[sheepdog] [ANNOUNCE] sheepdog stable release v0.8.2_rc0

[Hitoshi Mitake]

At Sat, 31 May 2014 23:30:00 +0900,
Hitoshi Mitake wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi sheepdog users and developers,
> 
> I released v0.8.2_rc0 of stable branch. You can download a source
> archive from these URLs:
> tar.gz: https://github.com/sheepdog/sheepdog/archive/v0.8.2_rc0.tar.gz
> zip: https://github.com/sheepdog/sheepdog/archive/v0.8.2_rc0.zip
> 
> Main topics of this release are:
>  - remove a serious bug in startup recovery of crashed cluster
>  - bugfix for majority voting algorithm of "dog vdi check"
>  - various bugfixes in command line processing of dog command
> 
> If no one disagrees about this release candidate in 2 days, it will be
> v0.8.2 officially.

I'll delay the release of v0.8.2. Because the bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/sheepdog-project/+bug/1317755 is really
serious. The recent posted patch (see the thread entitled [PATCH]
sheep: don't recycle VDI ID) can fix the problem. After the patch is
merged to master and backported to stable-0.8, I'll release
v0.8.2_rc1.

Thanks,
Hitoshi


> 
> Below is the summary of the commits:
> 
> Hitoshi Mitake (2):
>       dog: forbid creating snapshot of hypervolume
>       dog: use nr_copies of inode object instead of command line parameter
> 
> Robin Dong (3):
>       sheep/cluster: use sema_t to replace pthread_cont_t
>       sheep/recovery: allocate old vinfo by using sys->cinfo
>       sheep: add test case for recovery from failed cluster
> 
> Ruoyu (5):
>       dog/vdi: bug fix for voting majority, add test case to test it
>       sheep/object_cache: fix potential crash in object_cache_remove
>       sheep/ops: fix potential type conversion error
>       lib/logger: fix potential type conversion error
>       dog/node: add raw output support for dog node md info
> 
> Thanks,
> Hitoshi