version 2.0.4 of the ganglia monitoring core is available for download from the ganglia download page this release is a very minor bug fix which only applies to clusters which have machines running AMD chips. some AMD machines were reporting double the number of processors than were actually there.

• increased the speed of the host security check for the XML port
• added commandline options for almost all compile-time opts for gmond
• added a –safe_host option to allow a host outside of the multicast channel to connect
• now gmond strips all quotes (“) from gmetric data to keep XML well-formed
• improved the self-organizing behavior of the gmonds

Ganglia was released for public consumption on SourceForge today