What's new in DRBD Management Console 0.9.9

Sep 30, 2011
  • Skipping the initial full sync in the DRBD wizard was implemented, and some visual issues were fixed.

New in DRBD Management Console 0.9.7 (Aug 5, 2011)

  • Logical Volume management was implemented.
  • KDE/Compiz and applet issues were fixed.
  • Type-to-search in long popup lists was implemented.

New in DRBD Management Console 0.9.2 (Apr 29, 2011)

  • The cluster virtual manager GUI was fixed and new LVM plugins were implemented.

New in DRBD Management Console 0.9.0 (Feb 24, 2011)

  • The Heartbeat config form has now all the important options.
  • Virtual manager works with Xen.
  • The Pacemaker init script is used if appropriate.
  • Zooming and scrolling was improved.
  • DRBD MC generates drbd.d/ style config.
  • A DRBD common section is generated as well.
  • Support for Squeeze was added.
  • The whole application has been translated to Japanese.

New in DRBD Management Console 0.8.12 (Jan 25, 2011)

  • "Ordered" and "Collocated" group meta attributes were added. Start heartbeat/corosync menu items were added.
  • Status view in the graph was fixed.
  • Updating of action menus was fixed.
  • Use of the openais init script instead of corosync is now allowed.

New in DRBD Management Console 0.8.4 (Nov 17, 2010)

  • The clone-node-max attribute was added.
  • Defaults in IPaddr/IPaddr2 resource agents were fixed.
  • A useless node name and DNS check in host dialog wizard was removed.
  • Performance was greatly improved.
  • It is now possible to use it as an applet.

New in DRBD Management Console 0.8.0 (Oct 5, 2010)

  • The VM part of the GUI is included now.
  • Popup menus were improved.
  • A possible race with radio groups was fixed.
  • A leak that occurred when there is no ssh connection was fixed.
  • The menu tree's failure to update for orphaned resources was fixed.
  • Tooltips that are too wide are now split to more lines.

New in DRBD Management Console 0.7.9 (Aug 12, 2010)

  • Editable VMS net interfaces and disks were implemented.
  • Block devices are now ordered dynamically in the DRBD view.
  • A possible deadlock in Swing was fixed.
  • Adding of new services was fixed.
  • Group resources are now cleaned up after they are removed.
  • Drbddisk RA is now shown only if necessary.

New in DRBD Management Console 0.7.5 (Jul 2, 2010)

  • Improved stability.
  • The --version option was added.
  • A test suite was implemented. dc-version and similar are no longer removed when storing global options.
  • VMs were reenabled.
  • Sorting of block devices consisting of digits was fixed.
  • Resource sets were implemented.
  • The online/offline indicator was fixed.
  • A "type to search" feature in long lists was implemented.
  • Problems with hostnames with capital letters were fixed.

New in DRBD Management Console 0.7.1 (Apr 1, 2010)

  • WorkaroundforXFS'IOrequestswithpagecountofzero.
  • Handlethehumanandthetimeoutcountcorrectlyinthenewinitscript.
  • Theimplementationoftheincon-degr-cmdwasmissing,added.
  • Fixforintegeroverflowin/proc/drbdsyncerprogressdisplay
  • Longertimeoutsindrbdadmfordrbdsetupcommandswitchoperateonmetadata.
  • Newmajornumber(officiallyregisteredatlanana.org).
  • Addedamissingw_resume_next_wg()incasewestopsyncingbecauseofconnectionloss.
  • FixedaLinux-.-ismusinrecieve_data_tail().ShouldconsiderablyspeedupprotocolsAandB.
  • Someworkonvendorkernelcompatibility

New in DRBD Management Console 0.7.0 (Mar 22, 2010)

  • Wizard driven installation/update of DRBD/Pacemaker on you cluster nodes
  • Wizard driven creation of Heartbeat configuration file ha.cf
  • Presents NICs and block devices
  • Graphical representation of complete DRBD status
  • Create new DRBD resources in the DRBD overview
  • Actions on DRBD resources available as context menu in the DRBD status view
  • Graphical representation of Heartbeat resources and their constraints
  • Resource states and the node they run on included in the graph
  • Context menus with actions on Heartbeat resources
  • Text console view of all commands DRBD MC issues

New in DRBD Management Console 0.4.1 (Oct 28, 2009)

  • Menu items to create a kernel panic or reboot for cluster testing were added.
  • Cleanup is called automatically before applying changes to a failed service.
  • Support for Ubuntu Karmic was added.
  • Support for Openfiler was added.
  • A check for an available upgrade was added.
  • "Always" and "never" keywords for host scores were added.
  • The host menus were improved.
  • Host standby is shown in the graph.
  • A migrated resource is indicated as such in the graph.
  • An unmanaged service is indicated as such in the graph.

New in DRBD Management Console 0.4.0 (Oct 12, 2009)

  • Master/slave support was added.
  • Operation combo boxes were fixed.
  • A OpenAIS and Pacemaker repository for Fedora 11 was added.
  • A new madkiss Debian Lenny repository was added.
  • Support for device minor X syntax in drbd.conf was added.
  • Host scores were reworked. /dev/mapper... devices in drbd.conf are allowed now.
  • Colors of hosts were changed.
  • Graphical representation of resources, groups, and hosts was improved.
  • Tooltips for DRBD 8.3.3 were fixed and the action menu was fixed.

New in DRBD Management Console 0.3.1 (Aug 31, 2009)

  • Information in the graph was reorganized and improved.
  • The --keep-helper option was implemented so that drbd-gui-helper is not overwritten if desired.
  • Back buttons in the installation dialogs were fixed.
  • mkfs.jfs and mkfs.reiserfs were made non-interactive.
  • DRBD is now loaded as soon as it is installed.
  • All services in a group vertex are shown.
  • Improvements in the corosync.conf/openais.conf wizard were implemented.
  • A launchpad.net installation option for Ubuntu Hardy was added.
  • Reconnecting after a connection is lost was fixed.
  • Corosync support was added.