[Sheepdog] [ANNOUNCE] Sheepdog 0.3.0 released

[MORITA Kazutaka]

Hi all,

I'm pleased to announce the availability of the 0.3.0 release.  The
biggest change from the previous version is that Sheepdog supports
other cluster management system like ZooKeeper and Accord.  This
change is necessary to run Sheepdog with large cluster (> 100 nodes).
This release also includes many bug fixes related to network error
handling.

The software is available from GitHub:

 https://github.com/collie/sheepdog/archives/master


The planned big features for the next 0.4.0 release are as follows:

 - add a new store driver 'farm'
  http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/sheepdog/2011-December/002325.html

 - add write-cache support
  http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/sheepdog/2011-October/001480.html

 - support larger object size
  http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/sheepdog/2011-November/001914.html

 - use differential copy for fast object recovery
  http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/sheepdog/2011-July/001131.html

 - add hierarchical zones support
 - reclaim unused objects automatically
  http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/sheepdog/2011-October/001587.html

 - start sheep daemon as gateway
  http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/sheepdog/2011-December/002215.html

But feel free to propose any other features at anytime.

Thanks,

Kazutaka