Add support for libvirt auth in instancemonitor. Use the standardmethods to provide the actual authentication credentials. The SASLlibrary and pluggable authentication modules should be installed on theinstancemonitor host, use the packages provided in the distro alongsidelibvirt-python.

Fixes hostmonitor reporting hosts down because of Pacemaker clusterpartitioning.Now hostmonitor properly respects the status of Pacemaker cluster quorum.LP#1878548

Fixes hostmonitor hanging forever after certain exceptions.LP#1930361

A ‘hostname’ option has been added to the Masakari monitors configurationfile which replaces the ‘host’ option. The option should be used to specifythe Hostname, FQDN or IP address of the host.

Python 2.7 support has been dropped. Last release of masakari-monitorsto support python 2.7 is OpenStack Train. The minimum version of Python nowsupported by masakari-monitors is Python 3.6.

The ‘host’ option in the ‘DEFAULT’ section has been deprecated as itclashes with the name of a section in the same file. It has been replacedby the ‘hostname’ option.

Added Introspective Instance Monitoring through QEMU Guest Agent,in order to detect, report and optionally recover VMs from internalVM faults.

Added the masakari-hostmonitor and masakari-processmonitor which were implemented in python.

The masakari-hostmonitor and masakari-processmonitor which were implemented in bash shell script are deprecated as of the Ocata release and will be removed in the Queens release.