[Gluster-users] Announcing GlusterFS release 3.12.0 (Long Term Maintenance)

[Shyam Ranganathan]

On 09/05/2017 02:07 PM, Serkan Çoban wrote:
> For rpm packages you can use [1], just installed without any problems.
> It is taking time packages to land in Centos storage SIG repo...

Thank you for reporting this. The SIG does take a while to get updated 
with the latest bits. We are looking at ways to improve that in the future.

> 
> [1] https://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/6/storage/x86_64/gluster-3.12/
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 8:11 PM, Shyam Ranganathan <srangana at redhat.com> wrote:
>> This is a major Gluster release that includes, features and bug fixes.
>> Notable feature highlights are,
>>
>>      * Ability to mount sub-directories using the Gluster native protocol
>> (FUSE)
>>
>>      * Brick multiplexing enhancements that help scale to larger brick counts
>> per node
>>
>>      * Enhancements to gluster get-state CLI enabling better understanding of
>> various bricks and nodes participation/roles in the cluster
>>
>>      * Ability to resolve GFID split-brain using existing CLI
>>
>>      * Easier GFID to real path mapping thus enabling diagnostics and
>> correction for reported GFID issues (healing among other uses where GFID is
>> the only available source for identifying a file)
>>
>> The features and changes are documented in the release notes [1]. A full
>> list of bugs that have been addressed is included in the release notes as
>> well [1].
>>
>> The packages can be downloaded from [2] and are signed with [3].
>>
>> Further, as 3.11 release is a short term maintenance release, features
>> included in 3.11 are available with 3.12 as well, and could be of interest
>> to users upgrading to 3.12 from older than 3.11 releases. The 3.11 release
>> notes [2] captures the list of features that were introduced with 3.11.
>>
>> Upgrade guide for release-3.12 can be found here [4].
>>
>> Releases that will no longer receive updates (or are reaching EOL) with this
>> release are: 3.11, 3.8 (see [5])
>>
>> Releases that will continue to be updated in the future as of this release
>> are: 3.12, 3.10 (see [5])
>>
>> [1] 3.12.0 release notes:
>> https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/blob/release-3.12/doc/release-notes/3.12.0.md
>>
>> [2] Packages: https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/3.12/
>>
>> [3] Packages signed with:
>> https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/3.12/rsa.pub
>>
>> [4] Upgrade guide to release 3.12:
>> https://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Upgrade-Guide/upgrade_to_3.12/
>>
>> [5] Release schedule: https://www.gluster.org/release-schedule/
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