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Changelog

Version 1.6.2 (2010-02-12)

  • Version 1.6.2
  • Stability/Performance point-release.
  • Back-end (CC/NC) scale improvements.
  • CLC fixes including backend database pooling and persistence improvements, SSL support.
  • euca_conf fixes including the ability to list nodes (and VMs).
  • Fixes to Walrus for specific use cases, bugs and stability, as well as beta support for the S3 server logging API, fixes to bittorrent support.
  • Storage Controller scalability improvements.
  • Updated packages for current versions of supported distributions.
  • Closes many bugs, including: 
    #477776 #461156 #477776 #498379 #498379 
#517769 #518601 #513842 #453416 #328146

Version 1.6.1 (2009-11-05)

  • Version 1.6.1
  • Added support for multiple clusters (availability zones)
  • Allow components (cloud, walrus, sc, cc, nc) to be hosted on different machines
  • Support for dynamic instance and bucket DNS
  • Better startup (no need for ant anymore, much faster)
  • Reworked part of the network provisioning code for multi-cluster and better handling public IP addressing
  • Hypervisor improvements
    • switched default kvm ethernet interface to e1000
    • serialized calls to the xen hypervisor
  • Added helpers to integrate with nagios and/or ganglia
  • The Web UI is now theme-able (at compile time)
  • A lot of work toward long term stability: run the code thru different code/memory checker, re-engineer the java stack to be faster and more robust.
  • V Closes bugs: 
    #426469 #426576 #428546 #428654 #428710 #430260 #430356 #430888
#430922 #431939 #430830 #431933 #431935 #426469 #431934 #431937
#431931 #426467 #430830 #426389 #426389 #430944 #432604 #432823
#436274 #436276 #436290 #436313 #436407 #436885 #436917 #437014
#437026 #436407 #430957 #430226 #388934 #440744 #440817 #440950
#441033 #441035 #441020 #441019 #443325 #443325 #443314 #444838
#445206 #444908 #445206 #444908 #445997 #447585 #447555 #444838
#449135 #438565 #449948 #430266 #398867 #449948 #401996 #449944
#450915 #451795 #454405 #456877 #456878 #461394 #461444 #460085
#404842 #462940 #456878 #406049

Version 1.5.2 (2009-07-17)

  • A lot of bug fixes and improvements
  • Eucalytpus now runs as user 'eucalyptus' by default
  • added new UI tab 'Extras' that includes links to pre-packaged images and client tools
  • Fixed support for client tools (including fixes to the REST interface).
  • Closes bugs: 
    #368975 #375809 #375805 #376575 #354787 #382522 #357350 #375105
#359855 #384069 #359855 #357499 #384117 #384119 #375093 #384119
#356580 #384123 #359855 #356389 #384069 #384119 #357849 #359855
#384124 #384126 #384126 #384652 #385660 #386430 #357440

Version 1.5.1 (2009-05-08)

  • Elastic Block Store (EBS) support (volumes & snapshots)
  • Walrus improvements:
    • Support for groups in ACLS
    • Fixed issues with meta data support
    • Web browser form-based uploads via HTTP POST
    • Object copying
    • Query string authentication
    • Support for arbitrary key names
    • Compressed image downloads and fixes to image caching
    • Reduced memory requirement
  • Network improvement: new MANAGED-NOVLAN mode
  • Node-side improvements:
    • Support for the KVM hypervisor
    • Compression & retries on Walrus downloads
    • Reworked caching (now with configurable limit)
  • Web UI improvements:
    • Cloud registration with Rightscale (from admin's 'Credentials' tab)
    • New configuration options for Walrus
    • Better screening of usernames
    • Fixed account confirmation glitches
  • Building and installation improvements
    • Better Java installation checking
    • New command-line administration: euca_conf -addcluster ... -addnode ...
    • Non-root user deployment of Eucalyptus
    • Binary packages for more distributions (Ubuntu et al)

Version 1.4 (2009-01-05)

  • Added new networking subsystem that no longer depends on VDE
  • Added support for elastic IP assignment and security using the 'MANAGED' networking mode
  • Cluster controller scheduling policy can now be configured in eucalyptus.conf (ROUNDROBIN and GREEDY currently supported)
  • Cluster controller now handles concurrent requests (no longer have to restrict apache to allow only one connection at a time)
  • Added Walrus: an Amazon S3 interface compatible storage manager. Walrus handles storage of user data as well as filesystem images, kernels, and ramdisks.
  • Node Controller improvements:
    • Retrieval of images from Walrus instead of NFS-mounted file system
    • New caching and cleanup code, including start-time integrity checks
    • On-the-fly script-based generation of libvirt XML configuration
    • Script-based discovery of node resources (no assumptions about stat)
    • MAX_CORES overrides actual number of cores both down and up
    • Moved libvirt errors to nc.log and suppressed harmless ones
    • Serialized some Xen invocations to guard against non-determinism
    • Added proper swap creation, also "ephemeral" disk support
    • More robust instance state reporting to Cluster Controller
  • Web interface improvements:
    • Added cloud/Walrus configuration, including clusters and VM types
    • Revamped 'credentials' tab with new options to edit user information and hide/show "secret" strings
    • Editing of user information for the administrator, including confirmation dialog for deletion of users
    • User-initiated password recovery mechanism
    • Fixed a couple of bugs: ' ' in username, spurious double additions
  • Cloud Controller:
    • User, Cluster, and System keys are now stored in PKCS12 keystores and have moved to var/eucalyptus/keys
    • Configuration is handled entirely through the Web interface
    • Clusters dynamically added/started/stopped
    • Webservices operations complete up to EC2 2008-05-05 (w/o EBS):
    • "Elastic IP" address support
    • Image registration and attribute manipulation
    • GetConsole and RebootInstances support
    • Working Security Groups support for clusters in MANAGED network mode
    • See website for additional details, extensions, and caveats: http://eucalyptus.cs.ucsb.edu/wiki/API_v1.4
    • Instance Metadata service (including userData)
    • Workaround to use Amazon's tools for registering kernels & ramdisks
  • Revamped logging throughout, with five levels a la log4j
  • More standard build procedure: configure; make; make install
  • More robust start-time checking

Version 1.3 (2008-08-27)

  • Added support for the new ec2 tools (1.3-24159 and newer)

Version 1.2 (2008-07-29)

  • Added stand-alone RPM packages for non-rocks installation
  • Added image caching to reduce instance creation time
  • Added instance networking configuration options to eucalyptus.conf
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved installation-time error checking
    • Removed possibility of instance ID collision
    • Improved VDE runtime management
    • Improved VDE cleanup
    • Resolved occasional NC instance loss problem
    • Resolved EC2 client timing issue that resulted in parsing errors on client

Version 1.1 (2008-07-01)

  • Added WS-security for internal communication
  • Added URL Query Interface for interacting with Eucalyptus
  • Cluster Controller improvements:
    • Instance caching added to improve performance under certain conditions
    • Thread locks removed to improve performance
    • NC resource information gathered asynchronously to improve scheduler performance
  • Network control improvements:
    • Added ability to configure 'public' instance interface network parameters (instead of hardcoded 10. network)
    • Lots of reliability changes
  • Cloud Controller improvements:
    • Pure in-memory database
    • Image registration over WS interface
    • Improved build procedure
  • Web interface improvements:
    • For all users (query interface credentials, listing of available images)
    • For the administrator (addition, approval, disabling, and deletion of users; disabling of images)
  • Numerous bug fixes, improving stability and performance. In particular, but not limited to:
    • Recovering Cloud Controller system state
    • Timeout-related error reporting
    • Slimmer log files, with timestamps

Version 1.0 (2008-05-29)

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