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-Version 2.8.0 rc1
+Version 2.8.0 rc2
-----------------
-*(Released Fri, 2 Aug 2013)*
+*(Released Tue, 27 Aug 2013)*
Incompatible/important changes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It's set to true by default.
- Instance failover now supports a ``--cleanup`` parameter for fixing previous
failures.
+- Support 'viridian' parameter in Xen HVM
+- Support DSA SSH keys in bootstrap
New dependencies
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- The minimum Python version needed to run Ganeti is now 2.6.
- ``yaml`` library (only for running the QA).
-Since 2.8.0 beta1
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Since 2.8.0 rc1
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- Support 'viridian' parameter in Xen HVM (Issue 233)
+- Include VCS version in ``gnt-cluster version``
+- Support DSA SSH keys in bootstrap (Issue 338)
+- Fix batch creation of instances
+- Use FQDN to check master node status (Issue 551)
+- Make the DRBD collector more failure-resilient
+
+
+Version 2.8.0 rc1
+-----------------
+
+*(Released Fri, 2 Aug 2013)*
+
+The first release candidate of the 2.8 series. Since 2.8.0 beta1:
- Fix upgrading/downgrading from 2.7
- Increase maximum RAPI message size
m4_define([gnt_version_major], [2])
m4_define([gnt_version_minor], [8])
m4_define([gnt_version_revision], [0])
-m4_define([gnt_version_suffix], [~rc1])
+m4_define([gnt_version_suffix], [~rc2])
m4_define([gnt_version_full],
m4_format([%d.%d.%d%s],
gnt_version_major, gnt_version_minor,