We did it! Firefly v0.80 is built and pushed out to the ceph.com repositories.
This release will form the basis for our long-term supported release Firefly, v0.80.x. The big new features are support for erasure coding and cache tiering, although a broad range of other features, fixes, and improvements have been made across the code base. Highlights include: * *Erasure coding*: support for a broad range of erasure codes for lower storage overhead and better data durability. * *Cache tiering*: support for creating 'cache pools' that store hot, recently accessed objects with automatic demotion of colder data to a base tier. Typically the cache pool is backed by faster storage devices like SSDs. * *Primary affinity*: Ceph now has the ability to skew selection of OSDs as the "primary" copy, which allows the read workload to be cheaply skewed away from parts of the cluster without migrating any data. * *Key/value OSD backend* (experimental): An alternative storage backend for Ceph OSD processes that puts all data in a key/value database like leveldb. This provides better performance for workloads dominated by key/value operations (like radosgw bucket indices). * *Standalone radosgw* (experimental): The radosgw process can now run in a standalone mode without an apache (or similar) web server or fastcgi. This simplifies deployment and can improve performance. We expect to maintain a series of stable releases based on v0.80 Firefly for as much as a year. In the meantime, development of Ceph continues with the next release, Giant, which will feature work on the CephFS distributed file system, more alternative storage backends (like RocksDB and f2fs), RDMA support, support for pyramid erasure codes, and additional functionality in the block device (RBD) like copy-on-read and multisite mirroring. This release is the culmination of a huge collective effort by about 100 different contributors. Thank you everyone who has helped to make this possible! Upgrade Sequencing ------------------ * If your existing cluster is running a version older than v0.67 Dumpling, please first upgrade to the latest Dumpling release before upgrading to v0.80 Firefly. Please refer to the :ref:`Dumpling upgrade` documentation. * Upgrade daemons in the following order: 1. Monitors 2. OSDs 3. MDSs and/or radosgw If the ceph-mds daemon is restarted first, it will wait until all OSDs have been upgraded before finishing its startup sequence. If the ceph-mon daemons are not restarted prior to the ceph-osd daemons, they will not correctly register their new capabilities with the cluster and new features may not be usable until they are restarted a second time. * Upgrade radosgw daemons together. There is a subtle change in behavior for multipart uploads that prevents a multipart request that was initiated with a new radosgw from being completed by an old radosgw. Notable changes since v0.79 --------------------------- * ceph-fuse, libcephfs: fix several caching bugs (Yan, Zheng) * ceph-fuse: trim inodes in response to mds memory pressure (Yan, Zheng) * librados: fix inconsistencies in API error values (David Zafman) * librados: fix watch operations with cache pools (Sage Weil) * librados: new snap rollback operation (David Zafman) * mds: fix respawn (John Spray) * mds: misc bugs (Yan, Zheng) * mds: misc multi-mds fixes (Yan, Zheng) * mds: use shared_ptr for requests (Greg Farnum) * mon: fix peer feature checks (Sage Weil) * mon: require 'x' mon caps for auth operations (Joao Luis) * mon: shutdown when removed from mon cluster (Joao Luis) * msgr: fix locking bug in authentication (Josh Durgin) * osd: fix bug in journal replay/restart (Sage Weil) * osd: many many many bug fixes with cache tiering (Samuel Just) * osd: track omap and hit_set objects in pg stats (Samuel Just) * osd: warn if agent cannot enable due to invalid (post-split) stats (Sage Weil) * rados bench: track metadata for multiple runs separately (Guang Yang) * rgw: fixed subuser modify (Yehuda Sadeh) * rpm: fix redhat-lsb dependency (Sage Weil, Alfredo Deza) For the complete release notes, please see: http://ceph.com/docs/master/release-notes/#v0-80-firefly Getting Ceph ------------ * Git at git://github.com/ceph/ceph.git * Tarball at http://ceph.com/download/ceph-0.80.tar.gz * For packages, see http://ceph.com/docs/master/install/get-packages * For ceph-deploy, see http://ceph.com/docs/master/install/install-ceph-deploy _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@lists.ceph.com http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com