In an effort to continue improving the Ganglia software, the Ganglia Project has released an official testing release of Ganglia 3.1.1. The testing tarball is available for immediate download at:
http://www.ganglia.info/testing/ The intent of this testing release of Ganglia 3.1.1 is to validate that the source code is stable and that the bug fixes and enhancements that have been added since the previous release of the software, are ready for general release. The release procedure from this point has been documented on the Ganglia wiki site at http://ganglia.wiki.sourceforge.net/ganglia_works under the heading "Generating a Release Candidate and GA Release". Basically the Ganglia 3.1.1 testing tarball has been rolled and made available for testing by the Ganglia community. All bugs found in this testing release should be immediately reported through bugzilla (http://bugzilla.ganglia.info) and can be posted to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list as well. If the bug report is also accompanied by a bug fix patch, this will help avoid delays in producing new testing tarballs and ultimately an official general release of the software. If any critical level bugs are discovered, the current testing release tarball will be thrown away and a new tarball will be rolled and made available for further testing. Once a testing release tarball has been validated by the Ganglia community to be stable and ready for general availability, that tarball will become the official Ganglia 3.1.x release. So basically the sooner we are able to test and validate the Ganglia 3.1 source code, the sooner the project will be able to create an official release. But we need your help to get this done. Any and all testing and feedback, positive or negative, will be greatly appreciated. There will be a two week testing period for this 3.1.1 tarball which begins from the date of this announcement. So please help us to make sure that the tarball is valid and stable by building and installing it on any size of testing environment. Known issues with this testing release will be addressed on the Ganglia wiki site at: http://ganglia.wiki.sourceforge.net/Testing_Release_Notes For those who are interested in upgrading from a current 3.0.x installation, please see the current release notes at: http://ganglia.wiki.sourceforge.net/ganglia_release_notes Supported platforms (additional testing requested): * Linux (Fedora/RedHat/CentOS, Debian, Gentoo, SuSE/OpenSuSE) * [Open]Solaris * FreeBSD * NetBSD * OpenBSD * DragonflyBSD * Cygwin (no support for DSO yet) * AIX (no support for DSO yet) Please read all the README, INSTALL and other available documentation (http://ganglia.wiki.sourceforge.net) as a lot of things have changed since 3.0.7. Use good deployment practices when upgrading from 3.0.x to make sure that you do not mix gmond 3.0 and 3.1 nodes in the same cluster (as defined by a multicast address or unicast collector node). The protocol that allows gmond nodes to communicate within the same cluster, has changed. However the XML packets that are passed between gmond and gmetad have remained compatible from 3.0.x to 3.1.x, allowing a 3.0.x gmetad to continue to pull data from a newer 3.1.x gmond cluster. happy testing ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Ganglia-general mailing list Ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general
