Re: [Xen-devel] [ANNOUNCEMENT] Schedule for Xen 3.0.4

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 02:26:23PM +0000, Ewan Mellor wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 04:34:47PM +0000, Ewan Mellor wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 03:54:56PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 10:58:12AM +0000, Ewan Mellor wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 10:42:53AM +0000, John Levon wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 10:28:43AM +0000, Keir Fraser wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > release candidates for 3.0.4 once or twice a week until we have a 
> > > > > > tree
> > > > > > suitable for final release (hopefully by the middle of December). 
> > > > > > Meanwhile
> > > > > 
> > > > > Does this mean we have less than a month until the Xen API work is
> > > > > frozen, as was previously the plan for 3.0.4? We're still discussing
> > > > > aspects of it and AFAIK there's still a lot of work to do in just
> > > > > finishing defining it, never mind coding it or any "can I actually
> > > > > program against this" stuff.
> > > > 
> > > > No (sorry for the confusion).  Xen 3.0.4 will contain a "preview" of the
> > > > Xen-API (i.e. what we've got now) but this will not be the final 
> > > > version of
> > > > the protocol or data-model, and will not be declared stable or 
> > > > supported.  We
> > > > will ensure that the 3.0.3 protocols are supported in 3.0.4, and will 
> > > > take the
> > > > time during this freeze to make sure that backwards compatibility to
> > > > 3.0.3-based clients is all in place.
> > > > 
> > > > Xen 3.0.4 _will_ contain a working version of "the lifecycle patches", 
> > > > that
> > > > is, the xm new, start, shutdown, delete, suspend, and resume 
> > > > functionality.
> > > 
> > > Before 3.0.4 comes out, there are a couple of fixes we previously 
> > > discussed
> > > on xen-api to ensure the lifecycle patches don't break semantics of the
> > > existing SEXPR / XMLRPC APIs.
> > > 
> > > http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2006-10/msg00009.html
> > 
> > Yes, we'll get those fixed for 3.0.4.
> 
> These are fixed now, and on their way through testing.  Let me know if you
> have any more incompatibility issues with libvirt, and I'll get them fixed in
> time for the 3.0.4 freeze.

Thanks for getting those in so quickly - I'll do some testing with it today
/ tomorrow to make sure everything's now working as expected.

Regards,
Dan.
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