[Gluster-devel] 1.3.8pre5

[Amar S. Tumballi]

Hi all,
 GlusterFS-1.3.8pre5 (Release candidate for 1.3.8-stable) is available for
download now.
<
http://ftp.zresearch.com/pub/gluster/glusterfs/1.3/glusterfs-1.3.8pre5.tar.gz
>

 I would like to add upon the latest features added to GlusterFS after 1.3.7
release: (I know that its a long time since 1.3.7 is out and most of our
user base is using GlusterFS from latest TLA, but it goes for the record).

* Enhancements in self-heal feature of both unify and afr translators.
* Improvement in memory usage
* Ported server to OpenSolaris, MAC OS X. (Some Issues reported over
FreeBSD, not tested completely)
* Authentication is a module now. And we have two modules (auth.ip, and
auth.login now)
* Booster translator
* Switch scheduler (which schedules the files according to their pattern)
* Lot more changes in logging

We have freezed feature addition to 'glusterfs--mainline--2.5' and it will
get only bug fixes from now on. So, those who are using earlier versions,
please give this tar ball a try and do let us know the problems if you get
any (and I doubt that :), so we can get a stable 1.3.8 release sooner, which
inturn helps us to start development on our features for 1.4 release.

Regards,
Amar


-- 
Amar Tumballi
Gluster/GlusterFS Hacker
[bulde on #gluster/irc.gnu.org]
http://www.zresearch.com - Commoditizing Supercomputing and Superstorage!