Release 2.8.0

Current Schedule

 * June 30 2015 - Feature Freeze
 * Aug 31 2015 - Code Freeze
 * Sept 30 2015 - Release 2.8.0

General Work and Maintenance
From the Lustre project page in the Lustre issue tracker, we can see a dashboard for the project. On that page under the "Versions: Unreleased" section, there are links to future releases and all of the issues that are either targeted to be addressed in that release, or are already addressed for the release. Here is a shortcut to Lustre 2.8.0's issue summary page:

Lustre 2.8.0 Issues

Any issue that contains "Lustre 2.8.0" in the "Fix Version/s" field of a ticket is intended to be fixed for version 2.8.0. The Lustre 2.8.0 Issues list is fluid, and will be updated on a continual basis as man power and perceived priorities change.

A convenience search filter is supplied for anyone looking for work that needs to be done for 2.8.0:

Lustre 2.8.0 Unassigned Issues

Features
The scope of features to be included in the 2.8.0 release will be less predefined than it was for past releases. In the past we selected a set of features, and then we delayed the release until all of the major features were more-or-less ready. Our new plan is to keep track of the progress on various projects on the Projects page. If features are on target for completion before the Feature Freeze, they can land for Lustre 2.8.0. If a feature's development slips, then it will have to wait until a subsequent release before it can land.

As of May 6, 2015, there are four projects that are candidates for landing before the 2.8 feature freeze:


 * DNE Phase IIb
 * Multiple modify RPCs
 * UID/GID mapping
 * NRS Delay

We make no guarantee that these projects will be included in 2.8, but to the best of our knowledge they are currently on target.

Test Matrix

 * Servers: RHEL 6.6, RHEL 7.1
 * Clients RHEL 7.1, RHEL 6.6, SLES 11 SP3
 * OFED: inkernel
 * E2FSProgs: v1.42.12.wc1
 * Interoperability: 2.7 Servers/Clients

Release Status Updates

 * March 27th 2015
 * April 10th 2015
 * April 24th 2015
 * May 8th 2015
 * May 22nd 2015
 * June 5th 2015
 * June 19th 2015
 * July 3rd 2015