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Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab073.3

Stability fixes, scheduler improvements.

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--Kir (talk) 05:01, 4 February 2013 (EST)

Kernel RHEL6 042stab072.10 (stable)

Rebase to RHEL6.3 kernel 2.6.32-279.19.1.el6 (security and bug fixes, see RHSA-2012-1580). Many fixes and improvements in ubc, mm, ploop, fs, pfcache, sched, cpt etc.

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--Kir (talk) 21:00, 17 January 2013 (EST)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab072.9

A fix in CPT.

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--Kir (talk) 16:31, 15 January 2013 (EST)

ploop 1.6

Speed up ext4 resizing. Offline image shrink support. Added snapshot-list functionality. Other bugfixes and improvements.

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--Kir (talk) 14:58, 14 January 2013 (EST)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab072.8

Fixes in cpt, mm, dcache, fs/eventpoll.

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--Kir (talk) 15:45, 11 January 2013 (EST)

Kernel RHEL5 testing 028stab104.3

Fix tun devices checkpoint/restore.

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--Kir (talk) 10:19, 8 January 2013 (EST)

vzctl 4.1.2

Fixed missing VZREBOOTDIR in Gentoo initscript. Fixed extra arguments parsing by add-on modules. Don't whine about unknown VE_STOP_MODE parameter. Prevent buffer overflow when loading newer ploop library.

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--Kir (talk) 16:55, 2 January 2013 (EST)

Kernel RHEL5 testing 028stab104.2

Fixed potential double free on nodes with enabled audit (PCLIN-31451)

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--Kir (talk) 16:22, 28 December 2012 (EST)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab072.3

Fixes in cpt, fuse, sched.

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--Kir (talk) 15:49, 25 December 2012 (EST)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab072.2

Rebase to RHEL6.3 kernel 2.6.32-279.19.1.el6 (security and bug fixes). Many fixes and improvements in ubc, mm, cpt, fuse, fs, ploop.

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--Kir (talk) 18:25, 24 December 2012 (EST)

Kernel RHEL6 048stab068.8 (stable)

New strict page cache isolation, enchanted memory scheduler, virtual vSwap, stability fixes in ploop, mm, cpt, ubc.

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--Kir (talk) 10:27, 18 December 2012 (EST)

Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab070.11

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

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--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.

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--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)

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