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Elasticsearch — This release focuses on changes that make it easier to monitor and manage Elasticsearch, Swarm Search, and Swarm Metrics:

  • The Swarm Search RPM installation now checks and warns if firewalld is enabled, reminding you to check the firewall rules for ports 9200 and 9300, which are needed by Elasticsearch. (SWAR-8416) 

  • Swarm dynamically updates DNS lookups after Elasticsearch nodes are restarted. (SWAR-8817)

  • The Swarm Metrics curator is now independent of HTTP_PROXY and related shell environment variables and so is less subject to disruption. (SWAR-8452)

  • The Swarm Metrics curator has improved defaults for its logging, increased to 10 logs and up to 10 MB. (SWAR-8401)

This release also includes changes to help with Swarm management and performance:

  • Swarm now ships with the Prometheus Node Exporter enabled and configured to work by default, to simplify implementation and avoid rebooting. To disable the Node Exporter on a node, set "metrics.enabledNodeExporter=False" in the node's configuration file; to disable across the entire cluster, set metrics.nodeExporterFrequency to 0. (SWAR-8578)

  • Swarm's inter-process locking process has been reworked, granting a small performance gain for larger clusters and a reduction in related WARNING-level log messages. (SWAR-8835)

  • Swarm has restored performance for clients who have not yet migrated from legacy authentication/authorization. (SWAR-8810) 

Additional Changes

These items are other changes, including those that come from testing and user feedback.

  • OSS Versions — See Third-Party Components for 11.2 for the complete listing of packages and versions.

  • Fixed in 11.2.0

    • The multipart write 202 response now includes Location headers of the resulting manifests that are analogous to the Location headers of a normal EC write. (SWAR-8886)

    • Resolved an error in the assessment of licensed space usage that prevented a node from accepting writes. (SWAR-8869)

    • Resolved an issue related to TCP window sizes that can cause socket disconnects, pauses, and hangs. (SWAR-8847)

    • Resolved an issue that can lead to a node crash in large clusters. (SWAR-8832)

    • Basic auth of the admin user for special administrative SCSP requests did not correctly handle a stored admin password that was hashed. (SWAR-8814)

    • Infrequent WARNING messages, "Node/Volume entry not published due to lock contention (...); action will be retried," might may appear in logs. (SWAR-8802)

    • Resolved an issue causing rebooted Swarm nodes to allow client requests before mounting all volumes. (SWAR-8801)

Upgrade Impacts

Use the supported versions of Swarm components for your target version of Elasticsearch:

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Impacts for 11.2

  • Upgrading Elasticsearch — You may use Elasticsearch 5.6.12/2.3.3 with Storage 11 if you cannot move to ES 6 immediately, but start your migration now (see Migrating from Older Elasticsearch). Support for ES 5.6.12/2.3.3 will end in a future release, and testing for 2.3.3 with Swarm 11 is discontinued. Important: Always upgrade Swarm Search and Metrics at the same time that you upgrade ES. Do not run an ES 5 Search or Metrics Curator against ES 6.

  • Rolling upgrade — During a rolling upgrade, the mixed state in Swarm versions among nodes might may cause errors in the Swarm UI (and in management API calls). Use the legacy Admin Console (port 90) to monitor the rolling upgrade. (SWAR-8716)

  • Settings changes — These settings are new with this release:

    • scsp.defaultFeedSendTimeout, (default 30 seconds) a non-persisted node-level setting that sets the timeout on a feed SEND request, if the timeout=true query argument is provided. (SWAR-8441).

    • chassis.name, (default blank), a node-level setting that stores a user-defined chassis name. (SWAR-8823)

  • Differences in scsp.forceLegacyNonce configuration depending on the version you're upgrading from (SWAR-9020):

  • If you are currently running a Swarm Storage version prior to 11.1, and upgrading to 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0 or 12.1:

    Before upgrading, set scsp.forceLegacyNonce=true in your node.cfg file. After the upgrade, when the cluster is fully up, update scsp.forceLegacyNonce=false using swarmctl and change scsp.forceLegacyNonce=false in your node.cfg file.

    If you are currently running a Swarm Storage version 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0 or 12.1 and upgrading to another version from that list:

    Before upgrading, verify that scsp.forceLegacyNonce=false is in your node.cfg file and verify using swarmctl that scsp.forceLegacyNonce=false in your cluster.

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    titleUse swarmctl to check or change settings

    Use 'swarmctl -C scsp.forceLegacyNonce' to check the value of scsp.forceLegacyNonce.

    Use 'swarmctl -C scsp.forceLegacyNonce -V False' to set the value to false.

    For more details, see https://support.cloud.caringo.com/tools/Tech-Support-Scripts-Bundle-swarmctl.pdf.


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  • If a node mounts an encrypted volume that is missing the encryption key in the configuration, the node will fail to mount all of the disks in the node. (SWAR-8762)

  • S3 Backup feeds do not yet backup logical objects larger than 5 GB. (SWAR-8554)

  • If you downgrade from Swarm 11.0, CRITICAL errors may appear on your feeds. To stop the errors, edit the existing feed definition names via the Swarm UI or legacy Admin Console. (SWAR-8543)

  • When restarting a cluster of virtual machines that are UEFI-booted (versus legacy BIOS), the chassis shut down but do not come back up. (SWAR-8054)

  • If you wipe your Elasticsearch cluster, the Storage UI will show no NFS config. Contact Support for help repopulating your SwarmFS config information. (SWAR-8007)

  • If you delete a bucket, any incomplete multipart upload into that bucket will leave its parts (unnamed streams) in the domain. To find and delete them, use the s3cmd utility (search the Support site for "s3cmd" for guidance). (SWAR-7690)

  • Logs showed the error "FEEDS WARNING: calcFeedInfo(etag=xxx) cannot find domain xxx, which is needed for a domains-specific replication feed". The root cause is fixed; if you received such warnings, contact Support so that your issue can be resolved. (SWAR-7556)

  • With multipath-enabled hardware, the Swarm console Disk Volume Menu may erroneously show too many disks, having multiplied the actual disks in use by the number of possible paths to them. (SWAR-7248)

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