• The 6th dCache workshop which took place at DESY/Zeuthen close to Berlin, April 17-19, 2012 was a great success.
• WLCG Collaboration workshop was organized by dCache.org at DESY in July 11-13, 2011. (Video Recordings)
• EMI 1 (Kebnekaise) released. Kebnekaise
• Great success : 5th dCache workshop in Göttingen, 16/17 March, 2011
• dCache Articles
• European Middleware Initiative, EMI started May 2010. Factsheet
• Security
  • dCache.org is introducing a new mailing list :
    security at dcache dot org dCache user should report problems or bugs to this list if there is the suspicion that the issue is security related or if the report may contain confidential information. (e.g. passwords). Only a very restricted number of people have access to this particular mailing list.
• Newletters and announcements.
• Chimera
  Chimera is the preferred name space abstraction for dCache. It is a thin layer on top of a relation database (preferrably PostgreSQL). In contrast to PNFS it is platform independent, scalable, and fully embedded in dCache. By now, most dCache Tier I sites as well as many Tier II sites have migrated to Chimera. PNFS itself is no longer maintained, although dCache does still support using PNFS as a backend. We recommend all sites to upgrade to Chimera as soon as possible. Please study the migration instructions and give it a try. You can evaluate the entire migration procedure in a safe test environment. More information is available from our documentation area.
• The dCache wiki : In addition to the Book, we offer a wiki were you may find some more helpful information. Check the link to find out on how you can contribute to the wiki with advise, documentation or tools.

The dCache project uses timeboxing to manage the release process. A new feature release is made every three months. These are maintained for four months during which bug fix releases are made. Once a year in spring a long term support release is made - we call these golden releases. These are maintained for at least two years.

Currently there are three supported Golden Releases.

• The latest Golden Release, dCache 2.6 will be supported until April 2015.
• The previous Golden Release, dCache 2.2 will be supported until April 2014.
• The Golden Release 1.9.12 and will be supported until August 2013.

• 2.6 Golden Release IV was released primo May 2013
  Supported until April 2015.
  Highlights include:
  • NFS with ACL and read-only exports
  • webadmin pages with all their improvements are default
  • xrootd and http movers use less resources on pools
  • StAR records update
  • prototype of JSON API
  • new command to find out file locality
• 2.5 was released in January 2013
  Supported until June 2013.
  Highlights include:
  • Support for certificates with SHA1 checksum
  • Switch to JGlobus2
  • Added external service notification on missing files
  • Alarms service with web page
• 2.2 Golden Release III
  Supported until April 2014.
  Highlights include:
  • gPlazma 1 implemented as a plugin for gPlazma2
  • Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) based password authentication
  • Default partition type in the PoolManager is WAAS
  • NFSv4.1 door shows some statistic information
  • Added renaming to FTP implementation
  • Added support for change mode, owner and group of a directory tag
  • SRM always listen for SSL connections
  • Added login monitoring to gPlazma2
• 1.9.12 Golden Release II
  • Supported until August 2013.
  • The ultimate dCache Golden Release upgrade guide by Gerd (NDGF).
  • GLUE 2 support.
  • New pin manager.
  • HTTP support for third party srmCopy transfers.
  • Proxy certificate and VOMS support in the HTTP/WebDAV door.
  • Reduced file open latency.
  • gPlazma 2 with ARGUS black listing.
• All other releases are deprecated and are no longer supported by dcache.org.