Announcing: Beta release 0.4.9e

[Alan Robertson]

Martijn Klingens wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 October 2002 18:44, Alan Robertson wrote:
> 
>>Last night I completed tests on the 0.4.9e beta version of the heartbeat
>>code.  This release mainly has bug fixes in it, and passes the test suite.
>>I ran 500 tests with nice_failback on, and 500 with it off.
>>All tests passed perfectly.
>>
>>I recommand anyone using any of the beta versions (0.4.9[abcd]) should
>>upgrade to it soon.  I believe the release to be a good beta and some of
>>these fixes are reasonably important.
>>
> 
> Is there any schedule about the first release candidates and the final release 
> already btw?


Schedule?   What's that?     ;-)


Right now I feel pretty good about where we are - as far as features and 
stability are concerned.  A number of people are running these betas in 
production mode.

Even FreeBSD et al are reaching a reasonable degree of functionality.

This would mean that perhaps one of the next betas could be a stable release 
candidate.  As always, this depends on what other things happen during this 
time.

Here are features that would be nice to have by the 0.5 stable release:

	Maturity in ipfail

	Getting hb_standby to work on machines with nice_failback off

The first one is well underway.  Someone mentioned the second one earlier, 
but I don't know if she's started it.

I would suspect that we'll try and get 0.5 out in the next few months.


	-- Alan Robertson
	   alanr@unix.sh