The Gluster team has been busy over the end-of-year holidays and this latest update to the 3.8 Long-Term-Maintenance release intends to fix quite a number of bugs. Packages have been built for many different distributions and are available from the download server. The release-notes for 3.8.8 have been included below for the ease of reference. All users on the 3.8 version are recommended to update to this current release.
Release notes for Gluster 3.8.8
This is a bugfix release. The Release Notes for 3.8.0, 3.8.1, 3.8.2, 3.8.3, 3.8.4, 3.8.5, 3.8.6 and 3.8.7 contain 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 38 patches have been merged, addressing 35 bugs:- #1375849: [RFE] enable sharding with virt profile - /var/lib/glusterd/groups/virt
- #1378384: log level set in glfs_set_logging() does not work
- #1378547: Asynchronous Unsplit-brain still causes Input/Output Error on system calls
- #1389781: build: python on Debian-based dists use .../lib/python2.7/dist-packages instead of .../site-packages
- #1394635: errors appear in brick and nfs logs and getting stale files on NFS clients
- #1395510: Seeing error messages [snapview-client.c:283:gf_svc_lookup_cbk] and [dht-helper.c:1666ht_inode_ctx_time_update] (-->/usr/lib64/glusterfs/3.8.4/xlator/cluster/replicate.so(+0x5d75c)
- #1399423: GlusterFS client crashes during remove-brick operation
- #1399432: A hard link is lost during rebalance+lookup
- #1399468: Wrong value in Last Synced column during Hybrid Crawl
- #1399915: [SAMBA-CIFS] : IO hungs in cifs mount while graph switch on & off
- #1401029: OOM kill of nfs-ganesha on one node while fs-sanity test suite is executed.
- #1401534: fuse mount point not accessible
- #1402697: glusterfsd crashed while taking snapshot using scheduler
- #1402728: Worker restarts on log-rsync-performance config update
- #1403109: Crash of glusterd when using long username with geo-replication
- #1404105: Incorrect incrementation of volinfo refcnt during volume start
- #1404583: Upcall: Possible use after free when log level set to TRACE
- #1405004: [Perf] : pcs cluster resources went into stopped state during Multithreaded perf tests on RHGS layered over RHEL 6
- #1405130: `gluster volume heal split-brain' does not heal if data/metadata/entry self-heal options are turned off
- #1405450: tests/bugs/snapshot/bug-1316437.t test is causing spurious failure
- #1405577: [GANESHA] failed to create directory of hostname of new node in var/lib/nfs/ganesha/ in already existing cluster nodes
- #1405886: Fix potential leaks in INODELK cbk in protocol/client
- #1405890: Fix spurious failure in bug-1402841.t-mt-dir-scan-race.t
- #1405951: NFS-Ganesha:Volume reset for any option causes reset of ganesha enable option and bring down the ganesha services
- #1406740: Fix spurious failure in tests/bugs/replicate/bug-1402730.t
- #1408414: Remove-brick rebalance failed while rm -rf is in progress
- #1408772: [Arbiter] After Killing a brick writes drastically slow down
- #1408786: with granular-entry-self-heal enabled i see that there is a gfid mismatch and vm goes to paused state after migrating to another host
- #1410073: Fix failure of split-brain-favorite-child-policy.t in CentOS7
- #1410369: Dict_t leak in dht_migration_complete_check_task and dht_rebalance_inprogress_task
- #1410699: [geo-rep]: Config commands fail when the status is 'Created'
- #1410708: glusterd/geo-rep: geo-rep config command leaks fd
- #1410764: Remove-brick rebalance failed while rm -rf is in progress
- #1411011: atime becomes zero when truncating file via ganesha (or gluster-NFS)
- #1411613: Fix the place where graph switch event is logged