[Users] Zimbra 8.8.8 Patch 1 release

[Tony Publiski]

I haven't actually looked at what's fixed in this patch, however *most* 
of the time you don't need to ever patch anything but the store server, 
so really I wouldn't even both with the other nodes. Yes, the 
zimbra-common-core-jar package is used by zmprov, and thus exists on all 
nodes, however it's almost certain that nothing patched affects the 
non-mailbox server nodes. The former patch would, of course, run on all 
nodes, but only actually copied files based on what services were 
installed, and I can't remember a patch I was involved in actually 
patching anything on non-store nodes.

Tony

------ Original Message ------
From: "Randy Leiker" <randy at skywaynetworks.com>
To: users at lists.zetalliance.org
Sent: 4/12/2018 7:03:31 PM
Subject: [Users] Zimbra 8.8.8 Patch 1 release

>Hi Everyone,
>
>Today Zimbra 8.8.8 Patch 1 was released as GA: 
>https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Zimbra_Releases/8.8.8/P1
>
>One of the bug fixes included (35115) helps with the Zimbra High 
>Availability open source project I've been working on developing.  I'll 
>be publishing the initial reference designs for that project very soon 
>on its own web site.  In the meantime, I deployed 8.8.8 patch 1 to 
>begin testing in my lab environment which is running CentOS 7, with ZCS 
>8.8.8.  The install instructions as written in the release notes for 
>Red Hat/CentOS servers 
>(https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Zimbra_Releases/8.8.8/P1#Install_the_Patch) 
>work fine if you're running a single server install of ZCS.  But, if 
>you're running a multi-node install of ZCS, the patch install 
>instructions in the release notes are inaccurate.
>
>In my lab environment, I have the following ZCS nodes provisioned:
>2 x LDAP MMR nodes2 x MTA nodes2 x Proxy nodes2 x Mailbox nodes
>If you attempt to follow the install instructions for the patch with a 
>similar ZCS multi-node environment as noted above, you'll see a 
>dependency failure in Yum that will prevent the patch from installing:
>
>Error: Package: zimbra-patch-8.8.8.1.1522961836-1.r7.x86_64 
>(zimbra-888-patch)
>            Requires: zimbra-store >= 8.8.8
>  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>  You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
>
>This occurs because the zimbra-store package isn't installed on all of 
>the ZCS nodes.  Instead, what you'll need to do is on your LDAP, MTA, 
>and Proxy nodes, or essentially any ZCS node where the zimbra-store 
>package is NOT installed, simply run these commands:
>As the root user:yum upgrade (upgrades the zimbra-common-core-jar 
>package)As the zimbra user:zmcontrol restart
>Then, on your ZCS mailbox nodes (where the zimbra-store package is 
>installed), follow the install instructions as written in the 8.8.8 
>Patch 1 release notes.
>
>When you get to the section in the release notes that advises running:
>yum install zimbra-network-modules-ngyum install zimbra-chat    OR    
>yum install zimbra-talk
>If you've already upgraded to 8.8.8, which would of course be the case 
>if you're trying to install patch 1, the 8.8.8 install process 
>uninstalls the zimbra-chat package & replaces it with zimbra-talk, so 
>you only need to run:
>As the root user:yum install zimbra-network-modules-ngyum install 
>zimbra-talkAs the zimbra user:zmmailboxdctl restart
>Otherwise, all of the ZCS services appeared to start successfully 
>following the install of Patch 1.  I wasn't able to test it within my 
>Zimbra lab environment, but I suspect the Ubuntu install instructions 
>in the release notes need a similar clarification for multi-node ZCS 
>installs.
>
>
>Randy Leiker (randy at skywaynetworks.com)
>Skyway Networks, LLC
>1.800.538.5334/913.663.3900 Ext. 100
>https://www.skywaynetworks.com <http://www.skywaynetworks.com>
>
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