Update NEWS file for the 2.4.0 rc1 release

Also bump up the version.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <iustin@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <hansmi@google.com>
Reviewed-by: René Nussbaumer <rn@google.com>

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 004d101..a6c8001 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,87 @@
 News
 ====
 
+Version 2.4.0 rc1
+-----------------
+
+*(Released Fri,  4 Feb 2011)*
+
+Many changes and fixes since the beta1 release. While there were some
+internal changes, the code has been mostly stabilised for the RC
+release.
+
+Note: the dumb allocator was removed in this release, as it was not kept
+up-to-date with the IAllocator protocol changes. It is recommended to
+use the ``hail`` command from the ganeti-htools package.
+
+Note: the 2.4 and up versions of Ganeti are not compatible with the
+0.2.x branch of ganeti-htools. You need to upgrade to
+ganeti-htools-0.3.0 (or later).
+
+Regressions fixed from 2.3
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- Fixed the ``gnt-cluster verify-disks`` command
+- Made ``gnt-cluster verify-disks`` work in parallel (as opposed to
+  serially on nodes)
+- Fixed disk adoption breakage
+- Fixed wrong headers in instance listing for field aliases
+
+Other bugs fixed
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- Fixed corner case in KVM handling of NICs
+- Fixed many cases of wrong handling of non-vm_capable nodes
+- Fixed a bug where a missing instance symlink was not possible to
+  recreate with any ``gnt-*`` command (now ``gnt-instance
+  activate-disks`` does it)
+- Fixed the volume group name as reported by ``gnt-cluster
+  verify-disks``
+- Increased timeouts for the import-export code, hopefully leading to
+  fewer aborts due network or instance timeouts
+- Fixed bug in ``gnt-node list-storage``
+- Fixed bug where not all daemons were started on cluster
+  initialisation, but only at the first watcher run
+- Fixed many bugs in the OOB implementation
+- Fixed watcher behaviour in presence of instances with offline
+  secondaries
+- Fixed instance list output for instances running on the wrong node
+- a few fixes to the cluster-merge tool, but it still cannot merge
+  multi-node groups (currently it is not recommended to use this tool)
+
+
+Improvements
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- Improved network configuration for the KVM hypervisor
+- Added e1000 as a supported NIC for Xen-HVM
+- Improved the lvmstrap tool to also be able to use partitions, as
+  opposed to full disks
+- Improved speed of disk wiping (the cluster parameter
+  ``prealloc_wipe_disks``, so that it has a low impact on the total time
+  of instance creations
+- Added documentation for the OS parameters
+- Changed ``gnt-instance deactivate-disks`` so that it can work if the
+  hypervisor is not responding
+- Added display of blacklisted and hidden OS information in
+  ``gnt-cluster info``
+- Extended ``gnt-cluster verify`` to also validate hypervisor, backend,
+  NIC and node parameters, which might create problems with currently
+  invalid (but undetected) configuration files, but prevents validation
+  failures when unrelated parameters are modified
+- Changed cluster initialisation to wait for the master daemon to become
+  available
+- Expanded the RAPI interface:
+
+  - Added config redistribution resource
+  - Added activation/deactivation of instance disks
+  - Added export of console information
+
+- Implemented log file reopening on SIGHUP, which allows using
+  logrotate(8) for the Ganeti log files
+- Added a basic OOB helper script as an example
+
+
 Version 2.4.0 beta1
 -------------------
 

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 04034d4..0eaeff2 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 m4_define([gnt_version_major], [2])
 m4_define([gnt_version_minor], [4])
 m4_define([gnt_version_revision], [0])
-m4_define([gnt_version_suffix], [~beta1])
+m4_define([gnt_version_suffix], [~rc1])
 m4_define([gnt_version_full],
           m4_format([%d.%d.%d%s],
                     gnt_version_major, gnt_version_minor,