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Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 09:19:21 -0700
From: Alan Robertson <alanr@bell-labs.com>
To: lwn@lwn.net
Subject: Linux-HA news

Hi,

We've had lots of good news on the Linux-HA front lately:

First, Volker Wiegand of SuSE is now working full-time on the project, and we've
been energized by the excellent efforts of Marcelo Tosatti of Conectiva Linux. 
Volker is working on the new cluster manager, and Marcelo is doing great work on
network mirroring.  David Jules is ensuring we work properly on Mandrake Linux. 
David Martinez is working on a cool GUI configuration tool. Matt Soffen is
making good progress on his FreeBSD port.  At this point, we join Wensong
Zhang's LVS project as the premier distribution-independent open development
High-Availability projects.

We've just put out an official version of heartbeat 0.4.6, and a new beta
version called 0.4.6a.

0.4.6 is a stable release with lots of simple bug fixes, but it also adds
monitoring of serial line status, and enabling of flow control.

0.4.6a is the first beta in the 0.4.7 series.

It turns off /proc/ha support, and has what I think is the complete error
correction protocol (famous last words :-)).  I'll add some specific test stubs
in a later beta so it can be more easily proven out.  This code is very
important to get right.  Anyone with a perverse and wicked mindset and no
respect for the dignity of a piece of software could be of great help here!

Since we're a community-based development effort, we are always looking for good
people to help us in development, documentation, requirements, testing, web
design, and lots and lots of other ways.  Come join the fun!

As always, let us know if you have problems.

	You can find them all in the usual place:

		http://linux-ha.org/download/


	-- Alan Robertson
	   alanr@bell-labs.com