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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">We are pleased to announce that the Lustre 2.1</span>6<span style="color:black">.</span>1<span style="color:black"> Release has been declared GA and is available for </span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://downloads.whamcloud.com/public/lustre/lustre-2.16.1/"><span lang="EN-US">download</span></a><a href="https://downloads.hpdd.intel.com/public/lustre/lustre-2.11.0/"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></a></span><span style="color:black">.
You can also grab the source from </span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://git.whamcloud.com/?p=fs/lustre-release.git;a=commit;h=718a3fd9c78507a589a657ec3745b4c553f66633"><span lang="EN-US">git</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">This is not an LTS release</span></u></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> - this is a re-spin of 2.16.0 with a single
fix (</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><a href="https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-18435">LU-18435</a></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">) that we have discovered has a broader
scope than first understood. We recommend that anyone planning to use 2.16.x uses this release rather than 2.16.0.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A reminder that 2.16.x<span style="color:black"> includes new features: </span><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>RHEL 9.4 Server support</b><span style="color:black"> </span>Support for Rocky/RHEL 9.4 servers <span style="color:black">(</span><a href="https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-18150">LU-18150</a><span style="color:black">)</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>IPv6 Support</b><span style="color:black"> </span>Providing the option to use large NIDs
<span style="color:black">(</span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-10391"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext">LU-10391</span></a></span><span style="color:black">)</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Optimized Directory Traversal</b><span style="color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-CA">Improved Speed/Efficiency for large directories/trees </span><span style="color:black">(</span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-15975"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext">LU-15975</span></a></span><span style="color:black">)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The minimal <a href="https://wiki.lustre.org/Lustre_2.16.1_Changelog">
changelog for 2.16.1</a> is available but f<span style="color:black">uller details about th</span>e 2.16<span style="color:black"> release can be found in the </span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://wiki.lustre.org/Release_2.16.0"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext">2.16
wiki page </span></a></span><span style="color:black">(including the </span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://wiki.lustre.org/Lustre_2.16.0_Changelog"><span lang="EN-US">change log </span></a></span><span style="color:black">and </span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://wiki.lustre.org/Release_2.16.0#Test_Matrix"><span lang="EN-US">test
matrix</span></a></span><span style="color:black">)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Please log any issues found in the </span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://jira.whamcloud.com/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:purple">issue tracking system</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Thanks to all those who have contributed to the creation of this release.</span> The next LTS release will be 2.15.6.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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