Release 9

This is the new stable version of Heketi.

Major additions in this release

• We are no longer building darwin binaries as part of our release process. If you need darwin support please build from source
• Limit volumes per Gluster cluster
• Prevent server from starting if db has unknown dbattributes
• Support a default admin mode option
• Add an option to enable strict zone checking on volume creation
• Add automatic pending operation clean-up functionality
• Configurable device formatting parameters
• Add consistency check feature and state examiner debugging tools
• The faulty and non-functional "db delete-pending-entries" command has been removed

Changelog

Among numerous other stability and bug fixes:

• Refactored ssh and kubernetes executor core code
• container: suppress stat errors in heketi-start.sh
• apps: use "last takes precedence" when extracting heketi opts
• apps: add the heketi volume id to the gluster volume meta data
• apps: refactor app creation and setup
• apps: improve error text when unmarshaling from db fails
• client: for completeness support volume options on heketidbstorage
• Upgrade negroni version to 1.0.0 and update glide.lock
• metrics: Add block volume count to metrics
• heketi-cli: add the gid to the pvc file generated with --persistent-volume-file
• cli: print distribute & replica counts in volume info
• executors: allow specifying a default value for gluster-block prealloc
• client: add error handling to server operations client funcs
• logging: grab output of 'lsof /path/to/brick' in case unmounting fails
• client: add tags output to nodes and devices
• apps: update total counter when checking pending ops in db
• apps: add cluster level error reporting to cluster selection
• apps: capture all pending file and block volumes from operation types
• Metrics: convert device info from KiB to bytes.
• apps: on startup, do not try to "fix" pending BHVs
• heketi: add support for profiling with pprof
• cmdexec: introduce a new config setting gluster_cli_timeout
• metrics: add device metrics in bytes format
• pkg/utils: relicense to dual Apache2 and LGPLv3+
• apps/glusterfs: allow default pre and post volume options
• Shorten file path in logs by redundant "/src/github.com/heketi/" part
• client: add --force-forget option to device delete cli
• executors: do not ignore failures to remove vg/pv
• executors: properly handle output of gluster-block create