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Longhorn v1.9.1 Release Notes

Longhorn 1.9.1 introduces several improvements and bug fixes that are intended to improve system quality, resilience, stability and security.

The Longhorn team appreciates your contributions and expects to receive feedback regarding this release.

[!NOTE] For more information about release-related terminology, see Releases.

Installation

[!IMPORTANT] Ensure that your cluster is running Kubernetes v1.25 or later before installing Longhorn v1.9.1.

You can install Longhorn using a variety of tools, including Rancher, Kubectl, and Helm. For more information about installation methods and requirements, see Quick Installation in the Longhorn documentation.

Upgrade

[!IMPORTANT] Ensure that your cluster is running Kubernetes v1.25 or later before upgrading from Longhorn v1.8.x or v1.9.x (< v1.9.1) to v1.9.1.

Longhorn only allows upgrades from supported versions. For more information about upgrade paths and procedures, see Upgrade in the Longhorn documentation.

Post-Release Known Issues

For information about issues identified after this release, see Release-Known-Issues.

Resolved Issues

Feature

• [BACKPORT][v1.9.1][FEATURE] Standardized way to override container image registry 11068 - @marcosbc @roger-ryao
• [BACKPORT][v1.9.1][FEATURE] Standardized way to specify image pull secrets 11072 - @marcosbc @chriscchien

Improvement

• [BACKPORT][v1.9.1][IMPROVEMENT] Remove the Patch preserveUnknownFields: false for CRDs 11280 - @derekbit @chriscchien
• [BACKPORT][v1.9.1][IMPROVEMENT] Improve the disk space un-schedulable condition message 11212 - @yangchiu @davidcheng0922
• [BACKPORT][v1.9.1][IMPROVEMENT] Improve the condition message of engine image check 11196 - @derekbit @chriscchien
• [BACKPORT][v1.9.1][IMPROVEMENT] Improve the logging when detecting multiple backup volumes of the same volume on the same backup target 11225 - @PhanLe1010 @chriscchien
• [BACKPORT][v1.9.1][IMPROVEMENT] extra invalid BackupVolumeCR may be created during cluster split-brain 11168 - @mantissahz @roger-ryao
• [BACKPORT][v1.9.1][IMPROVEMENT] Full replica rebuilding when a node goes down for a while and then comes back 11069 - @mantissahz
• [BACKPORT][v1.9.1][IMPROVEMENT] Adding retry logic for longhorn-csi-plugin when it trying to contact the longhorn-manager pods 10914 - @PhanLe1010 @roger-ryao

Bug

• [BACKPORT][v1.9.1][BUG] Incorrect value of remove-snapshots-during-filesystem-trim in longhorn chart/values.yaml 11266 - @derekbit @chriscchien
• [BACKPORT][v1.9.1][BUG] privateRegistry.registryUrl does not work when overriding specific image registries 11258 - @marcosbc @chriscchien
• [BACKPORT][v1.9.1][BUG] system backup error 11235 - @c3y1huang @roger-ryao
• [BACKPORT][v1.9.1][BUG] Volume expansion fails with "unsupported disk encryption format ext4" 11184 - @COLDTURNIP @mantissahz @roger-ryao
• [BACKPORT][v1.9.1][BUG] The Backup YAML example in the Longhorn doc does not work 11217 - @mantissahz @nzhan126
• [BACKPORT][v1.9.1][BUG] CSI Plugin restart triggers unintended restart of migratable RWX volume workloads 11164 - @c3y1huang @roger-ryao
• [BACKPORT][v1.9.1][BUG] in the browser UI: Volume -> Clone Volume results in the broken browser page 11180 - @houhoucoop @roger-ryao
• [BACKPORT][v1.9.1][BUG] Test case test_engine_image_not_fully_deployed_perform_volume_operations failed: unable to detach a volume 10917 - @mantissahz @chriscchien
• [BACKPORT][v1.9.1][BUG] Creating support-bundle panic NPE 11170 - @c3y1huang @roger-ryao
• [BACKPORT][v1.9.1][BUG] Unable to Build Longhorn-Share-Manager Image Due to CMAKE Compatibility 11162 - @derekbit @roger-ryao
• [BACKPORT][v1.9.1][BUG] Recurring jobs fail when assigned to default group 11020 - @c3y1huang @chriscchien
• [BACKPORT][v1.9.1][BUG] SPDK API bdev_lvol_detach_parent does not work as expected 11047 - @DamiaSan @roger-ryao
• [BACKPORT][v1.9.1][BUG] unable to clean up the backing image volume replica after node eviction 11056 - @COLDTURNIP @roger-ryao
• [BACKPORT][v1.9.1][BUG] backing image volume replica NPE crash during evicting node 11035 - @COLDTURNIP @chriscchien

Misc

• [HOTFIX] Create hotfixed image for longhorn-manager:v1.9.0 11140 - @derekbit @chriscchien
• [BACKPORT][v1.9.1][TASK] Ensure support-bundle-kit builds use vendored dependencies 11118 - @yangchiu @c3y1huang

New Contributors

• @davidcheng0922
• @marcosbc
• @nzhan126

Contributors

• @COLDTURNIP
• @DamiaSan
• @PhanLe1010
• @c3y1huang
• @chriscchien
• @derekbit
• @houhoucoop
• @innobead
• @mantissahz
• @roger-ryao
• @yangchiu
• @sushant-suse
• @rebeccazzzz
• @forbesguthrie
• @asettle