This is a bugfix release. The Release Notes for 3.8.0 contain a listing of all the new features that were added and bugs fixed in the GlusterFS 3.8 stable release.
A total of 35 patches have been sent, addressing 32 bugs:
- #1345883: [geo-rep]: Worker died with [Errno 2] No such file or directory
- #1346134: quota : rectify quota-deem-statfs default value in gluster v set help command
- #1346158: Possible crash due to a timer cancellation race
- #1346750: Unsafe access to inode->fd_list
- #1347207: Old documentation link in log during Geo-rep MISCONFIGURATION
- #1347355: glusterd: SuSE build system error for incorrect strcat, strncat usage
- #1347489: IO ERROR when multiple graph switches
- #1347509: Data Tiering:tier volume status shows as in-progress on all nodes of a cluster even if the node is not part of volume
- #1347524: NFS+attach tier:IOs hang while attach tier is issued
- #1347529: rm -rf to a dir gives directory not empty(ENOTEMPTY) error
- #1347553: O_DIRECT support for sharding
- #1347590: Ganesha+Tiering: Continuous "0-glfs_h_poll_cache_invalidation: invalid argument" messages getting logged in ganesha-gfapi logs.
- #1348055: cli core dumped while providing/not wrong values during arbiter replica volume
- #1348060: Worker dies with [Errno 5] Input/output error upon creation of entries at slave
- #1348086: [geo-rep]: Worker crashed with "KeyError: "
- #1349274: [geo-rep]: If the data is copied from .snaps directory to the master, it doesn't get sync to slave [First Copy]
- #1349711: [Granular entry sh] - Implement renaming of indices in index translator
- #1349879: AFR winds a few reads of a file in metadata split-brain.
- #1350326: Protocol client not mounting volumes running on older versions.
- #1350785: Add relative path validation for gluster copy file utility
- #1350787: gfapi: in case of handle based APIs, close glfd after successful create
- #1350789: Buffer overflow when attempting to create filesystem using libgfapi as driver on OpenStack
- #1351025: Implement API to get page aligned iobufs in iobuf.c
- #1351151: ganesha.enable remains on in volume info file even after we disable nfs-ganesha on the cluster.
- #1351154: nfs-ganesha disable doesn't delete nfs-ganesha folder from /var/run/gluster/shared_storage
- #1351711: build: remove absolute paths from glusterfs spec file
- #1352281: Issues reported by Coverity static analysis tool
- #1352393: [FEAT] DHT - rebalance - rebalance status o/p should be different for 'fix-layout' option, it should not show 'Rebalanced-files' , 'Size', 'Scanned' etc as it is not migrating any files.
- #1352632: qemu libgfapi clients hang when doing I/O
- #1352817: [scale]: Bricks not started after node reboot.
- #1352880: gluster volume info --xml returns 0 for nonexistent volume
- #1353426: glusterd: glusterd provides stale port information when a volume is recreated with same brick path