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Today, the Globus Alliance announce that version 4.0 of the Globus Toolkit (GT4) is now available for download. 4.0 is the newest stable release of GT and, due to an extended testing cycle, represents a major advance in toolkit quality. Relevant links for GT4 include: - Release notes: http://www-unix.globus.org/toolkit/releasenotes/4.0.0/ - Download: http://www-unix.globus.org/toolkit/downloads/4.0.0/ - Documentation: http://www-unix.globus.org/toolkit/docs/4.0/ GT4 includes numerous enhancements since 3.2: - Full-featured, state-of-the-art Web service hosting environments for Java, Python and C - Enables the development of WSRF and WS compliant client and server applications - An improved WSS-compliant security infrastructure with an extensible authorization framework - A new GRAM implementation optimized for flexibility, stability and scalability - A new and improved GridFTP server - Significant stability and scalability improvements in RFT, RLS and GRAM - An updated version of OGSA-DAI that allows access to data via WSRF mechanisms - Improved Information Services infrastructure - Improved and extended documentation - Several usability improvements, including better error reporting and installer enhancements - Enhanced cross-platform support, thanks in part to our use of the NMI GRIDS Center build/test system Other important details: - GT4 includes a mechanism to collect usage statistics: http://www-unix.globus.org/toolkit/docs/4.0/Usage_Stats.html - This release is covered by an Apache-derived open source license: http://www-unix.globus.org/toolkit/license.html - The GT website has also been updated with a new look & feel: http://www-unix.globus.org/toolkit/ - Interesting GT4-based projects are already forming, such as http://hdl.handle.net/4263537/5018