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[ANNOUNCE] PFARS 0.9.4 Released, Feedback Requested

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Subject: [ANNOUNCE] PFARS 0.9.4 Released, Feedback Requested
From: Paul Baker <pbaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 19:55:38 -0500
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I have the pleasure to announce that PFARS 0.9.4 is now available for all the bleeding-edge open source software daredevils out there.

PFARS For Automatic Replication System is mainly used to sync servers in LVS clusters but also has many other uses. It is based on rsync over ssh and has native support for the Debian package system. PFARS is licensed under the GNU General Public License.

This release fixes a few minor bugs that were present in 0.9.3. It also incorporates the new .pfarsignore file support allowing users to easily mark individual files or directories to be ignored from replication on individual slave servers. This is new feature (which is disabled by default) is very useful if you the have machine you use for development as a slave to your production master. While you are making changes to the development machine you can easily create a .pfarsignore file that keeps your changes from being overwritten when the dev server replicates from the master. This way you can easily test new code in an environment virtually identical to the production machine. When you are done testing and have deployed your new code onto the master production machine, simply remove the .pfarsignore files. .pfarsignore files work just like .cvsignore files. You can use wildcards etc.

Note, 0.9.4 will probably be the last "alpha" release of PFARS before it goes into feature freeze and goes through a "beta" testing period before it is declared "stable" and version 1.0 is released.

That means I need your feedback! If there is a feature that you would like to see in the 1.0 release of PFARS, you need to speak up now. If I receive requests for features that people would like to see in PFARS I will include them in the next release(s). Once I am out of requests for features to implement (or I don't receive any requests), there will most likely be one last release containing improved and finalized documentation and any necessary bug fixes (as of this writing there are no known bugs in PFARS). This release will be declared "beta." Any features I dream up or receive requests for after this point will have to wait until version 2.0. Assuming the "beta" release makes it through a month or so of use without any problems showing up, then I will declare PFARS to be "stable" and make a 1.0 release.

For more information, see visit the PFARS website at http://pfars.sourceforge.net/

- -- Paul Baker

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
         -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759

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