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Dear MooseFS Users,

We are happy to announce that MooseFS 3.0.116 is released! 🎉

This is mostly a bugfix release. It also introduces a few improvements and new features, including:

• Possibility to set symlink cache timeout (-o mfssymlinkcacheto mounting parameter),
• New INODE_REUSE_DELAY config option for defining inode reuse delay in Master Server (in mfsmaster.cfg),
• Allowing servers in rebalance state to be used in replication,
• Protection against listing too big directory.

We would like to say big thanks to all the contributors who helped us making this release, especially (alphabetically): @BillKen, @Eronana, @jSML4ThWwBID69YC, @onlyjob, @stevew-Purdue, @struthio, @tianon. Thank you for your valuable time, input, and help in making MooseFS better!

(If I forgot to mention somebody, I am sorry for that and please definitely let me know!)

Please find a complete list of changes included in this release below:

• (check) making clock test less prone to a single failure,
• (master) added protection against listing too big directory,
• (master) servers in rebalance state are now allowed to be used in replication,
• (cs) changed handling load+hlstatus packet,
• (mount) added symlink cache timeout,
• (master) added option to define inode reuse delay,
• (cgi+cli) fixed division by zero when scount is zero (no chunkservers – issue [#412]),
• (master) added inode virtual length for append mode,
• (mount) moved rwlock from descriptor to inode (fixes append issues),
• (cgi) changed method of charts selection in charts comparison,
• (cgi) added message to function that handles exceptions,
• (cgi) added using htmlentities function for various strings,
• (mount) removed old osxfuse patch (doesn't work with current osxfuse and is no longer needed),
• (master) fixed default paths for mfsexports.cfg and mfstopology.cfg,
• (master) fixed restore mode (missing cache initialization – issue [#432]),
• (mount) added parents of CWDs (current working directories) to sustained inodes (workaround for FreeBSD problem – issue [#362]),
• (all) fixed spelling,
• (master) fixed handling copy sgid for directories on follower and during restore from changelog,
• (master) fixed changelog order between unlock and close file or session,
• (cgi) fixed using & in javascript URLs (issue [#439]),
• (cgiserv) fixed error/redirect responses (Pull Request [#443] by @Eronana),
• (master+cs) fixed overflows in cgi charts,
• (cs) fixed crc data in info packets (*_CHUNK_CHECKSUM, *_CHUNK_CHECKSUM_TAB).

We recommend to update your MooseFS clusters to this version.

Best regards, Piotr / MooseFS Team