An other month, an other GlusterFS 3.8 update! We're committed to fix reported bugs in the 3.8 Long-Term-Maintenance version, with monthly releases. Here is glusterfs-3.8.5 for increased stability. Packages for different distributions should be landing shortly.

Release notes for Gluster 3.8.5

This is a bugfix release. The Release Notes for 3.8.0, 3.8.1, 3.8.2, 3.8.3 and 3.8.4contain a listing of all the new features that were added and bugs fixed in the GlusterFS 3.8 stable release.

Bugs addressed

A total of 27 patches have been merged, addressing 26 bugs:

• #1373723: glusterd experiencing repeated connect/disconnect messages when shd is down
• #1374135: Rebalance is not considering the brick sizes while fixing the layout
• #1374280: rpc/xdr: generated files are filtered with a sed extended regex
• #1374573: gluster fails to propagate permissions on the root of a gluster export when adding bricks
• #1374580: Geo-rep worker Faulty with OSError: [Errno 21] Is a directory
• #1374596: [geo-rep]: AttributeError: 'Popen' object has no attribute 'elines'
• #1374610: geo-replication *changes.log does not respect the log-level configured
• #1374627: Worker crashes with EINVAL errors
• #1374632: [geo-replication]: geo-rep Status is not showing bricks from one of the nodes
• #1374640: glusterfs: create a directory with 0464 mode return EIO error
• #1375043: bug-963541.t spurious failure
• #1375096: dht: Update stbuf from servers having layout
• #1375098: Value of `replica.split-brain-status' attribute of a directory in metadata split-brain in a dist-rep volume reads that it is not in split-brain
• #1375542: [geo-rep]: defunct tar process while using tar+ssh sync
• #1375565: Detach tier commit is allowed when detach tier start goes into failed state
• #1375959: Files not being opened with o_direct flag during random read operation (Glusterfs 3.8.2)
• #1375990: Enable gfapi test cases in Gluster upstream regression
• #1376385: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.KPCugR: line 2: /bin/systemctl: No such file or directory
• #1376390: Spurious regression in tests/basic/gfapi/bug1291259.t
• #1377193: Poor smallfile read performance on Arbiter volume compared to Replica 3 volume
• #1377290: The GlusterFS Callback RPC-calls always use RPC/XID 42
• #1379216: rpc_clnt will sometimes not reconnect when using encryption
• #1379284: warning messages seen in glusterd logs for each 'gluster volume status' command
• #1379708: gfapi: Fix fd ref leaks
• #1383694: GlusterFS fails to build on old Linux distros with linux/oom.h missing
• #1383882: client ID should logged when SSL connection fails