Hi,
The Gluster community is pleased to announce the release of 8.0, 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 8 are 7 and 8 [2]
2. Release 8 will receive maintenance updates around the 10th of every
month for the first 3 months post release (i.e Aug'20, Sep'20,
Oct'20).
Post the initial 3 months, it will receive maintenance updates every 2
months till EOL.
3. For upgrading to release 8 refer to the release 8 upgrade guide [3].
Make sure you are not using any of the following deprecated features :
- Block device (bd) xlator
- Decompounder feature
- Crypt xlator
- Symlink-cache xlator
- Stripe feature
- Tiering support (tier xlator and changetimerecorder)
- Glupy
*Highlights of this release are:*
*Highlights:*
- Several stability fixes addressing
* coverity, clang-scan, address sanitizer and valgrind reported issues
* removal of unused and hence, deprecated code and features
- Performance Improvements
*Features:*
- Implemented seek file operation for open-behind
- Now storage.reserve option will take size of disk as input instead of
percentage
- Added Functionality to enable log rotation for user serviceable
snapshot?s logs
- Mandatory locks enhancements in replicate subvolumes
- To validate other memory allocation implementations instead of libc?s
malloc added an option to build with tcmalloc library
- Integrated Thin-arbiter with GD1
- Client Handling of Elastic Clusters
*Major issues:*
- None
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/8.0/
[2] Release schedule:
https://www.gluster.org/release-schedule/
[3] Upgrade guide to release-8:
https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/Upgrade-Guide/upgrade_to_8/
[4] Packages:
Packages that will be available :
https://github.com/gluster/glusterdocs/blob/master/docs/Install-Guide/Community_Packages.md
Packages at :
https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/8/8.0/
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