GlusterFS 3.5.7 has been released

Around the 10th of each month the release schedule allows for a 3.5 stable update. This got delayed a few days due to the unfriendly weather in The Netherlands, making me take some holidays in a more sunny place in Europe.

This release fixes two bugs, one is only a minor improvement for distributions using systemd, the other fixes a potential client-side segfault when the server.manage-gids option is used. Packages for different distributions are available on the main download server, distributions that still provide glusterfs-3.5 packages should get updates out shortly too.

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Release Notes for GlusterFS 3.5.7

This is a bugfix release. The Release Notes for 3.5.0, 3.5.1, 3.5.2, 3.5.3, 3.5.4, 3.5.5 and 3.5.6 contain a listing of all the new features that were added and bugs fixed in the GlusterFS 3.5 stable release.

Bugs Fixed:

• 1283542: glusterfs does not register with rpcbind on restart
• 1283691: core dump in protocol/client:client_submit_request

Known Issues:

• The following configuration changes are necessary for 'qemu' and 'samba vfs plugin' integration with libgfapi to work seamlessly:
  
  1. gluster volume set <volname> server.allow-insecure on
  2. restarting the volume is necessary
     
     gluster volume stop <volname>
gluster volume start <volname>
  3. Edit /etc/glusterfs/glusterd.vol to contain this line:
     
     option rpc-auth-allow-insecure on
  4. restarting glusterd is necessary
     
     service glusterd restart
  More details are also documented in the Gluster Wiki on the Libgfapi with qemu libvirt page.
• For Block Device translator based volumes open-behind translator at the client side needs to be disabled.
  
  gluster volume set <volname> performance.open-behind disabled
• libgfapi clients calling glfs_fini before a successful glfs_init will cause the client to hang as reported here. The workaround is NOT to call glfs_fini for error cases encountered before a successful glfs_init. This is being tracked in Bug 1134050 for glusterfs-3.5 and Bug 1093594 for mainline.
• If the /var/run/gluster directory does not exist enabling quota will likely fail (Bug 1117888).