The Gluster community is pleased to announce the release of 6.0, our latest release. This is a major release that includes a range of code improvements and stability fixes along with a few features as noted below. A selection of the key features and bugs addressed are documented in this [1] page. Announcements: 1. Releases that receive maintenance updates post release 6 are, 4.1 and 5 [2] 2. Release 6 will receive maintenance updates around the 10th of every month for the first 3 months post release (i.e Apr'19, May'19, Jun'19). Post the initial 3 months, it will receive maintenance updates every 2 months till EOL. [3] A series of features/xlators have been deprecated in release 6 as follows, for upgrade procedures from volumes that use these features to release 6 refer to the release 6 upgrade guide [4]. Features deprecated: - Block device (bd) xlator - Decompounder feature - Crypt xlator - Symlink-cache xlator - Stripe feature - Tiering support (tier xlator and changetimerecorder) Highlights of this release are: - Several stability fixes addressing, coverity, clang-scan, address sanitizer and valgrind reported issues - Removal of unused and hence, deprecated code and features - Client side inode garbage collection - This release addresses one of the major concerns regarding FUSE mount process memory footprint, by introducing client side inode garbage collection - Performance Improvements - "--auto-invalidation" on FUSE mounts to leverage kernel page cache more effectively Bugs addressed are provided towards the end, in the release notes [1] Thank you, Gluster community References: [1] Release notes: https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/release-notes/6.0/ [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 [4] Upgrade guide to release-6: https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/Upgrade-Guide/upgrade_to_6/