[Gluster-devel] GlusterFS-1.4 to become GlusterFS-2.0

[Dan Parsons]

I'm about to switch from 1.3.11 to the latest rc of 1.4... how much  
different will 2.0 be from 1.4? Or will 2.0 effectively be the latest  
version of 1.4 rc7 + bug fixes etc? Or will it be a totally different  
branch?

I suppose the best course of action would be to wait until 2.0 but I  
really need that io-cache leak fix now.


Dan Parsons


On Jan 5, 2009, at 3:59 AM, Anand Babu Periasamy wrote:

> Dear Community,
> Since the 1.3 release, we have come a long way to reach this level  
> of code maturity.
> We are preparing to call the next release as the 2.0.0 instead of  
> 1.4.0. There are
> real technical reasons to do so. We want to sincerely apologize for  
> this confusion.
>
> REASONS FOR THE VERSION CHANGE:
> * Significant architectural enhancements and code-rewrites since  
> v1.3.X.
>  - AFR rewrite, non-blocking IO, binary protocol and single address  
> mode
> * Current code base will remain as the foundation for upcoming major  
> releases,
>  featuring hot-management, active-heal, defrag, snapshot, NDMP and  
> cloning.
> * New features:
>  - Distribute: elastic hash based clustering
>  - Apache / Lighttpd embeddable
>  - Distributed BerkeleyDB
>  - Atomic writes in AFR
>  - High-Availability translator
>  - NUFA translator
> * Improved performance and scalability, particularly for small files.
> * Changes towards simplification
>  - "distribute" supersedes complicated "unify"
>  - "AFR" renamed as "replicate"
>  - Simpler documentation using "distribute", "replicate" and "stripe"
>  - Standardized volume templates for most common use cases
>
> 2.0.0rc1 will be available in a week. Before we call it 2.0.0, we  
> want to
> to achieve the following:
> * Seamless migration for 1.3 users
> * Clean and complete documentation
> * Binary packages for GNU/Linux (rpm/deb), FreeBSD, Mac OS X and  
> Solaris (server)
> * And most importantly the community blessing for 2.0 stable release.
>
> Happy Hacking!
> --
> GlusterFS Team
>
>
>
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