Heartbeat 3.0.2 released

February 1, 2010

After a long release hiatus, an elaborate project re-organization, and with a new primary project sponsor, the Heartbeat cluster messaging layer saw its 3.0.2 release earlier today.

Heartbeat 3.0.2 is the first official Heartbeat release since 2.1.3, released over 2 years ago. There have been a number of intermediate releases in the interim, including some Fedora releases labeled 3.0.0 and 3.0.1, but this is the first official Heartbeat 3.0 release. This means that Pacemaker, the definitive Linux cluster stack, continues to be fully supported on both the Heartbeat and Corosync/OpenAIS messaging layers.

The release tarball may be downloaded directly from the Mercurial repository, or from the Linux-HA web site. Debian packages will soon be available from Martin Loschwitz’ people.debian.org repository and are expected to make their way into Squeeze shortly.

And yes, we had planned to make this release in January. But 2/1/2010 just looked so neat as a release date.

3 Comments | Debian, Heartbeat, Pacemaker, PostgreSQL | Permalink
Posted by Florian Haas

Disaster Recovery survey — we need your feedback!

January 21, 2010

Want to help us out making DRBD an even better fit for off-site Disaster Recovery? Then please participate in our survey. It’s just 6 questions and will take up barely 3 minutes of your time. Thanks!

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Posted by Florian Haas

And just when you thought LINBIT was all about DRBD…

December 11, 2009

… here’s our first RC of Heartbeat 3.0.2!

High availability, that’s us. Bottom to top.

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Posted by Florian Haas

We’re in!

December 8, 2009

DRBD has entered a new phase. After being developed out of tree for 9 years, and after an extended review and streamlining phase since March, Phil submitted DRBD to be merged into 2.6.32 release of the Linux mainline kernel. The submission was accepted by block layer maintainer Jens Axboe, who merged DRBD in September, then deferred to the 2.6.33 merge window, and this morning Linus pulled DRBD into his tree.

That makes DRBD an integral part of Linux, starting with the 2.6.33 release expected in a few weeks’ time.

We have something to celebrate.

18 Comments | Debian, Kernel, MySQL, Non-technical, Random thoughts, Red Hat, SUSE Linux | Permalink
Posted by Florian Haas

Publican packages for Ubuntu karmic

November 18, 2009

Andrew, whom I helped convince to switch to DocBook for writing Pacemaker documentation, pointed me to Publican, a DocBook publishing framework developed by tech writers at Red Hat.

Publican packages have been available in Debian squeeze for a while, but as of today are not included in Ubuntu. Thus, I built packages for karmic, which you may fetch by adding the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

deb http://people.linbit.com/~florian/ubuntu/publican karmic main

Then fetch my GnuPG key so you can verify the Release file’s integrity:

apt-key adv --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 7349B897BC759CF1

Now you can install with

aptitude update
aptitude install publican

… and then hack away.

Ubuntu folks (Andres, that means you!), can we have this in the upstream Ubuntu distros please?

2 Comments | Documentation, Ubuntu | Permalink
Posted by Florian Haas

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