Release 2.0.8 of Linux-HA is available

The Linux-HA team proudly announces feature and bug-fix release 2.0.8
of the Linux-HA (aka "heartbeat", aka "OpenHA") software.

As usual, you can find it here:
	http://linux-ha.org/download/index.html#2.0.8

There are many significant features and numerous mostly-minor bug fixes
in this release.

A few new features worthy of special note are:

	Support for split-site (disaster recovery) geographic
		configurations permitting safe configurations of
		clusters which are split across multiple locations
		See http://www.linux-ha.org/QuorumServerGuide

	Improvements to the CRM placement algorithms to support
		non-mandatory colocation constraints, master/slave role
		dependencies, unidirectional colocations, colocations
		by site (or other attribute) and a number of other nice
		features

	Support for IBM xSeries STONITH devices

	New Resource agents:
		SAP/R3, Websphere Application Server V6,
		OpenVZ containers, and others


The complete change log in all its glory and gory detail follows...

* Tue Dec 09 2007  Alan Robertson <alanr@unix.sh> (see doc/AUTHORS file)
+ Version 2.0.8 - bug fixes and enhancements
  + Allow colocation based on node attributes other than #id
  + SAPDatabase and SAPInstance resource agents added.
  + Core/CRM: Improvements to the memory allocation, message, and string
    handling libraries result in an overall speed-up of 65%.
  + CRM: Fix ISO date handling for Jan 01 of any year.
  + CRM: Only update the voted hashtable with no-votes for the current
    election.
  + RA: IPaddr: Support netmask both in CIDR and in dotted-quad notation.
  + logd: Fix trailing random byte in log messages (OSDL 1268).
  + heartbeat:  Work around a glibc/times() bug to prevent failures every
    497 days on 32-bit Linux (OSDL 1407).
  + heartbeat: Retransmits were requested more often than they'd be
    honored (OSDL 1455).
  + CTS/PE: Introduce CRM option "startup_fencing" to disable fencing of
    unseen nodes, because CTS can't handle this.
  + PE: Split-off "network-delay" option from global_timeout to separate
    network delays from action timeouts.
  + PE/CRM: Binaries now support being called with "metadata" command to
    document the complete list of options in the CIB.
  + PE: DTD: Include start_delay as a property of operation objects.
  + PE: Fix implementation of date_spec when no range is specified.
  + PE: Enforce clone_node_max for already running resources.
  + PE: Clones were not being stopped on node shutdown.
  + PE: Allow resource colocation based on node attributes other than #id
    (node_attribute option added to rsc_colocation constraint).
  + PE: Improved handling when timeout < start_delay (OSDL 1421).
  + PE: Pre-notifications for promote occurred before start was completed
    (OSDL 1447).
  + PE: Allow any two pairs of actions to be specified for rsc_order (OSDL
    1452).
  + PE: Handle asymmetric clusters where RAs are not installed on all
    nodes.
  + PE: Allow resource stickiness and failure stickiness to change based
    on node attributes.
  + CIB: Fix update_attr() causes attrd to hang at shutdown when there is
    no DC (OSDL 1432).
  + CIB: Corrupted config file prevents heartbeat restart (OSDL 1385).
  + CIB: Startup processing improvements; DTD validation will be
    automatically activated if the CIB on-disk validates.
  + TE: Fix memory leak.
  + TE: Failcount wasn't being updated in all cases.
  + TE: never update the CIB with unconfirmed stop actions (OSDL 1435).
  + CTS/RA: Replace OCFMSDummy with Stateful RA.
  + CCM: Centralize quorum calculation on the transition leader.
  + CCM: Support split-site and external quorum servers.
  + CRM: Ignore status update for non-members (ie, ping nodes).
  + LRM: Don't postpone postponed resources.
  + LRM: Fix restart in case an lrmd is already running (OSDL 1333).
  + LRM: Fix overflow in RA output handling (OSDL 1433).
  + mgmtd: Robustness and memory leak fixes.
  + mgmtd: make the port used configurable (OSDL 1390).
  + haresources2cib.py: Improve v1 to v2 conversion tool (OSDL 1415).
  + GUI: ping nodes appear as failed in gui (OSDL 1394).
  + GUI: Reduce duplicates in RA list by only showing the OCF one if both
    ocf and hb RA exist) (OSDL 1338).
  + GUI: Add new resource to currently selected group (OSDL 1414).
  + GUI: support all attributes of operations (OSDL 1372).
  + GUI: Create first resource along with a new group; delete group when
    last resource is removed (OSDL 1287).
  + GUI: Set defaults for clones and m/s RAs (OSDL 1352).
  + GUI: Use meta-data defaults when creating actions (OSDL 1351).
  + GUI: GUI: start all sub resources when we start a group or a clone
    (OSDL 1449).
  + GUI: support ordered==false or non-collocated==false groups (OSDL
    1257).
  + stonithd: Fix memory leak.
  + stonithd: Remove reliance on farside_pid (OSDL 1412).
  + stonith external/riloe: Make the login name and iLo device address
    configurable.
  + crm_resource: Add manpage.
  + RA: PureFTPd, mysql, ManageVE (to manage an OpenVZ container),
    ManageRAID, WAS6 (Websphere 6) added.
  + RA: Include SAPInstance and SAPDatabase (FATE 2172).
  + RA: IPaddr cleanup to avoid race conditions in the script. Report
    status failure when an IPaddr is active on a different interface but
    allow it to be stopped.
  + RA: IPaddr2 fixes for loopback bound addresses.
  + RA: Filesystem reported wrong status/monitor results for OCFS2 in some
    circumstances (Novell 187080).
  + RA: Improve heartbeat v1 wrappers.
  + RA: Fix db2 monitor operation.
  + RA: ldirectord: Make the emailalert and emailalertfreq options global
    as well as non-global, make checkcount global as well as per-virtual,
    add radius check, improvements to documentation.
  + RA: pgsql: Make server logfile configurable and implement
    validate-all. New parameter ctl_opt added to pgsql to support
    additional options for pg_ctl.
  + CRM: First beginnings of a cluster-wide shell (FATE ...)
  + BEAM / Coverity induced fixes.
  + Minor compatibility fixes (OSDL 1405).
  + Logging improvements all over the place.
  + Extended support for master-slave resources (FATE 300723).
  + OCF RA API compliance checker (FATE 300737).
  + Support weak and uni-directional collocation constraints (FATE
    300792).
  + Many bugfixes.



-- 
    Alan Robertson <alanr@unix.sh>

"Openness is the foundation and preservative of friendship...  Let me
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