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Release notes for Gluster 7.8

This is a bugfix release. The release notes for 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 7.5, 7.6 and 7.7 contain a listing of all the new features that were added and bugs fixed in the GlusterFS 7 stable release.

NOTE:

  1. Next minor release tentative date: Week of 30th Nov, 2020.
  2. Next minor release would be the last release of release-7.x series.

Highlights of Release

This release contains majorly the bug fixes as described in the issues section.

Builds are available at

https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/7/7.8/

Issues addressed in this release

Please find the list of issues added to this release below.

  • #763 thin-arbiter: Testing report
  • #1000 [bug:1193929] GlusterFS can be improved
  • #1002 [bug:1679998] GlusterFS can be improved
  • #1250 geo-rep: Fix corner case in rename on mkdir during hybrid crawl
  • #1253 On Ovirt setup glusterfs performs poorly
  • #1332 Unable to Upgrade to Gluster 7 from Earlier Version
  • #1351 issue with gf_fill_iatt_for_dirent()
  • #1354 High CPU utilization by self-heal on disperse volumes with no ...
  • #1385 High CPU utilization by self-heal on disperse volumes when an ...
  • #1407 glusterd keep crashing when upgrading from 6.5 to 7.7
  • #1438 syncdaemon/syncdutils.py: SyntaxWarning: "is" with a literal. ...
  • #1440 glusterfs 7.7 fuse client memory leak
  • #1472 Readdir-ahead leads to inconsistent ls results