From: Alan Robertson <alanr@unix.sh> To: ha-linux List <linux-ha@muc.de> Subject: High-Availability Linux (linux-ha) news for October Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 15:13:29 -0600 Cc: Linux-HA Development List <linux-ha-dev@lists.community.tummy.com> Hi, Here's a summary of what we've accomplished in October 2001 in the Linux-HA arena: Put together 8 rapid-fire beta releases of the 0.4.9.1 version. They include making it compile on newer Linuxes new stonith plugins fixes to split-brain recovery (it now really works) minor fixes to client code Fix to gratuitous ARP code to make it work w/more switches Added about 15 features/bug fixes to the 0.5.0 beta code. Most notable are the following: Lclaudio's standby enhancement split-brain recovery code - and testing New tests in test suite for the "standby" code Significant real-time performance fix Got serial code working correctly Fixed resource releasing Changed it so that it doesn't stonith a node which shuts down gracefully Ports to several OSes: FreeBSD, AIX, Solaris, etc. Nice fix for displaying which process is doing what in 'ps' Fix to gratuitous ARP code to make it work w/more switches There are now only a handful of other fixes before we start the next beta series (leading to 0.5.0). Added code to cause our ha_log() calls to be treated like printfs for type checking. On other fronts: We finally put up Ram Pai's API documentation on the web (Thanks Ram!). Updated the faqntips document. We are making more progress on the open cluster framework meeting scheduled in the Netherlands We had more discussions with the Open Standards Group about working with them, also reviewed some of their proposed IP rules Made progress understanding the distinctions between telco and enterprise HA requirements. Thanks! -- Alan Robertson alanr@unix.sh