Onedata Documentation

Guides, API references, and examples for building with Onedata.

Release 21.02.8

Release Assets

Release Highlights

  • Share Listing Performance Upgrade — shares views now use infinite scroll for faster and more scalable browsing.
  • Web GUI UX Improvements — improved navigation, loading indicators and resource handling with recently used items support.
  • Share & Metadata Management Enhancements — better handling of share names, Open Data titles and clearer metadata structure.
  • OneS3 Enhancements — added support for read-only tokens and configurable bucket-to-space cache invalidation.
  • Improved Reliability & Safety — circuit breaker mechanism protects services when database storage is nearly exhausted.
  • Better S3 Error Handling — improved diagnostics and handling of errors for S3-based storages.

Full Changelog

  • VFS-10341 (Oneprovider, Onezone) Web GUI: Upgraded EmberJS to v3.16.
  • VFS-10787 (Oneprovider, Onezone) Added a circuit breaker mechanism that disables Oneprovider services when the database is close to running out of disk space.
  • VFS-12083 (Onezone) Web GUI: Enabled copying a token directly from the temporarily opened sidebar.
  • VFS-12137 (Oneprovider, Onezone) Web GUI: Numerous improvements to the storage backend creation form.
  • VFS-12268 (Oneclient, Oneprovider) Enabled support for read-only and interface caveat tokens in OneS3.
  • VFS-12277 (Oneprovider) Web GUI: Changed "basic metadata" naming to "xattrs metadata" (extended attributes) to better differentiate with other custom metadata types (JSON, RDF).
  • VFS-12370 (Oneprovider, Onezone) Web GUI: Changed default views which are opened using tabs, remembering last used resource (eg. space), improved look of main views loading indicators and added recently used space icons.
  • VFS-12372 (Oneclient) Added command line option to ones3 allowing customization of bucket to space mapping invalidation time.
  • VFS-12418 (Oneclient, Oneprovider) Improved error handling for S3 storages.
  • VFS-12469 (Oneprovider, Onezone) Web GUI: Improved UX of managing share name and Open Data title; disabled some operations when user has insufficient privileges for space shares.
  • VFS-12477 (Oneprovider, Onezone) Greatly optimized the listing of Shares in GUI; both the Space's and global view of Shares are now based on an infinite-scroll mechanism.
  • VFS-12482 (Oneprovider) Web GUI: Improved UX of file and share IDs presentation in file details panel.