3.9.2-60
Released 29th June 2020
Additional rpm dependencies
In this release I would like to welcome another new contributor, mcbridematt (on GitHub) with what was our 800th pull request merge in the main git repo. In this case an exciting move toward AArch64 compatibility; in which mcbridematt has non trivial expertise. Nice. Encouraged by this contribution and mcbridematt multi year interest in Rockstor behind the scenes, I’ve set to on popping in a couple of trivial arm64 compatibility improvements myself.
To the summary of changes:
- add architecture aware repo configuration. Fixes #2188 @phillxnet
- add arm64-efi system pool subvol exclusion. Fixes #2186 @phillxnet
- failure to remove detached disks via pool resize. Fixes #2099 #2077 #2182 @phillxnet
- ssh: use correct ld-linux for chroot on arm64. Fixes #2183 @mcbridematt
And I would also like to thank forum members and intrepid testers @Azzazel, @Zonk, and @kupan787 for their reporting, and patience, with regard to the remaining change detailed above, that of Rockstor’s inability to allow for the removal of ‘detached’ disk in some (read a lot) of circumstances. This was predominantly cosmetic but was also a functional hole in our more recently re-vamped disk/pool management systems. And thanks as usual to our talented forum moderator and across the board contributor @Flox for also reviewing this long awaited fix. Please note that the Changelog entry within the rpm only includes the first “Fixes” link for this last detailed issue as we have an outstanding bug where our Web-UI can only link successfully to a single issue.
So thanks again to all our testers. We are getting there, bit by bit, but only with the continued help and experimentation of those happy to chip in where they can with their time and expertise. Your contributions are of course much appreciated. Soon we should be able to move an ‘earmarked’ rpm from testing to our ‘Built on openSUSE’ Stable channel repos. So again, please keep all bug reports rolling as we do, soon, need to move onto our ‘other’ technical debts of moving to Python 3 et al (read Tumblweed again). Which is the intended next focus for the testing channel once we have a workable ‘Built on openSUSE’ stable release rpm out and about.
Oh, and did I mention we have AArm64 rpms now; natively build, as per all our rpms, on their target distro and architecture. 
Finally; thanks to our Stable Channel subscribers, without whom this whole endeavour would be unsustainable. The Rockstor 4 ‘Built on openSUSE’ re-release is just around the corner, just in time for Leap 15.2’s official release.