Mihai:

- Gfal2 v2.21.0 released (8th of July 2022) -- bring full support for Tape REST API
- FTS v3.12.0 released (14th of July 2022) -- brings support for /Archiveinfo and /Release operations in FTS

- The FTS team has the following tape-rest-api tests: fts-scripts/tape-rest-api
- The testsuite requires python3-gfal2 v1.12.0 + gfal2 v2.21.0 (found in DMC production repos)
- Running the testsuite:

$ export TAPE_ENDPOINT=<url-to-test-endpoint-directory> # example: https://ctadevfts.cern.ch:8444/eos/ctaeos/preprod/gfal2_tests/
$ export TEST_FILE=<url-to-test-file> # example: file:///tmp/file.1mb
$ python3 -m pytest test_*.py

- Running against the CTA endpoint passed all tests
- Individual tape commands have been run against the dCache endpoint. At the time, the endpoint was using real tape, so there was no point in running the test suite. The report has been written here: CodiMD

P.V. notes

• dCache file release and staging operations should now work (bad request routing configuration in the past)
• regular tests can't be run with real tape backend because of latency for operations with real tape