Announcement of new CTA public release: 5.11.10.0-1

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New CTA public release

Dear CTA community,

We have made available a new version of CTA in our stable repo:

This version of CTA was deployed in production at CERN during this week.

When upgrading from a previous CTA release

  • If setting up CTA for the first time, or upgrading from a version 5.11.x.y-z:
    • Version 5.11.10.0-1 can be installed directly. Depending on the version previously installed, new configurations may be required.
  • If upgrading from an older CTA version (5.10.x.y-z):
    • First, install 5.11.0.1-1. This version is required to upgrade the CTA Catalogue version from 14.0 to 15.0
    • After the CTA Catalogue schema migration is complete, the installation of version 5.11.10.0-1 can be done.

Installation instructions:

Important:

  • These, and any other CTA releases, should be first tested in a safe environment before deploying into your production environment.

EDIT (03/07/2025):

As mentioned in a comment by jleduc, the RPM cta-fst-gcd has been removed from the CTA repository.
It has been moved internally to the CTA ops repository, as a standalone RPM, but not yet made publicly available (it will be made available in the next few months).
In the meanwhile, you can use the last stable version of this RPM on your EOS FSTs. Its logic is still exactly the same:

  • cta-fst-gcd-5.11.2.0-1.el9.x86_64.rpm

More info can be found in the CTA dev issue:

EDIT (08/07/2025):

We have made available a new patch release of CTA in our stable repo:

This version of CTA is identical to 5.11.10.1-1, with the addition of a fix that allows the cta-admin command to work with any arbitrary Disk File ID strings: #1209

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Hi Team,

I am working at RAL and we are trying to upgrade our DEV instance EOS to 5.3.10-1 and CTA to 5.11.10.0-1.
While EOS Upgrade we got the following error message and we couldn’t find this rpm in the repository.

Error Message:
“These packages with these versions don’t seem to exist in any configured repositories. 1 wanted packages with wildcards: cta-fst-gcd-5.11.10.0-1.el9.x86_64”

Could you please place cta-fst-gcd-5.11.10.0-1.el9.x86_64 (5.11.10.0-1 version) in the stable repository.

Thanks and Regards,
Maha

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Hello Maha,
cta-fst-gcd has been removed from CTA repository: see Move `cta-fst-gcd` from cta to ctaops repository (#1118) · Issues · cta / CTA · GitLab

It is now in ctaops repository as a standalone rpm: I am just not sure how you can get it.
In the meantime you can use the last stable available version of this rpm on your EOS FSTs: cta-fst-gcd-5.11.2.0-1.el9.x86_64.rpm

Sorry for the inconvenience.
Best regards,
Julien Leduc

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Hi Julien,

Thank you! We installed using cta-fsd-gcd-5.11.2

Thanks and Regards,
Maha