2025.02.10

Slides can be found here.

• V4.4.5 Release Updates
  • Testing completed
  • Next steps:
    • Create a tag for v4.4.5
    • Create docker images
• V4.4.5 Changes (see the list in the slides)
  • New features
    • YAML Configuration Support
    • Peer Daemon Advertisement
    • stream_disable configuration command to disable LDMSD Stream communication
  • Expand disallowed characters in set names:
    • Disallowed characters: control characters, double quotes, single quotes, backslash (just added), characters values above 127 ((just added))
    • Deprecate the -t command-line option
  • Behavior changes
    • Allow LDMSD continue startup on producer’s hostname resolution failure
    • Add the producer type to prdcr_status output
  • Various bug fixes and improvement in ldms and plugins
• Q&A:
  • Multi-instance changes
    • Path forward: Tom suggested to merge PR1575 as there are multiple patches of different topics on top of this and to make additional modification afterward
    • Related PRs: PR1324 (First version), PR1575 (Modified PR1324 after discussions between Tom, Narate, and Chris), and PR1600 (Modified 1575)
  • PR1588 (Add AVRO/Serdes support in LDMS Stream)
    • Path forward before merging the PR:
      • Add documentation to the man page that says that the AVRO_SER stream encoding is Convergent Protocol 1
      • Adds an alias to ...AVRO_SER that is ...AVRO_CP1