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Subject: [lvs-users] [ANNOUNCE] keepalived-1.2.8
From: Alexandre Cassen <acassen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 13:46:29 +0200
Hi Folks !

I just pushed to main website a new keepalived release including pending
patches and features. Most relevant extension are :

* Add support for VRRP unicast.
* Add support for VRRP IPv6 routes.
* Add support to LVS One-Packet Scheduling.
* Add CLI core framework.
* Misc bugfixes, typo and cosmetics.

For more details, please have a look to the github repo.

ChangeLog for this release is :

2013-09-05  Alexandre Cassen  <acassen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
        * keepalived-1.2.8 released.
        * Vincent Bernat fixed issue while pinging master agent.
          The agent needs to be initialized to be able to change the
          AgentX ping interval.
        * Revisited the whole code to use posix declaration style.
        * fixed some typos
        * Created CLI core framework.
        * Ryan O'Hara added option to prevent respawn of child process.
          This patch adds a command-line option (--dont-respawn, -R)
          that will prevent the child processes from respawning. When
          this option is specified, if either the checker or vrrp child
          processes exit the parent process will raise the SIGTERM
          signal and exit.
        * Ryan O'Hara removed duplicate command-line option code.
          patch removes unnecessary code to process command-line
          options. All options can be processed with a single while loop
          that calls poptGetNextOpt. This patch also adds code to check
          for errors while processing options. Note that errors
          encountered while processing command-line options are fatal.
        * Ryan O'Hara add support to usage generation by popt.
          This patch uses the popt library to describe the command-line
          options and print usage to stderr. This provides a more clear,
          concise usage statement.
        * Ryan O'Hara and I updated keepalived man page.
        * Aleksei Ilin add flexible HTTP checker behaviour for HTTP GET
          request's port settings. VirtualServer's port being specified
          in HTTP GET request only if `VirtualHost` option is not
          defined, otherwise used `VirtualHost` option itself.
        * Ryan O'Hara fixed pointer arithmetic for VRRP packet.
          When using IPSEC AH authentication, the pointer arithmetic
          used to get the location of the VRRP packet is incorrect. The
          address of the IPSEC header must be cast as (char *) in order
          to get correct address of the VRRP packet. Without this patch,
          vrrp_in_chk() will fail to verify incoming VRRP packets when
          IPSEC AH is enabled.
        * Ryan O'Hara fixed issue while loading SSL certificate.
          This patch fixes a problem where keepalived will attempt to
          load an SSL keyfile as a certificate, resulting in failure to
          initialize SSL context.
        * Ryan O'Hara refreshed GPLv2 license with last FSF file.
        * junpei-yoshino fixed configure.in. Library crypt is needed.
        * Boon Ang fixed comparison of primary IP addresses.
          If a router in the master state receives an advertisement
          with priority equal to the local priority, it must also
          compare the primary IP addresses (RFC 3768, section 6.4.3).
          The code to handle this was comparing two IP addresses with
          different byte-ordering, resulting in multiple routers in
          the master state. This patches resolves the problem by
          coverting the local primary IP address to network byte order
          for the comparison.
        * Henrique Mecking fixed memory leak in libipvs
        * Robert James Hernandez fixed RETVAL by setting RETVAL for
          status instead keeping RETVAL set to default of 0
        * Robert James Hernandez fixed RETVAL by setting RETVAL for
          catch all and so that it exits like all other matches in
          the case
        * Jan Pokorný fixed genhash to ensure CLRF{2} HTML body
          separator won't slip.
        * Jan Pokorný extended genhash. Generalize the hash algoi
          parts, add SHA1.
          This patch adds support for hash algo suite extension
          with SHA1 being a first one to be available together with
          a default MD5.  The remaining change on the health-checker
          subsystem side is to make analogous modifications and to teach
          it to recognize the intended hash algorithm based on the
          length of the digest (provided that extra care is taken that
          no two algorithms will ever alias in this regard).  Also the
          test script for genhash was extended to conditionally use
          SHA1.
        * Jan Pokorný cleaned up genhash code. 
          Access to the hash-specific context was simplified as I've
          now checked some C guarantees regarding union/it's members
          initial address vs. aligning so now extra inlined accessor
          function is needed.  This simplified the code a bit.
          Also now the hash-specific object is directly pointed to by
          SOCK object instead of carrying just the index to the table of
          hashes and doing the respective access via a global again and
          again.  Next, I've concentrated some hash-related declarations
          to the new hash.h file.  This was mostly motivated by a need
          to break the circular include dependency that have arisen. As
          a consequence, part of the recent clutter I brought in was
          removed again. Most of FEAT_SHA1 conditional compilation is
          here. Previously separated table in main carrying the hash IDs
          to be printed in the help screen was merged into the table
          carrying all the other necessary information about the
          particular hashes.
        * vrrp: Remi Gacogne fixed invalid use of sizeof.
        * Pasi Kärkkäinen Add To header for SMTP alerts.
        * vrrp: Robert Sander add IPv6 support for virtual_routes and
          static_routes.
        * Erik de Groot add support to LVS One-Packet Scheduling
          (known as OPS). Typically RADIUS traffic comes from a limited
          amount of clients and thus you have a very limited range of IP
          tuples in action which will never expire. Issue with  
          Keepalived without this patch is that, although it correctly
          re-assigns traffic when a real server dies, it will never
          re-assign traffic back to the real server when it is restored.
          This is because LVS creates virtual connections, for each IP
          tuple, that will never time out as the clients keep sending
          traffic to the server. With this patch is is possible to
          enable OPS for UDP virtual servers which means LVS does not
          create virtual connections and takes a new loadbalancing
          decision for each UDP packet. The result is that a restored
          server now gets RADIUS traffic as soon as LVS has taken it it
          back into the server pool.
        * Willy Tarreau and Ryan O'Hara add the ability to use VRRP over
          unicast. Unicast IP addresses may be specified for each VRRP
          instance with the 'unicast_peer' configuration keyword. When
          a VRRP instance has one or more unicast IP address defined,
          VRRP advertisements will be sent to each of those addresses.
          Unicast IP addresses may be either IPv4 or IPv6.
          If you are planing to use this option, ensure every ip
          addresses present in unicast_peer configuration block do not
          belong to the same router/box. Otherwise it will generate
          duplicate packet at reception point.


Enjoy,
Alexandre



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