XRootD Developers Meeting

Wednesday 19 Aug 2026, 19:00 → 21:00 Europe/Zurich

Andrew Hanushevsky (Stanford University/SLAC), Guilherme Amadio (CERN)

19:00 → 19:30 Topics for Discussion

• Next XRootD Collaboration meeting
  • Proposed date: Friday, 18 September 2026 (during the workshop)
• XRootD workshop preparation
• XRootD's official website

19:30 → 20:45 Development

19:30 Issues

• GitHub Issues
• Open bugs and feature requests
• Long-term evolution planning
• Security bug reports

20:00 Pull Requests

• GitHub Pull Requests
• Evolution of client command line tools (gfal replacement) (#2827)
• Implementation of tape REST API in XRootD's client library (#2836)
• XrdSecOIDC plugin for OpenID Connect support (Keycloak, SSO) (#2809)

20:30 Releases

• XRootD 6.2 (September 2026)
  • Native Prometheus monitoring support
  • Streaming checksum support (part 2)
  • XRootD client evolution (tape REST API, new cli tools)
  • Implementation of HTTP third-party copy support in XrdCl
    • Support for tokens in XRootD third-party copy
• XRootD 6.3 (December 2026)
  • New detailed monitoring collector
  • Security plugins for OpenID Connect and SSH key authentication

20:45 → 21:00 A.O.B