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For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 245 \begin_document \begin_header \textclass scrartcl \language english \inputencoding auto \fontscheme default \graphics default \paperfontsize default \spacing single \papersize a4paper \use_geometry true \use_amsmath 1 \cite_engine basic \use_bibtopic false \paperorientation portrait \leftmargin 3cm \topmargin 3cm \rightmargin 3cm \bottommargin 3cm \headheight 0cm \headsep 0cm \footskip 0cm \secnumdepth 3 \tocdepth 3 \paragraph_separation skip \defskip medskip \quotes_language english \papercolumns 1 \papersides 1 \paperpagestyle empty \tracking_changes false \output_changes false \end_header \begin_body \begin_layout Title Linux-VServer Project Announces New Stable Release and New Website \end_layout \begin_layout Author Benedikt Boehm \emph on hollow@gentoo.org \end_layout \begin_layout Abstract Today, the Linux-VServer project released a new stable version of its kernel patch featuring support for Bind Mount Extensions, improved filesystem support for JFS, kernel helper improvements and other minor enhancements. The new version also fixes a lot of bugs including potential deadlocks, missing context unhashing and network adress removal. \end_layout \begin_layout Abstract Alongside with the new kernel patch, the project announced the launch of a new and overhauled infrastructure for its web presence. The new project website is now based on MediaWiki using a complete new look and feel and will replace the old wiki in the future. Furthermore, an anonymous FTP archive, Subversion repositories and developer webspace have been added to public infrastructure. \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset ERT status open \begin_layout Standard \backslash thispagestyle{empty} \end_layout \end_inset \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \newpage \end_layout \begin_layout Section* About The Next Stable Release: 2.0.2 \end_layout \begin_layout Standard After eight months of work the Linux-VServer project released the next version of the stable kernel patch including the following features and bugfixes: \end_layout \begin_layout Itemize Add support for Bind Mount Extensions \end_layout \begin_layout Itemize Add support for I/O priority per guest \end_layout \begin_layout Itemize Add support for persistent contexts \end_layout \begin_layout Itemize Add support for JFS file attributes \end_layout \begin_layout Itemize Add support for source address remapping \end_layout \begin_layout Itemize Add support for vfsmount visibility in the spectator context \end_layout \begin_layout Itemize Add support for IA32 resource limit emulation \end_layout \begin_layout Itemize Add support for init/reaper flags to ctx_migrate \end_layout \begin_layout Itemize Add support for xid argument to set_namespace \end_layout \begin_layout Itemize Add support for reboot command and exit code to vc_wait_exit \end_layout \begin_layout Itemize Improved debug system \end_layout \begin_layout Itemize Improved helper state/return code handling \end_layout \begin_layout Itemize Force nodev mount option of CAP_SYS_ADMIN is missing \end_layout \begin_layout Itemize Fix context capability handling for non-root users inside guests (CVE-2006-2110) \end_layout \begin_layout Itemize Fix kernel thread isolation \end_layout \begin_layout Itemize Fix ptrace handling \end_layout \begin_layout Itemize Fix missing context unhashing on helper failure \end_layout \begin_layout Itemize Fix potential deadlock \end_layout \begin_layout Itemize Fix context signalling \end_layout \begin_layout Itemize Fix removal of network addresses \end_layout \begin_layout Itemize Fix NFS xid credentials \end_layout \begin_layout Itemize Fix check for utsname flag \end_layout \begin_layout Itemize Fix vserver syscall on ARM and MIPS \end_layout \begin_layout Itemize Fix memory accounting on IA64 \end_layout \begin_layout Itemize Remove broken/obsolete filesystem namespace cleanup \end_layout \begin_layout Itemize Remove memory split stuff \end_layout \begin_layout Standard The new release can be obtained from the Linux-VServer project website at \emph on http://linux-vserver.org \emph default . \end_layout \begin_layout Section* About The New Website Infrastructure \end_layout \begin_layout Standard The Linux-VServer project is excited to announce that a new website infrastructu re with an overhauled look and feel has been setup to serve the needs for a common identity, the growing number of documentation pages as well as developer tools like source control management and a public anonymous FTP archive. \end_layout \begin_layout Standard The new \emph on MediaWiki \emph default setup features a complete new look and feel for the Linux-VServer project including consistent fonts, colors and graphics. Furthermore content pages have been reorganized to ease the search on specific topics. Currently not all content has been migrated from the old wiki installation, therefore both installations will be run simultaneous until the migration is considered finished. \emph on The community is encouraged to help with migration by adding new pages or migrating old ones. \end_layout \begin_layout Standard The new website also introduces various new services for developers and the community. A \emph on public anonymous FTP archive \emph default as well as \emph on webspace for developers \emph default has been setup to gather all project related downloads. Additionally various \emph on Subversion repositories \emph default as well as a \emph on GIT tree \emph default have been created to assist developers with source control management and ease tracking of changes for the community. \end_layout \begin_layout Section* About Linux-VServer \end_layout \begin_layout Standard Linux-VServer provides virtualization for GNU/Linux systems. Virtualization is a framework or methodology of dividing the resources of a computer into multiple execution environments. This is accomplished by kernel level isolation. It allows to run multiple virtual units at once. Those units are sufficiently isolated to guarantee the required security, but utilize available resources efficiently, as they run on the same kernel. \end_layout \begin_layout Standard The basic concept of the Linux-VServer solution is to separate the user-space environment into distinct units (sometimes called Virtual Private Servers) in such a way that each VPS looks and feels like a real server to the processes contained within. \end_layout \begin_layout Standard Although different Linux distributions use (sometimes heavily) patched kernels to provide special support for unusual hardware or extra functionality, most Linux distributions are not tied to a special kernel. \end_layout \begin_layout Standard Linux-VServer uses this fact to allow several distributions, to be run simultane ously on a single, shared kernel, without direct access to the hardware, and share the resources in a very efficient way. \end_layout \begin_layout Section* References \end_layout \begin_layout Enumerate http://linux-vserver.org \end_layout \begin_layout Enumerate http://oldwiki.linux-vserver.org \end_layout \begin_layout Enumerate http://ftp.linux-vserver.org \end_layout \begin_layout Enumerate http://svn.linux-vserver.org \end_layout \begin_layout Enumerate http://git.linux-vserver.org \end_layout \begin_layout Enumerate http://people.linux-vserver.org \end_layout \end_body \end_document