Hello Gluster folks, Gluster-block team is happy to announce the v0.5 release [1]. This is the new stable version of gluster-block, a good number of features and interesting bug fixes are made available as part of this release. Please find the list of release highlights and notable fixes at [2]. One can find the details about prerequisites, how to install and setup at [3]. If you are a new user, check out the demo video attached in the README doc [4], which will be a good source of intro to the project. There are good examples about how to use gluster-block both in the man pages [5] and test file [6] (also in the README). If you want to quickly bring up a cluster with gluster-block environment locally, please head to vagrant setting-up details [7]. gluster-block is part of fedora package collection, an updated package with release version v0.5 will be soon made available. And the community provided packages will be soon made available at [8]. Please spend a minute to report any kind of issue that comes to your notice with this handy link [9]. We look forward to your feedback, which will help gluster-block get better! We would like to thank all our users, contributors for bug filing and fixes, also the whole team involved in the huge effort with pre-release testing. [1] https://github.com/gluster/gluster-block/releases [2] https://github.com/gluster/gluster-block/releases/tag/v0.5 [3] https://github.com/gluster/gluster-block#install [4] https://github.com/gluster/gluster-block#demo [5] https://github.com/gluster/gluster-block/tree/master/docs [6] https://github.com/gluster/gluster-block/blob/master/tests/basic.t [7] https://github.com/gluster/gluster-block#how-to-quickly-bringup-gluster-block-environment-locally- [8] https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/gluster-block/ [9] https://github.com/gluster/gluster-block/issues/new Cheers, Team Gluster-Block!