2015 in Reykjavík (1–3 June 2015).

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Two-Level Load Balancing for Onedata

New paper: Two-Level Load Balancing for Onedata

Discover our latest research, published in the proceedings of KUKDM 2015 in Zakopane (11–13 March 2015).

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Globalization of Data Access for Computing Infrastructures

New paper: Globalization of Data Access for Computing Infrastructures

Explore our recent research, published in the proceedings of CGW Workshop 2014 in Kraków (27–29 October 2014).

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Accounting and Monitoring in Distributed Storage Services

New paper: Accounting and Monitoring in Distributed Storage Services

Discover our latest research, published in the proceedings of CGW Workshop 2014 in Kraków (27–29 October 2014).

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Uniform and Efficient Access to Data in Organizationally Distributed Environments

New paper: Uniform and Efficient Access to Data in Organizationally Distributed Environments

Explore our recent research, published in the proceedings of eScience on distributed computing infrastructure and PLGrid Plus services.

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Storage Management Systems for Organizationally Distributed Environments PLGrid PLUS Case Study

New paper: Storage Management Systems for Organizationally Distributed Environments PLGrid PLUS Case Study

Discover our latest research, published in the proceedings of PPAM 2013 in Warsaw (8–11 September 2013).

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Harnessing Organizationally Distributed Data with VeilFS

New paper: Harnessing Organizationally Distributed Data with VeilFS

Explore our recent research, published in the proceedings of KUKDM 2014 in Zakopane (12–14 March 2014).

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On Super Easy Access to Your Data in PL-Grid Infrastructure

New paper: On Super Easy Access to Your Data in PL-Grid Infrastructure

Discover our latest research, published in the proceedings of CGW Grid Workshop 2013 in Kraków (4–6 November 2013).

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