News
====
-Version 2.5.0 beta2
--------------------
-*(Released Mon, 22 Aug 2011)*
+Version 2.5.0
+-------------
+
+*(Released Thu, 12 Apr 2012)*
Incompatible/important changes and bugfixes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- :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.
+- TCP/IP ports used by DRBD disks are returned to a pool upon instance
+ removal.
+- ``Makefile`` is now compatible with Automake 1.11.2
+- Includes all bugfixes made in the 2.4 series
New features
~~~~~~~~~~~~
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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- :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
- 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.
+- Out-of-band commands no longer acquire the cluster lock in exclusive
+ mode.
+- ``devel/upload`` now uses correct permissions for directories.
+
+
+Version 2.5.0 rc6
+-----------------
+
+*(Released Fri, 23 Mar 2012)*
+
+This was the sixth release candidate of the 2.5 series.
+
+
+Version 2.5.0 rc5
+-----------------
+
+*(Released Mon, 9 Jan 2012)*
+
+This was the fifth release candidate of the 2.5 series.
+
+
+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
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