<div dir="ltr">Hi All,<div><br></div><div>The Gluster Community is very pleased to announce release-10, the latest one in the Gluster stable.</div><div><br></div><div>This is a major <span>release</span> that includes a range of code improvements and stability fixes along with a few features as noted below. A selection of the key features and changes are documented in this [1] page.<br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Announcements:</b></div><div><b><br></b>1. Releases that receive maintenance updates post-release 10 is 9 (<a href="https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/release-notes/" target="_blank">reference</a>)<br>2. Release 10 will receive maintenance updates around the 15th of every alternative month, and release 9 will receive maintenance updates around 15th every three months. [2]</div><div>3.  For upgrading to <span>release-10, </span>refer to the <span>release</span> <span>10</span> upgrade guide [3].</div><div>4. Gluster -10 might take some time to reflect in latest OS repos. If found missing, please upgrade using Packages : [4]</div><div>5. Gluster-8.x series is EOL and no longer supported. Please feel free to upgrade [3].</div><div><br></div><div>Make sure you are not using any of the following deprecated features :<br><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px">- Block device (bd) xlator<br>- Decompounder feature<br>- Crypt xlator<br>- Symlink-cache xlator<br>- Stripe feature<br>- Tiering support (tier xlator and changetimerecorder)<br>- Glupy<br><br><b>Highlights of this <span>release</span> are:</b><br></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><ul><li>Major performance improvement of ~20% w.r.t small files as well as large files testing in controlled lab environments <a href="https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2771" target="_blank">#2771</a></li></ul></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><b>NOTE: </b>The above improvement requires tcmalloc library to be enabled for building. We have tested and verified tcmalloc in X86_64 platforms and is enabled only for x86_64 builds in the current release.<br></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><ul><li>Randomized port selection for bricks, improves startup time <a href="https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/786" target="_blank">#786<br></a></li><li>Performance improvement with use of readdir instead of readdirp in fix-layout <a href="https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2241" target="_blank">#2241<br></a></li><li>Heal time improvement with bigger window size <a href="https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2067" target="_blank">#2067</a></li></ul></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><br><b>Major issues:</b><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px">- None<br><br></blockquote>Bugs addressed are provided towards the end, in the <span>release</span> notes [1]<br><br>Thank You,<br>Saju Mohammed<br><br><b>References:</b><br><br>[1] <span>Release</span> notes:<br>     <a href="https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/release-notes/10.0/" target="_blank">https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/release-notes/10.0/</a><br>[2] <span>Release</span> schedule:<br>     <a href="https://www.gluster.org/release-schedule/" target="_blank">https://www.<span>gluster</span>.org/<span>release</span>-schedule/</a><br><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">[3] Upgrade guide to </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">release</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">-10<br></span>     <a href="https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/Upgrade-Guide/upgrade-to-10/" target="_blank">https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/Upgrade-Guide/upgrade-to-10/</a><br>[4] Packages:<br>  <a href="https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/10/10.0/" target="_blank">https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/10/10.0/</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span><br><br><br></blockquote></div></div>