I'm happy to announce that Swift 1.6.0 has been released. You can get the 
tarball at https://launchpad.net/swift/folsom/1.6.0. As always, you can upgrade 
your production Swift clusters to this new version with no downtime to your 
clients.

The complete changelog for this release is at 
https://github.com/openstack/swift/blob/master/CHANGELOG, but I'd like to 
highlight a few of the more significant changes.

First, the bin/swift CLI client and swift/common/client.py have been moved to 
the new python-swiftclient OpenStack project. This change allows other projects 
to use an officially supported client without having to install all of Swift. 
Most immediately, Glance and Horizon will be able to use this. The 
python-swiftclient project is also helpful to non-OpenStack projects wanting to 
integrate with Swift. Note that Swift now depends on the new python-swiftclient 
project.

Secondly, Swift now includes the Keystone middleware "keystoneauth". This now 
matches the pattern set by other OpenStack projects and is the logical place to 
support this part of the Swift-Keystone integration.

Lastly, the swift-dispersion-report now works with a replica count other than 
three. While this allows the tool to be more useful, it does necessitate a 
format change to the JSON returned. Therefore existing tools using the output 
of swift-dispersion-report will need to be updated.

There are many other updates and bugfixes in this release. I encourage you to 
read the entire changelog.

On the contributor side, this Swift release is the result of the work of 16 
contributors (`git shortlog --no-merges -nes 1.5.0..1.6.0 | wc -l`), 5 of whom 
are new to Swift. This brings the total contributor count for Swift to 71. The 
5 new contributors to swift are:

 - François Charlier (francois.charl...@enovance.com)
 - Iryoung Jeong (iryo...@gmail.com)
 - Tsuyuzaki Kota (tsuyuzaki.k...@lab.ntt.co.jp)
 - Dan Prince (dpri...@redhat.com)
 - Vincent Untz (vu...@suse.com)

Thank you to everyone who contributed for your hard work and commitment to 
making Swift the most reliable, open, and production-ready object storage 
system in the world.

--John


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