Merge branch 'f-grpc-main' into f-grpc-dev

.gitignore

@@ -44,3 +44,7 @@ __pycache__
 
 # Documentation binaries
 src/doc/development/api/xml/*.jar
+
+
+# data directories
+CaosDBFileSystem

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -9,6 +9,20 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Added
 
+### Changed
+
+### Deprecated
+
+### Removed
+
+### Fixed
+
+### Security
+
+## [v0.5.0] - 2021-10-19
+
+### Added
+
 * An openAPI specification of the XML api
 * New server configuration option `SERVER_BIND_ADDRESS`, which is the address to listen to. See [server.conf](conf/core/server.conf).
 

DEPENDENCIES.md

-* caosdb-mysqlbackend == 4.1.0
+* caosdb-mysqlbackend == 5.0.0
 * Java 11
 * Apache Maven >= 3.6.0
 * make >= 4.2.0
-- easy-units >= 0.0.1    https://gitlab.com/timm.fitschen/easy-units
+* More dependencies are being pulled and installed automatically by Maven. See the complete list of dependencies in the [pom.xml](pom.xml)

README_SETUP.md

@@ -59,6 +59,11 @@ installed and the pam user tool must be compiled:
 - If you want, you can run a test now: `./pam_authentication.sh asdf ghjk`
   should print `[FAILED]` and return with a non-zero exit code.  Unless there is
   a user `asdf` with password `ghjk` on your system, of course.
+- If you want to run the CaosDB server without root privilege, you need to use
+  the setuid bit for the binary. For example, if the user `caosdb` runs the
+  server process the permissions of `bin/pam_authentication` should be the
+  following:
+  `-rwsr-x--- 1 root caosdb  pam_authentication`
 
 ##### Troubleshooting ####
 If `make` fails with `pam_authentication.c:4:31: fatal error:

caosdb-webui @ 8e5799db

-Subproject commit c2dc8e9e9e0517ee7fb0d280717211a015906f64
+Subproject commit 8e5799db53b853b06a51a3bd250daeb9c779eee5

conf/core/server.conf

@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ USER_SOURCES_INI_FILE=./conf/ext/usersources.ini
 NEW_USER_DEFAULT_ACTIVITY=INACTIVE
 # If set to true, unauthenticated access to the database is possible with an anonymous user.
 AUTH_OPTIONAL=FALSE
+#AUTH_OPTIONAL=TRUE
 
 # --------------------------------------------------
 # MySQL settings
@@ -77,6 +78,8 @@ MYSQL_SCHEMA_VERSION=v5.0
 # The context root is a prefix which allows running multiple instances of CaosDB using the same
 # hostname and port. Must start with "/".
 CONTEXT_ROOT=
+#CONTEXT_ROOT=/caosdb
+
 # Server bind/host address, which is the address to listen to. Set to blank, or
 # 0.0.0.0 in IPv4, to listen to all. Set to 127.0.0.1 to make it available to
 # localhost only.
@@ -166,7 +169,8 @@ ADMIN_EMAIL=
 BUGTRACKER_URI=
 
 # If set to true MySQL stores transaction benchmarks for all SQL queries. Used for benchmarking and debugging.
-TRANSACTION_BENCHMARK_ENABLED=true
+TRANSACTION_BENCHMARK_ENABLED=FALSE
+#TRANSACTION_BENCHMARK_ENABLED=TRUE
 # Location of the configuration file for the CaosDB cache.
 CACHE_CONF_LOC=./conf/core/cache.ccf
 # Set this option to true to lobally disable caching. Used for debugging.
@@ -174,6 +178,7 @@ CACHE_DISABLE=false
 
 # The server is allowed to create symlinks to files and folders within this whitelist of directories.
 INSERT_FILES_IN_DIR_ALLOWED_DIRS=
+#INSERT_FILES_IN_DIR_ALLOWED_DIRS=/data/caosdb,/fileserver01/caosdb
 
 # Sudo password of the system.
 # Needed by the drop off box to set file permissions.

pom.xml

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.caosdb</groupId>
   <artifactId>caosdb-server</artifactId>
-  <version>0.5.0-GRPC0.0.20</version>
+  <version>0.5.1-GRPC0.0.20</version>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
   <name>CaosDB Server</name>
   <scm>

src/doc/conf.py

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ author = 'Daniel Hornung'
 # The short X.Y version
 version = '0.5'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
-release = '0.5.0-SNAPSHOT'
+release = '0.5.1-SNAPSHOT'
 
 
 # -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------