4.5.7-0
Released in Testing Channel updates on 17th Feburary 2023
Our fourth Stable Release Candidate
So, getting there now; bit by bit. Again I’ll try and be brief/briefer as this is essentially a fairly simple set of changes.
Here we clear-up an older issue regarding an upstream btrfs change that we put-off in the last Stable milestone, but would now affect folks following our ongoing, and recently updated:
Installing the Stable Kernel Backport: https://rockstor.com/docs/howtos/stable_kernel_backport.html
We also continue to improve our licensing clarity, this time in our main README.md which is now, as of this rpm build, also noted as a license clarification file in our package. We finish off a long standing testing omission in our scrub parsing code, made all the more important as there had been contributions in that area that in turn increased the importance of testing there. And we now define our Rock-on base url at run-time: important for folks who must have this repository not hosted outside their network: thanks to our intrepid @Flox for this last Rock-on enhancement. A specialist area for @Flox as it goes.
We have also another contribution instigated by @aremiaskfa and followed up by myself (in code) on our now long-standing failure to restart the rockstor-bootstrap.service. This one will only take effect however on the next upgrade as this version 4.5.7-0 initiates the Web-UI upgrade to what comes next. So watch out for that when the time comes.
Changelog summary:
- Bump versions to a 4.5.7 base (RC4) #2496 @phillxnet
- Improve README.md re package licensing, project goals etc #2489 @phillxnet
- Web-UI update to start rockstor-bootstrap.service #2488 @phillxnet @kanecko
- Refactor scrub status parsing to enhance/enable testing #2342 @phillxnet
- Pending ‘missing’ case issue re btrfs fi show #2311 @phillxnet
- Move Rock-on url default definitions to runtime #2305 @FroggyFlox
Test away and report rapidly as we work against the forces of kipple.
Enjoy and report.
[EDIT] We have now moved to Mastodon, I hope soon to replicate such announcements as this thread there. Link available on our main website: https://rockstor.com/
But if you do not yet have a Mastodon account the following is an invite to Mastodon.world:
https://mastodon.world/invite/bPRmMz2f that will auto follow @TheRockstorProject@mastodon.world
The existing Twitter account was never used and will be shutdown shortly.