Hi, the UIMA-DUCC 2.1.0 release candidate 1 is ready for voting.
This version contains the following new features and fixes: - DUCC framework runs on Java 7 or Java 8, each supporting applications using either JRE - Ubuntu and RHEL 7 support - cgroup enhancements - uses standard cgroup organization - supports cgroup swappiness setting, restricting any swapping if desired - DUCC state and history storage moved from flat files to Cassandra DB, reducing storage size 5x - ships with latest UIMA-AS v2.8.1 - ships with recent AMQ v5.13.2 - DUCC's UIMA-AS services support failover: and ssl: connectors - many ducc webpage improvements - clear user display of ducc classes and relation to machines - robust handling of dynamic changes to ducc class and nodepool definitions - full support of nodepools with different quantum - DUCC broker access restricted to user ducc - eliminate need for user home directories located on a shared filesystem - built in Job error handler programmable per job - migration utility for DUCC updates - change to vary_off behavior to facilitate cluster management - horizontal stacking of service instance allocations - java-viaducc improvements including separation of stdout from stderr responses - an alert banner is displayed on ducc-mon pages if any daemons are down The list of all changes in Jira: https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20UIMA%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%20%222.1.0-Ducc%22%20ORDER%20BY%20key%20ASC The source and binary zip/tars and the Eclipse update site are staged to https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/uima/uima-ducc/2.1.0/RC1/ The Maven artifacts are here: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapacheuima-1099 The SVN tags are here: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/uima/uima-ducc/tags/uima-ducc-2.1.0/ See http://uima.apache.org/testing-builds.html for suggestions on how to test release candidates. Please vote on release: [ ] +1 OK to release [ ] 0 Don't care [ ] -1 Not OK to release, because ... Thanks.
