[ZOO-PSC] ZOO-Project 2.1.0 release proposal

[Gérald Fenoy]

Dear PSC members,
I take advantage of the date to wish you all a wonderful New Year 2026!

I come to you today to request your vote on the following motion: 

Releasing a new 2.1.0 version of the ZOO-Project with me as a release manager.

Below is the list of significant changes since version 2.0.0:

  * Add support for the /jobs/{jobId}/results/{outputId} endpoint
  * Force update of the libsodium23 on ubuntu to fix CVE-2025-69277
  * Fix urllib version 2.6.3 to fix CVE-2026-21441, CVE-2025-66418, 
  CVE-2025-66471, CVE-2025-50181, CVE-2025-50182
  * Add profiles as per https://docs.ogc.org/DRAFTS/18-062r3.html#profile-uris
  * Enhanced storage of metadata embedded within a CWL Application Pachage.
  * Type detection for literal data output for proper result access.
  * Use the cwl2ogc Python library for the transactional support and 
  schema definitions for inputs and output.
  * C-API change signature of: printHeaders, printSessionHeaders,
  printAFile, printProcessResponse, printDocument, printRawdataOutput,
  printRawdataOutputs, outputResponse, runGetStatus, invokeCallback,
  setReferenceUrl, printJResult, printJobStatus, printJobList,
  printFilteredJobList, handleDRUError.
  * Introduce the conversion from CWL type to LiteralData in documentation.
  * ZOO-Project-DRU: Bind user to anonymous when no SERVICE_NAMESPACE is 
  defined.
  * Add documentation on how to bind a format key to a schema using the 
  dedicated schemas section from the configuration file.
  * Support CWL Custom Types with their corresponding format from OGC Process
  Description.
  * Support the format key in input/output schema from OGC Process Description.
  * Add the CollectionDB.PrimitiveDataFormats table to the database containing
  the possible formats key values and CWL Custom types.
  * Change the strcuture of CollectionDB.ows_DataDescription to support a
  format reference (data_format_id).
  * Correct support for BoundingBox format in OGC Process Description.
  * Store the zoofpm ip address in the status database to enable tracking
  which zoofpm pod/container is used to run a process.
  * Update GDAL based services to use the validateVRT for VRT used as
  input file to ensure only the allowed paths are accessible.
  * Add an isAllowedPath function to ensure the URL using file:// give
  access only to the defined allowed paths, defined in the allowedPaths key
  from the main section.
  * Update the skaffold.yaml file for easy deployment of the ZOO-Project
  with DRU and CWL support on a local cluster in different flavors
  * Update the ZOO_DEBUG to use color for messages (if stderr is a tty)
  * Update variables naming, including the main configuration file name
  * Update ZOO_DEBUG function to use LOG_MESSAGE_FORMAT to format the
  debug messages, using the iZooLogLevel integer to decide between: DEBUG,
  INFO, WARN, ERROR, FATAL. Comes with it associated --with-log-format option.
  * Store temporary files associated with a run made by an authenticated
  user in a non browsable directory, add a browse service to access these
  files.
  * Remove Miniconda3 from the ZOO-Project-DRU docker image to avoid 
  conflict with shared libraries.
  * Add getServicesNamespacePath, printAFile, handlePackage functions to
  the C-API.
  * Add support for "File" inputs in CWL to be identified as ComplexData
  as defined in the Table 3 of the OGC Best Practice for Earth Observation
  Application Package.
  * Add initial support for /processes/{processId}/package as defined in the
  OGC API - Processes - Part2: Deploy, Replace, Undeploy draft.
  * Ensure the mutable processes cannot be executed syncrhonously.
  * Ensure that the invokeBasicCallback function is used in case the
  service execution failed.
  * Fix issue when multiple filters are used to filter the jobs list.
  * Add support for x-logo in the info object of the OpenAPI.
  * Add keywords in the process description if any are defined in the
  service metadata.
  * Preserve datatype for literal values that should be passed to the
  cwl runner.
  * Expose complex metada information such as author and contributor
  within the process descrition for OGC API - Processes.
  * Support recording metadata and author for processes deployed from CWL.
  * Add gdalmdiminfo and gdalmdimtranslate services
  * Update support for OGC API - Processes - Part 3: Workflows

I include my +1 to the upcimng release;

Best regards,


Gerald Fenoy
gerald.fenoy at geolabs.fr
Chair, ZOO-Project PSC