The Ganglia Project is pleased to announce the first official testing release of Ganglia 3.1.x. The testing tarball is available for immediate download at:
http://www.ganglia.info/testing/ The intent of this first testing release of Ganglia 3.1.x is to validate that the source code is stable and that the new feature set that is included in the 3.1 version of the software, is 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 3.1.0 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 ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net 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 are several known issues with the current release which include the following: * no support for C++ to create DSO modules * no spoofing from modular metrics (use gmetric if spoofing is needed) * race condition for tcpconn python metric module (affects gmond -m) * libdir issues related to building for 64bit platforms * known build issues for platforms: - Darwin (AKA MacOS/X) - HPUX - Tru64 (AKA OSF/1) - Irix Many of the above issues are being addressed and patches will be applied for the next minor release of Ganglia 3.1.x. In addition more information about the current testing release or official release, can be found on the Ganglia wiki at http://ganglia.wiki.sourceforge.net/ganglia_release_notes. For those who are interested in upgrading from a current 3.0.x installation, your current gmond and gmetad configuration files will need to be moved from there current location to /etc/ganglia. If you are attempting the upgrade via an RPM, the RPM will automatically move your current configuration file to the new location. However, for gmond, the 3.0.x conf file will not work. Please use the patch file gmond-3.1.patch (available from the testing URL above) to patch your gmond.conf prior to starting, otherwise gmond will fail to startup. The main features of this release are : * Dynamically loaded metric module support (DSO) * Scriptable metric module support with Python * Modular frontend graph support * Platform support for DragonFlyBSD * Improved native metric support for Windows (Built with CygWin) * Bug fixes and Enhancements 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-developers mailing list Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
