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Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab071.11

Many fixes in CPT, NFS in CT, UBC, FS, FUSE, NET, etc. Improvements in ploop and CPU scheduler.

--Kir (talk) 12:43, 13 December 2012 (EST)

vzctl 4.1.1

Fix accidental start of all CTs, fix auto-start of CTs marked with ONBOOT=no, make suspend-on-shutdown configurable, other fixes and improvements.

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--Kir (talk) 11:06, 7 December 2012 (EST)

RHEL4 kernels are no longer maintained

This is to announce that RHEL4-based kernel branch is no longer maintained. Please upgrade your servers to use RHEL6- or RHEL5-based kernels.

--Kir (talk) 11:08, 27 November 2012 (EST)

Kernel RHEL5 testing 028stab104.1

Rebase to RHEL5 kernel 2.6.18-308.20.1.el5 (security and bug fixes, RHSA-2012:1445). Fix build with older gcc.

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--Kir (talk) 06:22, 27 November 2012 (EST)

Kernel RHEL6 042stab065.3 (stable)

Rebase to 2.6.32-279.14.1.el6 RHEL6.3 kernel (security and bug fixes, RHSA-2012:1426). Fixes and improvements in fuse, venet, NFS in CT, CPT, MM, audit, devtmpfs, ploop, networking.

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--Kir (talk) 05:48, 27 November 2012 (EST)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab065.4

Stability fixes in mm, ploop.

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--Kir (talk) 09:13, 14 November 2012 (EST)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab065.2

Fixed a couple of kernel panics in sunrpc on CT stop with service vz stopped

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--Kir (talk) 14:41, 9 November 2012 (EST)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab065.1

Rebase to 2.6.32-279.14.1.el6 RHEL6.3 kernel (security and bug fixes). Fixes in fuse, venet, cpt, nfs, mm, audit, devtmpfs.

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--Kir (talk) 15:20, 8 November 2012 (EST)

Kernel RHEL6 042stab063.2 moved to stable

Rebase to 2.6.32-279.11.1.el6 RHEL6.3 kernel (security and bug fixes). Fixes and improvements in iptables, cpuinfo, net, UBC, mm, tty, nfs, oom, cpt, fuse, fairsched, ploop. CPU fairsched improvements. Updated DRBD to 8.3.13.

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--Kir (talk) 10:13, 2 November 2012 (EDT)

vzctl 4.1

Restore running containers after reboot. Faster host restart by doing CT suspend instead of stop. vzctl start tries to restore CT first if default dump file exists. Add OOM adjustments configuration. vzctl: add 'suspend' and 'resume' aliases (for 'chkpnt' and 'restore'). Many bug fixes and improvements.

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--Kir (talk) 12:10, 1 November 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab063.2

Rebase to 2.6.32-279.11.1.el6 RHEL6.3 kernel (security and bug fixes). Fixes and improvements in UBC, mm, tty, nfs, oom, cpt, fuse, fairsched, ploop. Updated DRBD to 8.3.13.

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--Kir (talk) 11:06, 25 October 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab062.22

Fixes in iptables, cpuinfo, cpt, cpt/nfs, net, ploop, fuse. CPU fairsched improvements. Some debug info added.

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--Kir 09:59, 16 October 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL6 042stab062.2 (moved to stable)

Rebase to 2.6.32-279.9.1.el6 RHEL6.3 kernel (security and bug fixes, see RHSA-2012-1304). Numerous fixes and improvements all over the tree.

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--Kir 10:56, 12 October 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab062.2

Removed posix timers checkpointing support (#2324), fixed a kernel panic in kstat.

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--Kir 16:57, 11 October 2012 (EDT)

Precreated templates update (October 2012)

Really fixed lost SUID bits (ping, sudo etc.) for Ubuntu/Debian templates (#2328). Added opensuse-12.1 and ubuntu-12.10 (prerelease) templates to beta. All existing templates are updated.

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--Kir 12:05, 8 October 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab062.1

Rebase to 2.6.32-279.9.1.el6 RHEL6.3 kernel (security and bug fixes). Fixes in nfs, ploop, cpt, fuse, block.

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--Kir 10:18, 27 September 2012 (EDT)

vzctl 4.0

Experimental ability to work on top of non-OpenVZ kernel. Implemented JSON support for vzlist, vzctl compact, dynamic ploop library loading, CT config save/restore for shapshots, mount options for ploop. Many other fixes and improvements.

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--Kir 11:21, 25 September 2012 (EDT)

ploop 1.5

Changed minor number allocation schema, mounts registration schema (requires kernel >= 042stab061.1). Ability to complete current in-kernel maintenance state before performing an operation. Fixes in create and resize. Other fixes and improvements.

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--Kir 11:16, 25 September 2012 (EDT)

Precreated templates update (September 2012)

Really fixed lost SUID bits (ping, sudo etc.) for Ubuntu 8.04, Ubuntu 12.04 (#2328) and Debian 6 (#2348). Added hostname package to Fedora 17 templates. Added vz.repo to Fedora 17 templates. NOTE that other templates were not updated.

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--Kir 11:46, 12 September 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab061.9

Fixes in nfs, ext4, ploop, net, cpt.

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--Kir 11:31, 12 September 2012 (EDT)

vzquota 3.1

Add ability to dump/load first level quotas. Make it work with ext4 delalloc and more than 1 TB quotas. Other fixes and improvements.

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--Kir 20:54, 10 September 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL5 testing 028stab103.1

Rebase to RHEL5 kernel 2.6.18-308.13.1.el5 (security and bug fixes). Fixes overflow in TSC/vDSO version of gettimeofday().

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--Kir 14:41, 5 September 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab061.2 (moved to stable)

Rebase to 2.6.32-279.5.1.el6 kernel (security and bug fixes). Fixes and improvements in net, cpt, fuse, ploop, pfcache, tty, sysfs, nfsd, iptables, timers, cpuinfo etc.

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--Kir 04:29, 5 September 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab061.8

Fixes and improvements in ploop, net, mm etc.

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--Kir 10:38, 4 September 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab061.2

Rebase to 2.6.32-279.5.1.el6 kernel (security and bug fixes). Fixes and improvements in net, cpt, ploop, pfcache, tty.

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--Kir 21:11, 28 August 2012 (EDT)

Precreated templates update (August 2012)

Fedora 17 templates moved out of beta. Added acl and attr packaged to Scientific Linux 6 templates. Fixed lost SUID bits (ping, sudo etc.) for Ubuntu 12.04 templates. All existing templates are updated.

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--Kir 15:58, 22 August 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL5 testing 028stab102.1

Rebase to RHEL5 kernel 2.6.18-308.11.1.el5 (security and bug fixes). Corrected description of OpenVZ-specific behavior of dmesg_restrict (#2197)

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--Kir 07:01, 2 August 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL6 042stab059.7 (moved to stable)

Rebase to 2.6.32-279.1.1.el6 RHEL 6.3 kernel (security, bug fixes and enhancements). Lots of fixes and improvements all over the tree.

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--Kir 09:19, 1 August 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab060.5

Rebase to 2.6.32-279.2.1.el6 (bug fixes). Fixes in CPT, FUSE, ploop, sysfs, nfsd, iptables, timers, cpuinfo etc.

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--Kir 08:17, 1 August 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab059.7

Fixes in CPT and quota.

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--Kir 15:47, 26 July 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab059.4

Rebase to 2.6.32-279.1.1.el6 RHEL 6.3 kernel (security, bug fixes and enhancements). Lots of fixes and improvements all over the tree.

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--Kir 12:51, 23 July 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL5 028stab101.1 (moved to stable)

Rebase to RHEL5 kernel 2.6.18-308.8.2.el5 (security, bug fixes, and enhancements). Stability fixes.

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--Kir 10:17, 9 July 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL6 042stab057.1 (moved to stable)

Rebase to RHEL6.2 kernel-2.6.32-220.23.1.el6 kernel (security and bug fixes). Fixes and improvements in FUSE, UBC, fairsched, OOM, CPT, CFQ, pfcache, ploop, ext4. Note that CONFIG_OPENVSWITCH is not enabled.

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--Kir 05:18, 2 July 2012 (EDT)

Kernel RHEL5 testing 028stab101.1

Rebase to RHEL5 kernel 2.6.18-308.8.2.el5 (security fixes). Other minor fixes.

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--Kir 14:56, 26 June 2012 (EDT)

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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