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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">We are pleased to announce that the Lustre 2.12.0 Release has been declared GA and is available for <a href="https://downloads.whamcloud.com/public/lustre/lustre-2.12.0/">download</a><a href="https://downloads.hpdd.intel.com/public/lustre/lustre-2.11.0/"> </a>.
You can also grab the source from <a href="https://git.whamcloud.com/?p=fs/lustre-release.git;a=tag;h=refs/tags/2.12.0">git</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">This major release includes new features: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">DNE Directory Restriping</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"> DNE Directory Restriping allows large existing directories to be migrated from a single
MDT to stripe over multiple MDTs, which makes it easier to take advantage of adding new MDTs to an existing filesystem or to manually rebalance MDT usage<span style="background:white"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">(<a href="https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-4684">LU-4684</a>)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Lazy Size on MDT </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Provides a mechanism whereby approximate file sizes can be quickly returned when scanning the
MDT directly via a policy engine when performance is more important than precision</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"> (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><a href="https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-9538">LU-9538</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">LNet Network Health</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"> Provides the option when using multiple LNet interfaces to retry sending RPCs via an alternative
network if errors are encountered or messages are lost with the initial request (<a href="https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-9120">LU-9120</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">Fuller details can be found in the <a href="http://wiki.lustre.org/Release_2.12.0">2.12 wiki page </a>(including the <a href="http://wiki.lustre.org/Lustre_2.12.0_Changelog">change
log </a>and <a href="http://wiki.lustre.org/Release_2.12.0#Test_Matrix">test matrix</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">Please log any issues found in the <a href="https://jira.whamcloud.com/"><span style="color:purple">issue tracking system</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">Thanks to all those who have contributed to the creation of this release.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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