====
-Version 2.7.0 rc1
+Version 2.8.4
+-------------
+
+*(Released Thu, 23 Jan 2014)*
+
+- Change the list separator for the usb_devices parameter from comma to space.
+ Commas could not work because they are already the hypervisor option
+ separator (Issue 649)
+- Add support for blktap2 file-driver (Issue 638)
+- Add network tag definitions to the haskell codebase (Issue 641)
+- Fix RAPI network tag handling
+- Add the network tags to the tags searched by gnt-cluster search-tags
+- Fix caching bug preventing jobs from being cancelled
+- Start-master/stop-master was always failing of ConfD was disabled. (Issue 685)
+
+
+Version 2.8.3
+-------------
+
+*(Released Thu, 12 Dec 2013)*
+
+- Fixed Luxi daemon socket permissions after master-failover
+- Improve IP version detection code directly checking for colons rather than
+ passing the family from the cluster object
+- Fix NODE/NODE_RES locking in LUInstanceCreate by not acquiring NODE_RES locks
+ opportunistically anymore (Issue 622)
+- Allow link local IPv6 gateways (Issue 624)
+- Fix error printing (Issue 616)
+- Fix a bug in InstanceSetParams concerning names: in case no name is passed in
+ disk modifications, keep the old one. If name=none then set disk name to
+ None.
+- Update build_chroot script to work with the latest hackage packages
+- Add a packet number limit to "fping" in master-ip-setup (Issue 630)
+- Fix evacuation out of drained node (Issue 615)
+- Add default file_driver if missing (Issue 571)
+- Fix job error message after unclean master shutdown (Issue 618)
+- Lock group(s) when creating instances (Issue 621)
+- SetDiskID() before accepting an instance (Issue 633)
+- Allow the ext template disks to receive arbitrary parameters, both at creation
+ time and while being modified
+- Xen handle domain shutdown (future proofing cherry-pick)
+- Refactor reading live data in htools (future proofing cherry-pick)
+
+
+Version 2.8.2
+-------------
+
+*(Released Thu, 07 Nov 2013)*
+
+- DRBD: ensure peers are UpToDate for dual-primary
+- Improve error message for replace-disks
+- More dependency checks at configure time
+- Placate warnings on ganeti.outils_unittest.py
+
+
+Version 2.8.1
+-------------
+
+*(Released Thu, 17 Oct 2013)*
+
+- Correctly start/stop luxid during gnt-cluster master-failover
+- Don't attempt IPv6 ssh in case of IPv4 cluster (Issue 595)
+- Fix path for the job queue serial file
+- Improved harep man page
+- Minor documentation improvements
+
+
+Version 2.8.0
+-------------
+
+*(Released Mon, 30 Sep 2013)*
+
+Incompatible/important changes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- Instance policy can contain multiple instance specs, as described in
+ the “Constrained instance sizes” section of :doc:`Partitioned Ganeti
+ <design-partitioned>`. As a consequence, it's not possible to partially change
+ or override instance specs. Bounding specs (min and max) can be specified as a
+ whole using the new option ``--ipolicy-bounds-specs``, while standard
+ specs use the new option ``--ipolicy-std-specs``.
+- The output of the info command of gnt-cluster, gnt-group, gnt-node,
+ gnt-instance is a valid YAML object.
+- hail now honors network restrictions when allocating nodes. This led to an
+ update of the IAllocator protocol. See the IAllocator documentation for
+ details.
+- confd now only answers static configuration request over the network. luxid
+ was extracted, listens on the local LUXI socket and responds to live queries.
+ This allows finer grained permissions if using separate users.
+
+New features
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- The :doc:`Remote API <rapi>` daemon now supports a command line flag
+ to always require authentication, ``--require-authentication``. It can
+ be specified in ``$sysconfdir/default/ganeti``.
+- A new cluster attribute 'enabled_disk_templates' is introduced. It will
+ be used to manage the disk templates to be used by instances in the cluster.
+ Initially, it will be set to a list that includes plain, drbd, if they were
+ enabled by specifying a volume group name, and file and sharedfile, if those
+ were enabled at configure time. Additionally, it will include all disk
+ templates that are currently used by instances. The order of disk templates
+ will be based on Ganeti's history of supporting them. In the future, the
+ first entry of the list will be used as a default disk template on instance
+ creation.
+- ``cfgupgrade`` now supports a ``--downgrade`` option to bring the
+ configuration back to the previous stable version.
+- Disk templates in group ipolicy can be restored to the default value.
+- Initial support for diskless instances and virtual clusters in QA.
+- More QA and unit tests for instance policies.
+- Every opcode now contains a reason trail (visible through ``gnt-job info``)
+ describing why the opcode itself was executed.
+- The monitoring daemon is now available. It allows users to query the cluster
+ for obtaining information about the status of the system. The daemon is only
+ responsible for providing the information over the network: the actual data
+ gathering is performed by data collectors (currently, only the DRBD status
+ collector is available).
+- In order to help developers work on Ganeti, a new script
+ (``devel/build_chroot``) is provided, for building a chroot that contains all
+ the required development libraries and tools for compiling Ganeti on a Debian
+ Squeeze system.
+- A new tool, ``harep``, for performing self-repair and recreation of instances
+ in Ganeti has been added.
+- Split queries are enabled for tags, network, exports, cluster info, groups,
+ jobs, nodes.
+- New command ``show-ispecs-cmd`` for ``gnt-cluster`` and ``gnt-group``.
+ It prints the command line to set the current policies, to ease
+ changing them.
+- Add the ``vnet_hdr`` HV parameter for KVM, to control whether the tap
+ devices for KVM virtio-net interfaces will get created with VNET_HDR
+ (IFF_VNET_HDR) support. If set to false, it disables offloading on the
+ virtio-net interfaces, which prevents host kernel tainting and log
+ flooding, when dealing with broken or malicious virtio-net drivers.
+ It's set to true by default.
+- Instance failover now supports a ``--cleanup`` parameter for fixing previous
+ failures.
+- Support 'viridian' parameter in Xen HVM
+- Support DSA SSH keys in bootstrap
+- 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
+ ``doc/users`` will be generated. The ``groups`` files contains, one per line,
+ the groups to be generated, the ``users`` file contains, one per line, the
+ users to be generated, optionally followed by their primary group, where
+ important. The ``groupmemberships`` file contains, one per line, additional
+ user-group membership relations that need to be established. The syntax of
+ these files will remain stable in all future versions.
+
+
+New dependencies
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+The following new dependencies have been added:
+
+For Haskell:
+- The ``curl`` library is not optional anymore for compiling the Haskell code.
+- ``snap-server`` library (if monitoring is enabled).
+
+For Python:
+- The minimum Python version needed to run Ganeti is now 2.6.
+- ``yaml`` library (only for running the QA).
+
+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
+ ``doc/users`` will be generated. The ``groups`` files contains, one per line,
+ the groups to be generated, the ``users`` file contains, one per line, the
+ users to be generated, optionally followed by their primary group, where
+ important. The ``groupmemberships`` file contains, one per line, additional
+ user-group membership relations that need to be established. The syntax of
+ these files will remain stable in all future versions.
+- Add a default to file-driver when unspecified over RAPI (Issue 571)
+- Mark the DSA host pubkey as optional, and remove it during config downgrade
+ (Issue 560)
+- Some documentation fixes
+
+
+Version 2.8.0 rc2
+-----------------
+
+*(Released Tue, 27 Aug 2013)*
+
+The second release candidate of the 2.8 series. Since 2.8.0. rc1:
+
+- Support 'viridian' parameter in Xen HVM (Issue 233)
+- Include VCS version in ``gnt-cluster version``
+- Support DSA SSH keys in bootstrap (Issue 338)
+- Fix batch creation of instances
+- Use FQDN to check master node status (Issue 551)
+- Make the DRBD collector more failure-resilient
+
+
+Version 2.8.0 rc1
-----------------
-*(unreleased)*
+*(Released Fri, 2 Aug 2013)*
+
+The first release candidate of the 2.8 series. Since 2.8.0 beta1:
+
+- Fix upgrading/downgrading from 2.7
+- Increase maximum RAPI message size
+- Documentation updates
+- Split ``confd`` between ``luxid`` and ``confd``
+- Merge 2.7 series up to the 2.7.1 release
+- Allow the ``modify_etc_hosts`` option to be changed
+- Add better debugging for ``luxid`` queries
+- Expose bulk parameter for GetJobs in RAPI client
+- Expose missing ``network`` fields in RAPI
+- Add some ``cluster verify`` tests
+- Some unittest fixes
+- Fix a malfunction in ``hspace``'s tiered allocation
+- Fix query compatibility between haskell and python implementations
+- Add the ``vnet_hdr`` HV parameter for KVM
+- Add ``--cleanup`` to instance failover
+- Change the connected groups format in ``gnt-network info`` output; it
+ was previously displayed as a raw list by mistake. (Merged from 2.7)
+
+
+Version 2.8.0 beta1
+-------------------
+
+*(Released Mon, 24 Jun 2013)*
+
+This was the first beta release of the 2.8 series. All important changes
+are listed in the latest 2.8 entry.
+
+
+Version 2.7.2
+-------------
+
+*(Released Thu, 26 Sep 2013)*
+
+- Change the connected groups format in ``gnt-network info`` output; it
+ was previously displayed as a raw list by mistake
+- Check disk template in right dict when copying
+- Support multi-instance allocs without iallocator
+- Fix some errors in the documentation
+- Fix formatting of tuple in an error message
+
+
+Version 2.7.1
+-------------
+
+*(Released Thu, 25 Jul 2013)*
+
+- Add logrotate functionality in daemon-util
+- Add logrotate example file
+- Add missing fields to network queries over rapi
+- Fix network object timestamps
+- Add support for querying network timestamps
+- Fix a typo in the example crontab
+- Fix a documentation typo
+
+
+Version 2.7.0
+-------------
+
+*(Released Thu, 04 Jul 2013)*
Incompatible/important changes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- The functionality for allocating multiple instances at once has been
overhauled and is now also available through :doc:`RAPI <rapi>`.
+There are no significant changes from version 2.7.0~rc3.
+
+
+Version 2.7.0 rc3
+-----------------
+
+*(Released Tue, 25 Jun 2013)*
+
+- Fix permissions on the confd query socket (Issue 477)
+- Fix permissions on the job archive dir (Issue 498)
+- Fix handling of an internal exception in replace-disks (Issue 472)
+- Fix gnt-node info handling of shortened names (Issue 497)
+- Fix gnt-instance grow-disk when wiping is enabled
+- Documentation improvements, and support for newer pandoc
+- Fix hspace honoring ipolicy for disks (Issue 484)
+- Improve handling of the ``kvm_extra`` HV parameter
+
+
+Version 2.7.0 rc2
+-----------------
+
+*(Released Fri, 24 May 2013)*
+
+- ``devel/upload`` now works when ``/var/run`` on the target nodes is a
+ symlink.
+- Disks added through ``gnt-instance modify`` or created through
+ ``gnt-instance recreate-disks`` are wiped, if the
+ ``prealloc_wipe_disks`` flag is set.
+- If wiping newly created disks fails, the disks are removed. Also,
+ partial failures in creating disks through ``gnt-instance modify``
+ triggers a cleanup of the partially-created disks.
+- Removing the master IP address doesn't fail if the address has been
+ already removed.
+- Fix ownership of the OS log dir
+- Workaround missing SO_PEERCRED constant (Issue 191)
+
+
+Version 2.7.0 rc1
+-----------------
+
+*(Released Fri, 3 May 2013)*
-Since beta3:
+This was the first release candidate of the 2.7 series. Since beta3:
- Fix kvm compatibility with qemu 1.4 (Issue 389)
- Documentation updates (admin guide, upgrade notes, install
- Fix failure path for instance storage type conversion (Issue 229)
- Update htools text backend documentation
- Improve the renew-crypto section of :manpage:`gnt-cluster(8)`
+- Disable inter-cluster instance move for file-based instances, because
+ it is dependant on instance export, which is not supported for
+ file-based instances. (Issue 414)
+- Fix gnt-job crashes on non-ascii characters (Issue 427)
+- Fix volume group checks on non-vm-capable nodes (Issue 432)
Version 2.7.0 beta3