I'm about to switch from 1.3.11 to the latest rc of 1.4... how much different will 2.0 be from 1.4? Or will 2.0 effectively be the latest version of 1.4 rc7 + bug fixes etc? Or will it be a totally different branch? I suppose the best course of action would be to wait until 2.0 but I really need that io-cache leak fix now. Dan Parsons On Jan 5, 2009, at 3:59 AM, Anand Babu Periasamy wrote: > Dear Community, > Since the 1.3 release, we have come a long way to reach this level > of code maturity. > We are preparing to call the next release as the 2.0.0 instead of > 1.4.0. There are > real technical reasons to do so. We want to sincerely apologize for > this confusion. > > REASONS FOR THE VERSION CHANGE: > * Significant architectural enhancements and code-rewrites since > v1.3.X. > - AFR rewrite, non-blocking IO, binary protocol and single address > mode > * Current code base will remain as the foundation for upcoming major > releases, > featuring hot-management, active-heal, defrag, snapshot, NDMP and > cloning. > * New features: > - Distribute: elastic hash based clustering > - Apache / Lighttpd embeddable > - Distributed BerkeleyDB > - Atomic writes in AFR > - High-Availability translator > - NUFA translator > * Improved performance and scalability, particularly for small files. > * Changes towards simplification > - "distribute" supersedes complicated "unify" > - "AFR" renamed as "replicate" > - Simpler documentation using "distribute", "replicate" and "stripe" > - Standardized volume templates for most common use cases > > 2.0.0rc1 will be available in a week. Before we call it 2.0.0, we > want to > to achieve the following: > * Seamless migration for 1.3 users > * Clean and complete documentation > * Binary packages for GNU/Linux (rpm/deb), FreeBSD, Mac OS X and > Solaris (server) > * And most importantly the community blessing for 2.0 stable release. > > Happy Hacking! > -- > GlusterFS Team > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel at nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel >
