[ClusterLabs] Pacemaker 1.1.13 Release cycle begins!

[Vladislav Bogdanov]

27.03.2015 08:18, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
> I know I've been threatening this for a while, but I'm pleased to report that the release cycle for 1.1.13 has finally begun.

Great news!

>
> The full changelog is rather long and available at:
>     https://github.com/ClusterLabs/pacemaker/releases/tag/Pacemaker-1.1.13-rc1
>
> but the highlights are:
>
> - Allow fail-counts to be removed en-mass when the new attrd is in operation
> - attrd_updater: Allow attributes to be set for other nodes
> - attrd_updater: support --query and --all options
> - attrd_updater: support private attributes

Could you please tell what they are for and how they differ from 
'restart' ones? It was not completely clear to me from commit messages.

> - crmd: If configured, trigger the watchdog immediately if we loose quorum and no-quorum-policy=suicide

Could you please shed some light on how to use watchdog integration 
please? Last time I checked it was possible only together with SBD. Did 
that change and one can now use suicide fencing as a distinct feature?

> - crm_resource: Implement an intelligent restart capability

Do you plan to put reload possibility into 1.1.13 as well?

> - crm_resource: Implement a --wait option for scripts to block with until the changes take place
> - Fencing: Allow the cluster to recover resources if the watchdog is in use
> - fencing: cl#5134 - Support random fencing delay to avoid double fencing
> - mcp: Turn on sbd integration if pacemakerd finds it running
> - penigne: Allow natural ordering of colocation sets
> - pengine: Per-node control over resource discovery
> - pengine: Support non-actionable degraded mode for OCF
> - Support machine panics for some kinds of errors (via sbd if available)
> - ipc: use server enforced buffer during ipc client send
>
> At this stage integration testing results are pretty solid but any testing feedback would be welcome.
> In particular though we need testing of:
> - sbd integration
> - private attrd attributes (attributes not written to the cib)
> - crm_resource --restart and --wait
> - the resource-discovery capabilities
>
> With the release cycle underway, anything intended for the release needs to be a pull request against the 1.1 branch.
> Features and low-priority changes can still be submitted against master.
>
> -- Andrew
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