Improvements

Rook v1.12.4 is a patch release limited in scope and focusing on feature additions and bug fixes to the Ceph operator.

• core: Restart ceph daemons when network updated (#12791, @subhamkrai)
• helm: Update docs/comments to reflect reef support (#12872, @mjnagel)
• exporter: Bind to all interfaces if IPv6 is enabled (#12886, @matthewpi)
• object: Unique username for OBC even when preceding OBC was retained (#12884, @haslersn)
• multus: Allow using NADs without inspectable CIDRs (#12778, @BlaineEXE)
• discover: Fix discover daemonset default value for discovery interval (#12844, @lbailleul)
• operator: Move discover pod settings to the operator configmap (#12840 #12691, @subhamkrai)
• build: Correct release version for toolbox based on operator in release-1.12 branch (#12853, @travisn)
• osd: Replace existing OSDs to be upgraded when new store is available (#12770, @sp98)
• ci: Simplify docs-check workflow by extracting functionality (#12816, @obnoxxx)
• csi: Enable csi-addons-side when dependent CRDs are deployed (#12487, @subhamkrai)
• monitoring: Set port for exporter servicemonitor (#12825, @weirdwiz)

Improvements

Rook v1.11.11 is a patch release limited in scope and focusing on feature additions and bug fixes to the Ceph operator.

• object: Unique username for OBC even when preceding OBC was retained (#12884, @haslersn)
• object: Avoid creating same bucket for two different OBC (#12804, @thotz)
• csi: Add csi pods to the list to force delete pod on an unavailable node (#12681, @Madhu-1)
• operator: Fix formatting of some logger methods (#12666, @polyedre)

Improvements

Rook v1.12.3 is a patch release limited in scope and focusing on feature additions and bug fixes to the Ceph operator.

• object: Avoid creating same bucket for two different OBCs (#12804, @thotz)
• object: Allow creating an object user in different namespace (#12730, @travisn)
• external: rename --cluster_name parameter to --k8s_cluster_name (#12811, @parth-gr)
• core: Return valid CIDR IP for blocklisting (#12797, @Madhu-1)
• ci: Add K8s v1.28 to test suite (#12748, @subhamkrai)
• csi: Set ceph cluster as ControllerRef for holder daemonset (#12724, @Madhu-1)
• build: Add support for Go version 1.21 in addition to 1.20 (#12788, @subhamkrai)
• build: Update go modules (#12663, @BlaineEXE)
• build: Remove go modules under apis directory (#12764, @travisn)
• helm: Documentation uses values.yaml instead of values-override.yaml (#12734, @parth-gr)
• osd: Implement replacing OSDs for when the backend store may change in future (#12507, @sp98)
• mon: Support mon backing storage in different storage classes across zones (#12384, @ideepika)
• monitoring: Add "for" to CephOSDDownHigh alert (#12731, @cjyar)
• operator: Log operator config configmap settings only when changed (#12679, @subhamkrai)
• build: Update vault and other indirect imports (#12672, @subhamkrai)
• helm: Support helm chart install in OpenShift clusters (#12675, @parth-gr)

Improvements

Rook v1.12.2 is a patch release limited in scope and focusing on feature additions and bug fixes to the Ceph operator.

• file: Handle filesystem add pool error for Reef (#12725, @Madhu-1)
• nfs: Run dbus-daemon sidecar as dbus user instead of root (#12698, @nixpanic)
• multus: Add sample job manifest for multus config validation (#12495, @Nikhil-Ladha)
• csi: Add CSI pods to the list to force delete when stuck terminating (#12681, @Madhu-1)
• csi: Configurable maxUnavailable for CephFS CSI Daemonset for faster updates (#12678, @karthik-us)
• mon: Cleanup ParseMonEndpoints from mon package (#12561, @henrydavies1)
• helm: Configure additional ServiceMonitor labels (#12605, @jouve)
• operator: Fix formatting of some logger methods (#12666, @polyedre)
• object: Fix s5cmd documentation for s3 endpoint verification (#12624, @parth-gr)

Improvements

Rook v1.12.1 is a patch release limited in scope and focusing on feature additions and bug fixes to the Ceph operator.

• docs: Add note in upgrade guide about cephfs driver's breaking change (#12615, @Rakshith-R)
• osd: Use cp -a command for copying init-containers binary (#12501, @Sheetalpamecha)
• external: added an optional flag for enabling v2 mon port (#12534, @Nikhil-Ladha)
• external: set RequireMsgr2 if v2 port is configured (#12537, @parth-gr)
• multus: Revise kube config/client loading (#12611, @BlaineEXE)
• nfs: Fix null pointer deref in generateSssdSidecarResources() (#12617, @spuiuk)
• external: Create cluster namespace for the external cluster (#12508, @parth-gr)
• object: Update ceph COSI driver image to v0.1.1 (#12562, @thotz)
• object: Do not add objectstore endpoint to zone when sync is disabled (#12560, @polyedre)
• nfs: mount krb5.conf and krb5.keytab in the sssd container (#12517, @spuiuk)
• core: Force delete rook-ceph-exporter pod on a down node (#12575, @sp98)
• rbd: Skip PV during node fencing when PV is not backed by Ceph-CSI (#12563, @subhamkrai)
• build: COSI driver is missing from OLM list (#12592, @subhamkrai)
• ci: add detached mode in tmate (#12579, @subhamkrai)

Upgrade Guide

To upgrade from previous versions of Rook, see the Rook upgrade guide.

Breaking Changes

• The minimum supported Kubernetes version is v1.22
• The minimum supported Ceph-CSI driver is 3.8
• Version of golang supported during development is v1.20
• For CephObjectStores, if rgw_run_sync_thread was set manually via ceph config set ... the value will be overridden by Rook according to disableMultisiteSyncTraffic

Features

• Add support for Ceph Reef (v18)
• Ceph COSI Driver for provisioning buckets is available in experimental mode
• Ceph CSI version by default is v3.9
• Automate recovery of RBD (RWO) volumes following node loss
  • Requires CSI-add-ons
  • Requires the K8s v1.26 feature for non-graceful node shutdown
• Multus network validation tool
• Security improvements by dropping container capabilities
• Allow disabling ObjectBucketClaim and ObjectBucketNotification controllers
• Various improvements for the external Ceph cluster configuration script
• NFS
  • Add experimental support for RGW as a backend for CephNFSes
  • Add support for the monitoring endpoint present in NFS-Ganesha v5.1 (Ceph Reef v18 and up)
  • Fix various bugs in kerberos support

Improvements

Rook v1.11.10 is a patch release limited in scope and focusing on feature additions and bug fixes to the Ceph operator.

• object: Align spelling of user admin capabilities with ceph (#12460, @pgoron)
• csi: Update csi holder daemonset template for updating at next restart (#12462, @Madhu-1)
• core: Remove vault server module dependencies (#12455, @travisn)
• external: Support custom ceph keyring file (#12502, @neoaggelos)
• external: Pin the default csi subvolume (#12477, @parth-gr)
• external: Add support for IPV6 ceph daemons (#12143, @parth-gr)
• external: Make the import script idempotent (#12457, @mysiki)
• ci: Fix ci test encryption-pvc-kms-vault-token-auth (#12467, @subhamkrai)

Improvements

Rook v1.11.9 is a patch release limited in scope and focusing on feature additions and bug fixes to the Ceph operator.

• multus: Fix "deletecollection" permission not present (#12437, @sudharsanomprakash)
• dashboard: Remove deprecated kubernetes.io/ingress.class annotation (#12418, @Jeansen)
• external: Make import script idempotent (#12417, @parth-gr)
• exporter: Ignore failed deletion of service monitor (#12430, @travisn)
• multus: Add config file for validation tool (#12396, @BlaineEXE)
• object: Clarify success message when reconciling CephObjectStoreUser (#12406, @polyedre)
• docs: Update storage architecture diagram (#12252, @galexrt)
• operator: Add ceph image version label to PVC (#12372, @YZ775)
• object : Add SSL ref in cephobjectstore user secret (#12341, @thotz)

Improvements

Rook v1.11.8 is a patch release limited in scope and focusing on feature additions and bug fixes to the Ceph operator.

• helm: add EC Block Pool config in helm chart (#12324, @Javlopez)
• pool: Add .mgr pool to the stretch cluster examples (#12360, @travisn)
• nfs: Add Spec.Security.Kerberos.DomainName to the CRD to configure /etc/idmapd.conf (#12220, @spuiuk)
• mgr: Removing unnecessary rook-ceph-mgr rbac entries (#12337, @rkachach)
• core: typo in logs to print fullname of CephCluster (#12217, @takirala)
• core: empty ceph-daemons-sock-dir for osd onPVC (#12299, @avanthakkar)
• docs: prevent to delete other clusters data on cluster deletion (#12334, @satoru-takeuchi)
• docs: improve external doc format (#12383, @parth-gr)
• docs: Suggest qemu driver for minikube on apple silicon (#11722, @BlaineEXE)

Improvements

Rook v1.11.7 is a patch release limited in scope and focusing on feature additions and bug fixes to the Ceph operator.

• core: Delete exporter resources if ceph version is not supported (#12271, @avanthakkar)
• external: FQDN should be persisted instead of using the ip endpoint (#12264, @parth-gr)
• object: Implement more capabilities for object store users (#12256, @thotz)
• test: Add CI e2e test for multus validation test (#12282, @BlaineEXE)
• core: Use default-* logging flags for ceph daemons so they can be overridden (#12302, @Javlopez)
• helm: Add exporter resource entry to ceph cluster documentation (#12251, @galexrt)
• mgr: Allow other namespaces in the ServiceMonitor resource (#12293, @kerryeon)
• object: Add missing cephcluster spec addition in object controller (#12273, @thotz)
• monitoring: Service monitor should not use mgr_role label (#12268, @travisn)
• test: Allow specifying custom nginx image for multus validation (#12231, @iPraveenParihar)
• operator: Pull multus validation test images before test (#12211, @BlaineEXE)
• rbdmirror: Ensure rbd mirror daemon is upgraded (#12247, @travisn)