Alba 0.7.4

• prevent maintenance process from spinning when the albamgr has no master
• optimised message delivery to nsm hosts, to prevent namespace creation from taking a (very) long time
• fixed propagation of albamgr config to the proxies
• prevent asd from spinning when its disk breaks
• a few logging improvements

0.7.3

This release is on-par with Alba 0.6.31
notable changes are:

• improvements to fragment cache: be able to continue in more cases.
• improvements to osds_info_cache:
  • populate
  • propagate ip/port change of OSD into osd_info_cache
• improvements on create_namespace:
  • avoid worst case behaviour
  • log phases on info level
• timeouts on Arakoon clients
• log arguments of slow calls

Alba 0.7.2

• docker ci improvements
• proxy protects itself by limiting the amount of client connections
• send back a meaningful message along with errors in the proxy
• fix cli preset creation with fragment encryption

Alba 0.7.1

This release brings us up to date with the bugfixes from 0.6.26 + a few new features.

Changelog:

• asd priority scheduling so that resources for the maintenance process are limited
• no more wild reporting threads
• proxy partial read stats
• bugfix for maintenance work sharding
• enable lwt's logging ppx
• automatic repair of unavailable disks
• inspectability of proxy view of osds
• obsolete separate rebalance process
• bugfix for repair border calculation
• more cli benchmarking
• maintenance statistics
• switch to libev
• less proxy stats dumping to logfile
• osd multicast independence
• expose decommissioned flag of osds in list-osds --to-json
• proper backward/forward compatibility for unknown operations

The attached packages are compatible with arakoon 1.8.10, see https://github.com/openvstorage/arakoon/releases/tag/1.8.10

Aberlour

Alba 0.7.0 establishes open source presence for Alba.
Technically, it's a continuation of the 0.6.20 line.

Compared to the 0.6 branches, the most notable changes are

• no more licensing scheme
• started using ISA-L: Intel's storage acceleration library
• refactorings
• verify namespace functionality.