[Pacemaker] Time to get ready for 1.1.11

[David Vossel]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Beekhof" <andrew at beekhof.net>
> To: "The Pacemaker cluster resource manager" <pacemaker at oss.clusterlabs.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 9:02:40 PM
> Subject: [Pacemaker] Time to get ready for 1.1.11
> 
> With over 400 updates since the release of 1.1.10, its time to start
> thinking about a new release.
> 
> Today I have tagged release candidate 1[1].
> The most notable fixes include:
> 
>   + attrd: Implementation of a truely atomic attrd for use with corosync 2.x
>   + cib: Allow values to be added/updated and removed in a single update
>   + cib: Support XML comments in diffs
>   + Core: Allow blackbox logging to be disabled with SIGUSR2
>   + crmd: Do not block on proxied calls from pacemaker_remoted
>   + crmd: Enable cluster-wide throttling when the cib heavily exceeds its
>   target load
>   + crmd: Use the load on our peers to know how many jobs to send them
>   + crm_mon: add --hide-headers option to hide all headers
>   + crm_report: Collect logs directly from journald if available
>   + Fencing: On timeout, clean up the agent's entire process group
>   + Fencing: Support agents that need the host to be unfenced at startup
>   + ipc: Raise the default buffer size to 128k
>   + PE: Add a special attribute for distinguishing between real nodes and
>   containers in constraint rules
>   + PE: Allow location constraints to take a regex pattern to match against
>   resource IDs
>   + pengine: Distinguish between the agent being missing and something the
>   agent needs being missing
>   + remote: Properly version the remote connection protocol
>   + services: Detect missing agents and permission errors before forking
>   + Bug cl#5171 - pengine: Don't prevent clones from running due to dependant
>   resources
>   + Bug cl#5179 - Corosync: Attempt to retrieve a peer's node name if it is
>   not already known
>   + Bug cl#5181 - corosync: Ensure node IDs are written to the CIB as
>   unsigned integers
> 
> If you are a user of `pacemaker_remoted`, you should take the time to read
> about changes to the online wire protocol[2] that are present in this
> release.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/ClusterLabs/pacemaker/releases/Pacemaker-1.1.11-rc1
> [2]
> http://blog.clusterlabs.org/blog/2013/changes-to-the-remote-wire-protocol/
> 
> To build `rpm` packages for testing:
> 
> 1. Clone the current sources:
> 
>        # git clone --depth 0 git://github.com/ClusterLabs/pacemaker.git
>        # cd pacemaker
> 
> 1. If you haven't already, install Pacemaker's dependancies
> 
>        [Fedora] # sudo yum install -y yum-utils
>        [ALL]	# make rpm-dep
> 
> 1. Build Pacemaker
> 
>        # make rc
> 
> 1. Copy the rpms and deploy as needed
> 

A new release candidate, Pacemaker-1.1.11-rc2, is ready for testing. https://github.com/ClusterLabs/pacemaker/releases/tag/Pacemaker-1.1.11-rc2

Assuming no major regressions are encountered during testing, this tag will become the final Pacemaker-1.1.11 release a week from today.

-- Vossel