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Revision as of 23:39, 7 October 2011 by Kir (talk | contribs) (first half)

This is an archived page listing OpenVZ software updates for the first half (January to June) of 2011.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 042stab018.1 released

Fixes in UBC and CPT.

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--Kir 11:59, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

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.

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--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.

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--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.

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--Kir 16:56, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Kernel RHEL6 042stab017.1 released

Fixes in cpt, ve and fairsched, included DRBD 8.3.10.

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--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.

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--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.

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--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.

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--Kir 15:37, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Kernel RHEL6 042stab016.1 released

Fixes in checkpointing, CPU scheduler, disk I/O scheduler

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--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.

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--Kir 20:45, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Kernel RHEL6 042stab015.1 released

Fixes in ve, fairsched, vzdq, tmpfs. Added empty /proc/vz/vswap file.

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--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

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--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.

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--Kir 13:32, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

vzctl 3.0.27 released

New features: vzubc utility, IPTABLES_MODULES parameter. Bugfixes, improvements, documentation updates.

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--Kir 19:26, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Kernel RHEL6 042stab013.2 released

Fixed critical crash on sync, bridge local skb delivery.

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--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.

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--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.

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--Kir 12:51, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

Kernel RHEL6 042test012.1 released

Conntracks migration, various fixes and cleanups in cpt, bc, ve.

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--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).

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--Kir 22:05, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Precreated templates update

Added Ubuntu 11.04 (to 'beta').

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--Kir 18:56, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Kernel RHEL6 042test011.1 released

Backported stuff from rhel5-028stab090, transparent huge pages are back again, fixes here and there in fairsched, cpt, vzdq.

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--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.

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--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.

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--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.

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--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

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--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.

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--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).

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--Kir 16:12, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Kernel RHEL5 2.6.18 238.5.1 028stab085.3 released (moved to stable)

Fixed a kernel oops caused by nfsd.

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--Kir 16:45, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Kernel RHEL5 testing 2.6.18 238.5.1 028stab085.3 released

Fixed a kernel oops caused by nfsd.

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--Kir 15:03, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

vzctl 3.0.26.2 released

Fixed vzctl runscript on a stopped container, (harmless) error message from initscript, vzctl enter wrt bash-4.2.

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--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.

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--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.

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--Kir 12:05, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

Kernel RHEL5 testing 2.6.18 238.5.1 028stab085.2 released

Fixed a bug in CFQ.

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--Kir 15:30, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

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.

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--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.

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--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.

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--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.

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--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

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--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.

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--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.

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--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.

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--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.

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--Kir 14:18, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Kernel RHEL5 testing 2.6.18 238.1.1.el5 028stab084.3 released

Fixed optimized kmemsize accounting.

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--Kir 21:00, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

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.

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--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.

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--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).

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--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

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--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.

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--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.

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--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.

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--Kir 13:11, 18 January 2011 (UTC)