NEWS update and version bump for 2.8 rc2

Latest modifications and fixes added to the NEWS file.

Signed-off-by: Michele Tartara <mtartara@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <ultrotter@google.com>

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 64a3c48..853c9c1 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@ News
 ====
 
 
-Version 2.8.0 rc1
+Version 2.8.0 rc2
 -----------------
 
-*(Released Fri, 2 Aug 2013)*
+*(Released Tue, 27 Aug 2013)*
 
 Incompatible/important changes
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -71,6 +71,8 @@ New features
   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
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -84,8 +86,23 @@ For Python:
 - 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

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 8133691..6ce2935 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 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,