Markus Kitsinger

Software Developer and Build Engineer

iRODS Consortium

June 29 - July 2, 2026

iRODS User Group Meeting 2026

Barcelona, Spain

• Accomplishments since UGM2025
• What's next?

Overview

Accomplishments since UGM2025

• iCommands source code merged back into main iRODS git repository.
• Implemented automated linting for Python using ruff.
  • https://github.com/irods/irods_reusable_github_workflows/blob/main/git_ruff.py
• Added support for EL10 and Debian 13.
• Externals dependencies migrated to system packages:
  • CMake
  • fmtlib
  • spdlog
  • nlohmann-json
  • Catch2
  • Redis*
• Added testing environment support for Postgres 17 and MariaDB 11.8.
• Externals build process migrated to distribution-provided compilers.
• Externals packaging migrated from fpm to nFPM.
• Build and packaging consistency sweep for Globus connector.

• Ubuntu 26.04 support.
• Migrate dependency usage to find_package:
  • Boost
  • nanodbc
  • ODBC
  • PAM
• Reduce library soname versioning to major and minor components only.*
• Split iCommands symlinks into a new package.*
• Update mungefs for new CMake versions.
• Flesh out distro_distill.
• Userspace packager update.
• Install libraries in the normal locations on Debian/Ubuntu.
• init.d script for systemd-less environments.
• main() in plugins and libraries to provide build/runtime information.
• Proper CMake target names.
• More splitting up of /var/lib/irods.
• Side-by-side installable database plugins.
• Headers in CMake target sources lists.
• Testing environment improvements.

What's next? (tentative, non-exhaustive)

Thank you!

Questions?