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Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab057.1

Rebase to RHEL6.2 kernel-2.6.32-220.23.1.el6 kernel (security and bug fixes). Fixes in FUSE, UBC, fairsched, OOM, CPT, pfcache. Note that CONFIG_OPENVSWITCH is not enabled.

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--Kir 14:15, 26 June 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL6 042stab055.16

Fix post-install scripts for RHEL5 case. Prohibit access to hardware watchdog devices from inside CTs.

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--Kir 02:41, 10 June 2012 (EDT)

Precreated templates update (June 2012)

Added Fedora 17 templates to beta (require OpenVZ kernel 042stab056.11 or later). Ubuntu 12.04 templates moved out of beta. Fixed absent /dev/shm mount in CentOS 6 and Scientific Linux 6. Fixed bad device permissions in Ubuntu 12.04. All existing templates are updated.

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--Kir 19:58, 9 June 2012 (EDT)

ploop 1.4

Fix data loss during migration with ploop copy. Other minor fixes and improvements.

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--Kir 08:57, 9 June 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab056.11

Rebase to 2.6.32-220.17.1.el6 RHEL6.2 kernel (security and bug fixes). Open vSwitch support. Fixes in ext4, block, mm, cpt, sched, fuse.

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--Kir 07:29, 9 June 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab056.8

Fixes in CFQ, CPT, ploop, fuse. Namespace mounting support (for Fedora 17).

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--Kir 07:52, 3 June 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL6 042stab055.12

Rebase to 2.6.32-220.17.1.el6 RHEL6.2 kernel (security and bug fixes). Fixes in ploop, udev, packaging (kernel.spec) improvements.

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--Kir 13:05, 2 June 2012 (EDT)

vzctl 3.3

Fix vzmigrate to work with ploop containers, improve its timings display, add -t option. vzctl stop: add --skip-umount flag. vzctl set --ram/--swap: add --force. Fix vzctl and vzlist linking with ld-2.22. bash_completion: for vzctl restart offer running CT IDs.

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--Kir 16:20, 31 May 2012 (EDT)

ploop 1.3

Working ploop copy, added ploop(8) man page, improvements to ploop balloon discard, tons of other bugfixes and improvements.

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--Kir 11:22, 31 May 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab056.5

Fixes in ubc, ext4, cpt, fuse, improvements in ploop.

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--Kir 05:54, 22 May 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab056.2

Fixes in ploop, cpt, fuse, etc. Performance improvements in ext4.

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--Kir 05:54, 22 May 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab055.11

Fixes in ploop, improvements in RPM packaging.

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--Kir 00:40, 19 May 2012 (EDT)

vzctl 3.2.1

Stable update to 3.2. Fixes a nasty vzctl set --ram/--swap setting bug, improves an error message when vswap config is used on a non-vswap kernel.

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--Kir 08:08, 18 May 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL6 042stab055.10

Rebased on 2.6.32-220.13.1.el6 RHEL6.2 kernel (security, bug fixes, and enhancements). Many bug fixes and improvements.

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--Kir 18:11, 14 May 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab055.10

Fixes in NFS in CT, CPT, vzquota. Sync has been made per-container.

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--Kir 17:37, 14 May 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab055.7

Another fix for race in ext4 (ext4_ioend_wait() hang). Added ext4 fsync optimization stats.

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--Kir 05:06, 4 May 2012 (EDT)

vzctl 3.2

New features in vzctl console, vzlist. Many ploop-related improvements. Support for systemd in CT. Checks for non-vswap kernel vs vswap config. Many fixes, documentation updates, other improvements.

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--Kir 07:06, 3 May 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL5 testing 028stab100.2

Rebase to kernel 2.6.18-308.4.1.el5 (security, bug fixes, enhancements).

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--Kir 00:52, 3 May 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab055.6

Fix sysinfo (uptime, procs and loads) in CT (#2051). Fixes in NFS, ext4, cpufreq.

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--Kir 00:51, 3 May 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab055.4

Rebased on 2.6.32-220.13.1.el6 RHEL6.2 kernel (security, bug fixes, and enhancements). Stability fixes, improvements in ploop, OOM, CPT, fs.

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--Kir 00:37, 28 April 2012 (EDT)

Ubuntu 12.04 templates

Ubuntu 12.04 templates added to beta.

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--Kir 18:19, 26 Apr 2012 (EDT)

Precreated templates update (April 2012)

Fedora 16 and SUSE-12.1 templates moved out of beta. Fedora 15 templates now comes with systemd not upstart. Added pkgconfig to centos-{5,6}-devel templates. Fixed bug #2223 (removed cron jobs) in Debian 5 and 6. All existing templates are updated.

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--Kir 10:14, 21 April 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab054.5 released

Fixes/improvements in ploop, CPT, UBC, raid.

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--Kir 05:00, 17 April 2012 (EDT)

ploop 1.2 released

Added ploop_get_dev(), ploop_set_component_name() functions. Added user_xattr,acl to default mount options. Added ploop-balloon discard to compact ploop images. Fixed handling blocksize for raw images. Fixed clearing in-use flag in ploop_fsck(). Other small fixes and improvements.

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--Kir 19:12, 16 April 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab054.3 released

Fixes in ploop, CPT, bridge.

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--Kir 10:45, 11 April 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab054.2 released

Fixed kernel panic in /proc dentry put. Added support for in-kernel direct aio. Added boot param 'intel_auto_demotion=force'.

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--Kir 06:51, 5 April 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL5 testing 028stab099.4 released

Fix loosing vlan tag in bridge. Fix NFS server start crashing HN (#2227).

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--Kir 18:52, 2 April 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab054.1 released

Fixes in UBC, networking, CPT, ploop. Improvements in FUSE, ext4 online resize, OOM.

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--Kir 16:32, 2 April 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL6 042stab053.5 released

Rebase to 2.6.32-220.7.1.el6 RHEL6.2 kernel (security and bug fixes). Added ploop modules, pfcache engine. Many bug fixes and improvements.

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--Kir 13:55, 29 March 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab053.4 released

Fixes in UBC, CPT, ploop.

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--Kir 10:04, 26 March 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab053.3 released

Rebase to 2.6.32-220.7.1.el6 RHEL6.2 kernel (security and bug fixes). Fixes in UBC and CPT.

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--Kir 16:46, 22 March 2012 (EDT)

vzctl 3.1 released

Support for ploop, CT console. Fixes, improvements, documentation updates.

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--Kir 11:10, 22 March 2012 (EDT)

ploop 1.1 released

Support for variable block size, default block size changed from 256K to 1M, improvements, bugfixes, cleanups.

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--Kir 16:53, 22 March 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab052.8 released

Added ploop modules. Added checkpointing of CT with bridges. Fixes in pfcache, vswap, ext4, tun in CT, CPT, iptables.

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--Kir 12:46, 15 March 2012 (EDT)

ploop 1.0 released

Initial release.

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--Kir 13:30, 13 March 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL5 028stab099.3 released (moved to stable)

Rebase onto RHEL5.8 kernel 2.6.18-308.el5 (security, bug fixes, enhancements). Stability fixes.

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--Kir 13:15, 13 March 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL5 testing 028stab099.3 released

Fixed checkpointing of containers with bind-mounted files, locking for persistent tun devices

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--Kir 09:00, 11 March 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL5 testing 028stab099.2 released

Fixed a kernel crash on eventpoll structures restore

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--Kir 20:41, 6 March 2012 (EST)

Kernel RHEL5 testing 028stab099.1 released

Rebase onto RHEL5.8 kernel 2.6.18-308.el5 (security, bug fixes, enhancements). Virtualized kernel.dmesg_restrict to be CT aware (#2197).

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--Kir 16:06, 5 March 2012 (EST)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab052.3 released

Fixes in CPT, pfcache, ploop, vtty

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--Kir 14:21, 22 February 2012 (EST)

Kernel RHEL5 028stab098.1 released (moved to stable)

Rebase on 274.18.1.el5 kernel (security and bug fixes). Stability fixes for CPT, bridge, iptables.

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--Kir 14:14, 22 February 2012 (EST)

Precreated templates update (Feb 2012)

Fixed a few bugs in Ubuntu 11.10, CentOS 5, CentOS 6. Debian 5 "Lenny" moved to unsupported. All existing templates are updated.

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--Kir 15:10, 19 February 2012 (EST)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab052.2 released

Fixes in CPT, pfcache.

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--Kir 07:44, 19 February 2012 (EST)

Kernel RHEL5 testing 028stab098.1 released

Rebase on 274.18.1.el5 kernel (security and bug fixes).

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--Kir 06:59, 14 February 2012 (EST)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab051.1 released

Fixes in FUSE, CPT, vswap, fsync, ext4, fairsched. Account for per-ct writeback. Support new fpu states on migration. Legacy ptys enabled. PFcache engine.

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--Kir 11:26, 11 February 2012 (EST)

Kernel RHEL6 042stab049.6 released

Rebase to RHEL6.2 kernel 220.4.1.el6 (security fixes, bug fixes, enhancements). Multiple fixes and improvements.

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--Kir 04:47, 11 February 2012 (EST)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab049.5 released

A few stability and bug fixes.

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--Kir 12:28, 2 February 2012 (EST)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab049.2 released

Rebase to 220.4.1.el6 kernel (important security fix, CVE-2012-0056). Fixes in O_DIRECT for CT0, CPT, networking.

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--Kir 15:19, 25 January 2012 (EST)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab048.1 released

Rebase to 220.2.1.el6 kernel (security and bug fixes). Fixes in VSwap, UBC, CPT, cgroups, sched, iptables, AIO, VE. Updated devpts. Added ext4 sha1 checksumming. OOM killer improvements.

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--Kir 00:10, 21 January 2012 (EST)

Kernel RHEL5 testing 028stab097.1 released

Rebase on 274.17.1.el5 kernel (security and bug fixes). Stability fixes.

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--Kir 17:15, 20 January 2012 (EST)

Kernel RHEL6 042stab044.17 released

Added /dev/tty to CT sysfs (and devtmpfs). Bnx2 iscsi support. Stability fixes.

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--Kir 19:25, 18 January 2012 (EST)

vzctl 3.0.30.2 released

Fix starting non-vswap CT migrated from old 32-bit host. Fix CHECK_TEMPLATE_SIG check in vps-download.

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--Kir 15:27, 14 January 2012 (EST)

Precreated templates update (Jan 2012)

Added Fedora 16 and suse-12.1 (to beta). Fedora 14 and Ubuntu 9.10 moved to unsupported. All existing templates are updated.

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--Kir 04:34, 14 January 2012 (EST)

vzctl 3.0.30.1 released

Fixed CT start on older (pre-RHEL6) kernels.

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--Kir 08:22, 12 January 2012 (EST)

vzctl 3.0.30 released

VSwap improvements (--ram and --swap options, make most of UBC parameters optional, vzcfgvalidate support for vswap configs, etc.). Ability to auto-download templates. Other fixes and improvements.

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--Kir 03:39, 12 January 2012 (EST)

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