Hi, The Gluster community is pleased to announce the release of 9.0, 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 changes are documented in this [1] page. *Announcements:* 1. Releases that receive maintenance updates post release 9 are 8 and 9 [2] 2. Release 9 will receive maintenance updates around the 30th of every month for the first 3 months post release (i.e Mar'21, Apr'21, May'21). Post the initial 3 months, it will receive maintenance updates every 2 months till EOL. 3. For upgrading to release 9 refer to the release 9 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:* *Added support for:* - io_uring in Gluster (io_uring support in kernel required along with the presence of liburing library and headers) - support running with up to 5000 volumes (Testing done on: 5k volumes on 3 nodes, brick_mux was enabled with default configuration) *Features:* - Added io_uring support for Gluster - Added Support for 5K volumes - Enabled granular-entry-heal by default - Optimizations for rename dir heal - Added support for monitoring the epoll/rpc layer - Brick mux: Added support to spawn a thread per process basis instead of spawning a per brick - Improve rebalance of sparse files - LTO/GCC10 - Gluster is now compiled with LTO enabled by default *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/9.0/ [2] Release schedule: https://www.gluster.org/release-schedule/ [3] Upgrade guide to release-9: https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/Upgrade-Guide/upgrade-to-9/ [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/9/9.0/
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