We are happy to announce the release of Pegasus 5.0.7, which is a minor bug fix release for Pegasus 5.0 branch.

The release can be downloaded from https://pegasus.isi.edu/downloads
This release included improvements such as
- users now to specify an input directory with executables to avoid creating a transformation catalog
- support for SGE clusters in pegasus-init
- support for private tokens while retrieving data from http endpoints
- preference of apptainer executables over singularity
JIRA items
Exhaustive list of features, improvements and bug fixes can be found below.
New Features and Improvements
- [PM-1926] – pegasus should allow users to specify an input directory with executables to avoid creating a TC #2039
- [PM-1888] – Apptainer support #2001
- [PM-1929] – convenient way to associate profiles for a site in properties file #2042
- [PM-1931] – support for local SGE cluster in pegasus-init #2044
- [PM-1933] – support for private-token to curl invocations #2046
- [PM-1936] – CLONE – support for local SGE cluster in pegasus-init #2049
- [PM-1928] – update python api to add the -t|–transformations-dir to the planner #2041
- [PM-1930] – add a convenience function to python api for adding site profiles #2043
- [PM-1935] – update the planner to optionally use the credentials file #2048 for http transfers
- [PM-1937] – support for mixed binary/venv/conda installs #2050