The Gluster community celebrates 13 years of development with this latest release, Gluster 4.0. This release enables improved integration with containers, an enhanced user experience, and a next-generation management framework. The 4.0 release helps cloud-native app developers choose Gluster as the default scale-out distributed file system.
We’re highlighting some of the announcements and major features and changes here, but our release notes [1] have announcements, expanded major changes and features, issues and bugs addressed in this release.
Major enhancements:
A quick start guide [6] is available to get started with GD2.
Although GD2 is in tech preview for this release, it is ready to use for forming and managing new clusters.
Release packages are available at [2] and are signed with [3]. The upgrade guide for this release can be found at [4]
Related announcements:
References:
[1] Release notes: https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/release-notes/4.0.0/
[2] Packages: https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/4.0/
[3] Packages signed with: https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/4.0/rsa.pub
[4] Upgrade guide: https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/Upgrade-Guide/upgrade_to_4.0/
[5] Release schedule: https://www.gluster.org/release-schedule/
[6] GD2 quick start: https://github.com/gluster/glusterd2/blob/master/doc/quick-start-user-guide.md
[7] CentOs SIG CentOS6 support announcement: http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2018-January/033212.html
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