This is an archived page listing OpenVZ software updates for the first half (January to June) of 2011.
Latest updates are available from News/updates page.
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Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab046.1 released
Rebase to RHEL6.2 kernel 220.el5 (security fixes, bug fixes, enhancements). Fixes in bridges and CPT.
--Kir 17:34, 30 December 2011 (EST)
Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab045.1 released
Reworked CPU stats, virtualized tc, fixes in block layer, ubc, netfilter, cpt.
--Kir 15:23, 17 December 2011 (EST)
Kernel RHEL6 042stab044.11 released
Many stability and bug fixes, rebase to 131.21.1 RHEL6 update, reworked VSwap kernel memory accounting, virtualized devtmpfs.
--Kir 15:05, 17 December 2011 (EST)
Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab044.9 released
Stability fixes in OOM killer, CPT, NFSD, VSwap.
--Kir 01:38, 13 December 2011 (EST)
Kernel RHEL5 testing 028stab096.1 released
Rebase on 274.12.1.el5 kernel (security and bug fixes). Fixes in CPT and bridge.
--Kir 17:01, 5 December 2011 (EST)
Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab044.5 released
Stability fixes, improvements in VSwap reclamation and OOM killer logging.
--Kir 09:48, 2 December 2011 (EST)
Kernel RHEL5 028stab095.1 released
Rebase on 274.7.1.el5 kernel (security and bug fixes). Fix loosing socket permissions in /dev during live migration.
--Kir 14:24, 25 November 2011 (EST)
Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab044.1 released
Rebased on 131.21.1 RHEL6 update (security and bug fixes). Fixed netdevice sysfs moving, iptables compat code.
--Kir 17:09, 23 November 2011 (EST)
Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab043.1 released
Added FIFOs migration on NFS, charged dcache tracking, virtualized devtmpfs. Fixes in bridges, VSwap, OOM killer, CPT, NFS.
--Kir 13:22, 23 November 2011 (EST)
Kernel RHEL6 042stab039.11 released
Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab042.1 released
Fixes in VSwap, CPT, UBC, oom killer, sunrpc, VZDQ, VE, aacraid RAID detection. Double Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything.
--Kir 16:29, 10 November 2011 (EST)
Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab040.1 released
Reworked VSwap kernel memory accounting. Fixes and cleanups in CPT, UBC, netfilter, NFSD, VZDQ.
--Kir 01:27, 8 November 2011 (EST)
Kernel RHEL6 042stab039.10 released (moved to stable)
Rebase to 131.17.1 RHEL6 kernel (security, bug fixes, enhancements). Fixes in UBC, cpustats, ioprio, OOM killer, dcache acct, ioacct, ve, nfsd, cpt. Stability fixes.
--Kir 14:29, 7 November 2011 (EST)
Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab039.10 released
Fixed vzwdog crash on no-disk devices, iptables recharge crash.
--Kir 02:34, 3 November 2011 (EDT)
Kernel RHEL5 testing 028stab095.1 released
Rebase on 274.7.1.el5 kernel (security and bug fixes). Fix loosing socket permissions in /dev during live migration
--Kir 16:00, 24 October 2011 (EDT)
Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab039.5 released
Fixed a crash on unsuccessful ext4 mount, a deadlock in vzstat.
--Kir 10:10, 19 October 2011 (EDT)
Kernel branch status update (new branch rhel6-testing)
A new repository rhel6-testing is created, in addition to rhel6.
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--Kir 13:47, 14 October 2011 (EDT)
Kernel RHEL6 042stab039.3 released
Fix in ext4 that caused some apps to hang
--Kir 18:42, 11 October 2011 (EDT)
Kernel RHEL6 042stab039.2 released
Kernel RHEL6 042stab039.1 released
Rebase to 131.17.1 RHEL6 kernel (security, bug fixes, enhancements). Fixes in UBC, cpustats, ioprio, OOM killer, dcache acct, ioacct, ve, nfsd, cpt.
--Kir 12:17, 6 October 2011 (EDT)
Kernel RHEL5 2.6.18 274.3.1.el5 028stab094.3 released (moved to stable)
Rebase on 274.3.1.el5 RHEL 5.7 kernel (security and bug fixes). Stability fixes.
--Kir 15:48, 30 September 2011 (EDT)
vzctl 3.0.29.3 released
Fixes for netmasks, IPTABLES_MODULES config parameter, vzctl enter.
--Kir 18:43, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL5 testing 2.6.18 274.3.1.el5 028stab094.3 released
Netpoll over bridge disabled to avoid crash due to use-after-free bug
--Kir 11:29, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
vzctl 3.0.29.2 released
Fix broken venet networking. Fixes in vzsplit, vzlist, vzctl set --quotaugidlimit.
--Kir 15:51, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL6 042stab037.1 released
Rebase to 131.12.1 RHEL6 kernel (security, bug fixes, enhancements). Fixes in ext4, VE, CPT. Compilation fixes and cleanups.
--Kir 20:34, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
vzctl 3.0.29.1 released
Fix setting nameserver inside a CT, networking for Ubuntu-6.06. Fixes in initscripts, vzlist, vswap conf samples.
--Kir 18:47, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL5 testing 2.6.18 274.3.1.el5 028stab094.2 released
Rebase (real this time) on 274.3.1.el5 RHEL5 kernel (security and bug fixes).
--Kir 14:35, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
vzctl 3.0.29 released
New features: support for netmask when adding venet IPs; vzsplit supports vswap mode. Lots of bug fixes, improvements, man pages updates.
--Kir 15:55, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL5 testing 2.6.18 274.3.1.el5 028stab094.1 released
Rebase on 274.3.1.el5 RHEL5 kernel (security and bug fixes). Fixed a kernel crashed caused by a bug in bridge code (#1933). Fixed an issue of running CT with no processes inside after failed online migration. New hardware device 0x28b interface for PMC-Sierra's SRC based controller family in aacraid driver.
--Kir 19:24, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
Precreated templates update (September 2011)
Fixed not running cron jobs in Debian 6, Ubuntu 10.04 and 11.04 (#1952), SUSE 11.4. All existing templates are updated.
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--Kir 16:05, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL6 042stab036.6 released
Do not show nfs4d in container, fix bridge traffic duplication, no more debug kernels.
--Kir 11:58, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL5 028stab093.2 released
Rebase on 274.el5 RHEL 5.7 kernel (security and bug fixes). Other stability and bug fixes.
--Kir 06:15, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL6 042stab036.1 released
Fixes in OOM killer, Fairsched, CPT, CFQ. Updated aacraid scsi driver. Debug for net devices leak. Code cleanups.
--Kir 17:21, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
Kernel branch status update
From now on, RHEL6 is stable, while 2.6.27 and 2.6.32 are no longer maintained.
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--Kir 17:19, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
Precreated templates update (August 2011)
CentOS 6 moved out of beta. All existing templates are updated.
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--Kir 16:20, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL6 042stab035.1 released
Fixes in NFS, CGroups, VSwap, CPT, VZDQ, Fairsched, UBC. Hooked in CPUACCT cgroup. Increased dcache vitality.
--Kir 14:22, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL6 042stab033.1 released
Stability and bug fixes, improved CFQ stats, compilation fixes and code cleanups.
--Kir 17:11, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL6 042stab031.1 released
Fixes in vzdq, CFQ, VSwap, oom killer, fairsched, cpt. Added Fedora 15 migration.
--Kir 11:46, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL5 testing 2.6.18 274.el5 028stab093.1 released
Rebase on 274.el5 RHEL 5.7 kernel (security and bug fixes). Stability fixes.
--Kir 09:01, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL6 042stab029.1 released
Multiple fixes, better Fedora 15 support.
--Kir 21:18, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL6 042stab025.1 released
Precreated templates update (July 2011)
Added CentOS 6 (to 'beta'). Removed SL6 devel templates (in favour of CentOS6 devel). Fedora 15 and SL6 moved out of beta. Fedora 13 moved to unsupported. All existing templates are updated.
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--Kir 07:26, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL6 042stab024.1 released
Fixes in CFQ (disk I/O) and CPU schedulers.
--Kir 16:19, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL5 2.6.18 238.19.1 028stab092.2 released (moved to stable)
Rebase on 238.19.1 rhel5.6 update (security and bug fixes). Fixes in UBC, IPv6, VZDQ.
--Kir 15:17, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL6 042stab023.1 released
Improvements in SLAB, Added MADV_HUGEPAGE/_NOHUGEPAGE madvises, fixes in cpt, vzdq, ve, nfs.
--Kir 21:33, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL5 testing 2.6.18 238.19.1 028stab092.2 released
Rebase on 238.19.1 rhel5.6 update (security and bug fixes). Fixes in UBC, IPv6, VZDQ.
--Kir 20:46, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL6 042stab022.1 released
Kernel RHEL6 042stab021.1 released
Added kmemsize into vswap management, fixes in VDSO migration, ext4 and vswap.
--Kir 18:44, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL6 042stab020.1 released
Rebase on rhel6 update (131.4.1.el6). Many fixes in fairsched, sysctls, vswap, vzdq, ubc, ve.
--Kir 16:25, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL6 042stab018.1 released
Kernel RHEL4 023stab054.1 released
Rebase to RHEL4 kernel 2.6.9-100.EL (security and stability fixes, driver updates). Added vzevent module, kernel.ve_allow_init_signals sysctl.
--Kir 18:37, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
vzctl 3.0.28.3 released
Fixed enabling second-level disk quota, start of Fedora 15 CT on RHEL6 kernel, vzeventd support for RHEL4. Improved VSwap configurations.
--Kir 17:16, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
Precreated templates update
Added Fedora 15 (to 'beta'). Added Scientific Linux 6 devel templates. Added automake/autoconf/libtool to all -devel templates. All existing templates are updated.
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--Kir 19:10, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
vzctl 3.0.28.2 released
Fixed a check for quotaugidlimit change causing SEGV in vzctl set.
--Kir 16:56, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL6 042stab017.1 released
Fixes in cpt, ve and fairsched, included DRBD 8.3.10.
--Kir 10:30, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
vzctl 3.0.28.1 released
Fixed virtual-vzkernel-install provides for newer RHEL6 kernel. No functional changes.
--Kir 00:54, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL5 2.6.18 238.12.1 028stab091.1 released (moved to stable)
Rebase onto 238.12.1 RHEL5.6 update (security and bug fixes). Added ip6tables compat layer for 32-bit CTs on 64-bit kernel. Improved anon pages reclaim on swap shortage. Fixes in CFQ, NFS, IO acct, CPT, fair scheduler, VDSO timing.
--Kir 13:46, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
vzctl 3.0.28 released
New features: support for Fedora 15, support for tar.bz2 and tar.xz templates, ability to parse numbers like 1.5G. Bug fixes, improvements, lots of man pages updates.
--Kir 15:37, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL6 042stab016.1 released
Fixes in checkpointing, CPU scheduler, disk I/O scheduler
--Kir 15:08, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL5 testing 2.6.18 238.12.1 028stab091.1 released
Rebase onto 238.12.1 rhel5.6 update (security and bug fixes), fixed vdso timing again, improved anon pages reclaim on swap shortage, added ip6tables compat layer for 32-bit CTs on 64-bit kernel.
--Kir 20:45, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL6 042stab015.1 released
Fixes in ve, fairsched, vzdq, tmpfs. Added empty /proc/vz/vswap file.
--Kir 15:37, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL5 testing 2.6.18 238.5.1 028stab090.4 released
Fixes in CFQ, NFS in CT, IO acct, CPT, fairsched
--Kir 00:09, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Precreated templates update
Added Scientific Linux 6 (to 'beta'). Debian 6: fix #1875 (no /dev/ptmx). Debian 5: fix #1577 (bad sources.list). All existing templates are updated.
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--Kir 20:16, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL6 042stab014.1 released
Fixed kmemsize leak, conntracks migration, migration from i386 RHEL5 kernel, broken sync, nmi debug reporting. The nrcpus (vcpu) feature is back.
--Kir 13:32, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
vzctl 3.0.27 released
New features: vzubc utility, IPTABLES_MODULES parameter. Bugfixes, improvements, documentation updates.
--Kir 19:26, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL6 042stab013.2 released
Fixed critical crash on sync, bridge local skb delivery.
--Kir 12:36, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL6 042stab013.1 released
Update to RHEL6.1 kernel 131.0.15.el6 (security, bug fixes, enhancements), bug fixes in CPT and VSwap, reworked CPU limits.
--Kir 09:23, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL6 042test013.1 released
Many bugfixes in CPT, shmem, VSwap, UBC, simfs, fairsched. Optimized CT entering. RPM packaging fixes (noarch firmware, name). Debuginfo packages are removed.
--Kir 12:51, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL6 042test012.1 released
Conntracks migration, various fixes and cleanups in cpt, bc, ve.
--Kir 17:14, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
vzctl 3.0.26.3 released
Fixed a few regressions (removing route-venet0 from redhat-like CTs, networking for Debian-3.1, broken veth init) and a few bugs (vzeventd init script for Gentoo, vzmigrate vs PATH, LSB tags to vzquota initscript, entry for Debian 6 in etc/osrelease.conf).
--Kir 22:05, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
Precreated templates update
Kernel RHEL6 042test011.1 released
Backported stuff from rhel5-028stab090, transparent huge pages are back again, fixes here and there in fairsched, cpt, vzdq.
--Kir 15:49, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
Precreated templates update
Fedora 14, SUSE 11.2 and 11.3 moved out of beta. Added Debian 6.0. Added SUSE 11.4 (to 'beta'). Fedora 12 and SUSE 11.1 moved to 'unsupported'. All other existing templates are updated.
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--Kir 09:00, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL5 2.6.18 238.5.1 028stab089.1 released (moved to stable)
Rebase on 238.9.1 rhel update (security fixes). Fixes in OOM killer, CPU stats, AMD Bulldozer boot, page tables accounting, compilation with older GCC. Sysctl to tune the relatime update interval. Abort faulty NFS/Autofs migration early. Pseudo-NAPI for venet. Single-threaded rpciod. Updated DRBD. Optimized file list locking.
--Kir 15:47, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL6 042test010.1 released
Turned VDSO on back again, vz-over-nfs backport from rhel5, file lock performance improvement, removed mapped pages precise accounting, fixes in cpt, fairsched.
--Kir 14:40, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL6 042test009.2 released
Rebased onto 71.24.1 RHEL6 update (security and bug fixes). Added firmware package. Fixed RPM deps for RHEL5. NFSv4 client support in CT. Persistent TUN/TAP support in CT. VSwap improvements, UBC optimizations. Reworked SunRPC virtualization. Fixes in CPT, cpulimit, bridges.
--Kir 12:17, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL5 2.6.18 238.5.1 028stab085.5 released
Fixes for gettimeofday(), NFSD in CT, cpulimit
--Kir 10:27, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL5 testing 2.6.18 238.5.1 028stab089.1 released
Rebase on 238.9.1 rhel update (security fixes), fixes in oom killer and cpu stats, added sysctl to tune the relatime update interval.
--Kir 14:15, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL5 testing 2.6.18 238.5.1 028stab088.1 released
Fixed AMD Bulldozer boot process, VDSO gettimeofday workflow on Opterons, page tables accounting. Improved fairsched performance (vcpu hot time slice).
--Kir 16:12, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL5 2.6.18 238.5.1 028stab085.3 released (moved to stable)
Kernel RHEL5 testing 2.6.18 238.5.1 028stab085.3 released
vzctl 3.0.26.2 released
Fixed vzctl runscript on a stopped container, (harmless) error message from initscript, vzctl enter wrt bash-4.2.
--Kir 16:03, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL5 testing 2.6.18 238.5.1 028stab087.1 released
Bugfixes, DRBD update, pseudo-NAPI for venet, single-threaded rpciod, fixed compilation with older GCC, optimized file list locking.
--Kir 09:52, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL5 2.6.18 238.5.1 028stab085.2 released (moved to stable)
Changes (since 028stab081.1): Rebased onto RHEL5 update 2.6.18-238.5.1 (bug and security fixes, driver updates). Added cpumask and relatime features. Beancounters optimizations. Bug fixes in core, arch, CPT, scheduler, networking, IPv6, NFSv4, UBC, device moving etc. Fixed tcpdump for modern distros, initscripts for suse 11.3.
--Kir 12:05, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL5 testing 2.6.18 238.5.1 028stab085.2 released
Kernel 2.6.32 feoktistov.1 released
Rebased onto 2.6.32.28 (security and other fixes), lots of bug fixes all over the tree.
--Kir 19:23, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL5 testing 2.6.18 238.5.1 028stab085.1 released
Rebased onto RHEL5 update 2.6.18-238.5.1 (security and bug fixes), minor fixes in core and cpt.
--Kir 03:03, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL6 042test008.1 released
Rebased onto 71.18.1.el6 RHEL6 update, merged fixes from 028stab084.6, many fixes in vswap, oom killer, ve, cpt, networking.
--Kir 02:32, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
vzctl 3.0.26.1 released
Fixed a regression in Debian IP add script leading to broken networking in Debian and Ubuntu containers.
--Kir 01:47, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL5 testing 2.6.18 238.1.1.el5 028stab084.6 released
(since 028stab084.4) fixed rare kernel panic with sysfs virtualization, support for newer tcpdump, fixed a potential livelock in dirty pages balancing
--Kir 19:24, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
vzctl 3.0.26 released
New features: cpumask, vswap configs, rework PCI device moving, enable IPv6 by default. Various fixes and improvements, documentation updates.
--Kir 22:35, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL5 2.6.18 194.26.1.el5 028stab081.1 moved to stable
(since 028stab079.2): Fixed cpufreq module wrt fairsched on SMP. Small fixes in CPT, IPv6 routing, UBC.
--Kir 15:51, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL5 testing 2.6.18 238.1.1.el5 028stab084.4 released
Fixed critical crashes in page beancounters, held pages showing in /proc, VDSO vs uts namespace problems.
--Kir 12:38, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL6 042test007.1 released
/vz over gfs2 support, lockless venet xmit, improvements in oom killer (works per-ct now), cpt now accepts images from rhel5 kernel, fixes and improvements in vswap, ubc, scheduler, nfs.
--Kir 14:18, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL5 testing 2.6.18 238.1.1.el5 028stab084.3 released
Kernel RHEL5 testing 2.6.18 238.1.1.el5 028stab084.2 released
Fixed improper page tables acct on x86. Fixed bug in x64 vdso page — some apps got killed with sigsegv.
--Kir 11:53, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL5 testing 2.6.18 238.1.1.el5 028stab084.1 released
Many optimizations in beancounters. CPU mask feature. Backport relatime support. Pid_max rework. Bugfixes in arch, cpt, scheduler, etc.
--Kir 10:11, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Kernel 2.6.27 repin released
Rebased to 2.6.27.57 (security and other fixes). Bug fixes in IP fragment management code (#1593).
--Kir 15:19, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL5 testing 2.6.18 238.1.1.el5 028stab083.1 released
Rebased onto RHEL5.6 kernel -- security and bug fixes
--Kir 12:12, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
Kernel RHEL6 042test006.1 released
CPU limits are back. Sync with rhel5-028stab082 and newer 2.6.32. Fixes in devices moving (sound/class links). Bugfixing here and there.
--Kir 16:45, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
RHEL5 testing 2.6.18 194.32.1.el5 028stab082.1 released
Rebased on 194.32.1 rhel5 update (security, bug fixes). Fixes for Ubuntu and SUSE in CT. Small fixes in cpufreq, CPT, IPv6, UBC, device moving.
--Kir 11:52, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
vzctl 3.0.25.2 released
Next stable update to 3.0.25. Fixes in vzeventd to not leave zombies and correctly report killed children. Fix in vps-function for proper PATH.
--Kir 13:11, 18 January 2011 (UTC)