1.2. Tungsten Clustering 7.1.1 GA (15 Dec 2023)

Version End of Life. Not Yet Set

Release 7.1.1 contains a number of key bug fixess including one majore bug fix that prevents switches from working correclty after upgraging from v6.

Behavior Changes

The following changes have been made to Tungsten Cluster and may affect existing scripts and integration tools. Any scripts or environment which make use of these tools should check and update for the new configuration:

  • Command-line Tools

    • The tpm diag command now collects ps -aux output in addition to ps -efl when possible.

      Issues: CT-2119

  • Tungsten Connector

    • Changed default value of mgr-policy-fence-slave setting so that a replica data source is put offline 60s after its replicator goes offline. This change will prevent routing traffic to replicas that are stale.

      Issues: CT-2096

Improvements, new features and functionality

  • Command-line Tools

    • The tapi command now supports the ?no-connectors=1 argument in APIv2 via the new cli argument --no-connectors

      Issues: CT-2174

    • The tpm mysql command now accepts the --force argument to function on Witness nodes that have a running database.

      Issues: CT-2180

Bug Fixes

  • Installation and Deployment

    • Installations will now succeed on hosts running Ruby 3.x

      Issues: CT-2196

  • Command-line Tools

    • The tpm report command now correctly displays security info tpm options as blank when none exists.

      Issues: CT-2176

    • The tpm update command no longer fails to display foreign-owned dot-files and directories.

      Issues: CT-2190

    • The tpm mysql command now properly accepts the -e argument as a shortcut for the --execute mysql cli client argument.

      Issues: CT-2217

    • Fixes a regression in tpm cert that prevented BASE_DIR in tungsten.env from being used properly.

      Issues: CT-2237

  • Tungsten Manager

    • Fixed a thread synchronization issue that can cause memory leaks.

      Issues: CT-2197

    • v6 API configuration properties within the INI file, are now also recognised by v7.

      Issues: CT-2231

    • Fixed a bug when upgrading from 6.x to 7.x that prevented switches/failovers from working. Also the change of datasource-group-id in the INI will now be correctly reflected after a tpm update.

      Issues: CT-2236