[ClusterLabs] Pacemaker 1.1.13 Release cycle begins!

[Andrew Beekhof]

> On 27 Mar 2015, at 7:37 pm, Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> В Fri, 27 Mar 2015 16:18:38 +1100
> Andrew Beekhof <andrew at beekhof.net> пишет:
> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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
>> - crmd: If configured, trigger the watchdog immediately if we loose quorum and no-quorum-policy=suicide
>> - crm_resource: Implement an intelligent restart capability
>> - 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
> 
> Is it possible for a single resource agent to support both old and new
> version? Or any agent willing to optionally support degraded mode will
> have hard requirement for 1.1.13 version?

This is a very good point.

It is possible, you'll need to look for $OCF_RESKEY_crm_feature_set >= 3.0.9
If that condition is true, then the cluster can support the new error codes.

> 
>> - 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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