2011-11-23 |
JRES'2011 Presentation |
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Alexandre SIMON from CIRIL made a Nice presentation at JRES'2011. He also produced a Paper and a slideshow (French Material). Thanks for the good job ! |
2011-01-16 |
Release 1.2.2 - IPv6 Ready ! |
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This release has been jointly sponsored by PICTURA and PCEXTREME. Special thanks go to tech team at PCEXTREME and PICTURA for time spent on testing and reporting issues. Please visit sponsors websites ! Focus for this release has been made on a massive code rewrite to fully support IPv6 in VRRP and IPVS frameworks. |
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2010-12-08 |
Release 1.2.1 - Bugfixes |
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Merged mainline pending bugfixes. |
2010-06-24 |
Website hosting |
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The keepalived website has moved on Thu 2010 June 24th to a clustered
lxc container provided and powered by OpenSVC.
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2010-05-31 |
Release 1.2.0 - VRRP IPv6 Release |
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Extend VRRP to support IPv6. |
2010-05-06 |
Release 1.1.20 - Bugfixes |
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Extend ip and route framework to support existing entries. Fix broadcast display.
Fix genhash parsing issue. destroy old signal pipes on reload. Fix SMTP checker
issue. handle non-existant default interface in VIP definition. Remove alive realserver
when quorum is lost. Fix a segfault issue if virtual_server is empty. Keep previous
effective VRRP priority on reload. Fix VRRP script handling. On reload keep VRRP scripts
status. Remove IPVS Kernel 2.2 support. |
2010-03-16 |
Chinese documentation |
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Sery contributed a nice Chinese document on Keepalived. |
2009-10-01 |
Release 1.1.19 - Bugfixes |
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Fixed segfault issue while parsing virtual_server. Fixed SIGCHLD
handling upton reload. Fixed VRRP nopreempt from FAULT state. |
2009-09-28 |
Created GIT repository |
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Created Keepalived project GIT repository. |
2009-09-24 |
Release 1.1.18 - Bugfixes |
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Fixed reloading issues. Fixed a VRRP multicast group leave issue.
Added support to delayed vrrp script lauching. Fixed initial value
of quorum state. Fixed sorry server removal to take care of quorum
state. Fixed a signal handling issue while reloading. Fixed PID
handling. Updated media link failure detection strategy. Misc
cosmetics fixes. |
2009-03-05 |
Release 1.1.17 - Bugfixes |
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Fixed a regression brought by previous release during low-level
scheduler timer computation. Fixed VRRP MII code to properly
test BMSR. Optimized VRRP script initialization. |
2009-02-15 |
Release 1.1.16 - Bugfixes |
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Merged lot of pending patches. Added support to alpha/omega framework
for healthchecker management. Extended VRRP scheduler to support
internal monotonic clock. Fixed VRRP reelection issue while using
IPSEC AH auth. Fixed VRRP reloading process to offer graceful
restart. Extended VRRP virtual_route framework to support black hole
route as well as multihop routes. |
2007-09-16 |
Release 1.1.15 - Bugfixes |
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Fixed genshash makefile. Removed http healthchecker buffer minimization
causing crash. Fixed parser include directive to support multi-level
configuration includes. Extended SSL checker for better handling of SSL
handshake. Fixed http healthcheker issue while processing MD5SUM. Fixed
missing notifications upon VRRP state transition. Add support for VRRP
virtual_routes to route metric. |
2007-09-13 |
Release 1.1.14 - Enhancements |
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Extended parsing framework to support include directives and error
logging. Merged patches from rpmforge. Add script goodies directory.
Fixed compilation issue in VRRP code. Fixed VRRP negative weights in
script. Extended VRRP framework to support Old-style Linux aliases.
Add support to VRRP script logging |
2006-12-11 |
New OpenSource Project |
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Launch a new OpenSource project focused on Layer7 switching
www.linux-l7sw.org |
2006-10-11 |
Release 1.1.13 - Enhancements |
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Extended VRRP engine to support floating priority. Fixed
some issues. |
2006-03-09 |
Release 1.1.12 - Bugfixes |
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Fixed SSL checker to properly support asynchronous stream
handling. Fixed SMTP checker. Extended VRRP framework to
use vrrp virtual_router_id as LVS syncid. Fixed redhat spec
file. |
2005-09-02 |
Press arcticle |
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poboxcom">Philip J. Hollenback
published
an article on keepalived at LinuxDevCenter.
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2005-03-01 |
Release 1.1.11 - Bugfixes |
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Fixed a bitwise negation issue while handling signal.
Extended VRRP ipaddress and iproutes handling to take care
of unknown interfaces. Cosmetics cleanups. |
2005-02-15 |
Release 1.1.10 - Bugfixes |
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Release iproutes before ipaddresses while restoring
interfaces inside VRRP framework. Fixed somes buffer
overruns, NULL pointers and one memory leak. Redesigned
signal handling. Fixed some shadowed declarations.
Extended libipvs to support syncd zombies handling.
Fixed a scheduling and configurations reload races
conditions. Cosmetics cleanups. |
2005-02-07 |
Release 1.1.9 - Bugfixes |
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Fixed issues in VRRP framework while releasing
vrrp socket pool, setting blocking flags on netlink
socket and hashing vrrp fd bucket into hash index.
Fixed a regression in html parsing. Fixed compilation
issue while using debug compilation. VRRP and Healthcheck
framework extension to support debugging flags. Removed
watchdog framework to use native scheduling signaling
helpers. |
2005-01-25 |
Release 1.1.8 - Enhancements |
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Extended VRRP to support dont_track_primary, nopreempt,
preempt_delay. Fixed some VRRP issues while stoping
and/or reloading daemon. Extended netlink to support
blocking request operations and non-blocking kernel
reflections. Added SMTP checker. Extended MISC checker
to support dynamic weight. Fixed some assertions issue,
HTTP header parsing. Somes cosmetics fixes and typo. |
2004-04-05 |
Release 1.1.7 - Minor Bug Fixes |
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Added some assertion tests in memory framework. Fixed
a VRRP issue using syncd configuration. Some cosmetics
patches in Makefiles and autoconf. Jacob Rief put THC
enabled release here.
Thomas Halwax contributed writing a scripting
framework for VRRP notify helpers. |
2004-02-23 |
Release 1.1.6 - Bug Fixes |
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Fixed a VRRP scheduling issues. Fixed a linkbeat
issues. Extended ipvswrapper code to support 2.6 kernel
IPVS code. Updated autoconf and Makefiles to support
2.6 kernel IPVS code. Extended VRRP dropping strategy
to siliently drop bogus incoming adverts. Somes cosmetics
patches. |
2004-01-25 |
Release 1.1.5 - Enhancements |
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Created Keepalived manpages. Fixed a VRRP length
issue while testing password field for auth_pass method.
Fixed a watchdog quick loop timer. Extended scheduler
to support stable scheduling time. Updated default
media link failure detection strategy. Some cosmetics
cleanup. |
2003-12-29 |
Release 1.1.4 - Enhancements |
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Updated autoconf script. Extended daemon design to
work-around the SMP forking issue. Extended media link
failure detection to support linkwatch subsystem. Extended
MII BMSR polling to be fully asynchronous. Optimized
a VRRP timer computation. Some cosmetic patches. Wrote
a small paper explaining LinkWatch design
from Stefan Rompf, <sux <at> loplof <dot> de>. |
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2003-09-29
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Release 1.1.3 - Enhancements |
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Extended ip address framework to support broadcast
ip address selection. Extended scheduling framework
to support long timer and micro-sec second overlap.
Extended VRRP and checkers frameworks to support new
scheduling long timer. Added support to main daemon
log_level selection. Extended HTTP checker to support
non blocking read. Fixed a notify script issue. Extended
scheduling framework to support child thread while computing
global scheduling timer. Extended VRRP FSM to support
BACKUP state notifiers and smtp_alert during VRRP initialization. |
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2003-09-08
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Release 1.1.2 - Enhancements |
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Extended healthchecker framework to support multiple
checkers per realserver. Extended TCP, HTTP & SSL
checkers to support binding selection. Reviewed the
watchdog calling location, watchdog is reinitialized
during a daemon reload event. Extended the global parser
to support default handlers. Fixed some code dependencies.
Extended VRRP ethtool code to detect ETHTOOL_GLINK availability.
Fixed some VRRP IPSEC issues. Fixed a bug while setting
static_ipaddress. Fixed a VRRP reloading issue introducing
a noisy daemon crash. |
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2003-07-24
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Release 1.1.1 - Bug fixes |
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Fixed a VRRP dereferencing pointer while processing
configuration file reload. Fixed misc checker to perform
server state according to checker result.
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2003-07-22
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Release 1.1.0 - High Performance extensions |
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This release is focused on VRRP high performance
and optimizations. Added support to a global shared
buffer for incoming advert handling. Added support
to pre-allocated shared buffer for outgoing adverts.
Extended socket pool design to support shared fd for
outbound channel. Added support to static_ipaddress
as global keyword. Extended track_interface to support
multiple interface tracking. Review the instance lookup
design to use o(1) scheduling design to reduce VRRP
scheduling jitter using a customized hash index. Review
the sync_group design to speed up synchronization
using a pre-computed index. Optimized VRRP timer fd
lookup using a one pass lookup. Bradley Baetz, extended
the scheduler framework to support child process handling.
Bradley Baetz, fixed the misc_check healthchecker
using new thread child scheduling facility. Added
support to a shared kernel netlink command channel.
Extended logging code to support verbose log output.
Extended gratuitous ARP code to support shared buffer
and shared socket. Fixed a gratuitous ARP issue, extended
the code for sending garp over device ipaddess belong
to. Extended the ipaddress framework to point directly
to interface reflected by netlink channel instead
of storing device index. Extended VRRP scheduling
timer computation to support timer auto-recalibration
to provide overhead auto-adaptation. Extended VRRP
scheduler to support fd hash table design, this speed
up instance lookup while computing instance sands.
Extended vrrp new socket creation to replace refreshed
instance fd into fd hash table index. Extended vrrp
framework to support blank virtual_ipaddress block.
Extended watchdog framework to support polling delay
selection via daemon command line. Extended the genhash
code to support verbose output selection, command
arg '-v' will generate a very verbose output. list
library has been extended to support multi-sized list
& specific element deletion. Some name clean-up,
cosmetics extensions.
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2003-05-19
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Software Design Update |
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Updated the Software Design page to introduce new
Keepalived internal design (watchdog, parser splitting,
..) |
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2003-05-12
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Release 1.0.3 - Sponsorized by "Tiscover AG,
The Travel Network" |
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This release has been sponsorized
by Tiscover AG, thanks go to their IT team and
especially to Jacob Rief for design discussions
and testing time. Please visit sponsor Homepage
at www.tiscover.com.
This release is a major daemon re-design to increase
security and availability of Keepalived itself.
The daemon is split into 3 process, one parent
and 2 childrens. Parent monitor children availability.
One children for VRRP and another for Healthcheckers.
Added support to a modularized watchdog framework.
Watchdog estart children if they die or enter
scheduling deadloop. Splitted parsing keyword
tree for each relevant daemon. Added dedicated
syslog facility for each children. Modularized
parser. Extended pidfile & memory framework.
Fixed a virtual_server_group issue while reloading
conf. Extended IPVS wrapper. Extended netlink
code to support scope selection. Vince Worthington
created the Keepalived-lvs-nat-director-proxyarp-firewall-howto. |
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2003-04-14
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Release 1.0.2 - Sponsorized by "edNET internetworkingsolutions" |
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This release has been sponsorized
by edNET, thanks to them for supporting Keepalived
project. Please visit sponsor homepage at www.ednet.co.uk.
This release added support to virtual_server_group
that provide support for real_server to belong
to multiple virtual_server without launching a
bunch of healthcheckers. Extended the differentiate
configuration parser to support virtual_server_group
differentiate entries and preserve IPVS working
topology. Added support to IP address range support
for virtual_server_group. SIGCHLD extension. Extended
VRRP virtual_routes to support source route selection.
Some cosmetics patches. |
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2003-03-18
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Release 1.0.1 - Sponsorized by "Ecomdevel LLC" |
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This release has been sponsorized
by "Ecomdevel LLC", clever
and open minded people here, please visit sponsor
homepage at www.gigenet.com.
Extended netlink kernel reflection to support
routings. Added support to static_routes set/removed
during daemon bootstrap/shutdown. Added support
to virtual_routes set/removed according to VRRP
FSM. Extended virtual_ipaddress and virtual_ipaddress_excluded
block to specify dedicated device interface for
each ipaddress. Added support to track_interface
for interface state monitoring (same as HSRP).
Rewrote the VRRP VIP & E-VIP memory representation.
Optimized code dependence selection. Enhanced
HTTP|SSL checkers to support 2KB buffer lenght
GET query. Some cosmetics and code cleaning work. |
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2003-02-25
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IETF Draft |
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Wrote the draft-ietf-vrrp-ipsecah-spec
paper to present VRRP stack implementation of IPSEC-AH
authentication method. |
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2003-02-16
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Website & Soft Design |
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Reviewed the website design and created a documentation
explaining the Keepalived internal software
design. |
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2003-01-13
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Release 1.0.0 |
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This is the FIRST STABLE and production ready RELEASE.
Enhanced initscript. Added support to ha_suspend.
Extended real_server block to support notify_up and
notify_down script launch. Set default realserver
weight to 1. Fixed a layer4.c issue. Reviewed the
SIGCHLD handler. Extended parser to support ecapsulated
quoted string. More logging messages. Review HTTP|SSL
retry code. Added VRRP sync_group smtp_alert support.
Fixed some IPSEC_AH seq_num synchronizations. Extended
the VRRP TSM. Some VRRP FSM state optimizations. Extended
parser to support sync_group declaration before or
after instances declarations. Created keepalived.conf.SYNOPSIS
file to describe all keywords available.
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2002-11-21
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Release 0.7.6 |
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Created a common code lib. Rewrote the genhash utility.
Review autoconf and Makefiles scripts. Created an html
util lib. Extended HTTP and SSL checkers to support
remote webserver HTTP header status_code. Modularized
the md5sum stream handling for HTTP and SSL checkers.
Fixed a premature socket fd close during SMTP notification
in HTTP and SSL code. Rewrote the gratuitous ARP code.
Some VRRP messages logging. Fixed an issue during VRRP
packet building. Remove the previous VRRP ARP packet
building. Rewrote the VRRP packet sending process. Extended
the interface lib. Extended the VRRP code to support
IPSEC-AH authentication. Optimize the VRRP TSM. Some
cosmetics patches. Consider this release as a 1.0.0
STABLE release candidate code. |
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2002-09-18
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Release 0.7.1 |
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Fixed a misc_check register issue.Extended ipfwwrapper
to select ipchains setting or not. Added a gratuitous
ARP delayed thread for VRRP MASTER state transition.
Review the gratuitous ARP helper function to only send
ARP when VRRP VIPs are set. Review the whole VRRP FSM
to prevent against junky flapping issues. Added support
to a Transition State Matrix (TSM) design to speed synchronization.
Optimize the VRRP FAULT state fallback synchronization.
Extended the VRRP smtp notifier to notify transition
to MASTER or BACKUP states. Adam
Fletcher created the LVS-NAT
+ Keepalived HOWTO. |
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2002-08-06
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Release 0.6.10 |
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Fixed a VRRP VIPs reflection set flag issue. Fixed
a VRRP framework code selection issue. |
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2002-08-01
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Release 0.6.9 |
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Added support to reload configuration file on the
fly on SIGHUP receive. Fixed some code dependencies.
Added 2 new daemon arguments that permit to not release
VRRP VIPs and IPVS topology on daemon stop. Fixed a
MISC_CHECK forking issue. Review IPVS wrapper to use
allocated IPVS rules. Extended keepalived.init redhat
script to support restart and reload arguments. Fixed
some typo. Some code cleanup. |
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2002-07-27
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MASTER LVS website crashed down. |
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Our primary LVS website has terribly crashed down
!!! Horms offers
vergenet temp
hosting with a dynamic content replication provided
by Super Sparrow
technology. Set Keepalived website to sourceforge as
backup location. |
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2002-07-16
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Release 0.6.8 |
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Fixed a SMTP stream handling assertion. Added support
to inhibit_on_failure for a real_server, this set real_server
weight to 0 if checker report a failure. Added kernel
check for netlink support. |
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2002-07-12
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Release 0.6.7 |
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Rewrote the SMTP notifier framework to use strong
FSM design. Extended the VRRP multicast membership subscription
to not degrade global scheduling timer on retry. Fixed
a buffer overflow during the sending advert interface
binding process. Some more cosmetics patches. |
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2002-07-08
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Release 0.6.6 |
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Fine the coding style. Review the code source tree.
Review Makefile(s) for better code selection on libipvs
and libipfwc, added code dependence
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