gRPC [Allowlist access]:
- Support added to communicate with the GCS backend via gRPC. gRPC is enabled by passing the flag --client-protocol=grpc as mount command. gRPC internally uses http2.
- To use gRPC, contact the Google Cloud Storage gRPC team at gcs-grpc-contact@google.com with a list of GCS buckets to allowlist.
- Performance guidance:
- gRPC provides improved performance when using a single region or dual region bucket that is co-located in the same region as the compute instance.
- gRPC provides improved performance for most workloads, but should not be used for workloads with high parallelism (>32 threads).
Bug fixes and improvements:
- Respect log-format flag for stdout logs. (#1770)
Upgraded dependencies for better stability and reliability: (#1767, #1764, #1819)