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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/
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Paul Baker
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
GPG Key: http://homepage.mac.com/pauljbaker/public.asc
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