New Features in XALT

Support for tracking executables in apptainer containers

(xalt-3.2+): XALT now builds libraries safe to run in apptainer containers. Use –with-containerSupport=yes and have podman in path. Use –with-containerSupport=no to disable.

Changing UUID to use version 7:

(xalt-3.1.5+): XALT now uses version 7 of uuid. This means that the generated uuid are now time ordered.

Changing to pymysql python module:

(xalt-3.1.5+): XALT now uses the pymysql python module because the mysql.connector does not work with python 3.12+

Controlling installed permission:

(xalt-2.10.43+): XALT now uses your umask to set permissions unless your user id (id -u) is less than UID_MIN (from /etc/login.defs) or UID_MIN=1000 otherwise. In that case, it uses a umask of 022. This translates to 755 for executable files and 644 for all others. Sites can override this at configure time with –with-mode=MODE.

Controlling subdirectories to store XALT data:

(xalt-2.10.43+): XALT create a prime number of directories named 000 to 996 where the json result files are written. A user installing XALT can turn off the creation of prime number subdirectories by setting –with-primeNumber=0 to create a flat file hierarchy during configure command. Note that this is not an optimal way to keep thousands of files in a single directory.