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5.0.1

WEKA Data Platform 5.0.1 focuses on delivering innovation to WEKA customers and contains the following enhancements:

Release highlights:

  • RDMA enablement: RDMA is now enabled by default when using RDMA-capable network interfaces.

  • Container deactivation check: Introduced a new command and API to simulate container deactivation to assess whether the operation can be performed safely without impacting the cluster. CLI: weka cluster container deactivation-check <Container-ids> API: POST​/containers​/deactivation-check

  • New snapshot APIs: Added two APIs to support efficient paging through changes between points-in-time. See the /Snapshots/diffPrepare and /snapshot/difflist APIs documentation for details. >>>

S3 enhancements:

  • GET request optimization: Performance improvements for most GET requests, achieving up to a 70% increase in efficiency.

  • Zero-copy architecture extension: The WEKA zero-copy architecture now applies to S3, reducing both memory usage and system call overhead.

  • New SLB metrics: Added statistics to track traffic distribution across adjacent SLBs: SLB_1xx_RQ, SLB_2xx_RQ, SLB_3xx_RQ, SLB_4xx_RQ, and SLB_5xx_RQ.

Additional enhancements:

  • Support for Debian 12 clients running Linux kernel 6.6.

  • Support for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) shape VM.Standard.E5.Flex.

Deprecations:

  • The legacy SMB protocol is no longer included with the WEKA Data Platform.

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