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Resolved Issues in this release

Highlight

• [FEATURE] Scale replica rebuilding speed form multiple healthy replicas 11331 - @derekbit @shuo-wu @roger-ryao @Copilot
• [FEATURE] Support StorageClass allowedTopologies for Longhorn volumes 12261 - @yangchiu @derekbit @hookak @Copilot
• [FEATURE] Add support for ReadWriteOncePod access mode 9727 - @shikanime @chriscchien
• [FEATURE] Support extra network interface (not only storage network) on the share manager pod 10269 - @yangchiu @c3y1huang
• [FEATURE] Monitor Node Disk Health 12016 - @c3y1huang @roger-ryao
• [FEATURE] Replica Auto Balance Across Nodes based on Node Disk Space Consumption 10512 - @davidcheng0922 @chriscchien

Feature

• [FEATURE] Guess Linux distro from the package manager 12153 - @yangchiu @NamrathShetty
• [FEATURE] Provide a helm chart setting to define the managerUrl 10583 - @lexfrei @yangchiu
• [FEATURE] Add metric for last backup of a volume 6049 - @c3y1huang @roger-ryao
• [FEATURE] Real-time volume performance monitoring 368 - @derekbit @hookak
• [UI][FEATURE] Monitor Node Disk Health 12263 - @houhoucoop @roger-ryao
• [FEATURE] custom annotation/label of UI's k8s service on value.yaml of helm chart 11754 - @yangchiu @lucasl0st
• [FEATURE] Make longhornctl load ublk_drv module when kernel version is 6 or newer 11803 - @chriscchien @bachmanity1
• [BUG] Inherit namespace for longhorn-share-manager in FastFailover mode 12244 - @yangchiu @semenas

Improvement

• [IMPROVEMENT] generalize the offline rebuilding setting for both data engines. 12484 - @mantissahz
• [IMPROVEMENT] Improve disk error logging to retain errors from newDiskServiceClients() 12446 - @yangchiu @davidcheng0922
• [IMPROVEMENT] Propagate longhorn-manager's timezone to instance-manager and CSI pods 12448 - @hookak @roger-ryao
• [UI][FEATURE] Scale replica rebuilding speed form multiple healthy replicas 12461 - @houhoucoop @roger-ryao
• [IMPROVEMENT] Configure rolling update strategy for longhorn-manager and CSI deployments 12240 - @hookak @chriscchien
• [IMPROVEMENT] Improve log messages for rebuildNewReplica() in lonbghorn-manager 12426 - @derekbit @chriscchien
• [IMPROVEMENT] misleading message when instance manager tries to create the pod 11759 - @mantissahz @chriscchien
• [IMPROVEMENT] To improve the debugging process and UX, it would be nice that the error is recorded in the . - @mantissahz @chriscchien

Bug

• [BUG] v2 volume rebuild performance doesn't improve after enabling snapshot integrity 12416 - @davidcheng0922
• [BUG] Auto balance feature may lead to volumes falling into a replica deletion-recreation loop 11730 - @shuo-wu @roger-ryao
• [BUG] Potential Instance Manager Client Context Leak 12198 - @derekbit @chriscchien
• [BUG] v2 DR volume could become faulted and fail to restore from backups if volume attached node is rebooted during restoration 12412 - @c3y1huang @chriscchien
• [BUG] System backup may fail to be created or deleted 12472 - @yangchiu @mantissahz
• [BUG] v1.11.x upgrade test may fail because the default disk of a node is removed during a test case and cannot be re-added 12469 - @COLDTURNIP @yangchiu
• [BUG] v2 DR volume becomes faulted during incremental restoration after source volume expansion 12465 - @yangchiu @davidcheng0922

Scalability

• [DOC] Add volume sizing guidance in best practice section 12203 - @mantissahz @sushant-suse

Misc

• [TASK] Fix flaky regression test case test_recurring_job.py::test_recurring_job_snapshot_cleanup for v2 data engine 12464 - @derekbit @chriscchien
• [DOC] Review and Update Ingress Controller Examples for Longhorn UI 12252 - @yangchiu @sushant-suse
• [DOC] Add KB article for the failure of RWX volume detachment 12238 - @sushant-suse
• [DOC] Incorrect longhornctl subcommand 12423 - @chriscchien @roger-ryao
• [TASK] Update nvme and libnvme to v2.16 and v1.16.1 12391 - @derekbit @chriscchien
• [DOC] Disk Aggregation Options 12378 - @davidcheng0922 @roger-ryao
• [TASK] Deprecate V2 Backing Image Feature 12237 - @derekbit @chriscchien
• feat(chart): Add Gateway API HTTPRoute support for Longhorn UI 12299 - @lexfrei @chriscchien

Contributors

• @AoRuiAC
• @COLDTURNIP
• @Copilot
• @NamrathShetty
• @PhanLe1010
• @Wqrld
• @bachmanity1
• @c3y1huang
• @chriscchien
• @davidcheng0922
• @derekbit
• @divya-mohan0209
• @egrosdou01
• @ehpc
• @hookak
• @houhoucoop
• @hrabalvojta
• @innobead
• @jmeza-xyz
• @jvanz
• @lexfrei
• @liyimeng
• @lucasl0st
• @mantissahz
• @nzhan126
• @rauldsl
• @roger-ryao
• @semenas
• @shikanime
• @shuo-wu
• @sminux
• @sushant-suse
• @yangchiu
• @yulken