Hi all,
we had some good discussions on where we are today with 3.3.x, and how to
get to v3.4.0 at the latest ApacheCon. This is a summary of what we want to
achieve. Please read and comment.
Thanks,
-- leif and everyone who went to ACNA :)
Releases
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Release date for v3.4.0: June - July 2013
v3.3.1 - March 2013 (now)
v3.3.2 - April 2013
v3.3.3 - May 2013 - This is also Feature Freeze
v3.3.4 - June 2013 (last release before v3.4.0)
Toolchain
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The minimum/platform requirements for building v3.4.0 are
* gcc v4.1.2 (RHEL5) or compatible
* clang v3.x and Intel CC (v12 or later)
* Linux v2.6.18 or later (RHEL5)
* FreeBSD, OSX and Solaris (e.g. OmniOS) supported
* x86, x86_64 and ARM supported
* In particular, we drop support for the SunStudio compiler suite, and
RHEL4 and earlier
Features
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The focus are on the following improvement over v3.2.x:
* Close as many instability bugs as possible
* Land SSD layered cache (aim for v3.3.2)
* Volumes assigned to disks (aim for v3.3.2) [Comcast]
* Time Wheel patch [Taobao]
* Memory allocation [Yahoo and Taobao]
* Range requests / lookup table (well tested)
* More unit tests
* Documentation - We really suffer here, it'd be great to make a push
for v3.4.0 docs
