Hail version 0.7 released

Jeff Garzik <[email protected]> Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:57:27 -0400
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.hail-devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Version 0.7 of hail core services has been released, at the expected places:

	http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/distsrv/hail/
	ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/network/distsrv/hail/
	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/daemon/distsrv/hail.git

This release replaces separate chunkd and cld packages with a single 
'hail' package, which provides libhail, cld and chunkd binaries.

Release notes (from the NEWS file), showing changes since the last 
official cld/chunkd releases:

- cld and chunkd merged into single 'hail' package, providing
   libhail, cld and chunkd binaries.  libcldc and libchunkdc libraries
   no longer exist.
- cld: bug fixes
- cld: use XDR for all messages
- cldc: bug fixes
- cldc: improve verbose output
- cldc: add new 'ncld' client API
- add experimental 'cldfuse' FUSE filesystem
- support db 4.9, 5.0
- chunkd: bug fixes
- chunkd: update to ncld, fix CLD-related bugs
- chunkd: improve and canonicalize verbosity controls and output
- chunkd: be less inflexible about CLD paths
- chunkd: (protocol change) replace SSL/no-SSL split ports with
           in-band SSL negotiation
- chunkd: integrity self-checking
- chunkd: fix GET/PUT for larger than 2GB values
- chcli: bug fixes

As with prior cld/chunkd releases, there will be no attempt at backwards 
compatibility, API freeze or protocol freeze until just prior to 1.0 
release.  In this release, backwards incompatible cld and chunkd network 
protocol changes have occurred.

	Jeff