[Pacemaker] ANNOUNCE: First release of the Pacemaker cluster resource manager, formerly part of Heartbeat

Thu Jan 17 07:42:51 UTC 2008

I am proud to announce the first independent release of Pacemaker.
Most of you will know Pacemaker as the Heartbeat CRM however, in  
addition to being a separate project, it now also supports the OpenAIS  
cluster stack!

Packages for Pacemaker and it's immediate dependancies can be  
downloaded from the usual location:
    http://software.opensuse.org/download/server:/ha-clustering

and the source can be obtained from:
   http://hg.clusterlabs.org/pacemaker/stable-0.6/archive/Pacemaker-0.6.0.tar.bz2

For a breakdown of the available packages and what parts are optional,  
please refer to
   http://clusterlabs.org/mw/Install#Package_List

This release also marks the start of our first (feature frozen) stable  
series for which we will provide bug-fix-only updates until at least  
2009.

More information regarding Pacemaker (including the name, choice of  
version number and how to install) is available at:
   http://clusterlabs.org/mw/FAQ

regards,
Andrew

Begin lazy paste from the changelog...

   * Update source tarball to revision: c94b92d550cf
   * Statistics:
       Changesets:      347
       Diff^:                    2272 files changed, 132508  
insertions(+), 305991 deletions(-)

       ^ The deceptively large numbers here are due to the amount of  
non-CRM code that was removed and the new internal project layout

   * Test hardware:
     + 6-node vmware cluster (sles10-sp1/256Mb/vmware stonith) on a  
single host (opensuse10.3/2Gb/2.66Ghz Quad Core2)
     + 7-node EMC Centera cluster (sles10/512Mb/2Ghz Xeon/ssh stonith)

   * Notes: Heartbeat Stack
     + All testing was performed with STONITH enabled
     + The CRM was enabled using the "crm respawn" directive
     + Testing
       2-nodes ::= 1000 CTS iterations (passed)
       4-nodes ::= 1000 CTS iterations (passed)
       6-nodes ::= 2000 CTS iterations (passed)
     + Total estimated cluster transitions: 18000

   * Notes: OpenAIS Stack
     + This release contains a preview of support for the OpenAIS  
cluster stack
     + The current release of the OpenAIS project is missing two  
important
       patches that we require.  OpenAIS packages containing these  
patches are
       available for most major distributions at:
         http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/ha-clustering
     + The OpenAIS stack is not currently recommended for use in  
clusters that
       have shared data as STONITH support is not yet implimented
     + pingd is not yet available for use with the OpenAIS stack
     + 3 significant OpenAIS issues were found during testing of 4 and  
6 node
       clusters.  We are activly working together with the OpenAIS  
project to
       get these resolved.
     + Testing
       2-nodes ::= 1000 CTS iterations (passed)
       4-nodes ::= 1000 CTS iterations (sporadic problems - see  
pending bugs)
       6-nodes ::= 1000 CTS iterations (significant problems - see  
pending bugs)
     + Total estimated cluster transitions: 12000

   * Pending bugs encountered during testing:
     + OpenAIS   #1736 - Openais membership took 20s to stabilize
     + Heartbeat #1750 - ipc_bufpool_update: magic number in head does  
not match
     + OpenAIS   #1793 - Assertion failure in memb_state_gather_enter()
     + OpenAIS   #1796 - Cluster message corruption

   * Changes since Heartbeat-2.1.2-24
   + High: Add OpenAIS support
   + High: Admin: crm_uuid - Look in the right place for Heartbeat  
UUID files
   + High: admin: Exit and indicate a problem if the crmd exits while  
crmadmin is performing a query
   + High: cib: Fix CIB_OP_UPDATE calls that modify the whole CIB
   + High: cib: Fix compilation when supporting the heartbeat stack
   + High: cib: Fix memory leaks caused by the switch to  
get_message_xml()
   + High: cib: HA_VALGRIND_ENABLED needs to be set _and_ set to 1|yes| 
true
   + High: cib: Use get_message_xml() in preference to cl_get_struct()
   + High: cib: Use the return value from call to write() in  
cib_send_plaintext()
   + High: Core: ccm nodes can legitimately have a node id of 0
   + High: Core: Fix peer-process tracking for the Heartbeat stack
   + High: Core: Heartbeat doesn't send status notifications for nodes  
that were already part of the cluster.  Fake them instead
   + High: CRM: Add children to HA_Messages such that the field name  
matches F_XML_TAGNAME
   + High: crm: Adopt a more flexible appraoch to enabling Valgrind
   + High: crm: Fix compilation when bzip2 is not installed
   + High: CRM: Future-proof get_message_xml()
   + High: crmd: Filter election responses based on time not FSA state
   + High: crmd: Handle all possible peer states in  
crmd_ha_status_callback()
   + High: crmd: Make sure the current date/time is set - prevents use- 
of-NULL when evaluating rules
   + High: crmd: Relax an assertion regrading  ccm membership instances
   + High: crmd: Use (node->processes&crm_proc_ais) to accurately  
update the CIB after replace operations
   + High: crmd: Heartbeat: Accurately record peer client status
   + High: PE: Bug 1777 - Allow colocation with a resource in the  
Stopped state
   + High: PE: Bug 1822 - Prevent use-of-NULL in PromoteRsc()
   + High: PE: Implement three recovery policies based on op_status  
and op_rc
   + High: PE: Parse fail-count correctly (it may be set to ININFITY)
   + High: PE: Prevent graph-loop when stonith agents need to be moved  
around before a STONITH op
   + High: PE: Prevent graph-loops when two operations have the same  
name+interval
   + High: te: Cancel active timers when destroying graphs
   + High: TE: Ensure failcount is set correctly for failed stops/starts
   + High: TE: Update failcount for oeprations that time out
   + Medium: admin: Prevent hang in crm_mon -1 when there is no cib  
connection - Patch from Junko IKEDA
   + Medium: cib: Require --force|-f when performing potentially  
dangerous commands with cibadmin
   + Medium: cib: Tweak the shutdown code
   + Medium: Common: Only count peer processes of active nodes
   + Medium: Core: Create generic cluster sign-in method
   + Medium: core: Fix compilation when Heartbeat support is disabled
   + Medium: Core: General cleanup for supporting two stacks
   + Medium: Core: iso6601 - Support parsing of time-only strings
   + Medium: core: Isolate more code that's only needed when  
SUPPORT_HEARTBEAT is enabled
   + Medium: crm: Improved logging of errors in the XML parser
   + Medium: crmd: Fix potential use-of-NULL in string comparison
   + Medium: crmd: Reimpliment syncronizing of CIB queries and updates  
when invoking the PE
   + Medium: crm_mon: Indicate when a node is both in standby mode and  
offline
   + Medium: PE: Bug 1822 - Don't try an promote groups if not all of  
it is active
   + Medium: PE: on_fail=nothing is an alias for 'ignore' not 'restart'
   + Medium: PE: Prevent a potential use-of-NULL in  
cron_range_satisfied()
   + snmp subagent: fix a problem on displaying an unmanaged group
   + snmp subagent: use the syslog setting
   + snmp: v2 support (thanks to Keisuke MORI)
   + snmp_subagent - made it not complain about some things if  
shutting down