[ANNOUNCE] Final release candidate for Xen 4.2.0

[ANNOUNCE] Final release candidate for Xen 4.2.0

[Keir Fraser]

Folks,

A final RC has been tagged in the xen-4.2 branch:
http://xenbits.xen.org/hg/staging/xen-4.2-testing.hg (tag '4.2.0-rc5')

We plan to call the 4.2.0 release on Monday, with no further modifications.
So please test this "GA preview"!

 -- Keir

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Final release candidate for Xen 4.2.0

[Ian Jackson]

Keir Fraser writes ("[Xen-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Final release candidate for Xen 4.2.0"):
> A final RC has been tagged in the xen-4.2 branch:
> http://xenbits.xen.org/hg/staging/xen-4.2-testing.hg (tag '4.2.0-rc5')

I have made a tarball in the traditional style, with included copies
of both relevant versions of qemu.  (In 4.3 we should arrange to be
able to make a tarball version which doesn't download anything, and
the machinery for doing this should be in-tree.)

The tarball is here:
  http://bits.xensource.com/oss-xen/release/4.2.0-rc5/xen-4.2.0-rc5.tar.gz
  http://bits.xensource.com/oss-xen/release/4.2.0-rc5/xen-4.2.0-rc5.tar.gz.sig
Comments welcome (particularly about how the tarball version is
constructed).

> We plan to call the 4.2.0 release on Monday, with no further modifications.
> So please test this "GA preview"!

As Keir says.  If all goes well the 4.2.0 release will have a
functionally identical tarball.

Thanks,
Ian.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Final release candidate for Xen 4.2.0

[Matt Wilson]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 03:53:28PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > We plan to call the 4.2.0 release on Monday, with no further modifications.
> > So please test this "GA preview"!
> 
> As Keir says.  If all goes well the 4.2.0 release will have a
> functionally identical tarball.

Any chance my man page fixes will make it in to the final tarball?
"Functionally identical" seems to leave some wiggle room.

xmdomain.cfg.5 has POD errors (displayed when you run "man xmdomain.cfg":
POD ERRORS
       Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are
       explained
       below:

       Around line 301:
           You can't have =items (as at line 305) unless the first
	   thing after
           the =over is an =item

       Around line 311:
           '=item' outside of any '=over'

xl.cfg.5 has POD errors:
POD ERRORS
       Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are
       explained
       below:

       Around line 405:
           '=item' outside of any '=over'

       Around line 429:
           You forgot a '=back' before '=head2'

       Around line 687:
           '=item' outside of any '=over'

       Around line 695:
           You forgot a '=back' before '=head3'

Matt

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Final release candidate for Xen 4.2.0

[Keir Fraser]

On 13/09/2012 17:25, "Matt Wilson" <msw@amazon.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 03:53:28PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
>>> We plan to call the 4.2.0 release on Monday, with no further modifications.
>>> So please test this "GA preview"!
>> 
>> As Keir says.  If all goes well the 4.2.0 release will have a
>> functionally identical tarball.
> 
> Any chance my man page fixes will make it in to the final tarball?
> "Functionally identical" seems to leave some wiggle room.

I think these are low priority enough they can wait for 4.2.1, which will be
6-8 weeks.

 -- Keir

> xmdomain.cfg.5 has POD errors (displayed when you run "man xmdomain.cfg":
> POD ERRORS
>        Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are
>        explained
>        below:
> 
>        Around line 301:
>            You can't have =items (as at line 305) unless the first
>   thing after
>            the =over is an =item
> 
>        Around line 311:
>            '=item' outside of any '=over'
> 
> xl.cfg.5 has POD errors:
> POD ERRORS
>        Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are
>        explained
>        below:
> 
>        Around line 405:
>            '=item' outside of any '=over'
> 
>        Around line 429:
>            You forgot a '=back' before '=head2'
> 
>        Around line 687:
>            '=item' outside of any '=over'
> 
>        Around line 695:
>            You forgot a '=back' before '=head3'
> 
> Matt