Community Release Update
Nov 27th 2023
Peter Jones, Whamcloud
OpenSFS Lustre Working GroupLustre 2.15.x LTS• Taken over from 2.12.x LTS• Lustre 2.15.4 coming soon•••

RHEL 8.9 servers/clients (LU-17275)
RHEL 9.3 clients (LU-17274)
https://wiki.lustre.org/Lustre_2.15.4_Changelog

Which Lustre versions do you use in production? (select allthat apply)
100.00%80.00%
60.00%
40.00%
20.00%
0.00%

LTS
2.15.02.15.1GAChangelog
Jun- http://wiki.lustre.org/Lustre_2.15.0_Changelog
22Aug- https://wiki.lustre.org/Lustre_2.15.1
22_Changelog

2.15.22.15.3

Jan23
Jun23

Lustre 2.10.x

Lustre 2.14

2021

2023

2022

Lustre 2.15.x

How quickly do you plan to move to a Lustre
2.15.x LTS release?

Vendor14%

http://wiki.lustre.org/Lustre_2.15.2_Changelog
http://wiki.lustre.org/Lustre_2.15.3_Changelog

Lustre 2.12.x

Remain 11%
Undecided
9%

Already 35%

Within Year
31%

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Lustre 2.16
• Targeting for release early 2024
• http://wiki.lustre.org/Release_2.16.0• Feature freeze extended to allow
IPv6 work to complete• RHEL 9.3 servers/clients• SLES15 SP5/Ubuntu 22.04 clients• Interop/upgrades from latest
Lustre 2.15.x• Features in the release

NOCPawsey 1

LLN
Linaro 17 L 2

Stanford 1

Other 3ORN
L 75

LANL 9Aeon 76

SUSE 118IU 1ATOS 1AWS106

Jlab 1

CEA 35Cornelis 1Intel 2
HPE 287
DDN-Whamcloud
800

HPC2N 1
GSI 3

Microsoft 3
Linaro 21• RHEL 9.x server support MERGED• IPv6 Support (LU-10391) MOSTLY
MERGED• Optimized Directory Traversal (LU15975) MERGED• Aka “Improved Statahead”

NVIDIA 7

Stanford 3
Other 2LLNL 14LANL 5NVIDIA29

HPC2N 0SUSE 93

Aeon 174
AWS 64

ORNL
397

IU 1

GSI 6

Reviews
CEA 3

HPE 469

DDN-Whamcloud3702

Data courtesy of Dustin Leverman (ORNL)
Source: https://git.whamcloud.com 2.15.50 to 2.15.58

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Lustre Community Roadmap
202
3
Q1

Q2

LTS Releases

FeatureReleases

Q42024LEGEND:Q32025
Q4

Q1

2.16

2.16
• RHEL9 Server Support• IPv6• Optimized Directory Traversal

Q3

Q4

2.17

Q1

Q2
2.18

2.15.x LTS Releases continue…

2.15.4Completed

Q22026

ExpectedTimeline

2.17• Client Data Compression• Metadata Writeback Cache• Erasure Coding

Timeline
TBD

LTS Branch

2.18• RHEL10 Server Support• Metadata Redundancy v1* Estimates are not commitments and are provided for informational purposes only
* Fuller details of features in development are available at http://wiki.lustre.org/Projects

Looking ahead: Considering LTS options• RHEL 9.x server support will
become driver to switch LTS
version at some point• Likely 2.16/2.17• Will start polling thecommunity in the 2024
OpenSFS survey• Plenty of notice will be givenfor any change andopportunity will be provided tohave input into the decision

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How to Contribute• Complete the annual OpenSFS survey•

https://wiki.opensfs.org/Lustre_Community_Survey• Participate in the LWG•

https://wiki.opensfs.org/Lustre_Working_Group• Lustre documentation• Lustre Ops Manual – report issues in LUDOC JIRA project• https://wiki.lustre.org/Lustre_Manual_Changes• Lustre.org wiki (Lustre internals and sysadmin info)• http://wiki.lustre.org/Category:Lustre_Systems_Administration• Join a Lustre community organization(OpenSFS/EOFS)• Participate in Community events•

LUG, LAD, Regional LUG events, SC/ISC BOFs, online• Lustre development•

Submitting/Reviewing/Testing Lustre code•

https://wiki.lustre.org/Development

LUSTRE NEEDSLustre Infrastructure on the Move in 2024
• Changes in Atlassian products meanthat the Whamcloud JIRA and Wiki
will need to relocate in the comingmonths• Details will be shared on the mailinglists once available• Outages will be kept to a minimum• Some cleanup of data is occurring
prior to the migration• Please report any anomalies you
spot to info@whamcloud.com

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Thank you

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