Statistics
| Branch: | Tag: | Revision:

root / NEWS @ 51131cad

History | View | Annotate | Download (72 kB)

1
News
2
====
3

    
4

    
5
Version 2.6.0 beta1
6
-------------------
7

    
8
*(unreleased)*
9

    
10
- Deprecated ``admin_up`` field. Instead, ``admin_state`` is introduced,
11
  with 3 possible values -- ``up``, ``down`` and ``offline``.
12
- Replaced ``--disks`` option of ``gnt-instance replace-disks`` with a
13
  more flexible ``--disk`` option. Now disk size and mode can be changed
14
  upon recreation.
15
- Removed deprecated ``QueryLocks`` LUXI request. Use
16
  ``Query(what=QR_LOCK, ...)`` instead.
17
- The LUXI requests :pyeval:`luxi.REQ_QUERY_JOBS`,
18
  :pyeval:`luxi.REQ_QUERY_INSTANCES`, :pyeval:`luxi.REQ_QUERY_NODES`,
19
  :pyeval:`luxi.REQ_QUERY_GROUPS`, :pyeval:`luxi.REQ_QUERY_EXPORTS` and
20
  :pyeval:`luxi.REQ_QUERY_TAGS` are deprecated and will be removed in a
21
  future version. :pyeval:`luxi.REQ_QUERY` should be used instead.
22
- CertificateError now derives from GanetiApiError in the RAPI client.
23
- Deprecation warnings due to pycrypto/paramiko import in
24
  tools/setup-ssh have been silenced, as usually they are safe; please
25
  make sure to run an up-to-date paramiko version
26
- The QA scripts now depend on Python 2.5 or above
27

    
28

    
29
Version 2.5.1
30
-------------
31

    
32
*(Released Fri, 11 May 2012)*
33

    
34
A small bugfix release.
35

    
36
The main issues solved are on the topic of compatibility with newer LVM
37
releases:
38

    
39
- fixed parsing of ``lv_attr`` field
40
- adapted to new ``vgreduce --removemissing`` behaviour where sometimes
41
  the ``--force`` flag is needed
42

    
43
Also on the topic of compatibility, ``tools/lvmstrap`` has been changed
44
to accept kernel 3.x too (was hardcoded to 2.6.*).
45

    
46
A regression present in 2.5.0 that broke handling (in the gnt-* scripts)
47
of hook results and that also made display of other errors suboptimal
48
was fixed; the code behaves now like 2.4 and earlier.
49

    
50
Another change in 2.5, the cleanup of the OS scripts environment, is too
51
aggressive: it removed even the ``PATH`` variable, which requires the OS
52
scripts to *always* need to export it. Since this is a bit too strict,
53
we now export a minimal PATH, the same that we export for hooks.
54

    
55
The fix for issue 201 (Preserve bridge MTU in KVM ifup script) was
56
integrated into this release.
57

    
58
Finally, a few other miscellaneous changes were done (no new features,
59
just small improvements):
60

    
61
- Fix ``gnt-group --help`` display
62
- Fix hardcoded Xen kernel path
63
- Fix grow-disk handling of invalid units
64
- Update synopsis for ``gnt-cluster repair-disk-sizes``
65
- Accept both PUT and POST in noded (makes future upgrade to 2.6 easier)
66

    
67

    
68
Version 2.5.0
69
-------------
70

    
71
*(Released Thu, 12 Apr 2012)*
72

    
73
Incompatible/important changes and bugfixes
74
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
75

    
76
- The default of the ``/2/instances/[instance_name]/rename`` RAPI
77
  resource's ``ip_check`` parameter changed from ``True`` to ``False``
78
  to match the underlying LUXI interface.
79
- The ``/2/nodes/[node_name]/evacuate`` RAPI resource was changed to use
80
  body parameters, see :doc:`RAPI documentation <rapi>`. The server does
81
  not maintain backwards-compatibility as the underlying operation
82
  changed in an incompatible way. The RAPI client can talk to old
83
  servers, but it needs to be told so as the return value changed.
84
- When creating file-based instances via RAPI, the ``file_driver``
85
  parameter no longer defaults to ``loop`` and must be specified.
86
- The deprecated ``bridge`` NIC parameter is no longer supported. Use
87
  ``link`` instead.
88
- Support for the undocumented and deprecated RAPI instance creation
89
  request format version 0 has been dropped. Use version 1, supported
90
  since Ganeti 2.1.3 and :doc:`documented <rapi>`, instead.
91
- Pyparsing 1.4.6 or above is required, see :doc:`installation
92
  documentation <install>`.
93
- The "cluster-verify" hooks are now executed per group by the
94
  ``OP_CLUSTER_VERIFY_GROUP`` opcode. This maintains the same behavior
95
  if you just run ``gnt-cluster verify``, which generates one opcode per
96
  group.
97
- The environment as passed to the OS scripts is cleared, and thus no
98
  environment variables defined in the node daemon's environment will be
99
  inherited by the scripts.
100
- The :doc:`iallocator <iallocator>` mode ``multi-evacuate`` has been
101
  deprecated.
102
- :doc:`New iallocator modes <design-multi-reloc>` have been added to
103
  support operations involving multiple node groups.
104
- Offline nodes are ignored when failing over an instance.
105
- Support for KVM version 1.0, which changed the version reporting format
106
  from 3 to 2 digits.
107
- TCP/IP ports used by DRBD disks are returned to a pool upon instance
108
  removal.
109
- ``Makefile`` is now compatible with Automake 1.11.2
110
- Includes all bugfixes made in the 2.4 series
111

    
112
New features
113
~~~~~~~~~~~~
114

    
115
- The ganeti-htools project has been merged into the ganeti-core source
116
  tree and will be built as part of Ganeti (see :doc:`install-quick`).
117
- Implemented support for :doc:`shared storage <design-shared-storage>`.
118
- Add support for disks larger than 2 TB in ``lvmstrap`` by supporting
119
  GPT-style partition tables (requires `parted
120
  <http://www.gnu.org/s/parted/>`_).
121
- Added support for floppy drive and 2nd CD-ROM drive in KVM hypervisor.
122
- Allowed adding tags on instance creation.
123
- Export instance tags to hooks (``INSTANCE_TAGS``, see :doc:`hooks`)
124
- Allow instances to be started in a paused state, enabling the user to
125
  see the complete console output on boot using the console.
126
- Added new hypervisor flag to control default reboot behaviour
127
  (``reboot_behavior``).
128
- Added support for KVM keymaps (hypervisor parameter ``keymap``).
129
- Improved out-of-band management support:
130

    
131
  - Added ``gnt-node health`` command reporting the health status of
132
    nodes.
133
  - Added ``gnt-node power`` command to manage power status of nodes.
134
  - Added command for emergency power-off (EPO), ``gnt-cluster epo``.
135

    
136
- Instance migration can fall back to failover if instance is not
137
  running.
138
- Filters can be used when listing nodes, instances, groups and locks;
139
  see *ganeti(7)* manpage.
140
- Added post-execution status as variables to :doc:`hooks <hooks>`
141
  environment.
142
- Instance tags are exported/imported together with the instance.
143
- When given an explicit job ID, ``gnt-job info`` will work for archived
144
  jobs.
145
- Jobs can define dependencies on other jobs (not yet supported via
146
  RAPI or command line, but used by internal commands and usable via
147
  LUXI).
148

    
149
  - Lock monitor (``gnt-debug locks``) shows jobs waiting for
150
    dependencies.
151

    
152
- Instance failover is now available as a RAPI resource
153
  (``/2/instances/[instance_name]/failover``).
154
- ``gnt-instance info`` defaults to static information if primary node
155
  is offline.
156
- Opcodes have a new ``comment`` attribute.
157
- Added basic SPICE support to KVM hypervisor.
158
- ``tools/ganeti-listrunner`` allows passing of arguments to executable.
159

    
160
Node group improvements
161
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
162

    
163
- ``gnt-cluster verify`` has been modified to check groups separately,
164
  thereby improving performance.
165
- Node group support has been added to ``gnt-cluster verify-disks``,
166
  which now operates per node group.
167
- Watcher has been changed to work better with node groups.
168

    
169
  - One process and state file per node group.
170
  - Slow watcher in one group doesn't block other group's watcher.
171

    
172
- Added new command, ``gnt-group evacuate``, to move all instances in a
173
  node group to other groups.
174
- Added ``gnt-instance change-group`` to move an instance to another
175
  node group.
176
- ``gnt-cluster command`` and ``gnt-cluster copyfile`` now support
177
  per-group operations.
178
- Node groups can be tagged.
179
- Some operations switch from an exclusive to a shared lock as soon as
180
  possible.
181
- Instance's primary and secondary nodes' groups are now available as
182
  query fields (``pnode.group``, ``pnode.group.uuid``, ``snodes.group``
183
  and ``snodes.group.uuid``).
184

    
185
Misc
186
~~~~
187

    
188
- Numerous updates to documentation and manpages.
189

    
190
  - :doc:`RAPI <rapi>` documentation now has detailed parameter
191
    descriptions.
192
  - Some opcode/job results are now also documented, see :doc:`RAPI
193
    <rapi>`.
194

    
195
- A lockset's internal lock is now also visible in lock monitor.
196
- Log messages from job queue workers now contain information about the
197
  opcode they're processing.
198
- ``gnt-instance console`` no longer requires the instance lock.
199
- A short delay when waiting for job changes reduces the number of LUXI
200
  requests significantly.
201
- DRBD metadata volumes are overwritten with zeros during disk creation.
202
- Out-of-band commands no longer acquire the cluster lock in exclusive
203
  mode.
204
- ``devel/upload`` now uses correct permissions for directories.
205

    
206

    
207
Version 2.5.0 rc6
208
-----------------
209

    
210
*(Released Fri, 23 Mar 2012)*
211

    
212
This was the sixth release candidate of the 2.5 series.
213

    
214

    
215
Version 2.5.0 rc5
216
-----------------
217

    
218
*(Released Mon, 9 Jan 2012)*
219

    
220
This was the fifth release candidate of the 2.5 series.
221

    
222

    
223
Version 2.5.0 rc4
224
-----------------
225

    
226
*(Released Thu, 27 Oct 2011)*
227

    
228
This was the fourth release candidate of the 2.5 series.
229

    
230

    
231
Version 2.5.0 rc3
232
-----------------
233

    
234
*(Released Wed, 26 Oct 2011)*
235

    
236
This was the third release candidate of the 2.5 series.
237

    
238

    
239
Version 2.5.0 rc2
240
-----------------
241

    
242
*(Released Tue, 18 Oct 2011)*
243

    
244
This was the second release candidate of the 2.5 series.
245

    
246

    
247
Version 2.5.0 rc1
248
-----------------
249

    
250
*(Released Tue, 4 Oct 2011)*
251

    
252
This was the first release candidate of the 2.5 series.
253

    
254

    
255
Version 2.5.0 beta3
256
-------------------
257

    
258
*(Released Wed, 31 Aug 2011)*
259

    
260
This was the third beta release of the 2.5 series.
261

    
262

    
263
Version 2.5.0 beta2
264
-------------------
265

    
266
*(Released Mon, 22 Aug 2011)*
267

    
268
This was the second beta release of the 2.5 series.
269

    
270

    
271
Version 2.5.0 beta1
272
-------------------
273

    
274
*(Released Fri, 12 Aug 2011)*
275

    
276
This was the first beta release of the 2.5 series.
277

    
278

    
279
Version 2.4.5
280
-------------
281

    
282
*(Released Thu, 27 Oct 2011)*
283

    
284
- Fixed bug when parsing command line parameter values ending in
285
  backslash
286
- Fixed assertion error after unclean master shutdown
287
- Disable HTTP client pool for RPC, significantly reducing memory usage
288
  of master daemon
289
- Fixed queue archive creation with wrong permissions
290

    
291

    
292
Version 2.4.4
293
-------------
294

    
295
*(Released Tue, 23 Aug 2011)*
296

    
297
Small bug-fixes:
298

    
299
- Fixed documentation for importing with ``--src-dir`` option
300
- Fixed a bug in ``ensure-dirs`` with queue/archive permissions
301
- Fixed a parsing issue with DRBD 8.3.11 in the Linux kernel
302

    
303

    
304
Version 2.4.3
305
-------------
306

    
307
*(Released Fri, 5 Aug 2011)*
308

    
309
Many bug-fixes and a few small features:
310

    
311
- Fixed argument order in ``ReserveLV`` and ``ReserveMAC`` which caused
312
  issues when you tried to add an instance with two MAC addresses in one
313
  request
314
- KVM: fixed per-instance stored UID value
315
- KVM: configure bridged NICs at migration start
316
- KVM: Fix a bug where instance will not start with never KVM versions
317
  (>= 0.14)
318
- Added OS search path to ``gnt-cluster info``
319
- Fixed an issue with ``file_storage_dir`` where you were forced to
320
  provide an absolute path, but the documentation states it is a
321
  relative path, the documentation was right
322
- Added a new parameter to instance stop/start called ``--no-remember``
323
  that will make the state change to not be remembered
324
- Implemented ``no_remember`` at RAPI level
325
- Improved the documentation
326
- Node evacuation: don't call IAllocator if node is already empty
327
- Fixed bug in DRBD8 replace disks on current nodes
328
- Fixed bug in recreate-disks for DRBD instances
329
- Moved assertion checking locks in ``gnt-instance replace-disks``
330
  causing it to abort with not owning the right locks for some situation
331
- Job queue: Fixed potential race condition when cancelling queued jobs
332
- Fixed off-by-one bug in job serial generation
333
- ``gnt-node volumes``: Fix instance names
334
- Fixed aliases in bash completion
335
- Fixed a bug in reopening log files after being sent a SIGHUP
336
- Added a flag to burnin to allow specifying VCPU count
337
- Bugfixes to non-root Ganeti configuration
338

    
339

    
340
Version 2.4.2
341
-------------
342

    
343
*(Released Thu, 12 May 2011)*
344

    
345
Many bug-fixes and a few new small features:
346

    
347
- Fixed a bug related to log opening failures
348
- Fixed a bug in instance listing with orphan instances
349
- Fixed a bug which prevented resetting the cluster-level node parameter
350
  ``oob_program`` to the default
351
- Many fixes related to the ``cluster-merge`` tool
352
- Fixed a race condition in the lock monitor, which caused failures
353
  during (at least) creation of many instances in parallel
354
- Improved output for gnt-job info
355
- Removed the quiet flag on some ssh calls which prevented debugging
356
  failures
357
- Improved the N+1 failure messages in cluster verify by actually
358
  showing the memory values (needed and available)
359
- Increased lock attempt timeouts so that when executing long operations
360
  (e.g. DRBD replace-disks) other jobs do not enter 'blocking acquire'
361
  too early and thus prevent the use of the 'fair' mechanism
362
- Changed instance query data (``gnt-instance info``) to not acquire
363
  locks unless needed, thus allowing its use on locked instance if only
364
  static information is asked for
365
- Improved behaviour with filesystems that do not support rename on an
366
  opened file
367
- Fixed the behaviour of ``prealloc_wipe_disks`` cluster parameter which
368
  kept locks on all nodes during the wipe, which is unneeded
369
- Fixed ``gnt-watcher`` handling of errors during hooks execution
370
- Fixed bug in ``prealloc_wipe_disks`` with small disk sizes (less than
371
  10GiB) which caused the wipe to fail right at the end in some cases
372
- Fixed master IP activation when doing master failover with no-voting
373
- Fixed bug in ``gnt-node add --readd`` which allowed the re-adding of
374
  the master node itself
375
- Fixed potential data-loss in under disk full conditions, where Ganeti
376
  wouldn't check correctly the return code and would consider
377
  partially-written files 'correct'
378
- Fixed bug related to multiple VGs and DRBD disk replacing
379
- Added new disk parameter ``metavg`` that allows placement of the meta
380
  device for DRBD in a different volume group
381
- Fixed error handling in the node daemon when the system libc doesn't
382
  have major number 6 (i.e. if ``libc.so.6`` is not the actual libc)
383
- Fixed lock release during replace-disks, which kept cluster-wide locks
384
  when doing disk replaces with an iallocator script
385
- Added check for missing bridges in cluster verify
386
- Handle EPIPE errors while writing to the terminal better, so that
387
  piping the output to e.g. ``less`` doesn't cause a backtrace
388
- Fixed rare case where a ^C during Luxi calls could have been
389
  interpreted as server errors, instead of simply terminating
390
- Fixed a race condition in LUGroupAssignNodes (``gnt-group
391
  assign-nodes``)
392
- Added a few more parameters to the KVM hypervisor, allowing a second
393
  CDROM, custom disk type for CDROMs and a floppy image
394
- Removed redundant message in instance rename when the name is given
395
  already as a FQDN
396
- Added option to ``gnt-instance recreate-disks`` to allow creating the
397
  disks on new nodes, allowing recreation when the original instance
398
  nodes are completely gone
399
- Added option when converting disk templates to DRBD to skip waiting
400
  for the resync, in order to make the instance available sooner
401
- Added two new variables to the OS scripts environment (containing the
402
  instance's nodes)
403
- Made the root_path and optional parameter for the xen-pvm hypervisor,
404
  to allow use of ``pvgrub`` as bootloader
405
- Changed the instance memory modifications to only check out-of-memory
406
  conditions on memory increases, and turned the secondary node warnings
407
  into errors (they can still be overridden via ``--force``)
408
- Fixed the handling of a corner case when the Python installation gets
409
  corrupted (e.g. a bad disk) while ganeti-noded is running and we try
410
  to execute a command that doesn't exist
411
- Fixed a bug in ``gnt-instance move`` (LUInstanceMove) when the primary
412
  node of the instance returned failures during instance shutdown; this
413
  adds the option ``--ignore-consistency`` to gnt-instance move
414

    
415
And as usual, various improvements to the error messages, documentation
416
and man pages.
417

    
418

    
419
Version 2.4.1
420
-------------
421

    
422
*(Released Wed, 09 Mar 2011)*
423

    
424
Emergency bug-fix release. ``tools/cfgupgrade`` was broken and overwrote
425
the RAPI users file if run twice (even with ``--dry-run``).
426

    
427
The release fixes that bug (nothing else changed).
428

    
429

    
430
Version 2.4.0
431
-------------
432

    
433
*(Released Mon, 07 Mar 2011)*
434

    
435
Final 2.4.0 release. Just a few small fixes:
436

    
437
- Fixed RAPI node evacuate
438
- Fixed the kvm-ifup script
439
- Fixed internal error handling for special job cases
440
- Updated man page to specify the escaping feature for options
441

    
442

    
443
Version 2.4.0 rc3
444
-----------------
445

    
446
*(Released Mon, 28 Feb 2011)*
447

    
448
A critical fix for the ``prealloc_wipe_disks`` feature: it is possible
449
that this feature wiped the disks of the wrong instance, leading to loss
450
of data.
451

    
452
Other changes:
453

    
454
- Fixed title of query field containing instance name
455
- Expanded the glossary in the documentation
456
- Fixed one unittest (internal issue)
457

    
458

    
459
Version 2.4.0 rc2
460
-----------------
461

    
462
*(Released Mon, 21 Feb 2011)*
463

    
464
A number of bug fixes plus just a couple functionality changes.
465

    
466
On the user-visible side, the ``gnt-* list`` command output has changed
467
with respect to "special" field states. The current rc1 style of display
468
can be re-enabled by passing a new ``--verbose`` (``-v``) flag, but in
469
the default output mode special fields states are displayed as follows:
470

    
471
- Offline resource: ``*``
472
- Unavailable/not applicable: ``-``
473
- Data missing (RPC failure): ``?``
474
- Unknown field: ``??``
475

    
476
Another user-visible change is the addition of ``--force-join`` to
477
``gnt-node add``.
478

    
479
As for bug fixes:
480

    
481
- ``tools/cluster-merge`` has seen many fixes and is now enabled again
482
- Fixed regression in RAPI/instance reinstall where all parameters were
483
  required (instead of optional)
484
- Fixed ``gnt-cluster repair-disk-sizes``, was broken since Ganeti 2.2
485
- Fixed iallocator usage (offline nodes were not considered offline)
486
- Fixed ``gnt-node list`` with respect to non-vm_capable nodes
487
- Fixed hypervisor and OS parameter validation with respect to
488
  non-vm_capable nodes
489
- Fixed ``gnt-cluster verify`` with respect to offline nodes (mostly
490
  cosmetic)
491
- Fixed ``tools/listrunner`` with respect to agent-based usage
492

    
493

    
494
Version 2.4.0 rc1
495
-----------------
496

    
497
*(Released Fri,  4 Feb 2011)*
498

    
499
Many changes and fixes since the beta1 release. While there were some
500
internal changes, the code has been mostly stabilised for the RC
501
release.
502

    
503
Note: the dumb allocator was removed in this release, as it was not kept
504
up-to-date with the IAllocator protocol changes. It is recommended to
505
use the ``hail`` command from the ganeti-htools package.
506

    
507
Note: the 2.4 and up versions of Ganeti are not compatible with the
508
0.2.x branch of ganeti-htools. You need to upgrade to
509
ganeti-htools-0.3.0 (or later).
510

    
511
Regressions fixed from 2.3
512
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
513

    
514
- Fixed the ``gnt-cluster verify-disks`` command
515
- Made ``gnt-cluster verify-disks`` work in parallel (as opposed to
516
  serially on nodes)
517
- Fixed disk adoption breakage
518
- Fixed wrong headers in instance listing for field aliases
519

    
520
Other bugs fixed
521
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
522

    
523
- Fixed corner case in KVM handling of NICs
524
- Fixed many cases of wrong handling of non-vm_capable nodes
525
- Fixed a bug where a missing instance symlink was not possible to
526
  recreate with any ``gnt-*`` command (now ``gnt-instance
527
  activate-disks`` does it)
528
- Fixed the volume group name as reported by ``gnt-cluster
529
  verify-disks``
530
- Increased timeouts for the import-export code, hopefully leading to
531
  fewer aborts due network or instance timeouts
532
- Fixed bug in ``gnt-node list-storage``
533
- Fixed bug where not all daemons were started on cluster
534
  initialisation, but only at the first watcher run
535
- Fixed many bugs in the OOB implementation
536
- Fixed watcher behaviour in presence of instances with offline
537
  secondaries
538
- Fixed instance list output for instances running on the wrong node
539
- a few fixes to the cluster-merge tool, but it still cannot merge
540
  multi-node groups (currently it is not recommended to use this tool)
541

    
542

    
543
Improvements
544
~~~~~~~~~~~~
545

    
546
- Improved network configuration for the KVM hypervisor
547
- Added e1000 as a supported NIC for Xen-HVM
548
- Improved the lvmstrap tool to also be able to use partitions, as
549
  opposed to full disks
550
- Improved speed of disk wiping (the cluster parameter
551
  ``prealloc_wipe_disks``, so that it has a low impact on the total time
552
  of instance creations
553
- Added documentation for the OS parameters
554
- Changed ``gnt-instance deactivate-disks`` so that it can work if the
555
  hypervisor is not responding
556
- Added display of blacklisted and hidden OS information in
557
  ``gnt-cluster info``
558
- Extended ``gnt-cluster verify`` to also validate hypervisor, backend,
559
  NIC and node parameters, which might create problems with currently
560
  invalid (but undetected) configuration files, but prevents validation
561
  failures when unrelated parameters are modified
562
- Changed cluster initialisation to wait for the master daemon to become
563
  available
564
- Expanded the RAPI interface:
565

    
566
  - Added config redistribution resource
567
  - Added activation/deactivation of instance disks
568
  - Added export of console information
569

    
570
- Implemented log file reopening on SIGHUP, which allows using
571
  logrotate(8) for the Ganeti log files
572
- Added a basic OOB helper script as an example
573

    
574

    
575
Version 2.4.0 beta1
576
-------------------
577

    
578
*(Released Fri, 14 Jan 2011)*
579

    
580
User-visible
581
~~~~~~~~~~~~
582

    
583
- Fixed timezone issues when formatting timestamps
584
- Added support for node groups, available via ``gnt-group`` and other
585
  commands
586
- Added out-of-band framework and management, see :doc:`design
587
  document <design-oob>`
588
- Removed support for roman numbers from ``gnt-node list`` and
589
  ``gnt-instance list``.
590
- Allowed modification of master network interface via ``gnt-cluster
591
  modify --master-netdev``
592
- Accept offline secondaries while shutting down instance disks
593
- Added ``blockdev_prefix`` parameter to Xen PVM and HVM hypervisors
594
- Added support for multiple LVM volume groups
595
- Avoid sorting nodes for ``gnt-node list`` if specific nodes are
596
  requested
597
- Added commands to list available fields:
598

    
599
  - ``gnt-node list-fields``
600
  - ``gnt-group list-fields``
601
  - ``gnt-instance list-fields``
602

    
603
- Updated documentation and man pages
604

    
605
Integration
606
~~~~~~~~~~~
607

    
608
- Moved ``rapi_users`` file into separate directory, now named
609
  ``.../ganeti/rapi/users``, ``cfgupgrade`` moves the file and creates a
610
  symlink
611
- Added new tool for running commands on many machines,
612
  ``tools/ganeti-listrunner``
613
- Implemented more verbose result in ``OpInstanceConsole`` opcode, also
614
  improving the ``gnt-instance console`` output
615
- Allowed customisation of disk index separator at ``configure`` time
616
- Export node group allocation policy to :doc:`iallocator <iallocator>`
617
- Added support for non-partitioned md disks in ``lvmstrap``
618
- Added script to gracefully power off KVM instances
619
- Split ``utils`` module into smaller parts
620
- Changed query operations to return more detailed information, e.g.
621
  whether an information is unavailable due to an offline node. To use
622
  this new functionality, the LUXI call ``Query`` must be used. Field
623
  information is now stored by the master daemon and can be retrieved
624
  using ``QueryFields``. Instances, nodes and groups can also be queried
625
  using the new opcodes ``OpQuery`` and ``OpQueryFields`` (not yet
626
  exposed via RAPI). The following commands make use of this
627
  infrastructure change:
628

    
629
  - ``gnt-group list``
630
  - ``gnt-group list-fields``
631
  - ``gnt-node list``
632
  - ``gnt-node list-fields``
633
  - ``gnt-instance list``
634
  - ``gnt-instance list-fields``
635
  - ``gnt-debug locks``
636

    
637
Remote API
638
~~~~~~~~~~
639

    
640
- New RAPI resources (see :doc:`rapi`):
641

    
642
  - ``/2/modify``
643
  - ``/2/groups``
644
  - ``/2/groups/[group_name]``
645
  - ``/2/groups/[group_name]/assign-nodes``
646
  - ``/2/groups/[group_name]/modify``
647
  - ``/2/groups/[group_name]/rename``
648
  - ``/2/instances/[instance_name]/disk/[disk_index]/grow``
649

    
650
- RAPI changes:
651

    
652
  - Implemented ``no_install`` for instance creation
653
  - Implemented OS parameters for instance reinstallation, allowing
654
    use of special settings on reinstallation (e.g. for preserving data)
655

    
656
Misc
657
~~~~
658

    
659
- Added IPv6 support in import/export
660
- Pause DRBD synchronization while wiping disks on instance creation
661
- Updated unittests and QA scripts
662
- Improved network parameters passed to KVM
663
- Converted man pages from docbook to reStructuredText
664

    
665

    
666
Version 2.3.1
667
-------------
668

    
669
*(Released Mon, 20 Dec 2010)*
670

    
671
Released version 2.3.1~rc1 without any changes.
672

    
673

    
674
Version 2.3.1 rc1
675
-----------------
676

    
677
*(Released Wed, 1 Dec 2010)*
678

    
679
- impexpd: Disable OpenSSL compression in socat if possible (backport
680
  from master, commit e90739d625b, see :doc:`installation guide
681
  <install-quick>` for details)
682
- Changed unittest coverage report to exclude test scripts
683
- Added script to check version format
684

    
685

    
686
Version 2.3.0
687
-------------
688

    
689
*(Released Wed, 1 Dec 2010)*
690

    
691
Released version 2.3.0~rc1 without any changes.
692

    
693

    
694
Version 2.3.0 rc1
695
-----------------
696

    
697
*(Released Fri, 19 Nov 2010)*
698

    
699
A number of bugfixes and documentation updates:
700

    
701
- Update ganeti-os-interface documentation
702
- Fixed a bug related to duplicate MACs or similar items which should be
703
  unique
704
- Fix breakage in OS state modify
705
- Reinstall instance: disallow offline secondaries (fixes bug related to
706
  OS changing but reinstall failing)
707
- plus all the other fixes between 2.2.1 and 2.2.2
708

    
709

    
710
Version 2.3.0 rc0
711
-----------------
712

    
713
*(Released Tue, 2 Nov 2010)*
714

    
715
- Fixed clearing of the default iallocator using ``gnt-cluster modify``
716
- Fixed master failover race with watcher
717
- Fixed a bug in ``gnt-node modify`` which could lead to an inconsistent
718
  configuration
719
- Accept previously stopped instance for export with instance removal
720
- Simplify and extend the environment variables for instance OS scripts
721
- Added new node flags, ``master_capable`` and ``vm_capable``
722
- Added optional instance disk wiping prior during allocation. This is a
723
  cluster-wide option and can be set/modified using
724
  ``gnt-cluster {init,modify} --prealloc-wipe-disks``.
725
- Added IPv6 support, see :doc:`design document <design-2.3>` and
726
  :doc:`install-quick`
727
- Added a new watcher option (``--ignore-pause``)
728
- Added option to ignore offline node on instance start/stop
729
  (``--ignore-offline``)
730
- Allow overriding OS parameters with ``gnt-instance reinstall``
731
- Added ability to change node's secondary IP address using ``gnt-node
732
  modify``
733
- Implemented privilege separation for all daemons except
734
  ``ganeti-noded``, see ``configure`` options
735
- Complain if an instance's disk is marked faulty in ``gnt-cluster
736
  verify``
737
- Implemented job priorities (see ``ganeti(7)`` manpage)
738
- Ignore failures while shutting down instances during failover from
739
  offline node
740
- Exit daemon's bootstrap process only once daemon is ready
741
- Export more information via ``LUInstanceQuery``/remote API
742
- Improved documentation, QA and unittests
743
- RAPI daemon now watches ``rapi_users`` all the time and doesn't need a
744
  restart if the file was created or changed
745
- Added LUXI protocol version sent with each request and response,
746
  allowing detection of server/client mismatches
747
- Moved the Python scripts among gnt-* and ganeti-* into modules
748
- Moved all code related to setting up SSH to an external script,
749
  ``setup-ssh``
750
- Infrastructure changes for node group support in future versions
751

    
752

    
753
Version 2.2.2
754
-------------
755

    
756
*(Released Fri, 19 Nov 2010)*
757

    
758
A few small bugs fixed, and some improvements to the build system:
759

    
760
- Fix documentation regarding conversion to drbd
761
- Fix validation of parameters in cluster modify (``gnt-cluster modify
762
  -B``)
763
- Fix error handling in node modify with multiple changes
764
- Allow remote imports without checked names
765

    
766

    
767
Version 2.2.1
768
-------------
769

    
770
*(Released Tue, 19 Oct 2010)*
771

    
772
- Disable SSL session ID cache in RPC client
773

    
774

    
775
Version 2.2.1 rc1
776
-----------------
777

    
778
*(Released Thu, 14 Oct 2010)*
779

    
780
- Fix interaction between Curl/GnuTLS and the Python's HTTP server
781
  (thanks Apollon Oikonomopoulos!), finally allowing the use of Curl
782
  with GnuTLS
783
- Fix problems with interaction between Curl and Python's HTTP server,
784
  resulting in increased speed in many RPC calls
785
- Improve our release script to prevent breakage with older aclocal and
786
  Python 2.6
787

    
788

    
789
Version 2.2.1 rc0
790
-----------------
791

    
792
*(Released Thu, 7 Oct 2010)*
793

    
794
- Fixed issue 125, replace hardcoded "xenvg" in ``gnt-cluster`` with
795
  value retrieved from master
796
- Added support for blacklisted or hidden OS definitions
797
- Added simple lock monitor (accessible via (``gnt-debug locks``)
798
- Added support for -mem-path in KVM hypervisor abstraction layer
799
- Allow overriding instance parameters in tool for inter-cluster
800
  instance moves (``tools/move-instance``)
801
- Improved opcode summaries (e.g. in ``gnt-job list``)
802
- Improve consistency of OS listing by sorting it
803
- Documentation updates
804

    
805

    
806
Version 2.2.0.1
807
---------------
808

    
809
*(Released Fri, 8 Oct 2010)*
810

    
811
- Rebuild with a newer autotools version, to fix python 2.6 compatibility
812

    
813

    
814
Version 2.2.0
815
-------------
816

    
817
*(Released Mon, 4 Oct 2010)*
818

    
819
- Fixed regression in ``gnt-instance rename``
820

    
821

    
822
Version 2.2.0 rc2
823
-----------------
824

    
825
*(Released Wed, 22 Sep 2010)*
826

    
827
- Fixed OS_VARIANT variable for OS scripts
828
- Fixed cluster tag operations via RAPI
829
- Made ``setup-ssh`` exit with non-zero code if an error occurred
830
- Disabled RAPI CA checks in watcher
831

    
832

    
833
Version 2.2.0 rc1
834
-----------------
835

    
836
*(Released Mon, 23 Aug 2010)*
837

    
838
- Support DRBD versions of the format "a.b.c.d"
839
- Updated manpages
840
- Re-introduce support for usage from multiple threads in RAPI client
841
- Instance renames and modify via RAPI
842
- Work around race condition between processing and archival in job
843
  queue
844
- Mark opcodes following failed one as failed, too
845
- Job field ``lock_status`` was removed due to difficulties making it
846
  work with the changed job queue in Ganeti 2.2; a better way to monitor
847
  locks is expected for a later 2.2.x release
848
- Fixed dry-run behaviour with many commands
849
- Support ``ssh-agent`` again when adding nodes
850
- Many additional bugfixes
851

    
852

    
853
Version 2.2.0 rc0
854
-----------------
855

    
856
*(Released Fri, 30 Jul 2010)*
857

    
858
Important change: the internal RPC mechanism between Ganeti nodes has
859
changed from using a home-grown http library (based on the Python base
860
libraries) to use the PycURL library. This requires that PycURL is
861
installed on nodes. Please note that on Debian/Ubuntu, PycURL is linked
862
against GnuTLS by default. cURL's support for GnuTLS had known issues
863
before cURL 7.21.0 and we recommend using the latest cURL release or
864
linking against OpenSSL. Most other distributions already link PycURL
865
and cURL against OpenSSL. The command::
866

    
867
  python -c 'import pycurl; print pycurl.version'
868

    
869
can be used to determine the libraries PycURL and cURL are linked
870
against.
871

    
872
Other significant changes:
873

    
874
- Rewrote much of the internals of the job queue, in order to achieve
875
  better parallelism; this decouples job query operations from the job
876
  processing, and it should allow much nicer behaviour of the master
877
  daemon under load, and it also has uncovered some long-standing bugs
878
  related to the job serialisation (now fixed)
879
- Added a default iallocator setting to the cluster parameters,
880
  eliminating the need to always pass nodes or an iallocator for
881
  operations that require selection of new node(s)
882
- Added experimental support for the LXC virtualization method
883
- Added support for OS parameters, which allows the installation of
884
  instances to pass parameter to OS scripts in order to customise the
885
  instance
886
- Added a hypervisor parameter controlling the migration type (live or
887
  non-live), since hypervisors have various levels of reliability; this
888
  has renamed the 'live' parameter to 'mode'
889
- Added a cluster parameter ``reserved_lvs`` that denotes reserved
890
  logical volumes, meaning that cluster verify will ignore them and not
891
  flag their presence as errors
892
- The watcher will now reset the error count for failed instances after
893
  8 hours, thus allowing self-healing if the problem that caused the
894
  instances to be down/fail to start has cleared in the meantime
895
- Added a cluster parameter ``drbd_usermode_helper`` that makes Ganeti
896
  check for, and warn, if the drbd module parameter ``usermode_helper``
897
  is not consistent with the cluster-wide setting; this is needed to
898
  make diagnose easier of failed drbd creations
899
- Started adding base IPv6 support, but this is not yet
900
  enabled/available for use
901
- Rename operations (cluster, instance) will now return the new name,
902
  which is especially useful if a short name was passed in
903
- Added support for instance migration in RAPI
904
- Added a tool to pre-configure nodes for the SSH setup, before joining
905
  them to the cluster; this will allow in the future a simplified model
906
  for node joining (but not yet fully enabled in 2.2); this needs the
907
  paramiko python library
908
- Fixed handling of name-resolving errors
909
- Fixed consistency of job results on the error path
910
- Fixed master-failover race condition when executed multiple times in
911
  sequence
912
- Fixed many bugs related to the job queue (mostly introduced during the
913
  2.2 development cycle, so not all are impacting 2.1)
914
- Fixed instance migration with missing disk symlinks
915
- Fixed handling of unknown jobs in ``gnt-job archive``
916
- And many other small fixes/improvements
917

    
918
Internal changes:
919

    
920
- Enhanced both the unittest and the QA coverage
921
- Switched the opcode validation to a generic model, and extended the
922
  validation to all opcode parameters
923
- Changed more parts of the code that write shell scripts to use the
924
  same class for this
925
- Switched the master daemon to use the asyncore library for the Luxi
926
  server endpoint
927

    
928

    
929
Version 2.2.0 beta0
930
-------------------
931

    
932
*(Released Thu, 17 Jun 2010)*
933

    
934
- Added tool (``move-instance``) and infrastructure to move instances
935
  between separate clusters (see :doc:`separate documentation
936
  <move-instance>` and :doc:`design document <design-2.2>`)
937
- Added per-request RPC timeout
938
- RAPI now requires a Content-Type header for requests with a body (e.g.
939
  ``PUT`` or ``POST``) which must be set to ``application/json`` (see
940
  :rfc:`2616` (HTTP/1.1), section 7.2.1)
941
- ``ganeti-watcher`` attempts to restart ``ganeti-rapi`` if RAPI is not
942
  reachable
943
- Implemented initial support for running Ganeti daemons as separate
944
  users, see configure-time flags ``--with-user-prefix`` and
945
  ``--with-group-prefix`` (only ``ganeti-rapi`` is supported at this
946
  time)
947
- Instances can be removed after export (``gnt-backup export
948
  --remove-instance``)
949
- Self-signed certificates generated by Ganeti now use a 2048 bit RSA
950
  key (instead of 1024 bit)
951
- Added new cluster configuration file for cluster domain secret
952
- Import/export now use SSL instead of SSH
953
- Added support for showing estimated time when exporting an instance,
954
  see the ``ganeti-os-interface(7)`` manpage and look for
955
  ``EXP_SIZE_FD``
956

    
957

    
958
Version 2.1.8
959
-------------
960

    
961
*(Released Tue, 16 Nov 2010)*
962

    
963
Some more bugfixes. Unless critical bugs occur, this will be the last
964
2.1 release:
965

    
966
- Fix case of MAC special-values
967
- Fix mac checker regex
968
- backend: Fix typo causing "out of range" error
969
- Add missing --units in gnt-instance list man page
970

    
971

    
972
Version 2.1.7
973
-------------
974

    
975
*(Released Tue, 24 Aug 2010)*
976

    
977
Bugfixes only:
978
  - Don't ignore secondary node silently on non-mirrored disk templates
979
    (issue 113)
980
  - Fix --master-netdev arg name in gnt-cluster(8) (issue 114)
981
  - Fix usb_mouse parameter breaking with vnc_console (issue 109)
982
  - Properly document the usb_mouse parameter
983
  - Fix path in ganeti-rapi(8) (issue 116)
984
  - Adjust error message when the ganeti user's .ssh directory is
985
    missing
986
  - Add same-node-check when changing the disk template to drbd
987

    
988

    
989
Version 2.1.6
990
-------------
991

    
992
*(Released Fri, 16 Jul 2010)*
993

    
994
Bugfixes only:
995
  - Add an option to only select some reboot types during qa/burnin.
996
    (on some hypervisors consequent reboots are not supported)
997
  - Fix infrequent race condition in master failover. Sometimes the old
998
    master ip address would be still detected as up for a short time
999
    after it was removed, causing failover to fail.
1000
  - Decrease mlockall warnings when the ctypes module is missing. On
1001
    Python 2.4 we support running even if no ctypes module is installed,
1002
    but we were too verbose about this issue.
1003
  - Fix building on old distributions, on which man doesn't have a
1004
    --warnings option.
1005
  - Fix RAPI not to ignore the MAC address on instance creation
1006
  - Implement the old instance creation format in the RAPI client.
1007

    
1008

    
1009
Version 2.1.5
1010
-------------
1011

    
1012
*(Released Thu, 01 Jul 2010)*
1013

    
1014
A small bugfix release:
1015
  - Fix disk adoption: broken by strict --disk option checking in 2.1.4
1016
  - Fix batch-create: broken in the whole 2.1 series due to a lookup on
1017
    a non-existing option
1018
  - Fix instance create: the --force-variant option was ignored
1019
  - Improve pylint 0.21 compatibility and warnings with Python 2.6
1020
  - Fix modify node storage with non-FQDN arguments
1021
  - Fix RAPI client to authenticate under Python 2.6 when used
1022
    for more than 5 requests needing authentication
1023
  - Fix gnt-instance modify -t (storage) giving a wrong error message
1024
    when converting a non-shutdown drbd instance to plain
1025

    
1026

    
1027
Version 2.1.4
1028
-------------
1029

    
1030
*(Released Fri, 18 Jun 2010)*
1031

    
1032
A small bugfix release:
1033

    
1034
  - Fix live migration of KVM instances started with older Ganeti
1035
    versions which had fewer hypervisor parameters
1036
  - Fix gnt-instance grow-disk on down instances
1037
  - Fix an error-reporting bug during instance migration
1038
  - Better checking of the ``--net`` and ``--disk`` values, to avoid
1039
    silently ignoring broken ones
1040
  - Fix an RPC error reporting bug affecting, for example, RAPI client
1041
    users
1042
  - Fix bug triggered by different API version os-es on different nodes
1043
  - Fix a bug in instance startup with custom hvparams: OS level
1044
    parameters would fail to be applied.
1045
  - Fix the RAPI client under Python 2.6 (but more work is needed to
1046
    make it work completely well with OpenSSL)
1047
  - Fix handling of errors when resolving names from DNS
1048

    
1049

    
1050
Version 2.1.3
1051
-------------
1052

    
1053
*(Released Thu, 3 Jun 2010)*
1054

    
1055
A medium sized development cycle. Some new features, and some
1056
fixes/small improvements/cleanups.
1057

    
1058
Significant features
1059
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1060

    
1061
The node deamon now tries to mlock itself into memory, unless the
1062
``--no-mlock`` flag is passed. It also doesn't fail if it can't write
1063
its logs, and falls back to console logging. This allows emergency
1064
features such as ``gnt-node powercycle`` to work even in the event of a
1065
broken node disk (tested offlining the disk hosting the node's
1066
filesystem and dropping its memory caches; don't try this at home)
1067

    
1068
KVM: add vhost-net acceleration support. It can be tested with a new
1069
enough version of the kernel and of qemu-kvm.
1070

    
1071
KVM: Add instance chrooting feature. If you use privilege dropping for
1072
your VMs you can also now force them to chroot to an empty directory,
1073
before starting the emulated guest.
1074

    
1075
KVM: Add maximum migration bandwith and maximum downtime tweaking
1076
support (requires a new-enough version of qemu-kvm).
1077

    
1078
Cluster verify will now warn if the master node doesn't have the master
1079
ip configured on it.
1080

    
1081
Add a new (incompatible) instance creation request format to RAPI which
1082
supports all parameters (previously only a subset was supported, and it
1083
wasn't possible to extend the old format to accomodate all the new
1084
features. The old format is still supported, and a client can check for
1085
this feature, before using it, by checking for its presence in the
1086
``features`` RAPI resource.
1087

    
1088
Now with ancient latin support. Try it passing the ``--roman`` option to
1089
``gnt-instance info``, ``gnt-cluster info`` or ``gnt-node list``
1090
(requires the python-roman module to be installed, in order to work).
1091

    
1092
Other changes
1093
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1094

    
1095
As usual many internal code refactorings, documentation updates, and
1096
such. Among others:
1097

    
1098
  - Lots of improvements and cleanups to the experimental Remote API
1099
    (RAPI) client library.
1100
  - A new unit test suite for the core daemon libraries.
1101
  - A fix to creating missing directories makes sure the umask is not
1102
    applied anymore. This enforces the same directory permissions
1103
    everywhere.
1104
  - Better handling terminating daemons with ctrl+c (used when running
1105
    them in debugging mode).
1106
  - Fix a race condition in live migrating a KVM instance, when stat()
1107
    on the old proc status file returned EINVAL, which is an unexpected
1108
    value.
1109
  - Fixed manpage checking with newer man and utf-8 charachters. But now
1110
    you need the en_US.UTF-8 locale enabled to build Ganeti from git.
1111

    
1112

    
1113
Version 2.1.2.1
1114
---------------
1115

    
1116
*(Released Fri, 7 May 2010)*
1117

    
1118
Fix a bug which prevented untagged KVM instances from starting.
1119

    
1120

    
1121
Version 2.1.2
1122
-------------
1123

    
1124
*(Released Fri, 7 May 2010)*
1125

    
1126
Another release with a long development cycle, during which many
1127
different features were added.
1128

    
1129
Significant features
1130
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1131

    
1132
The KVM hypervisor now can run the individual instances as non-root, to
1133
reduce the impact of a VM being hijacked due to bugs in the
1134
hypervisor. It is possible to run all instances as a single (non-root)
1135
user, to manually specify a user for each instance, or to dynamically
1136
allocate a user out of a cluster-wide pool to each instance, with the
1137
guarantee that no two instances will run under the same user ID on any
1138
given node.
1139

    
1140
An experimental RAPI client library, that can be used standalone
1141
(without the other Ganeti libraries), is provided in the source tree as
1142
``lib/rapi/client.py``. Note this client might change its interface in
1143
the future, as we iterate on its capabilities.
1144

    
1145
A new command, ``gnt-cluster renew-crypto`` has been added to easily
1146
replace the cluster's certificates and crypto keys. This might help in
1147
case they have been compromised, or have simply expired.
1148

    
1149
A new disk option for instance creation has been added that allows one
1150
to "adopt" currently existing logical volumes, with data
1151
preservation. This should allow easier migration to Ganeti from
1152
unmanaged (or managed via other software) instances.
1153

    
1154
Another disk improvement is the possibility to convert between redundant
1155
(DRBD) and plain (LVM) disk configuration for an instance. This should
1156
allow better scalability (starting with one node and growing the
1157
cluster, or shrinking a two-node cluster to one node).
1158

    
1159
A new feature that could help with automated node failovers has been
1160
implemented: if a node sees itself as offline (by querying the master
1161
candidates), it will try to shutdown (hard) all instances and any active
1162
DRBD devices. This reduces the risk of duplicate instances if an
1163
external script automatically failovers the instances on such nodes. To
1164
enable this, the cluster parameter ``maintain_node_health`` should be
1165
enabled; in the future this option (per the name) will enable other
1166
automatic maintenance features.
1167

    
1168
Instance export/import now will reuse the original instance
1169
specifications for all parameters; that means exporting an instance,
1170
deleting it and the importing it back should give an almost identical
1171
instance. Note that the default import behaviour has changed from
1172
before, where it created only one NIC; now it recreates the original
1173
number of NICs.
1174

    
1175
Cluster verify has added a few new checks: SSL certificates validity,
1176
/etc/hosts consistency across the cluster, etc.
1177

    
1178
Other changes
1179
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1180

    
1181
As usual, many internal changes were done, documentation fixes,
1182
etc. Among others:
1183

    
1184
- Fixed cluster initialization with disabled cluster storage (regression
1185
  introduced in 2.1.1)
1186
- File-based storage supports growing the disks
1187
- Fixed behaviour of node role changes
1188
- Fixed cluster verify for some corner cases, plus a general rewrite of
1189
  cluster verify to allow future extension with more checks
1190
- Fixed log spamming by watcher and node daemon (regression introduced
1191
  in 2.1.1)
1192
- Fixed possible validation issues when changing the list of enabled
1193
  hypervisors
1194
- Fixed cleanup of /etc/hosts during node removal
1195
- Fixed RAPI response for invalid methods
1196
- Fixed bug with hashed passwords in ``ganeti-rapi`` daemon
1197
- Multiple small improvements to the KVM hypervisor (VNC usage, booting
1198
  from ide disks, etc.)
1199
- Allow OS changes without re-installation (to record a changed OS
1200
  outside of Ganeti, or to allow OS renames)
1201
- Allow instance creation without OS installation (useful for example if
1202
  the OS will be installed manually, or restored from a backup not in
1203
  Ganeti format)
1204
- Implemented option to make cluster ``copyfile`` use the replication
1205
  network
1206
- Added list of enabled hypervisors to ssconf (possibly useful for
1207
  external scripts)
1208
- Added a new tool (``tools/cfgupgrade12``) that allows upgrading from
1209
  1.2 clusters
1210
- A partial form of node re-IP is possible via node readd, which now
1211
  allows changed node primary IP
1212
- Command line utilities now show an informational message if the job is
1213
  waiting for a lock
1214
- The logs of the master daemon now show the PID/UID/GID of the
1215
  connected client
1216

    
1217

    
1218
Version 2.1.1
1219
-------------
1220

    
1221
*(Released Fri, 12 Mar 2010)*
1222

    
1223
During the 2.1.0 long release candidate cycle, a lot of improvements and
1224
changes have accumulated with were released later as 2.1.1.
1225

    
1226
Major changes
1227
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1228

    
1229
The node evacuate command (``gnt-node evacuate``) was significantly
1230
rewritten, and as such the IAllocator protocol was changed - a new
1231
request type has been added. This unfortunate change during a stable
1232
series is designed to improve performance of node evacuations; on
1233
clusters with more than about five nodes and which are well-balanced,
1234
evacuation should proceed in parallel for all instances of the node
1235
being evacuated. As such, any existing IAllocator scripts need to be
1236
updated, otherwise the above command will fail due to the unknown
1237
request. The provided "dumb" allocator has not been updated; but the
1238
ganeti-htools package supports the new protocol since version 0.2.4.
1239

    
1240
Another important change is increased validation of node and instance
1241
names. This might create problems in special cases, if invalid host
1242
names are being used.
1243

    
1244
Also, a new layer of hypervisor parameters has been added, that sits at
1245
OS level between the cluster defaults and the instance ones. This allows
1246
customisation of virtualization parameters depending on the installed
1247
OS. For example instances with OS 'X' may have a different KVM kernel
1248
(or any other parameter) than the cluster defaults. This is intended to
1249
help managing a multiple OSes on the same cluster, without manual
1250
modification of each instance's parameters.
1251

    
1252
A tool for merging clusters, ``cluster-merge``, has been added in the
1253
tools sub-directory.
1254

    
1255
Bug fixes
1256
~~~~~~~~~
1257

    
1258
- Improved the int/float conversions that should make the code more
1259
  robust in face of errors from the node daemons
1260
- Fixed the remove node code in case of internal configuration errors
1261
- Fixed the node daemon behaviour in face of inconsistent queue
1262
  directory (e.g. read-only file-system where we can't open the files
1263
  read-write, etc.)
1264
- Fixed the behaviour of gnt-node modify for master candidate demotion;
1265
  now it either aborts cleanly or, if given the new "auto_promote"
1266
  parameter, will automatically promote other nodes as needed
1267
- Fixed compatibility with (unreleased yet) Python 2.6.5 that would
1268
  completely prevent Ganeti from working
1269
- Fixed bug for instance export when not all disks were successfully
1270
  exported
1271
- Fixed behaviour of node add when the new node is slow in starting up
1272
  the node daemon
1273
- Fixed handling of signals in the LUXI client, which should improve
1274
  behaviour of command-line scripts
1275
- Added checks for invalid node/instance names in the configuration (now
1276
  flagged during cluster verify)
1277
- Fixed watcher behaviour for disk activation errors
1278
- Fixed two potentially endless loops in http library, which led to the
1279
  RAPI daemon hanging and consuming 100% CPU in some cases
1280
- Fixed bug in RAPI daemon related to hashed passwords
1281
- Fixed bug for unintended qemu-level bridging of multi-NIC KVM
1282
  instances
1283
- Enhanced compatibility with non-Debian OSes, but not using absolute
1284
  path in some commands and allowing customisation of the ssh
1285
  configuration directory
1286
- Fixed possible future issue with new Python versions by abiding to the
1287
  proper use of ``__slots__`` attribute on classes
1288
- Added checks that should prevent directory traversal attacks
1289
- Many documentation fixes based on feedback from users
1290

    
1291
New features
1292
~~~~~~~~~~~~
1293

    
1294
- Added an "early_release" more for instance replace disks and node
1295
  evacuate, where we release locks earlier and thus allow higher
1296
  parallelism within the cluster
1297
- Added watcher hooks, intended to allow the watcher to restart other
1298
  daemons (e.g. from the ganeti-nbma project), but they can be used of
1299
  course for any other purpose
1300
- Added a compile-time disable for DRBD barriers, to increase
1301
  performance if the administrator trusts the power supply or the
1302
  storage system to not lose writes
1303
- Added the option of using syslog for logging instead of, or in
1304
  addition to, Ganeti's own log files
1305
- Removed boot restriction for paravirtual NICs for KVM, recent versions
1306
  can indeed boot from a paravirtual NIC
1307
- Added a generic debug level for many operations; while this is not
1308
  used widely yet, it allows one to pass the debug value all the way to
1309
  the OS scripts
1310
- Enhanced the hooks environment for instance moves (failovers,
1311
  migrations) where the primary/secondary nodes changed during the
1312
  operation, by adding {NEW,OLD}_{PRIMARY,SECONDARY} vars
1313
- Enhanced data validations for many user-supplied values; one important
1314
  item is the restrictions imposed on instance and node names, which
1315
  might reject some (invalid) host names
1316
- Add a configure-time option to disable file-based storage, if it's not
1317
  needed; this allows greater security separation between the master
1318
  node and the other nodes from the point of view of the inter-node RPC
1319
  protocol
1320
- Added user notification in interactive tools if job is waiting in the
1321
  job queue or trying to acquire locks
1322
- Added log messages when a job is waiting for locks
1323
- Added filtering by node tags in instance operations which admit
1324
  multiple instances (start, stop, reboot, reinstall)
1325
- Added a new tool for cluster mergers, ``cluster-merge``
1326
- Parameters from command line which are of the form ``a=b,c=d`` can now
1327
  use backslash escapes to pass in values which contain commas,
1328
  e.g. ``a=b\\c,d=e`` where the 'a' parameter would get the value
1329
  ``b,c``
1330
- For KVM, the instance name is the first parameter passed to KVM, so
1331
  that it's more visible in the process list
1332

    
1333

    
1334
Version 2.1.0
1335
-------------
1336

    
1337
*(Released Tue, 2 Mar 2010)*
1338

    
1339
Ganeti 2.1 brings many improvements with it. Major changes:
1340

    
1341
- Added infrastructure to ease automated disk repairs
1342
- Added new daemon to export configuration data in a cheaper way than
1343
  using the remote API
1344
- Instance NICs can now be routed instead of being associated with a
1345
  networking bridge
1346
- Improved job locking logic to reduce impact of jobs acquiring multiple
1347
  locks waiting for other long-running jobs
1348

    
1349
In-depth implementation details can be found in the Ganeti 2.1 design
1350
document.
1351

    
1352
Details
1353
~~~~~~~
1354

    
1355
- Added chroot hypervisor
1356
- Added more options to xen-hvm hypervisor (``kernel_path`` and
1357
  ``device_model``)
1358
- Added more options to xen-pvm hypervisor (``use_bootloader``,
1359
  ``bootloader_path`` and ``bootloader_args``)
1360
- Added the ``use_localtime`` option for the xen-hvm and kvm
1361
  hypervisors, and the default value for this has changed to false (in
1362
  2.0 xen-hvm always enabled it)
1363
- Added luxi call to submit multiple jobs in one go
1364
- Added cluster initialization option to not modify ``/etc/hosts``
1365
  file on nodes
1366
- Added network interface parameters
1367
- Added dry run mode to some LUs
1368
- Added RAPI resources:
1369

    
1370
  - ``/2/instances/[instance_name]/info``
1371
  - ``/2/instances/[instance_name]/replace-disks``
1372
  - ``/2/nodes/[node_name]/evacuate``
1373
  - ``/2/nodes/[node_name]/migrate``
1374
  - ``/2/nodes/[node_name]/role``
1375
  - ``/2/nodes/[node_name]/storage``
1376
  - ``/2/nodes/[node_name]/storage/modify``
1377
  - ``/2/nodes/[node_name]/storage/repair``
1378

    
1379
- Added OpCodes to evacuate or migrate all instances on a node
1380
- Added new command to list storage elements on nodes (``gnt-node
1381
  list-storage``) and modify them (``gnt-node modify-storage``)
1382
- Added new ssconf files with master candidate IP address
1383
  (``ssconf_master_candidates_ips``), node primary IP address
1384
  (``ssconf_node_primary_ips``) and node secondary IP address
1385
  (``ssconf_node_secondary_ips``)
1386
- Added ``ganeti-confd`` and a client library to query the Ganeti
1387
  configuration via UDP
1388
- Added ability to run hooks after cluster initialization and before
1389
  cluster destruction
1390
- Added automatic mode for disk replace (``gnt-instance replace-disks
1391
  --auto``)
1392
- Added ``gnt-instance recreate-disks`` to re-create (empty) disks
1393
  after catastrophic data-loss
1394
- Added ``gnt-node repair-storage`` command to repair damaged LVM volume
1395
  groups
1396
- Added ``gnt-instance move`` command to move instances
1397
- Added ``gnt-cluster watcher`` command to control watcher
1398
- Added ``gnt-node powercycle`` command to powercycle nodes
1399
- Added new job status field ``lock_status``
1400
- Added parseable error codes to cluster verification (``gnt-cluster
1401
  verify --error-codes``) and made output less verbose (use
1402
  ``--verbose`` to restore previous behaviour)
1403
- Added UUIDs to the main config entities (cluster, nodes, instances)
1404
- Added support for OS variants
1405
- Added support for hashed passwords in the Ganeti remote API users file
1406
  (``rapi_users``)
1407
- Added option to specify maximum timeout on instance shutdown
1408
- Added ``--no-ssh-init`` option to ``gnt-cluster init``
1409
- Added new helper script to start and stop Ganeti daemons
1410
  (``daemon-util``), with the intent to reduce the work necessary to
1411
  adjust Ganeti for non-Debian distributions and to start/stop daemons
1412
  from one place
1413
- Added more unittests
1414
- Fixed critical bug in ganeti-masterd startup
1415
- Removed the configure-time ``kvm-migration-port`` parameter, this is
1416
  now customisable at the cluster level for both the KVM and Xen
1417
  hypervisors using the new ``migration_port`` parameter
1418
- Pass ``INSTANCE_REINSTALL`` variable to OS installation script when
1419
  reinstalling an instance
1420
- Allowed ``@`` in tag names
1421
- Migrated to Sphinx (http://sphinx.pocoo.org/) for documentation
1422
- Many documentation updates
1423
- Distribute hypervisor files on ``gnt-cluster redist-conf``
1424
- ``gnt-instance reinstall`` can now reinstall multiple instances
1425
- Updated many command line parameters
1426
- Introduced new OS API version 15
1427
- No longer support a default hypervisor
1428
- Treat virtual LVs as inexistent
1429
- Improved job locking logic to reduce lock contention
1430
- Match instance and node names case insensitively
1431
- Reimplemented bash completion script to be more complete
1432
- Improved burnin
1433

    
1434

    
1435
Version 2.0.6
1436
-------------
1437

    
1438
*(Released Thu, 4 Feb 2010)*
1439

    
1440
- Fix cleaner behaviour on nodes not in a cluster (Debian bug 568105)
1441
- Fix a string formatting bug
1442
- Improve safety of the code in some error paths
1443
- Improve data validation in the master of values returned from nodes
1444

    
1445

    
1446
Version 2.0.5
1447
-------------
1448

    
1449
*(Released Thu, 17 Dec 2009)*
1450

    
1451
- Fix security issue due to missing validation of iallocator names; this
1452
  allows local and remote execution of arbitrary executables
1453
- Fix failure of gnt-node list during instance removal
1454
- Ship the RAPI documentation in the archive
1455

    
1456

    
1457
Version 2.0.4
1458
-------------
1459

    
1460
*(Released Wed, 30 Sep 2009)*
1461

    
1462
- Fixed many wrong messages
1463
- Fixed a few bugs related to the locking library
1464
- Fixed MAC checking at instance creation time
1465
- Fixed a DRBD parsing bug related to gaps in /proc/drbd
1466
- Fixed a few issues related to signal handling in both daemons and
1467
  scripts
1468
- Fixed the example startup script provided
1469
- Fixed insserv dependencies in the example startup script (patch from
1470
  Debian)
1471
- Fixed handling of drained nodes in the iallocator framework
1472
- Fixed handling of KERNEL_PATH parameter for xen-hvm (Debian bug
1473
  #528618)
1474
- Fixed error related to invalid job IDs in job polling
1475
- Fixed job/opcode persistence on unclean master shutdown
1476
- Fixed handling of partial job processing after unclean master
1477
  shutdown
1478
- Fixed error reporting from LUs, previously all errors were converted
1479
  into execution errors
1480
- Fixed error reporting from burnin
1481
- Decreased significantly the memory usage of the job queue
1482
- Optimised slightly multi-job submission
1483
- Optimised slightly opcode loading
1484
- Backported the multi-job submit framework from the development
1485
  branch; multi-instance start and stop should be faster
1486
- Added script to clean archived jobs after 21 days; this will reduce
1487
  the size of the queue directory
1488
- Added some extra checks in disk size tracking
1489
- Added an example ethers hook script
1490
- Added a cluster parameter that prevents Ganeti from modifying of
1491
  /etc/hosts
1492
- Added more node information to RAPI responses
1493
- Added a ``gnt-job watch`` command that allows following the ouput of a
1494
  job
1495
- Added a bind-address option to ganeti-rapi
1496
- Added more checks to the configuration verify
1497
- Enhanced the burnin script such that some operations can be retried
1498
  automatically
1499
- Converted instance reinstall to multi-instance model
1500

    
1501

    
1502
Version 2.0.3
1503
-------------
1504

    
1505
*(Released Fri, 7 Aug 2009)*
1506

    
1507
- Added ``--ignore-size`` to the ``gnt-instance activate-disks`` command
1508
  to allow using the pre-2.0.2 behaviour in activation, if any existing
1509
  instances have mismatched disk sizes in the configuration
1510
- Added ``gnt-cluster repair-disk-sizes`` command to check and update
1511
  any configuration mismatches for disk sizes
1512
- Added ``gnt-master cluste-failover --no-voting`` to allow master
1513
  failover to work on two-node clusters
1514
- Fixed the ``--net`` option of ``gnt-backup import``, which was
1515
  unusable
1516
- Fixed detection of OS script errors in ``gnt-backup export``
1517
- Fixed exit code of ``gnt-backup export``
1518

    
1519

    
1520
Version 2.0.2
1521
-------------
1522

    
1523
*(Released Fri, 17 Jul 2009)*
1524

    
1525
- Added experimental support for stripped logical volumes; this should
1526
  enhance performance but comes with a higher complexity in the block
1527
  device handling; stripping is only enabled when passing
1528
  ``--with-lvm-stripecount=N`` to ``configure``, but codepaths are
1529
  affected even in the non-stripped mode
1530
- Improved resiliency against transient failures at the end of DRBD
1531
  resyncs, and in general of DRBD resync checks
1532
- Fixed a couple of issues with exports and snapshot errors
1533
- Fixed a couple of issues in instance listing
1534
- Added display of the disk size in ``gnt-instance info``
1535
- Fixed checking for valid OSes in instance creation
1536
- Fixed handling of the "vcpus" parameter in instance listing and in
1537
  general of invalid parameters
1538
- Fixed http server library, and thus RAPI, to handle invalid
1539
  username/password combinations correctly; this means that now they
1540
  report unauthorized for queries too, not only for modifications,
1541
  allowing earlier detect of configuration problems
1542
- Added a new "role" node list field, equivalent to the master/master
1543
  candidate/drained/offline flags combinations
1544
- Fixed cluster modify and changes of candidate pool size
1545
- Fixed cluster verify error messages for wrong files on regular nodes
1546
- Fixed a couple of issues with node demotion from master candidate role
1547
- Fixed node readd issues
1548
- Added non-interactive mode for ``ganeti-masterd --no-voting`` startup
1549
- Added a new ``--no-voting`` option for masterfailover to fix failover
1550
  on two-nodes clusters when the former master node is unreachable
1551
- Added instance reinstall over RAPI
1552

    
1553

    
1554
Version 2.0.1
1555
-------------
1556

    
1557
*(Released Tue, 16 Jun 2009)*
1558

    
1559
- added ``-H``/``-B`` startup parameters to ``gnt-instance``, which will
1560
  allow re-adding the start in single-user option (regression from 1.2)
1561
- the watcher writes the instance status to a file, to allow monitoring
1562
  to report the instance status (from the master) based on cached
1563
  results of the watcher's queries; while this can get stale if the
1564
  watcher is being locked due to other work on the cluster, this is
1565
  still an improvement
1566
- the watcher now also restarts the node daemon and the rapi daemon if
1567
  they died
1568
- fixed the watcher to handle full and drained queue cases
1569
- hooks export more instance data in the environment, which helps if
1570
  hook scripts need to take action based on the instance's properties
1571
  (no longer need to query back into ganeti)
1572
- instance failovers when the instance is stopped do not check for free
1573
  RAM, so that failing over a stopped instance is possible in low memory
1574
  situations
1575
- rapi uses queries for tags instead of jobs (for less job traffic), and
1576
  for cluster tags it won't talk to masterd at all but read them from
1577
  ssconf
1578
- a couple of error handling fixes in RAPI
1579
- drbd handling: improved the error handling of inconsistent disks after
1580
  resync to reduce the frequency of "there are some degraded disks for
1581
  this instance" messages
1582
- fixed a bug in live migration when DRBD doesn't want to reconnect (the
1583
  error handling path called a wrong function name)
1584

    
1585

    
1586
Version 2.0.0
1587
-------------
1588

    
1589
*(Released Wed, 27 May 2009)*
1590

    
1591
- no changes from rc5
1592

    
1593

    
1594
Version 2.0 rc5
1595
---------------
1596

    
1597
*(Released Wed, 20 May 2009)*
1598

    
1599
- fix a couple of bugs (validation, argument checks)
1600
- fix ``gnt-cluster getmaster`` on non-master nodes (regression)
1601
- some small improvements to RAPI and IAllocator
1602
- make watcher automatically start the master daemon if down
1603

    
1604

    
1605
Version 2.0 rc4
1606
---------------
1607

    
1608
*(Released Mon, 27 Apr 2009)*
1609

    
1610
- change the OS list to not require locks; this helps with big clusters
1611
- fix ``gnt-cluster verify`` and ``gnt-cluster verify-disks`` when the
1612
  volume group is broken
1613
- ``gnt-instance info``, without any arguments, doesn't run for all
1614
  instances anymore; either pass ``--all`` or pass the desired
1615
  instances; this helps against mistakes on big clusters where listing
1616
  the information for all instances takes a long time
1617
- miscellaneous doc and man pages fixes
1618

    
1619

    
1620
Version 2.0 rc3
1621
---------------
1622

    
1623
*(Released Wed, 8 Apr 2009)*
1624

    
1625
- Change the internal locking model of some ``gnt-node`` commands, in
1626
  order to reduce contention (and blocking of master daemon) when
1627
  batching many creation/reinstall jobs
1628
- Fixes to Xen soft reboot
1629
- No longer build documentation at build time, instead distribute it in
1630
  the archive, in order to reduce the need for the whole docbook/rst
1631
  toolchains
1632

    
1633

    
1634
Version 2.0 rc2
1635
---------------
1636

    
1637
*(Released Fri, 27 Mar 2009)*
1638

    
1639
- Now the cfgupgrade scripts works and can upgrade 1.2.7 clusters to 2.0
1640
- Fix watcher startup sequence, improves the behaviour of busy clusters
1641
- Some other fixes in ``gnt-cluster verify``, ``gnt-instance
1642
  replace-disks``, ``gnt-instance add``, ``gnt-cluster queue``, KVM VNC
1643
  bind address and other places
1644
- Some documentation fixes and updates
1645

    
1646

    
1647
Version 2.0 rc1
1648
---------------
1649

    
1650
*(Released Mon, 2 Mar 2009)*
1651

    
1652
- More documentation updates, now all docs should be more-or-less
1653
  up-to-date
1654
- A couple of small fixes (mixed hypervisor clusters, offline nodes,
1655
  etc.)
1656
- Added a customizable HV_KERNEL_ARGS hypervisor parameter (for Xen PVM
1657
  and KVM)
1658
- Fix an issue related to $libdir/run/ganeti and cluster creation
1659

    
1660

    
1661
Version 2.0 beta2
1662
-----------------
1663

    
1664
*(Released Thu, 19 Feb 2009)*
1665

    
1666
- Xen PVM and KVM have switched the default value for the instance root
1667
  disk to the first partition on the first drive, instead of the whole
1668
  drive; this means that the OS installation scripts must be changed
1669
  accordingly
1670
- Man pages have been updated
1671
- RAPI has been switched by default to HTTPS, and the exported functions
1672
  should all work correctly
1673
- RAPI v1 has been removed
1674
- Many improvements to the KVM hypervisor
1675
- Block device errors are now better reported
1676
- Many other bugfixes and small improvements
1677

    
1678

    
1679
Version 2.0 beta1
1680
-----------------
1681

    
1682
*(Released Mon, 26 Jan 2009)*
1683

    
1684
- Version 2 is a general rewrite of the code and therefore the
1685
  differences are too many to list, see the design document for 2.0 in
1686
  the ``doc/`` subdirectory for more details
1687
- In this beta version there is not yet a migration path from 1.2 (there
1688
  will be one in the final 2.0 release)
1689
- A few significant changes are:
1690

    
1691
  - all commands are executed by a daemon (``ganeti-masterd``) and the
1692
    various ``gnt-*`` commands are just front-ends to it
1693
  - all the commands are entered into, and executed from a job queue,
1694
    see the ``gnt-job(8)`` manpage
1695
  - the RAPI daemon supports read-write operations, secured by basic
1696
    HTTP authentication on top of HTTPS
1697
  - DRBD version 0.7 support has been removed, DRBD 8 is the only
1698
    supported version (when migrating from Ganeti 1.2 to 2.0, you need
1699
    to migrate to DRBD 8 first while still running Ganeti 1.2)
1700
  - DRBD devices are using statically allocated minor numbers, which
1701
    will be assigned to existing instances during the migration process
1702
  - there is support for both Xen PVM and Xen HVM instances running on
1703
    the same cluster
1704
  - KVM virtualization is supported too
1705
  - file-based storage has been implemented, which means that it is
1706
    possible to run the cluster without LVM and DRBD storage, for
1707
    example using a shared filesystem exported from shared storage (and
1708
    still have live migration)
1709

    
1710

    
1711
Version 1.2.7
1712
-------------
1713

    
1714
*(Released Tue, 13 Jan 2009)*
1715

    
1716
- Change the default reboot type in ``gnt-instance reboot`` to "hard"
1717
- Reuse the old instance mac address by default on instance import, if
1718
  the instance name is the same.
1719
- Handle situations in which the node info rpc returns incomplete
1720
  results (issue 46)
1721
- Add checks for tcp/udp ports collisions in ``gnt-cluster verify``
1722
- Improved version of batcher:
1723

    
1724
  - state file support
1725
  - instance mac address support
1726
  - support for HVM clusters/instances
1727

    
1728
- Add an option to show the number of cpu sockets and nodes in
1729
  ``gnt-node list``
1730
- Support OSes that handle more than one version of the OS api (but do
1731
  not change the current API in any other way)
1732
- Fix ``gnt-node migrate``
1733
- ``gnt-debug`` man page
1734
- Fixes various more typos and small issues
1735
- Increase disk resync maximum speed to 60MB/s (from 30MB/s)
1736

    
1737

    
1738
Version 1.2.6
1739
-------------
1740

    
1741
*(Released Wed, 24 Sep 2008)*
1742

    
1743
- new ``--hvm-nic-type`` and ``--hvm-disk-type`` flags to control the
1744
  type of disk exported to fully virtualized instances.
1745
- provide access to the serial console of HVM instances
1746
- instance auto_balance flag, set by default. If turned off it will
1747
  avoid warnings on cluster verify if there is not enough memory to fail
1748
  over an instance. in the future it will prevent automatically failing
1749
  it over when we will support that.
1750
- batcher tool for instance creation, see ``tools/README.batcher``
1751
- ``gnt-instance reinstall --select-os`` to interactively select a new
1752
  operating system when reinstalling an instance.
1753
- when changing the memory amount on instance modify a check has been
1754
  added that the instance will be able to start. also warnings are
1755
  emitted if the instance will not be able to fail over, if auto_balance
1756
  is true.
1757
- documentation fixes
1758
- sync fields between ``gnt-instance list/modify/add/import``
1759
- fix a race condition in drbd when the sync speed was set after giving
1760
  the device a remote peer.
1761

    
1762

    
1763
Version 1.2.5
1764
-------------
1765

    
1766
*(Released Tue, 22 Jul 2008)*
1767

    
1768
- note: the allowed size and number of tags per object were reduced
1769
- fix a bug in ``gnt-cluster verify`` with inconsistent volume groups
1770
- fixed twisted 8.x compatibility
1771
- fixed ``gnt-instance replace-disks`` with iallocator
1772
- add TCP keepalives on twisted connections to detect restarted nodes
1773
- disk increase support, see ``gnt-instance grow-disk``
1774
- implement bulk node/instance query for RAPI
1775
- add tags in node/instance listing (optional)
1776
- experimental migration (and live migration) support, read the man page
1777
  for ``gnt-instance migrate``
1778
- the ``ganeti-watcher`` logs are now timestamped, and the watcher also
1779
  has some small improvements in handling its state file
1780

    
1781

    
1782
Version 1.2.4
1783
-------------
1784

    
1785
*(Released Fri, 13 Jun 2008)*
1786

    
1787
- Experimental readonly, REST-based remote API implementation;
1788
  automatically started on master node, TCP port 5080, if enabled by
1789
  ``--enable-rapi`` parameter to configure script.
1790
- Instance allocator support. Add and import instance accept a
1791
  ``--iallocator`` parameter, and call that instance allocator to decide
1792
  which node to use for the instance. The iallocator document describes
1793
  what's expected from an allocator script.
1794
- ``gnt-cluster verify`` N+1 memory redundancy checks: Unless passed the
1795
  ``--no-nplus1-mem`` option ``gnt-cluster verify`` now checks that if a
1796
  node is lost there is still enough memory to fail over the instances
1797
  that reside on it.
1798
- ``gnt-cluster verify`` hooks: it is now possible to add post-hooks to
1799
  ``gnt-cluster verify``, to check for site-specific compliance. All the
1800
  hooks will run, and their output, if any, will be displayed. Any
1801
  failing hook will make the verification return an error value.
1802
- ``gnt-cluster verify`` now checks that its peers are reachable on the
1803
  primary and secondary interfaces
1804
- ``gnt-node add`` now supports the ``--readd`` option, to readd a node
1805
  that is still declared as part of the cluster and has failed.
1806
- ``gnt-* list`` commands now accept a new ``-o +field`` way of
1807
  specifying output fields, that just adds the chosen fields to the
1808
  default ones.
1809
- ``gnt-backup`` now has a new ``remove`` command to delete an existing
1810
  export from the filesystem.
1811
- New per-instance parameters hvm_acpi, hvm_pae and hvm_cdrom_image_path
1812
  have been added. Using them you can enable/disable acpi and pae
1813
  support, and specify a path for a cd image to be exported to the
1814
  instance. These parameters as the name suggest only work on HVM
1815
  clusters.
1816
- When upgrading an HVM cluster to Ganeti 1.2.4, the values for ACPI and
1817
  PAE support will be set to the previously hardcoded values, but the
1818
  (previously hardcoded) path to the CDROM ISO image will be unset and
1819
  if required, needs to be set manually with ``gnt-instance modify``
1820
  after the upgrade.
1821
- The address to which an instance's VNC console is bound is now
1822
  selectable per-instance, rather than being cluster wide. Of course
1823
  this only applies to instances controlled via VNC, so currently just
1824
  applies to HVM clusters.
1825

    
1826

    
1827
Version 1.2.3
1828
-------------
1829

    
1830
*(Released Mon, 18 Feb 2008)*
1831

    
1832
- more tweaks to the disk activation code (especially helpful for DRBD)
1833
- change the default ``gnt-instance list`` output format, now there is
1834
  one combined status field (see the manpage for the exact values this
1835
  field will have)
1836
- some more fixes for the mac export to hooks change
1837
- make Ganeti not break with DRBD 8.2.x (which changed the version
1838
  format in ``/proc/drbd``) (issue 24)
1839
- add an upgrade tool from "remote_raid1" disk template to "drbd" disk
1840
  template, allowing migration from DRBD0.7+MD to DRBD8
1841

    
1842

    
1843
Version 1.2.2
1844
-------------
1845

    
1846
*(Released Wed, 30 Jan 2008)*
1847

    
1848
- fix ``gnt-instance modify`` breakage introduced in 1.2.1 with the HVM
1849
  support (issue 23)
1850
- add command aliases infrastructure and a few aliases
1851
- allow listing of VCPUs in the ``gnt-instance list`` and improve the
1852
  man pages and the ``--help`` option of ``gnt-node
1853
  list``/``gnt-instance list``
1854
- fix ``gnt-backup list`` with down nodes (issue 21)
1855
- change the tools location (move from $pkgdatadir to $pkglibdir/tools)
1856
- fix the dist archive and add a check for including svn/git files in
1857
  the future
1858
- some developer-related changes: improve the burnin and the QA suite,
1859
  add an upload script for testing during development
1860

    
1861

    
1862
Version 1.2.1
1863
-------------
1864

    
1865
*(Released Wed, 16 Jan 2008)*
1866

    
1867
- experimental HVM support, read the install document, section
1868
  "Initializing the cluster"
1869
- allow for the PVM hypervisor per-instance kernel and initrd paths
1870
- add a new command ``gnt-cluster verify-disks`` which uses a new
1871
  algorithm to improve the reconnection of the DRBD pairs if the device
1872
  on the secondary node has gone away
1873
- make logical volume code auto-activate LVs at disk activation time
1874
- slightly improve the speed of activating disks
1875
- allow specification of the MAC address at instance creation time, and
1876
  changing it later via ``gnt-instance modify``
1877
- fix handling of external commands that generate lots of output on
1878
  stderr
1879
- update documentation with regard to minimum version of DRBD8 supported
1880

    
1881

    
1882
Version 1.2.0
1883
-------------
1884

    
1885
*(Released Tue, 4 Dec 2007)*
1886

    
1887
- Log the ``xm create`` output to the node daemon log on failure (to
1888
  help diagnosing the error)
1889
- In debug mode, log all external commands output if failed to the logs
1890
- Change parsing of lvm commands to ignore stderr
1891

    
1892

    
1893
Version 1.2 beta3
1894
-----------------
1895

    
1896
*(Released Wed, 28 Nov 2007)*
1897

    
1898
- Another round of updates to the DRBD 8 code to deal with more failures
1899
  in the replace secondary node operation
1900
- Some more logging of failures in disk operations (lvm, drbd)
1901
- A few documentation updates
1902
- QA updates
1903

    
1904

    
1905
Version 1.2 beta2
1906
-----------------
1907

    
1908
*(Released Tue, 13 Nov 2007)*
1909

    
1910
- Change configuration file format from Python's Pickle to JSON.
1911
  Upgrading is possible using the cfgupgrade utility.
1912
- Add support for DRBD 8.0 (new disk template ``drbd``) which allows for
1913
  faster replace disks and is more stable (DRBD 8 has many improvements
1914
  compared to DRBD 0.7)
1915
- Added command line tags support (see man pages for ``gnt-instance``,
1916
  ``gnt-node``, ``gnt-cluster``)
1917
- Added instance rename support
1918
- Added multi-instance startup/shutdown
1919
- Added cluster rename support
1920
- Added ``gnt-node evacuate`` to simplify some node operations
1921
- Added instance reboot operation that can speedup reboot as compared to
1922
  stop and start
1923
- Soften the requirement that hostnames are in FQDN format
1924
- The ``ganeti-watcher`` now activates drbd pairs after secondary node
1925
  reboots
1926
- Removed dependency on debian's patched fping that uses the
1927
  non-standard ``-S`` option
1928
- Now the OS definitions are searched for in multiple, configurable
1929
  paths (easier for distros to package)
1930
- Some changes to the hooks infrastructure (especially the new
1931
  post-configuration update hook)
1932
- Other small bugfixes
1933

    
1934
.. vim: set textwidth=72 syntax=rst :
1935
.. Local Variables:
1936
.. mode: rst
1937
.. fill-column: 72
1938
.. End: