[Announce] vzctl 4.2

Kir Kolyshkin kir at openvz.org
Fri Feb 15 20:39:40 EST 2013


OpenVZ project has released a new major vzctl version.
Read below for more information. Everybody is advised to upgrade.

Changes
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(since 4.1.2)

New functionality:
* Support for Fedora 18 in container (devices, disk quota, venet IPs, 
capabilities)
* vzctl snapshot-list: add options a la vzlist (see --help or man for 
details)

Improvements:
* vzctl create: allow existing empty VE_PRIVATE (#2450)
* vzctl stop/reboot: disable fsync in CT
* vzctl: fix check for VEID_MAX
* vzlist: more strict check for cmdline-supplied CTIDs
* vzlist: warn/skip invalid CTIDs in ve.conf files (#2514)
* vzevent: do umount CT in case of reboot (#2507)
* init.d/vz-redhat: stop vz earlier (#2478)
* init.d/vz-gentoo: don't call tools by absolute path (#2477)
* vzubc: add -wt option (add -t to invoked watch) (#2474)
* vzubc: remove check for watch presence
* vzctl.spec: cleanups, fixes, improvements
* vzctl set --devnodes: add /usr/lib/udev/devices
* minor code cleanups

Fixes:
* vzlist: fix segfault in case of ploop-based CT with no DISKINODES set 
(#2488)
* vzlist --json: fix showing disk usage for non-running CTs
* vzlist -o cpus: do not overwrite runtime value
* vzlist --json: skip collecting numcpu info on old kernel
* vzubc: fix -w/-c check

Documentation:
* man/*: correct path to scripts
* vzctl(8): add missing CTID to SYNOPSYS
* vzctl(8): document new snapshot-list options

See full changelog here:
http://git.openvz.org/?p=vzctl;a=shortlog;h=vzctl-4.2


Download
========
http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/vzctl/4.2


Thanks
======
OpenVZ project would like to thank the following people who contributed 
patches
and/or provided bug reports for this vzctl release (in no particular order):

* Kalin Bogatzevski
* Antanas
* Maxim Leonov
* Chris Butler
* Andrew Kornilov
* Evgenii Terechkov
* Glauber Costa
* Aleksandar Ivanisevic
* Pavel Snajdr
* Justin Albstmeijer


Bug reporting
=============
Please report all bugs found to http://bugzilla.openvz.org/


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================================
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Regards,
   OpenVZ team.


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