On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 10:00:06PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
The current stable versions of nbdkit & libnbd were first released on:
nbdkit 1.34.0 => 14 April 2023 libnbd 1.16.0 => 18 April 2023
which is about 5 months ago. Since we tend to release these projects approximately every 6 months, I'd like to aim for a release at the end of September or beginning of October, about 3 weeks from now.
Sounds good to me.
If there are large features, then let's discuss whether to add them now or else hold off. (IIUC all 64 bit NBD patches are now upstream? Are there more?)
64-bit extensions are complete in libnbd; I don't have any major features for libnbd outstanding at the present. For nbdkit, any work to support 64-bit extensions is far enough out that it won't make this stable release.
I'll prepare draft release notes in the coming weeks.
Rich.
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