We're very happy to announce the first stable release of the Squid series. We express our gratitude to all members of the Ceph community who contributed by proposing pull requests, testing this release, providing feedback, and offering valuable suggestions. Highlights: RADOS * BlueStore has been optimized for better performance in snapshot-intensive workloads. * BlueStore RocksDB LZ4 compression is now enabled by default to improve average performance and "fast device" space usage. * Other improvements include more flexible EC configurations, an OpTracker to help debug mgr module issues, and better scrub scheduling. Dashboard * Improved navigation layout CephFS * Support for managing CephFS snapshots and clones, as well as snapshot schedule management * Manage authorization capabilities for CephFS resources * Helpers on mounting a CephFS volume RBD * diff-iterate can now execute locally, bringing a dramatic performance improvement for QEMU live disk synchronization and backup use cases. * Support for cloning from non-user type snapshots is added. * rbd-wnbd driver has gained the ability to multiplex image mappings. RGW * The User Accounts feature unlocks several new AWS-compatible IAM APIs for the self-service management of users, keys, groups, roles, policy and more. Crimson/Seastore * Crimson's first tech preview release! Supporting RBD workloads on Replicated pools. For more information please visit: https://ceph.io/en/news/crimson We encourage you to read the full release notes at https://ceph.io/en/news/blog/2024/v19-2-0-squid-released/ * Git at git://github.com/ceph/ceph.git * Tarball at https://download.ceph.com/tarballs/ceph-19.2.0.tar.gz * Containers at https://quay.io/repository/ceph/ceph * For packages, see https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/install/get-packages/ * Release git sha1: 16063ff2022298c9300e49a547a16ffda59baf13 -- Laura Flores She/Her/Hers Software Engineer, Ceph Storage <https://ceph.io> Chicago, IL lflores@ibm.com | lflores@redhat.com <lflores@redhat.com> M: +17087388804