[ovirt-devel] Re: [CentOS-announce] Announcing the release of Gluster 4.1 on CentOS Linux 7 x86_64

On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 4:38 PM, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > Hi, > as you can read below Gluster 4.1 LTM release is available in CentOS. > We are currently using 3.12 in oVirt 4.2 but this release is going EOL in > 6 months. > I would suggest to move 4.3 / Master to Gluster 4.1 now. Any objection? > If no objection I will start pushing patches for it on Monday, July 16th. > Gluster 4.1 has removed the gluster-gnfs package. We cannot move master to it until we fix the vdsm dependencies and provide a migration path for existing gluster-nfs users to nfs-ganesha.

> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Niels de Vos <ndevos(a)redhat.com&gt; > Date: 2018-06-27 16:42 GMT+02:00 > Subject: [CentOS-announce] Announcing the release of Gluster 4.1 on > CentOS Linux 7 x86_64 > To: centos-announce(a)centos.org > > > I am happy to announce the General Availability of Gluster 4.1 for > CentOS 7 on x86_64. These packages are following the upstream Gluster > Community releases, and will receive monthly bugfix updates. > > Gluster 4.1 is a Long-Term-Maintenance release, and will receive > updates for approximately 18 months. The difference between > Long-Term-Maintenance and Short-Term-Maintenance releases is explained > on the Gluster release schedule page: > https://www.gluster.org/community/release-schedule/ > > Users of CentOS 7 can now simply install Gluster 4.1 with only these two > commands: > > # yum install centos-release-gluster > # yum install glusterfs-server > > The centos-release-gluster package is delivered via CentOS Extras repos. > This contains all the metadata and dependency information, needed to > install Gluster 4.1. The actual package that will get installed is > centos-release-gluster41. Users of the now End-Of-Life > Short-Term-Maintenance Gluster 4.0 will automatically get the update to > Gluster 4.1, whereas users of Gluster 3.12 can stay on that > Long-Term-Maintenance release for an other six months. > > Users of Gluster 3.10 will need to manually upgrade by uninstalling the > centos-release-gluster310 package, and replacing it with either the > Gluster 4.1 or 3.12 version. Additional details about the upgrade > process are linked in the announcement from the Gluster Community: > https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/announce/2018-June/000102.html > > We have a quickstart guide specifically built around the packages are > available, it makes for a good introduction to Gluster and will help get > you started in just a few simple steps, this quick start is available at > https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Storage/gluster-Quickstart > > More details about the packages that the Gluster project provides in the > Storage SIG is available in the documentation: > https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Storage/Gluster > > The centos-release-gluster* repositories offer additional packages that > enhance the usability of Gluster itself. Utilities and tools that were > working with previous versions of Gluster are expected to stay working > fine. If there are any problems, or requests for additional tools and > applications to be provided, just send us an email with your > suggestions. The current list of packages that is (planned to become) > available can be found here: > https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Storage/Gluster > /Ecosystem-pkgs > > We welcome all feedback, comments and contributions. You can get in > touch with the CentOS Storage SIG on the centos-devel mailing list > (https://lists.centos.org ) and with the Gluster developer and user > communities at https://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo , we are also > available on irc at #gluster on irc.freenode.net, and on twitter at > @gluster . > > Cheers, > Niels de Vos > Storage SIG member & Gluster maintainer > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-announce mailing list > CentOS-announce(a)centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce > > > > > -- > > SANDRO BONAZZOLA > > MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R&D RHV > > Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> > > sbonazzo(a)redhat.com > <https://red.ht/sig> >