[Gluster-users] Announcing Gluster Release 5

[Shyam Ranganathan]

On 10/23/2018 11:13 AM, Dmitry Melekhov wrote:
> Looks like there are no major changes since 4.1...
> 
> Why major release ?

Any enhancement made post a release, is not back-ported to the existing
stable release, and every 4 months a release is made that includes these
enhancements. Thus a new release.

Also, all bug fixes made to mainline branch are not back-ported to
existing stable releases, as they may either not be a problem or not
reported against said release. Fixes that are deemed critical are
back-ported, but not all fixes. Thus every 4 months a release is made
that helps provide a more stable base for the users of, existing
features of, the project.

Hope this answers the need for a release around every 4 month mark.

For further release numbering change/context (in case that was a
question) please see this mail around the same,
https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/announce/2018-July/000103.html

> 
> 
> 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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