[Cluster-devel] fence-agents 4.0.0 release

Marek Grac mgrac at redhat.com
Mon Mar 11 14:18:08 UTC 2013


Welcome to the fence-agents 4.0.0 release.

This release includes these updates:
* new packaging system supported (in fedora/rawhide) - each fence agent 
is in separate subpackage
* support for Dell DRAC III (and older) was removed
* backward compatibility BROKEN:
     * removed option -q / quiet
     * removed option --uuid use standard -n / --plug instead
     * removed option -T / --test
     * replaced option --udpport with standard --ipport
     * fence_rsb:replaced option -n with standard --ipport
     * fence_drac5: replaced option -m / --module_name with standard -n 
/ --plug
     * fence_lpar: replaced option --partition with standard -n / --plug
* new test suite and dummy fence agent added
* support for APC with firmware version 5.x
* fence agents now logs also to syslog
* support for multiple plugs per action (e.g. --plug 2,3,4 --status reboot)
* non-fence agent executables moved to /usr/libexec
* minor errors fixed and code cleanup

The new source tarball can be downloaded here:

https://fedorahosted.org/releases/f/e/fence-agents/fence-agents-4.0.0.tar.xz 


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Thanks/congratulations to all people that contributed to achieve this
milestone.

m,




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