Release Summary
🎉 🎉 🎉 OpenEBS 3.9 introduces new Mayastor features, and bug fixes. LVM LocalPV sees new enhancements to monitoring, refactors and other bug fixes.
Upgrade and Backward Incompatibilities
Please review this list prior to deciding to upgrade:
- Kubernetes 1.21 or higher release is recommended as this release uses features of Kubernetes that will not be compatible with older Kubernetes releases. Kubernetes 1.19.12 or higher is recommended for using Rawfile Local PV.
Component versions
OpenEBS is a collection of data engines and operators to create different types of replicated and local persistent volumes for Kubernetes Stateful workloads. Kubernetes volumes can be provisioned via CSI Drivers or using Out-of-tree Provisioners. The status of the various components as of v3.9.0 are as follows:
- CSI Drivers
- Mayastor 2.4.0 (stable)
- cStor 3.5.0 (stable)
- Jiva 3.5.0 (beta)
- Local PV ZFS 2.3.0 (stable)
- Local PV LVM 1.3.0 (stable)
- Local PV Rawfile 0.8.0 (beta)
- Local PV Partitions 0.9.0 (alpha)
- Out-of-tree provisioners
- Local PV hostpath 3.4.0 (stable)
- Local PV device 3.4.0 (stable)
- Dynamic NFS Volume 0.10.0 (beta)
- Other components
Change Summary
A detailed changelog is available under the component repositories listed above. Here is a quick summary of what has changed since the last release.
- Mayastor changes: https://github.com/openebs/mayastor/releases/tag/v2.4.0
- LVM LocalPV: Monitoring enhancement with more visibility through the metrics exporter
- LVM LocalPV: Bug fixes and refactors
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Shoutouts!
MANY THANKS to our existing contributors and for everyone helping OpenEBS Community going. @Abhinandan-Purkait @avishnu @blaisedias @chriswldenyer @mtzaurus @niladrih @tiagolobocastro @w3aman @abhilashshetty04 @rohan2794 @dsavitskiy @sinhaashish @datacore-vvarakantham @dsharma-dc @hrudaya21 @pchandra19 @milanhajek @r1jt @AJDatacore @avishnu
A very special thanks to our first-time contributors to code, tests, and docs: @Rajpratik71 @dnugmanov @kro-cat @TECHNOFAB11
Documentation
Install
OpenEBS can be installed via kubectl or helm. Follow the installation instructions here.
Upgrade
The upgrade instructions for various OpenEBS engines are here.
Do not upgrade if you are using legacy cstor or jiva provisioners. You have to first migrate those to the corresponding CSI Drivers. Please reach out to us for support
Known Issues
Check our open issues uncovered through e2e and community testing.
Check out the Mayastor release notes for known Mayastor issues.
Support
If you are having issues in setting up or upgrade, you can contact:
- OpenEBS Community for Support on Kubernetes Slack
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