[Gluster-users] Announcing Gluster Release 5

[Dmitry Melekhov]

Looks like there are no major changes since 4.1...

Why major release ?


23.10.2018 17:47, Shyam Ranganathan пишет:
> The Gluster community is pleased to announce the release of 5.0, our
> latest release.
>
> This is a major release that includes a range of code improvements and
> stability fixes with some management and standalone features as noted below.
>
> A selection of the key features and changes are documented on this [1] page.
>
> Announcements:
>
> 1. Releases that receive maintenance updates post release 5 are, 4.1 and
> 5. (see [2])
>
> **NOTE:** 3.12 long term maintenance release, will reach end of life
> (EOL) with the release of 5.0. (see [2])
>
> 2. Release 5 will receive maintenance updates around the 10th of every
> month for the first 3 months post release (i.e Nov'18, Dec'18, Jan'19).
> Post the initial 3 months, it will receive maintenance updates every 2
> months till EOL. (see [3])
>
> Major changes and features:
>
> 1) Management:
> GlusterD2
>
> IMP: GlusterD2 in Gluster-5 is still considered a preview and is
> experimental. It should not be considered ready for production use.
> Users should still expect some breaking changes even though all efforts
> would be taken to ensure that these can be avoided. As GD2 is still
> under heavy development, new features can be expected throughout the
> Gluster 5 release.
>
> The following major changes have been committed to GlusterD2 since v4.1.0.
> - Volume snapshots
> - Volume heal
> - Tracing with Opencensus
> - Portmap refactoring
> - Smartvol API merged with volume create API
> - Configure GlusterD2 with environment variables
>
> 2) Standalone
> - Entry creation and handling, consistency is improved
> - Python code in Gluster packages is Python 3 ready
> - Quota fsck script to correct quota accounting
> - Added noatime option in utime xlator
> - Added ctime-invalidation option in quick-read xlator
> - Added shard-deletion-rate option in shard xlator
> - Removed last usage of MD5 digest in code, towards better FIPS compliance
> - Code improvements
>
> 3) Bugs Addressed
> The release notes[1] also contain bugs addresses in this release.
>
> References:
> [1] Release notes: https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/release-notes/5.0/
>
> [2] Release schedule: https://www.gluster.org/release-schedule/
>
> [3] Gluster release cadence and version changes:
> https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/announce/2018-July/000103.html
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