GlusterFS 3.5.9 is available, would it be the last 3.5 release?

There has been a delay in announcing the most recent 3.5 release, I'm sorry about that! Packages for most distributions are available by now, either from the standard distribution repositories (NetBSD) or from download.gluster.org.

We are working hard to release the next major version of Gluster. The roadmap for Gluster 3.8 is getting more complete every day. There is still some work to do though. A reminder for all users of the 3.5 stable series; when GlusterFS 3.8 is released, the 3.5 version will become unmaintained. We do our best to maintain three versions of Gluster, with the 3.8 release it will be 3.8, 3.7 and 3.6. Users still running version 3.5 are highly encouraged to start planning their upgrade process. If there are no critical problems reported against the 3.5 version, and no patches get sent, 3.5.9 might well be the last 3.5 release.

Release Notes for GlusterFS 3.5.9

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, 3.5.6, 3.5.7 and 3.5.8contain a listing of all the new features that were added and bugs fixed in the GlusterFS 3.5 stable release.

Bugs Fixed:

• 1313968: Request for XML output ignored when stdin is not a tty
• 1315559: SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA should return EINVAL when protocol support is missing

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).