Gluster users - Dec 2017 - Announcing GlusterFS release 3.13.0 (Short Term Maintenance)

This is a major release that includes a range of features enhancing 
usability; enhancements to GFAPI for developers and a set of bug fixes.

   * Addition of summary option to the heal info CLI
   * Addition of checks for allowing lookups in AFR and removal of 
'cluster.quorum-reads' volume option
   * Support for max-port range in glusterd.vol
   * Prevention of other processes accessing the mounted brick snapshots
   * Enabling thin client
   * Ability to reserve back-end storage space
   * List all the connected clients for a brick and also exported 
bricks/snapshots from each brick process
   * Improved write performance with Disperse xlator
   * Disperse xlator now supports discard operations

The features, changes and bug fixes, are documented in the release notes 
[1].


The packages can be downloaded from [2].

Upgrade guide for release-3.13 can be found here [3].

Releases that will continue to be updated in the future as of this
release are: 3.13, 3.12, 3.10 (see [4])

Thanks,
Gluster community

[1] Release notes: 
https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/blob/release-3.13/doc/release-notes/3.13.0.md

[2] Packages: https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/3.13/

[3] Upgrade guide: 
http://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/Upgrade-Guide/upgrade_to_3.13/

[4] Release schedule: https://www.gluster.org/release-schedule/