open-iscsi (2.1.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium open-iscsi is now linked with the OpenSSL library. With the change, the build of open-iscsi in Debian, is close to what upstream expects The decision to link to OpenSSL library was made based on the recent conclusions of Debian FTP Master team -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf Sun, 15 Nov 2020 12:48:14 +0530 open-iscsi (2.0.873+git0.3b4b4500-10) unstable; urgency=low RESTARTING OF ISCSID ON UPGRADES On updates, iscsid is now restarted (it previously wasn't). This is supported and as long as the new iscsid is able log in to the targets again, everything will continue to work. Filesystems DO NOT have to be unmounted, I/O will just block for a couple of seconds until the connections with the targets are reestablished. Note that to achieve this, open-iscsi now uses two init scripts / systemd services: - iscsid starts/stops the daemon (only this is restarted when upgrading) - open-iscsi logs in and out of targets (previously also started the daemon) The previous method of keeping the old iscsid running on upgrades was not actually supported upstream. Note that due to these changes, any attempt to downgrade to version 2.0.873+git0.3b4b4500-9 or earlier will badly break your open-iscsi installation. ROOT FILESYSTEMS ON ISCSI Previously, if the root filesystem was on iSCSI, open-iscsi would not log out of any session at shutdown. This behavior has changed, only the session that carries the root filesystem will be kept, all other sessions will be logged out. If for some reason your storage setup is not properly detected, you may return to the old behavior by setting ISCSI_ROOT_KEEP_ALL_SESSIONS_AT_SHUTDOWN=1 in /etc/default/open-iscsi. HANDLE_NETDEV=0 BEHAVIOR CHANGE If you are running sysvinit and have HANDLE_NETDEV=0, please note that this flag is now also checked at bootup, i.e. filesystems with _netdev will not be mounted automatically at boot anymore by open-iscsi. (Previously, this flag was only checked at shutdown.) On systemd systems, HANDLE_NETDEV is now completely ignored, as systemd handles mounting of network filesystems directly. PURGING OPEN-ISCSI If you purge open-iscsi, it will now remove the database in /etc/iscsi (it previously didn't). -- Christian Seiler Thu, 20 Aug 2015 11:08:37 +0200