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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">We are pleased to announce that the Lustre 2.1</span><span lang="EN-US">3<span style="color:black">.0 Release has been declared GA and is available for </span></span><a href="https://downloads.whamcloud.com/public/lustre/lustre-2.13.0/"><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 lang="EN-US" style="color:black">.
You can also grab the source from </span><a href="https://git.whamcloud.com/?p=fs/lustre-release.git;a=commit;h=a298f8c1376485512f83472a22dc755f47947e75"><span lang="EN-US">git</span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">This major release includes new features: </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Persistent Client Cache</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">allows Lustre to utilize client-local storage such as NVMe or NVRAM as part of the filesystem namespace. Clients
can cache the data of newly created or existing files in a locally-mounted cache filesystem (e.g. ext4) for exclusive access at local filesystem speeds, and data migrates transparently into the global filesystem when accessed by other clients</span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> (</span><a href="https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-10092"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext">LU-10092</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Multi-Rail Routing</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">enhances multi-rail support for LNet routers, allowing auto discovery of routes and improved resiliency in configurations
with multiple interfaces per node</span> <span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">
(</span><a href="https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-11297"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext">LU-11297</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Overstriping</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">allows files to have multiple stripes of a single file on each OST. This allows configurations with relatively few clients/threads
or very large OSTs to better utilize the full storage performance</span> <span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">
(</span><a href="https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-9846"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext">LU-9846</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Self-Extending Layouts</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">improves the flexibility of Progressive File Layouts (PFL) to better handle filesystems with imbalanced OST
capacity, such as smaller flash OST pools combined with larger disk OST pools. Files using Self-Extending Layouts can write to the flash pool as much as possible, but will automatically change over to the disk pool if there is not enough space</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">(</span><a href="https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-10070"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext">LU-10070</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Fuller details can be found in the </span><a href="http://wiki.lustre.org/Release_2.13.0"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext">2.13 wiki page </span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">(including the </span><a href="http://wiki.lustre.org/Lustre_2.13.0_Changelog"><span lang="EN-US">change
log </span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">and </span><a href="http://wiki.lustre.org/Release_2.13.0#Test_Matrix"><span lang="EN-US">test matrix</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Please log any issues found in the </span><a href="https://jira.whamcloud.com/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:purple">issue tracking system</span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Thanks to all those who have contributed to the creation of this release.</span></p>
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