3.10.0 release notes

We are excited to announce another feature-packed release of Ceph CSI, v3.10.0. This is another significant step towards using enhanced Container Storage Interface (CSI) features with Ceph Cluster in the backend. With this release, we are introducing many brand-new features and enhancements to the Ceph CSI driver. Here are the changelog/release highlights.

Changelog and Highlights:

Features

RBD

• deploy: support for read affinity options per cluster by @iPraveenParihar in #4165

CephFS

• cephfs: Add support to create RWX PVC from ROX PVC by @Madhu-1 in #4094
• cephfs: enable read affinity by @iPraveenParihar in #4153
• deploy: support for read affinity options per cluster by @iPraveenParihar in #4165
• cephfs: kernel and fuse mount options per cluster by @iPraveenParihar in #4245

NFS

• nfs: add support for clients in the StorageClass by @spuiuk in #3895

Breaking Changes

• Removed the deprecated grpc metrics flag's in #4225
• Support for pre-creation of cephFS subvolumegroup before creating subvolume
  is removed in #4195. Users will need to create the specified(or default csi) subvolumegroup before provisioning CephFS PVC on a new ceph. Refer to deploy-cephfs.md for more details.

Note:

• Support is limited to only the active Ceph releases. Support for EOLed Ceph
  releases are removed in #4262

Enhancements

• rbd: do not execute rbd sparsify when volume is in use by @Rakshith-R in #3985
• rbd: Don't depend on image state to issue resync by @Madhu-1 in #4076
• rebase: all the dependencies have been updated to latest available release.
• cephfs: handle cephfs clone limit error by @karthik-us in #4276
• cephfs: remove snapshot protect/unprotect by @iPraveenParihar in #4202
• cephfs: Update fetchIP() to add support for IPv6 address by @riya-singhal31 in #4230
• helm: add option to enable read affinity for rbd by @iPraveenParihar in #4111
• helm: Allow templating of RBD striping parameters by @KingJ in #4229
• helm: add annotations for ceph-csi-rbd secret by @mustdiechik in #4248
• util: Remove deprecated grpc metrics code by @Madhu-1 in #4225
• util: include request-IDs in all gRPC calls for the Controller by @nixpanic in #4263
• deploy: allow mkfsOptions by @Sea-you in #4233
• deploy: update CSI sidecars to latest versions available by @iPraveenParihar in #4132
• deploy: enable featuregate for volume expansion recovery by @iPraveenParihar in #4279
• deploy: API for CSI Config Struct by @iPraveenParihar in #4278

Bug Fixes

• cephfs: Fix cephfs PVC sizing by @karthik-us in #4180
• cephfs: prevent hanging NodeGetVmolumeStats on stat() syscall when an MDS is slow by @nixpanic in #4200
• cephfs: remove subvolume during clone by @Madhu-1 in #4223
• cephfs: set Pool parameter to empty for Snapshot-backed volumes by @Rakshith-R in #4047
• cephfs: safeguard localClusterState struct from race conditions by @Rakshith-R in #4163
• rbd: do not try to run resizefs on an encrypted BlockMode volume by @nixpanic in #3958
• rbd: discard not found error from GetMetadata by @Madhu-1 in #4097
• rbd: update snap RbdImageName by @iPraveenParihar in #4152
• rbd: update snap RbdImageName in createSnapshot by @iPraveenParihar in #4156

E2E

• e2e: add test for validation of fuseMountOptions and kernelMountOptions by @riya-singhal31 in #3970
• e2e: Fixing the TODO in createCephfsStorageClass by @karthik-us in #3995
• e2e: add timeout for pvc deletion in ephemeral e2e by @riya-singhal31 in #4058
• e2e: add option to enable read affinity for rbd by @iPraveenParihar in #4111
• e2e: add multiple labels to node by @Madhu-1 in #4224

CI

• ci: run tickgit after merging a PR in the devel branch by @nixpanic in #4241
• ci: skip ./api/vendor in codespell runs by @nixpanic in #4201
• ci: group golang.org/x/ under golang dependencies by @nixpanic in #4178
• ci: disable addons after cluster creation by @Madhu-1 in #4170
• ci: add CSI_UPGRADE_VERSION var to build.env by @Rakshith-R in #4008
• ci: use podman for simple GitHub workflows by @nixpanic in #4035
• mergify: add support for 3.9 backports by @Rakshith-R in #3936
• ci: run versioned k8s jobs only on selected branches by @nixpanic in #4061
• ci: exclude branches from the testing matrix for ok-to-test comments by @nixpanic in #4068
• ci: only add /test .. comment if the branch for the PR matches by @nixpanic in #4070
• ci: enable debug logs in kubelet by @Madhu-1 in #4074
• ci: use dependabot group feature by @Madhu-1 in #4087
• ci: add snyk for security scanning by @Madhu-1 in #4259
• ci: add snyk for container image by @Madhu-1 in #4261
• ci: add ci bot for auto assigning issue by @riya-singhal31 in #4275
• ci: update minikube to v1.32.0 by @nixpanic in #4284
• build: disable ceph-iscsi repository by @nixpanic in #3959
• build: disable ceph-iscsi repository for test-container builds too by @nixpanic in #3965
• build: make sure nfs-utils is installed by @nixpanic in #4243

Documentation

• doc: remove /retest all command for Jenkins jobs by @nixpanic in #3957
• doc: update documentation for v3.8.1 release by @Rakshith-R in #4006
• doc: adding empty storageClassName in static pvc by @subhamkrai in #4010
• doc: fix helm doc of ceph-csi deployment by @astraw99 in #4036
• doc: Update cephcsi.go by @runzhliu in #4096
• doc: adding empty storageClassName in static pvc by @Rakshith-R in #4110
• doc: add design doc for RBD QoS by @Madhu-1 in #4089
• doc: Remove unwanted steps/details from upgrade doc by @Madhu-1 in #4123
• doc: remove storageclass details for shallow volume by @Madhu-1 in #4124
• doc:add reference to CSI snapshot deployment guide by @iPraveenParihar in #4119
• doc: remove unwanted steps from upgrade by @Madhu-1 in #4133
• doc: Clarify default values for mountOptions and mkfsOptions in storageclass example by @MaGaroo in #4197
• doc: add pending release notes by @Madhu-1 in #4222
• doc: remove use of XXX in example descriptions by @nixpanic in #4228
• doc: update release notes for grpc metrics by @Madhu-1 in #4237
• doc: modify README and upgrade docs for release v3.10.0 by @Rakshith-R in #4286

New Contributors ( Thanks !! 👍 )

• @spuiuk made their first contribution in #3895
• @subhamkrai made their first contribution in #4010
• @astraw99 made their first contribution in #4036
• @runzhliu made their first contribution in #4096
• @crazytaxii made their first contribution in #4099
• @MaGaroo made their first contribution in #4197
• @mustdiechik made their first contribution in #4248

Full Changelog: v3.9.0...v3.10.0

Thanks to the fantastic Ceph CSI community for this great release 👍 🎉