-v15.1.0 Octopus
+v15.2.0 Octopus
===============
-.. note: This is a release candidate and not (yet) intended for production use.
-
-These are draft notes for the upcoming Octopus release.
+This is the first stable release of Ceph Octopus.
Major Changes from Nautilus
---------------------------
into the orchestration layer. For more information see
:ref:`cephadm`.
* Health alerts can now be muted, either temporarily or permanently.
-* A simple 'alerts' capability has been introduced to send email
+* Health alerts are now raised for recent Ceph daemons crashes.
+* A simple 'alerts' module has been introduced to send email
health alerts for clusters deployed without the benefit of an
existing external monitoring infrastructure.
-* Health alerts are now raised for recent Ceph daemons crashes.
+* Packages are built for the following distributions:
+
+ - CentOS 8
+ - CentOS 7 (partial--see below)
+ - Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic)
+ - :ref:`Container image <containers>` (based on CentOS 8)
+
+ Note that the dashboard, prometheus, and restful manager modules
+ will not work on the CentOS 7 build due to Python 3 module
+ dependencies that are missing in CentOS 7.
Dashboard
scalable fashion.
-**RBD** block storage
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+RBD block storage
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* Mirroring now supports a new snapshot-based mode that no longer requires
the journaling feature and its related impacts in exchange for the loss
* A new persistent read-only caching daemon is available to offload reads from
shared parent images.
-**RGW** object storage
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+RGW object storage
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* Multi-site replication can now be managed on a per-bucket basis (EXPERIMENTAL).
* WORM?
* bucket tagging?
-**CephFS** distributed file system
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+CephFS distributed file system
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* Inline data support in CephFS has been deprecated and will likely be
removed in a future release.