I'm currently building a Linux-HA cluster with a DRBD filesystem and wanted to check out how DRBD would work accross different distributions. To test DRDB I used an Ububtu and a Gentoo host and two loop devices of 256MB each (by default, DRBD uses 128MB for itself). Ubuntu Dapper has DRBD 0.7.15 on Kernel 2.6.15-25-386, while on Gentoo I got 0.7.18 with Kernel 2.6.15-gentoo-r1.

Today I upgraded my Bacula installation on the Gentoo Bacula director to bacula-1.38. Support for TLS has been integrated into Bacula with version 1.37. Upgrading to 1.37 or greater allows to change the encryption configuration to the built-in TLS implementation (instead of stunnel). The Bacula TLS implementation allows to use TLS encryption and mutual authentication between the director, storage and file daemons. The configuration is on a per-daemon basis, so it is possible to define different encryption parameters (TLS required, TLS verify required) based on the requirements. I'm using CAcert certificates for the host certificates.

Unfortunately, Ubuntu Dapper is still on 1.36.3 and Debian Sarge on 1.36.2 which both do not yet support built-in TLS so those clients will have to wait.

While checking the dependencies for the sipX packages on Debian and Ubuntu I found this page which lists the packages and their respective version in current stable Debian Sarge and Ubuntu Dapper Drake.

New packages for sipX-3.4.0 alpha are available from my sipX Ubuntu package repository. See also HowTo install sipX 3.4 on Ubuntu Dapper Drake and HowTo install sipX 3.4 on Debian Sarge on the sipX-Wiki.