Hi all, As you might have noticed, we're getting quite well along with the upcoming 3.7 release. There are many new features and improvements, but these also require additional dependencies on the Linux (and other OS) distributions. Because keeping support for older operating systems is quite time consuming, we would like to reduce the supported versions of operating systems. Some of the issues that we already noticed: - RHEL-5 (and clones) do not have all dependencies for the -server components (already no geo-replication on EL5). - Ubuntu Precise has an old RDMA stack, potential other too old versions of packages too (already an issue with 3.6.2). We try to have the glusterfs-3.6 client-side protocol compatible with the 3.7 server-side, but we can not guarantee that this stays possible longterm. We need to know who is planning to deploy GlusterFS 3.7 (on modern distributions) and would require access over the native/fuse (not NFS/Samba) protocol to the 3.7 servers. If there is very little interest, and no strong demand, we will likely not provide glusterfs-3.7 packages for these older distributions. I would like to remind everyone that when GlusterFS 3.7 gets released, version 3.4 will become unmaintained and updating to 3.5 or newer should get planned rather sooner than later. Version 3.5 will be maintained until 4.0 (or 3.8?) gets released, which is not planned for this year anymore. If you have a strong desire for GlusterFS 3.7 clients on older distributions, contact us as soon as possible (definitely within the next two/three weeks) so that we can look into the matter. Please respond to this list with your explanation and requirements, or if that is not suitable for whatever reason, email me directly. Thanks, Niels _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
