You may have noticed that the newsletter got one week off from its usual cadence. That is due to my two-week summer vacation. We spent a few days at a nice lake in southern Austria. We enjoyed hiking, some via ferratas, and climbing in the Dolomites in Italy. It was amazing seeing how quickly my sons got excited about rock climbing. They are now beginning to share the passion with my wife and me, which is amazing. The Dolomites are breathtaking scenery if you enjoy mountains.
In my previous newsletter, I mentioned Red Hat’s recent move regarding source code distribution. I had my doubts they could enforce it, as did others. The guys from Rocky Linux described which loopholes they found. Alma mentioned that they might start deviating from RHEL a bit. SUSE announced forking RHEL and creating a “RHEL compatible distribution.” And Oracle joined the choir with the announcement that its Oracle Linux will stay RHEL compatible – to the extent they can make it so. At least Red Hat (IBM) got a lot of ‘reply’ blog articles.
Let’s turn back to more interesting things. Let me point you toward the new LINBIT profile on Ampere. This also gives me an excuse to mention our IOPS record again, which we did in collaboration with Ampere’s Altra® Max Platform.
Since I last wrote a few weeks ago, the team has published the following software updates:
- linstor-proxmox v7.0.1, which fixes a performance regression introduced with 7.0.0 and requires LINSTOR 1.23.0.
- drbd-utils v9.24.0 included a lot of minor improvements, such as updating the windrbd bits, documentation updates, and user defined block sizes. The main reason to finally get this out is that we added a new sub-command named “repair-md”.
- WinDRBD 1.1.7 features the fix of a blue screen that might trigger when memory allocation fails at a specific code path. Also, a performance bug introduced in WinDRBD 1.0.0-rc11 was fixed, and we implemented some changes to make future releases of DRBD reactor for Windows work.
- The python-linstor/linstor-client 1.19.0 release brings small features for the upcoming linstor-server 1.24.0 release, which you can explore in detail via the link. I expect that linstor-server 1.24.0-rc0 will be released on Monday.
