Download Rockstor 3.8-10

Rockstor is a CentOS-based Linux distribution, which can be used as a NAS or private cloud storage solution, among other things. It uses popular open source technologies such as the Btrfs file system and Docker to deploy applications in so-called software containers. Rockstor is free to use and updates can be received over a test or stable channel. Updates through the test channel are very frequent, often several times a week, but can sometimes contain bugs. Updates via the stable channel, which only subscribers have access to, are released every three to four weeks and have been extensively tested. Version 3.8-10 was released on Friday and the release notes are as follows:

3.8-10: Asynchronous Replication plus many improvements

rockstor 3.8-10 release is now available. This is our second release in the Stable updates channel. Many thanks to users who purchased Stable update subscriptions. Your support is not only greatly appreciated, but crucial to us. If you are subscribed to Stable updates, you can easily update the system from the Web-UI.

New users can download 3.8-10 from here. Keep Rockstor live and thriving by purchasing the Stable subscription!

We closed 13 issues in this release, compared to 20 in 3.8-9. And this release took a bit longer. If you are wondering why, it’s because of the big feature improvement in this release: Asynchronous Replication. This feature efficiently replicates Shares on one Rockstor appliance to another by using BTRFS send/receive functionality. While this feature was added a while ago, it was a bit over engineered, buggy and had to be improved. I started refactoring the existing pub-sub design and ended up completely redesigning it. The result is a much simpler and more robust implementation. I plan to write more about it here and the community wiki soon.

Here’s the list of issues resolved in this update with links to more information.

• Rolled out a redesigned Rockstor-Rockstor Share replication feature. #886
• Improved functional test coverage. part 1 #992
• Improved alerts on the UI. #989
• CSS cleanup in the UI. #1003
• Fixed advanced nfs exports bug. #991
• Improved functional test coverage. part 2. #1008
• Redesigned switches on the UI. #1013
• Improved functional test coverage. part 3. #1014
• Fixed SFTP service toggle bug. #1027
• Fixed AD service status bug. #1029
• Improved rockstor bootstrap service. #1026
• More switch redesign updates on the UI. #1021
• Fixed a bug in network config. #1039