2 - Fix cleaner behaviour on nodes not in a cluster (Debian bug 568105)
3 - Fix a string formatting bug
4 - Improve safety of the code in some error paths
5 - Improve data validation in the master of values returned from nodes
8 - Fix security issue due to missing validation of iallocator names;
9 this allows local and remote execution of arbitrary executables
10 - Fix failure of gnt-node list during instance removal
11 - Ship the RAPI documentation in the archive
14 - Fixed many wrong messages
15 - Fixed a few bugs related to the locking library
16 - Fixed MAC checking at instance creation time
17 - Fixed a DRBD parsing bug related to gaps in /proc/drbd
18 - Fixed a few issues related to signal handling in both daemons and
20 - Fixed the example startup script provided
21 - Fixed insserv dependencies in the example startup script (patch from
23 - Fixed handling of drained nodes in the iallocator framework
24 - Fixed handling of KERNEL_PATH parameter for xen-hvm (Debian bug
26 - Fixed error related to invalid job IDs in job polling
27 - Fixed job/opcode persistence on unclean master shutdown
28 - Fixed handling of partial job processing after unclean master
30 - Fixed error reporting from LUs, previously all errors were converted
32 - Fixed error reporting from burnin
33 - Decreased significantly the memory usage of the job queue
34 - Optimised slightly multi-job submission
35 - Optimised slightly opcode loading
36 - Backported the multi-job submit framework from the development
37 branch; multi-instance start and stop should be faster
38 - Added script to clean archived jobs after 21 days; this will reduce
39 the size of the queue directory
40 - Added some extra checks in disk size tracking
41 - Added an example ethers hook script
42 - Added a cluster parameter that prevents Ganeti from modifying of
44 - Added more node information to RAPI responses
45 - Added a “gnt-job watch” command that allows following the ouput of a
47 - Added a bind-address option to ganeti-rapi
48 - Added more checks to the configuration verify
49 - Enhanced the burnin script such that some operations can be retried
51 - Converted instance reinstall to multi-instance model
54 - Added “--ignore-size” to the “gnt-instance activate-disks” command
55 to allow using the pre-2.0.2 behaviour in activation, if any
56 existing instances have mismatched disk sizes in the configuration
57 - Added “gnt-cluster repair-disk-sizes” command to check and update
58 any configuration mismatches for disk sizes
59 - Added “gnt-master cluste-failover --no-voting” to allow master
60 failover to work on two-node clusters
61 - Fixed the ‘--net’ option of “gnt-backup import”, which was unusable
62 - Fixed detection of OS script errors in “gnt-backup export”
63 - Fixed exit code of “gnt-backup export”
66 - Added experimental support for stripped logical volumes; this should
67 enhance performance but comes with a higher complexity in the block
68 device handling; stripping is only enabled when passing
69 --with-lvm-stripecount=N to configure, but codepaths are affected
70 even in the non-stripped mode
71 - Improved resiliency against transient failures at the end of DRBD
72 resyncs, and in general of DRBD resync checks
73 - Fixed a couple of issues with exports and snapshot errors
74 - Fixed a couple of issues in instance listing
75 - Added display of the disk size in “gnt-instance info”
76 - Fixed checking for valid OSes in instance creation
77 - Fixed handling of the ‘vcpus’ parameter in instance listing and in
78 general of invalid parameters
79 - Fixed http server library, and thus RAPI, to handle invalid
80 username/password combinations correctly; this means that now they
81 report unauthorized for queries too, not only for modifications,
82 allowing earlier detect of configuration problems
83 - Added a new ‘role’ node list field, equivalent to the master/master
84 candidate/drained/offline flags combinations
85 - Fixed cluster modify and changes of candidate pool size
86 - Fixed cluster verify error messages for wrong files on regular nodes
87 - Fixed a couple of issues with node demotion from master candidate
89 - Fixed node readd issues
90 - Added non-interactive mode for “ganeti-masterd --no-voting” startup
91 - Added a new ‘--no-voting’ option for masterfailover to fix failover
92 on two-nodes clusters when the former master node is unreachable
93 - Added instance reinstall over RAPI
96 - added -H/-B startup parameters to gnt-instance, which will allow
97 re-adding the start in single-user option (regression from 1.2)
98 - the watcher writes the instance status to a file, to allow
99 monitoring to report the instance status (from the master) based on
100 cached results of the watcher's queries; while this can get stale if
101 the watcher is being locked due to other work on the cluster, this
102 is still an improvement
103 - the watcher now also restarts the node daemon and the rapi daemon if
105 - fixed the watcher to handle full and drained queue cases
106 - hooks export more instance data in the environment, which helps if
107 hook scripts need to take action based on the instance's properties
108 (no longer need to query back into ganeti)
109 - instance failovers when the instance is stopped do not check for
110 free RAM, so that failing over a stopped instance is possible in low
112 - rapi uses queries for tags instead of jobs (for less job traffic),
113 and for cluster tags it won't talk to masterd at all but read them
115 - a couple of error handling fixes in RAPI
116 - drbd handling: improved the error handling of inconsistent disks
117 after resync to reduce the frequency of "there are some degraded
118 disks for this instance" message
119 - fixed a bug in live migration when DRBD doesn't want to reconnect
120 (the error handling path called a wrong function name)
123 - no changes from rc5
125 Version 2.0 release candidate 5
126 - fix a couple of bugs (validation, argument checks)
127 - fix gnt-cluster getmaster on non-master nodes (regression)
128 - some small improvements to RAPI and IAllocator
129 - make watcher automatically start the master daemon if down
131 Version 2.0 release candidate 4
132 - change the OS list to not require locks; this helps with big
134 - fix gnt-cluster verify and gnt-cluster verify-disks when the volume
136 - “gnt-instance info”, without any arguments, doesn't run for all
137 instances anymore; either pass ‘--all’ or pass the desired
138 instances; this helps against mistakes on big clusters where listing
139 the information for all instances takes a long time
140 - miscellaneous doc and man pages fixes
142 Version 2.0 release candidate 3
143 - Change the internal locking model of some gnt-node commands, in
144 order to reduce contention (and blocking of master daemon) when
145 batching many creation/reinstall jobs
146 - Fixes to Xen soft reboot
147 - No longer build documentation at 'make' time, instead distribute it
148 in the archive, in order to reduce the need for the whole
149 docbook/rst toolchains
151 Version 2.0 release candidate 2
152 - Now the cfgupgrade scripts works and can upgrade 1.2.7 clusters to
154 - Fix watcher startup sequence, improves the behaviour of busy
156 - Some other fixes in cluster verify, replace-disks, gnt-instance add,
157 gnt-cluster queue, KVM VNC bind address and other places
158 - Some documentation fixes and updates
160 Version 2.0 release candidate 1
161 - More documentation updates, now all docs should be more-or-less
163 - A couple of small fixes (mixed hypervisor clusters, offline nodes,
165 - Added a customizable HV_KERNEL_ARGS hypervisor parameter (for Xen
167 - Fix an issue related to $libdir/run/ganeti and cluster creation
170 - Xen PVM and KVM have switched the default value for the instance
171 root disk to the first partition on the first drive, instead of the
172 whole drive; this means that the OS installation scripts must be
174 - Man pages have been updated
175 - RAPI has been switched by default to HTTPS, and the exported
176 functions should all work correctly
177 - RAPI v1 has been removed
178 - Many improvements to the KVM hypervisor
179 - Block device errors are now better reported
180 - Many other bugfixes and small improvements
183 - Version 2 is a general rewrite of the code and therefore the
184 differences are too many to list, see the design document for 2.0 in
185 the doc/ subdirectory for more details
186 - In this beta version there is not yet a migration path from 1.2
187 (there will be one in the final 2.0 release)
188 - A few significant changes are:
189 - all commands are executed by a daemon (ganeti-masterd) and the
190 various gnt-* commands are just front-ends to it
191 - all the commands are entered into, and executed from a job queue,
193 - the RAPI daemon supports read-write operations, secured by basic
194 HTTP authentication on top of HTTPS
195 - DRBD version 0.7 support has been removed, DRBD 8 is the only
196 supported version (when migrating from Ganeti 1.2 to 2.0, you need
197 to migrate to DRBD 8 first while still running Ganeti 1.2)
198 - DRBD devices are using statically allocated minor numbers, which
199 will be assigned to existing instances during the migration
201 - there is support for both Xen PVM and Xen HVM instances running on
203 - KVM virtualization is supported too
204 - file-based storage has been implemented, which means that it is
205 possible to run the cluster without LVM and DRBD storage, for
206 example using a shared filesystem exported from shared storage
207 (and still have live migration)
210 - Change the default reboot type in gnt-instance reboot to "hard"
211 - Reuse the old instance mac address by default on instance import,
212 if the instance name is the same.
213 - Handle situations in which the node info rpc returns incomplete results
215 - Add checks for tcp/udp ports collisions in gnt-cluster verify
216 - Improved version of batcher:
218 - instance mac address support
219 - support for HVM clusters/instances
220 - Add an option to show the number of cpu sockets and nodes in gnt-node list
221 - Support OSes that handle more than one version of the OS api
222 (but do not change the current API in any other way)
223 - Fix gnt-node migrate
225 - Fixes various more typos&small issues
226 - Increase disk resync maximum speed to 60MB/s (from 30MB/s)
229 - new --hvm-nic-type and --hvm-disk-type flags to control the type of disk
230 exported to fully virtualized instances.
231 - provide access to the serial console of HVM instances
232 - instance auto_balance flag, set by default. If turned off it will avoid
233 warnings on cluster verify if there is not enough memory to fail over an
234 instance. in the future it will prevent automatically failing it over when
235 we will support that.
236 - batcher tool for instance creation, see /tools/README.batcher
237 - gnt-instance reinstall --select-os to interactively select a new operating
238 system when reinstalling an instance.
239 - when changing the memory amount on instance modify a check has been added
240 that the instance will be able to start. also warnings are emitted if the
241 instance will not be able to fail over, if auto_balance is true.
242 - documentation fixes
243 - sync fields between instance list/modify/add/import
244 - fix a race condition in drbd when the sync speed was set after giving the
245 device a remote peer.
248 - note: the allowed size and number of tags per object were reduced
249 - fix a bug in “gnt-cluster verify” with inconsistent volume groups
250 - fixed twisted 8.x compatibility
251 - fixed gnt-instance replace-disks with iallocator
252 - add TCP keepalives on twisted connections to detect restarted nodes
253 - disk increase support, see “gnt-instance grow-disk”
254 - implement bulk node/instance query for RAPI
255 - add tags in node/instance listing (optional)
256 - experimental migration (and live migration) support, read the man
257 page for “gnt-instance migrate”
258 - the ganeti-watcher logs are now timestamped, and the watcher also
259 has some small improvements in handling its state file
262 - Experimental readonly, REST-based remote API implementation; automatically
263 started on master node, TCP port 5080, if enabled by --enable-rapi
264 parameter to configure script.
265 - Instance allocator support. Add and import instance accept a --iallocator
266 parameter, and call that instance allocator to decide which node to use for
267 the instance. The iallocator document describes what's expected from an
269 - gnt-cluster verify N+1 memory redundancy checks: Unless passed the
270 --no-nplus1-mem option gnt-cluster verify now checks that if a node is lost
271 there is still enough memory to fail over the instances that reside on it.
272 - gnt-cluster verify hooks: it is now possible to add post-hooks to
273 gnt-cluster verify, to check for site-specific compliance. All the hooks
274 will run, and their output, if any, will be displayed. Any failing hook
275 will make the verification return an error value.
276 - gnt-cluster verify now checks that its peers are reachable on the primary
277 and secondary interfaces
278 - gnt-node add now supports the --readd option, to readd a node that is still
279 declared as part of the cluster and has failed.
280 - gnt-* list commands now accept a new -o +field way of specifying output
281 fields, that just adds the chosen fields to the default ones.
282 - gnt-backup now has a new "remove" command to delete an existing export from
284 - New per-instance parameters hvm_acpi, hvm_pae and hvm_cdrom_image_path have
285 been added. Using them you can enable/disable acpi and pae support, and
286 specify a path for a cd image to be exported to the instance. These
287 parameters as the name suggest only work on HVM clusters.
288 - When upgrading an HVM cluster to Ganeti 1.2.4, the values for ACPI and PAE
289 support will be set to the previously hardcoded values, but the (previously
290 hardcoded) path to the CDROM ISO image will be unset and if required, needs
291 to be set manually with gnt-instance modify after the upgrade..
292 - The address to which an instance's VNC console is bound is now selectable
293 per-instance, rather than being cluster wide. Of course this only applies
294 to instances controlled via VNC, so currently just applies to HVM clusters.
297 - more tweaks to the disk activation code (especially helpful for DRBD)
298 - change the default ‘gnt-instance list’ output format, now there is
299 one combined status field (see the manpage for the exact values this
301 - some more fixes for the mac export to hooks change
302 - make Ganeti not break with DRBD 8.2.x (which changed the version
303 format in /proc/drbd) (issue 24)
304 - add an upgrade tool from ‘remote_raid1’ disk template to ‘drbd’ disk
305 template, allowing migration from DRBD0.7+MD to DRBD8
308 - fix ‘gnt-instance modify’ breakage introduced in 1.2.1 with the HVM
310 - add command aliases infrastructure and a few aliases
311 - allow listing of VCPUs in the gnt-instance list and improve the man
312 pages and the --help option of gnt-node/gnt-instance list
313 - fix gnt-backup list with down nodes (issue 21)
314 - change the tools location (move from $pkgdatadir to
316 - fix the dist archive and add a check for including svn/git files in
318 - some developer-related changes: improve the burnin and the QA
319 suite, add an upload script for testing during development
322 - experimental HVM support, read the install document, section
323 "Initializing the cluster"
324 - allow for the PVM hypervisor per-instance kernel and initrd paths
325 - add a new command ‘gnt-cluster verify-disks’ which uses a new
326 algorithm to improve the reconnection of the DRBD pairs if the
327 device on the secondary node has gone away
328 - make logical volume code auto-activate LVs at disk activation time
329 - slightly improve the speed of activating disks
330 - allow specification of the MAC address at instance creation time,
331 and changing it later via ‘gnt-instance modify’
332 - fix handling of external commands that generate lots of output on
334 - update documentation with regard to minimum version of DRBD8
338 - Log the ‘xm create’ output to the node daemon log on failure (to
339 help diagnosing the error)
340 - In debug mode, log all external commands output if failed to the
342 - Change parsing of lvm commands to ignore stderr
345 - Another round of updates to the DRBD 8 code to deal with more
346 failures in the replace secondary node operation
347 - Some more logging of failures in disk operations (lvm, drbd)
348 - A few documentation updates
352 - Change configuration file format from Python's Pickle to JSON.
353 Upgrading is possible using the cfgupgrade utility.
354 - Add support for DRBD 8.0 (new disk template `drbd`) which allows for
355 faster replace disks and is more stable (DRBD 8 has many
356 improvements compared to DRBD 0.7)
357 - Added command line tags support (see man pages for gnt-instance,
358 gnt-node, gnt-cluster)
359 - Added instance rename support
360 - Added multi-instance startup/shutdown
361 - Added cluster rename support
362 - Added `gnt-node evacuate` to simplify some node operations
363 - Added instance reboot operation that can speedup reboot as compared
365 - Soften the requirement that hostnames are in FQDN format
366 - The ganeti-watcher now activates drbd pairs after secondary node
368 - Removed dependency on debian's patched fping that uses the
369 non-standard -S option
370 - Now the OS definitions are searched for in multiple, configurable
371 paths (easier for distros to package)
372 - Some changes to the hooks infrastructure (especially the new
373 post-configuration update hook)
374 - Other small bugfixes