v0.76 released

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This release includes another batch of updates for firefly functionality. Most notably, the cache pool infrastructure now support snapshots, the OSD backfill functionality has been generalized to include multiple targets (necessary for the coming erasure pools), and there were performance improvements to the erasure code plugin on capable processors. The MDS now properly utilizes (and seamlessly migrates to) the OSD key/value interface (aka omap) for storing directory objects. There continue to be many other fixes and improvements for usability and code portability across the tree.

UPGRADING

  • ‘rbd ls’ on a pool which never held rbd images now exits with code 0. It outputs nothing in plain format, or an empty list in non-plain format. This is consistent with the behavior for a pool which used to hold images, but contains none. Scripts relying on this behavior should be updated.
  • The MDS requires a new OSD operation TMAP2OMAP, added in this release. When upgrading, be sure to upgrade and restart the ceph-osd daemons before the ceph-mds daemon. The MDS will refuse to start if any up OSDs do not support the new feature.
  • The ‘ceph mds set_max_mds N’ command is now deprecated in favor of ‘ceph mds set max_mds N’.

NOTABLE CHANGES

  • build: misc improvements (Ken Dreyer)
  • ceph-disk: generalize path names, add tests (Loic Dachary)
  • ceph-disk: misc improvements for puppet (Loic Dachary)
  • ceph-disk: several bug fixes (Loic Dachary)
  • ceph-fuse: fix race for sync reads (Sage Weil)
  • config: recursive metavariable expansion (Loic Dachary)
  • crush: usability and test improvements (Loic Dachary)
  • doc: misc fixes (David Moreau Simard, Kun Huang)
  • erasure-code: improve buffer alignment (Loic Dachary)
  • erasure-code: rewrite region-xor using vector operations (Andreas Peters)
  • librados, osd: new TMAP2OMAP operation (Yan, Zheng)
  • mailmap updates (Loic Dachary)
  • many portability improvements (Noah Watkins)
  • many unit test improvements (Loic Dachary)
  • mds: always store backtrace in default pool (Yan, Zheng)
  • mds: store directories in omap instead of tmap (Yan, Zheng)
  • mon: allow adjustment of cephfs max file size via ‘ceph mds set max_file_size’ (Sage Weil)
  • mon: do not create erasure rules by default (Sage Weil)
  • mon: do not generate spurious MDSMaps in certain cases (Sage Weil)
  • mon: do not use keyring if auth = none (Loic Dachary)
  • mon: fix pg_temp leaks (Joao Eduardo Luis)
  • osd: backfill to multiple targets (David Zafman)
  • osd: cache pool support for snapshots (Sage Weil)
  • osd: fix and cleanup misc backfill issues (David Zafman)
  • osd: fix omap_clear operation to not zap xattrs (Sam Just, Yan, Zheng)
  • osd: ignore num_objects_dirty on scrub for old pools (Sage Weil)
  • osd: include more info in pg query result (Sage Weil)
  • osd: track erasure compatibility (David Zafman)
  • rbd: make ‘rbd list’ return empty list and success on empty pool (Josh Durgin)
  • rgw: fix object placement read op (Yehuda Sadeh)
  • rgw: fix several CORS bugs (Robin H. Johnson)
  • specfile: fix RPM build on RHEL6 (Ken Dreyer, Derek Yarnell)
  • specfile: ship libdir/ceph (Key Dreyer)

You can get v0.76 from the usual locations: