====
-Version 2.8.0 rc3
+Version 2.10.0 alpha1
+---------------------
+
+*(unreleased)*
+
+Incompatible/important changes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- Adding disks with 'gnt-instance modify' now waits for the disks to sync per
+ default. Specify --no-wait-for-sync to override this behavior.
+- The Ganeti python code now adheres to a private-module layout. In particular,
+ the module 'ganeti' is no longer in the python search path.
+
+New features
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+- KVM hypervisors can now access RBD storage directly without having to
+ go through a block device.
+
+
+Version 2.9.0 rc1
-----------------
-*(Released Tue, 17 Sep 2013)*
+*(Released Tue, 1 Oct 2013)*
+
+Incompatible/important changes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- hroller now also plans for capacity to move non-redundant instances off
+ any node to be rebooted; the old behavior of completely ignoring any
+ non-redundant instances can be restored by adding the --ignore-non-redundant
+ option.
+- The cluster option '--no-lvm-storage' was removed in favor of the new option
+ '--enabled-disk-templates'.
+- On instance creation, disk templates no longer need to be specified
+ with '-t'. The default disk template will be taken from the list of
+ enabled disk templates.
+- The monitoring daemon is now running as root, in order to be able to collect
+ information only available to root (such as the state of Xen instances).
+- The ConfD client is now IPv6 compatible.
+- File and shared file storage is no longer dis/enabled at configure time,
+ but using the option '--enabled-disk-templates' at cluster initialization and
+ modification.
+- The default directories for file and shared file storage are not anymore
+ specified at configure time, but taken from the cluster's configuration.
+ They can be set at cluster initialization and modification with
+ '--file-storage-dir' and '--shared-file-storage-dir'.
+- Cluster verification now includes stricter checks regarding the
+ default file and shared file storage directories. It now checks that
+ the directories are explicitely allowed in the 'file-storage-paths' file and
+ that the directories exist on all nodes.
+- The list of allowed disk templates in the instance policy and the list
+ of cluster-wide enabled disk templates is now checked for consistency
+ on cluster or group modification. On cluster initialization, the ipolicy
+ disk templates are ensured to be a subset of the cluster-wide enabled
+ disk templates.
+New features
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- DRBD 8.4 support. Depending on the installed DRBD version, Ganeti now uses
+ the correct command syntax. It is possible to use different DRBD versions
+ on different nodes as long as they are compatible to each other. This
+ enables rolling upgrades of DRBD with no downtime. As permanent operation
+ of different DRBD versions within a node group is discouraged,
+ ``gnt-cluster verify`` will emit a warning if it detects such a situation.
+- New "inst-status-xen" data collector for the monitoring daemon, providing
+ information about the state of the xen instances on the nodes.
+- New "lv" data collector for the monitoring daemon, collecting data about the
+ logical volumes on the nodes, and pairing them with the name of the instances
+ they belong to.
+- New "diskstats" data collector, collecting the data from /proc/diskstats and
+ presenting them over the monitoring daemon interface.
+- The ConfD client is now IPv6 compatible.
+
+New dependencies
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+The following new dependencies have been added.
+
+Python
+
+- ``python-mock`` (http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/mock/) is now a required
+ for the unit tests (and only used for testing).
+
+Haskell
+
+- ``hslogger`` (http://software.complete.org/hslogger) is now always
+ required, even if confd is not enabled.
+
+Since 2.9.0 beta1
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- various bug fixes
+- update of the documentation, in particular installation instructions
+- merging of LD_* constants into DT_* constants
+- python style changes to be compatible with newer versions of pylint
+
+
+Version 2.9.0 beta1
+-------------------
+
+*(Released Thu, 29 Aug 2013)*
+
+This was the first beta release of the 2.9 series. All important changes
+are listed in the latest 2.9 entry.
+
+
+Version 2.8.0
+-------------
+
+*(Released Mon, 30 Sep 2013)*
Incompatible/important changes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- The minimum Python version needed to run Ganeti is now 2.6.
- ``yaml`` library (only for running the QA).
-Since 2.8.0 rc2
+Since 2.8.0 rc3
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+- Perform proper cleanup on termination of Haskell daemons
+- Fix corner-case in handling of remaining retry time
+
+
+Version 2.8.0 rc3
+-----------------
+
+*(Released Tue, 17 Sep 2013)*
- To simplify the work of packaging frameworks that want to add the needed users
and groups in a split-user setup themselves, at build time three files in
projects / ganeti-local / blobdiff