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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)
- First public version (limited-feature binary-only beta)