xrootd/xrootd: v5.8.0

New Features [CMake] XRootDConfig.cmake now defines XRootD_BIN_DIR variable (#2432) [CMake] XRootDConfig.cmake now defines XRootD_DEFINITIONS variable (#2369) [CMake] XRootDConfig.cmake now exports library targets (#2415) [Server] Add generic interface to report summary values for monitoring (XrdMonitor) [Server] Add stat flag to indicate a cached stat response (#2435) [Server] Allow bypass of mtime check to declare a checksum as stale (#2338) [XrdCeph] Merge back features and bug fixes developed at RAL (#2342) [XrdCl] Add support for IPv4 mapped IPv6 addresses (#2422) [XrdCl] Improve client performance when using multiple streams (#1938) [XrdHttp] Add new http.staticheader directive to configure static HTTP headers (#2389) [XrdHttp] Send Age header for cached files in GET and HEAD requests (#2349, #2437) [XrdOssStats] New OSS statistics/monitoring plugin (#2279) [XrdPfc] New ResourceMonitor and PurgePlugin for XCache (#2436, slides) [XrdTpcTPC] Indicate to the oss layer which kind of HTTP TPC operation is performed (open) (#2427, #2429)

Major bug fixes [XrdPfc] Fix segmentation fault under load (#2420, #2421)

Minor bug fixes [Server] XRootD drops poller events on macOS (#2212) [XrdCl/Server] Replace mistakenly used kXR_mkdir with kXR_mkpath (#2393) [XrdCl] Fix URL parsing to not accept invalid parameters (#1960) [XrdHttp] Quote the resource when handling a redirect (#2430) [XrdNet] Fix name resolution for long hostnames seen in Kubernetes (#2307) [XrdNet] Fix xrootd.pmark defsfile directive (#2449) [XrdPfc] Fix usage of saveptr in strtok_r used by PathTokenizer (#2455) [XrdPosix] Fix XrdPosix headers when called in C context (#2424) [XrdPosix] Fixes for XrdPosix on macOS (#2434) [XrdPosix] Return entry type DT_UNKNOWN in XrdPosixDir::nextEntry() (#2347) [XrdScheduler] Add control of NPROC limit reset (#2396, #2407) [xrdfs] Disallow renaming a directory into a subdirectory of itself (#2250)

Miscellaneous [CI] Add Ubuntu builds on ARM 64bit to GitHub Actions [CMake] Remove builtin isa-l library from repository [RPM] Drop support for CentOS 7 in xrootd.spec [RPM] Use sysusers.d config file for creating the xrootd system user (#2433) [Tests] Add new concurrent upload stress test for HTTP protocol (#2408) [XrdHttp] Add trailing slash to directories in listing (#2428) [XrdTpcTPC] Adapt packet marking to fit the new specifications (#2322, #2359)