[Linux-HA] Announcing! Release 2.0.8 of Linux-HA is now available!

[Alan Robertson]

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Werner Fischer wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 23:36 -0700, Alan Robertson wrote:
>>   + heartbeat:  Work around a glibc/times() bug to prevent failures every
>>     497 days on 32-bit Linux (OSDL 1407).
> Does this problem exist in Heartbeat 1.2.5? According to
> http://lists.community.tummy.com/pipermail/linux-ha-dev/2006-August/013388.html (dated Aug 14, 2006) this problem is present in Heartbeat 1.2.3 and Alan wrote "> It's fixed in 1.2.4 If I recall correctly..." in this post.
> 
> But as in http://www.osdl.org/developer_bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1407
> (dated Aug 16, 2006) it is mentioned that "This is at least the 3rd time
> we've had this bug reported. Each time we thought we'd fixed it. In each
> case so far we were wrong." I could image that this problem is still in
> Heartbeat 1.2.5.
> 
> Unfortunately it would take me nearly 500 days to test it, so maybe
> someone of the developers could say whether or not this problem is still
> in Heartbeat 1.2.5.
> 
> If it is still in 1.2.5, are there plans for a 1.2.6 version which fixes
> this problem?

There are not currently any plans for any more new versions of 1.2.x.
It's pretty out of date by now.  I don't want to encourage its continued
use.  If there are new security bugs, SUSE would likely want us to issue
a new release.

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    Alan Robertson <alanr at unix.sh>

"Openness is the foundation and preservative of friendship...  Let me
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