This is the first bugfix release in the Pacific stable series. It addresses a security vulnerability in the Ceph authentication framework. We recommend users to update to this release. For a detailed release notes with links & changelog please refer to the official blog entry at https://ceph.io/releases/v16-2-1-pacific-released Security Fixes -------------- * This release includes a security fix that ensures the global_id value (a numeric value that should be unique for every authenticated client or daemon in the cluster) is reclaimed after a network disconnect or ticket renewal in a secure fashion. Two new health alerts may appear during the upgrade indicating that there are clients or daemons that are not yet patched with the appropriate fix. Getting Ceph ------------ * Git at git://github.com/ceph/ceph.git * Tarball at http://download.ceph.com/tarballs/ceph-16.2.1.tar.gz * For packages, see http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/install/get-packages/ * Release git sha1: afb9061ab4117f798c858c741efa6390e48ccf10