Improvements

Rook v1.6.5 is a patch release limited in scope and focusing on small feature additions and bug fixes.

We are happy to announce the availability of a Helm chart to configure the CephCluster CR.
Please try it out and share feedback! We would like to declare it stable in v1.7.

Ceph

• Experimental Helm chart for CephClusters (#7778, @henryzhangsta)
• Disable insecure global id if no insecure clients are detected. If insecure clients are still required, see these instructions. (#7746, @travisn)
• Enable host networking by default in the CSI driver due to issues with client IO hangs when the driver restarts (#8102, @Rakshith-R)
• Add a disaster recovery guide for an accidentally deleted CephCluster CR (#8040, @travisn)
• Do not fail prepareOSD job if devices are not passed (#8098, @degorenko)
• Ensure MDS and RGW are upgraded anytime the ceph image changes (#8060, @sp98)
• External cluster config enables v1 address type when enabling v2 (#8083, @aruniiird)
• Create object pools in parallel for faster object store reconcile (#8082, @leseb)
• Fix detection of delete event reconciliation (#8086, @BlaineEXE)
• Use RGW admin API for s3 user management (#7998, @leseb)