News
====
-Version 2.5.0 beta1
+
+Version 2.6.0 beta1
-------------------
*(unreleased)*
+- Deprecated ``admin_up`` field. Instead, ``admin_state`` is introduced,
+ with 3 possible values -- ``up``, ``down`` and ``offline``.
+- Replaced ``--disks`` option of ``gnt-instance replace-disks`` with a
+ more flexible ``--disk`` option. Now disk size and mode can be changed
+ upon recreation.
+
+
+Version 2.5.0 rc5
+-----------------
+
+*(Released Mon, 9 Jan 2012)*
-Incompatible/important changes:
+Incompatible/important changes and bugfixes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- The default of the ``/2/instances/[instance_name]/rename`` RAPI
resource's ``ip_check`` parameter changed from ``True`` to ``False``
- to match the underlying LUXI interface
+ to match the underlying LUXI interface.
- The ``/2/nodes/[node_name]/evacuate`` RAPI resource was changed to use
body parameters, see :doc:`RAPI documentation <rapi>`. The server does
not maintain backwards-compatibility as the underlying operation
changed in an incompatible way. The RAPI client can talk to old
servers, but it needs to be told so as the return value changed.
- When creating file-based instances via RAPI, the ``file_driver``
- parameter no longer defaults to ``loop`` and must be specified
-- The deprecated "bridge" nic parameter is no longer supported. Use
- "link" instead.
+ parameter no longer defaults to ``loop`` and must be specified.
+- The deprecated ``bridge`` NIC parameter is no longer supported. Use
+ ``link`` instead.
- Support for the undocumented and deprecated RAPI instance creation
request format version 0 has been dropped. Use version 1, supported
since Ganeti 2.1.3 and :doc:`documented <rapi>`, instead.
- Pyparsing 1.4.6 or above is required, see :doc:`installation
- documentation <install>`
+ documentation <install>`.
- The "cluster-verify" hooks are now executed per group by the
- OP_CLUSTER_VERIFY_GROUP opcode. This maintains the same behavior if
- you just run "gnt-cluster verify", which generates one op per group.
+ ``OP_CLUSTER_VERIFY_GROUP`` opcode. This maintains the same behavior
+ if you just run ``gnt-cluster verify``, which generates one opcode per
+ group.
- The environment as passed to the OS scripts is cleared, and thus no
environment variables defined in the node daemon's environment will be
- inherited by the scripts
+ inherited by the scripts.
+- The :doc:`iallocator <iallocator>` mode ``multi-evacuate`` has been
+ deprecated.
+- :doc:`New iallocator modes <design-multi-reloc>` have been added to
+ support operations involving multiple node groups.
+- Offline nodes are ignored when failing over an instance.
+- Support for KVM version 1.0, which changed the version reporting format
+ from 3 to 2 digits.
+- Includes all bugfixes made in the 2.4 series
+
+New features
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- The ganeti-htools project has been merged into the ganeti-core source
+ tree and will be built as part of Ganeti (see :doc:`install-quick`).
+- Implemented support for :doc:`shared storage <design-shared-storage>`.
+- Add support for disks larger than 2 TB in ``lvmstrap`` by supporting
+ GPT-style partition tables (requires `parted
+ <http://www.gnu.org/s/parted/>`_).
+- Added support for floppy drive and 2nd CD-ROM drive in KVM hypervisor.
+- Allowed adding tags on instance creation.
+- Export instance tags to hooks (``INSTANCE_TAGS``, see :doc:`hooks`)
+- Allow instances to be started in a paused state, enabling the user to
+ see the complete console output on boot using the console.
+- Added new hypervisor flag to control default reboot behaviour
+ (``reboot_behavior``).
+- Added support for KVM keymaps (hypervisor parameter ``keymap``).
+- Improved out-of-band management support:
+
+ - Added ``gnt-node health`` command reporting the health status of
+ nodes.
+ - Added ``gnt-node power`` command to manage power status of nodes.
+ - Added command for emergency power-off (EPO), ``gnt-cluster epo``.
+
+- Instance migration can fall back to failover if instance is not
+ running.
+- Filters can be used when listing nodes, instances, groups and locks;
+ see *ganeti(7)* manpage.
+- Added post-execution status as variables to :doc:`hooks <hooks>`
+ environment.
+- Instance tags are exported/imported together with the instance.
+- When given an explicit job ID, ``gnt-job info`` will work for archived
+ jobs.
+- Jobs can define dependencies on other jobs (not yet supported via
+ RAPI or command line, but used by internal commands and usable via
+ LUXI).
+
+ - Lock monitor (``gnt-debug locks``) shows jobs waiting for
+ dependencies.
+
+- Instance failover is now available as a RAPI resource
+ (``/2/instances/[instance_name]/failover``).
+- ``gnt-instance info`` defaults to static information if primary node
+ is offline.
+- Opcodes have a new ``comment`` attribute.
+- Added basic SPICE support to KVM hypervisor.
+- ``tools/ganeti-listrunner`` allows passing of arguments to executable.
+
+Node group improvements
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- ``gnt-cluster verify`` has been modified to check groups separately,
+ thereby improving performance.
+- Node group support has been added to ``gnt-cluster verify-disks``,
+ which now operates per node group.
+- Watcher has been changed to work better with node groups.
+
+ - One process and state file per node group.
+ - Slow watcher in one group doesn't block other group's watcher.
+
+- Added new command, ``gnt-group evacuate``, to move all instances in a
+ node group to other groups.
+- Added ``gnt-instance change-group`` to move an instance to another
+ node group.
+- ``gnt-cluster command`` and ``gnt-cluster copyfile`` now support
+ per-group operations.
+- Node groups can be tagged.
+- Some operations switch from an exclusive to a shared lock as soon as
+ possible.
+- Instance's primary and secondary nodes' groups are now available as
+ query fields (``pnode.group``, ``pnode.group.uuid``, ``snodes.group``
+ and ``snodes.group.uuid``).
+
+Misc
+~~~~
+
+- Numerous updates to documentation and manpages.
+
+ - :doc:`RAPI <rapi>` documentation now has detailed parameter
+ descriptions.
+ - Some opcode/job results are now also documented, see :doc:`RAPI
+ <rapi>`.
+
+- A lockset's internal lock is now also visible in lock monitor.
+- Log messages from job queue workers now contain information about the
+ opcode they're processing.
+- ``gnt-instance console`` no longer requires the instance lock.
+- A short delay when waiting for job changes reduces the number of LUXI
+ requests significantly.
+- DRBD metadata volumes are overwritten with zeros during disk creation.
+
+
+Version 2.5.0 rc4
+-----------------
+
+*(Released Thu, 27 Oct 2011)*
+
+This was the fourth release candidate of the 2.5 series.
+
+
+Version 2.5.0 rc3
+-----------------
+
+*(Released Wed, 26 Oct 2011)*
+
+This was the third release candidate of the 2.5 series.
+
+
+Version 2.5.0 rc2
+-----------------
+
+*(Released Tue, 18 Oct 2011)*
+
+This was the second release candidate of the 2.5 series.
+
+
+Version 2.5.0 rc1
+-----------------
+
+*(Released Tue, 4 Oct 2011)*
+
+This was the first release candidate of the 2.5 series.
+
+
+Version 2.5.0 beta3
+-------------------
+
+*(Released Wed, 31 Aug 2011)*
+
+This was the third beta release of the 2.5 series.
+
+
+Version 2.5.0 beta2
+-------------------
+
+*(Released Mon, 22 Aug 2011)*
+
+This was the second beta release of the 2.5 series.
+
+
+Version 2.5.0 beta1
+-------------------
+
+*(Released Fri, 12 Aug 2011)*
+
+This was the first beta release of the 2.5 series.
+
+
+Version 2.4.5
+-------------
+
+*(Released Thu, 27 Oct 2011)*
+
+- Fixed bug when parsing command line parameter values ending in
+ backslash
+- Fixed assertion error after unclean master shutdown
+- Disable HTTP client pool for RPC, significantly reducing memory usage
+ of master daemon
+- Fixed queue archive creation with wrong permissions
+
+
+Version 2.4.4
+-------------
+
+*(Released Tue, 23 Aug 2011)*
+
+Small bug-fixes:
+
+- Fixed documentation for importing with ``--src-dir`` option
+- Fixed a bug in ``ensure-dirs`` with queue/archive permissions
+- Fixed a parsing issue with DRBD 8.3.11 in the Linux kernel
Version 2.4.3
- Fixed off-by-one bug in job serial generation
- ``gnt-node volumes``: Fix instance names
- Fixed aliases in bash completion
-- Fixed a bug in reopening log files after beeing sent a SIGHUP
+- Fixed a bug in reopening log files after being sent a SIGHUP
- Added a flag to burnin to allow specifying VCPU count
- Bugfixes to non-root Ganeti configuration
And as usual, various improvements to the error messages, documentation
and man pages.
+
Version 2.4.1
-------------
server endpoint
-Version 2.2.0 beta 0
---------------------
+Version 2.2.0 beta0
+-------------------
*(Released Thu, 17 Jun 2010)*
error handling path called a wrong function name)
-Version 2.0.0 final
--------------------
+Version 2.0.0
+-------------
*(Released Wed, 27 May 2009)*
- no changes from rc5
-Version 2.0 release candidate 5
--------------------------------
+Version 2.0 rc5
+---------------
*(Released Wed, 20 May 2009)*
- make watcher automatically start the master daemon if down
-Version 2.0 release candidate 4
--------------------------------
+Version 2.0 rc4
+---------------
*(Released Mon, 27 Apr 2009)*
- miscellaneous doc and man pages fixes
-Version 2.0 release candidate 3
--------------------------------
+Version 2.0 rc3
+---------------
*(Released Wed, 8 Apr 2009)*
toolchains
-Version 2.0 release candidate 2
--------------------------------
+Version 2.0 rc2
+---------------
*(Released Fri, 27 Mar 2009)*
- Some documentation fixes and updates
-Version 2.0 release candidate 1
--------------------------------
+Version 2.0 rc1
+---------------
*(Released Mon, 2 Mar 2009)*
- Fix an issue related to $libdir/run/ganeti and cluster creation
-Version 2.0 beta 2
-------------------
+Version 2.0 beta2
+-----------------
*(Released Thu, 19 Feb 2009)*
- Many other bugfixes and small improvements
-Version 2.0 beta 1
-------------------
+Version 2.0 beta1
+-----------------
*(Released Mon, 26 Jan 2009)*
- Change parsing of lvm commands to ignore stderr
-Version 1.2b3
--------------
+Version 1.2 beta3
+-----------------
*(Released Wed, 28 Nov 2007)*
- QA updates
-Version 1.2b2
--------------
+Version 1.2 beta2
+-----------------
*(Released Tue, 13 Nov 2007)*