WHATSNEW: Add CTDB changes for 4.12

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwenke <martin@meltin.net>
Reviewed-by: Amitay Isaacs <amitay@gmail.com>
Autobuild-User(master): Amitay Isaacs <amitay@samba.org>
Autobuild-Date(master): Tue Jan 21 13:05:00 UTC 2020 on sn-devel-184

diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt
index 0faf69e030f767c4d47dd4ef4480e4220a2cdc2c..18c787d3cbaceba5558c038f3631689e38e4bf41 100644 (file)
--- a/WHATSNEW.txt
+++ b/WHATSNEW.txt
@@ -129,6 +129,17 @@ Heimdal-DC: removal of weak-crypto.
 Following removal of DES encryption types from Samba, the embedded Heimdal
 build has been updated to not compile weak crypto code (HEIM_WEAK_CRYPTO).
 
+CTDB changes
+------------
+
+* The ctdb_mutex_fcntl_helper periodically re-checks the lock file
+
+  The re-check period is specified using a 2nd argument to this
+  helper.  The default re-check period is 5s.
+
+  If the file no longer exists or the inode number changes then the
+  helper exits.  This triggers an election.
+
 
 smb.conf changes
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