4.0.9-0
Released 27th September 2021
Stable Release Candidate 10
This is the 101st version of Rockstor on GitHub: lets call it the Dalmatian release.
Thanks
First off I’d like to thank all those here on the forum and out in the wider world for helping us get this far. Testers and stable subscribers alike. This is very much looking like our next Stable release so we can return, finally, to a dual delivery ‘model’ of testing and stable. Giving folks the option of a known good version while simultaneously having the freedom required in testing to develop the next Stable release on Python 3. This time around, due to the scope of underlying changes, via git branches: master for stable, testing for testing.
Almost no code changes since 4.0-8-0 but 3 fixes; bargain. First my apologies to @clink here on the forum who reported our log download fail; confirmed by @HarryHUK. Our rpm changelog is also processed by the Rockstor Web-UI and can only handle GitHub users. However credit is given in the linked GitHub issue.
We also have a new GitHub issue reporter azilber who helped in providing info on a know incompatible multi-drive external USB enclosure. And as always we have the venerable @Flox both here ‘out in the open’ and in the background for a timely fix to a timely report by @Hooverdan.
We are getting there now.
Changelog summary:
- Add another JMS567 controller serial obfuscation detection #2318 @azilber @phillxnet
- Logs Archive ‘Click to download’ link broken #2317 @harryhuk @phillxnet
- Replace Yum logs with Zypper history in Logs Manager #2314 @Hooverdan96 @FroggyFlox
We have, ongoing, closed late beta end-to-end testing from installer to installed instance so please keep the reports comming. However only serious bug-fixes will now be considered for the stable release candidate, other fixes are very likely to be released as stable channel updates from now on while we get our soon to be branched testing channel into a workable state again post it’s pending, in-progress Django update.
Test away and report rapidly as we work against the forces of kipple. And please check your Stable subscriptions if you have any (https://appman.rockstor.com/) 
Rockstor’s continued development and associated build and release infrastructure is dependant on multiple support vectors; and we hope soon to re-enable our Commercial Support option.