Release 3.0.1
The 3.0.1 release is the first production release of Lightbits 3.0. With this release, the same Lightbits software can be deployed both on private clouds and in Amazon Web Services EC2 instances. Lightbits for AWS is available in the AWS Marketplace.
Existing Lightbits deployments must upgrade to Lightbits 2.3.16 or above before upgrading to Lightbits 3.0.1. See Installation and Upgradeability below.
New in This Release
| Theme | Feature |
|---|---|
| Lightbits on AWS | Lightbits software is now available for installation in the [AWS Marketplace. ](AWS Marketplace. ) |
| Platform | Support for installing Lightbits nodes on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 with kernel 4.18.0-372.19.1. Note: Other kernel versions on RHEL 8.6 are not supported. Please make sure your kernel is upgraded before installing or upgrading Lightbits. |
| Error Correction | Automatic detection of and recovery from silent SSD data corruptions, using a secondary node. |
| Volume Resize | Ability to reduce a volume’s size. |
| Backup/Restore | Backup and restore Lightbits volumes to or from Amazon S3 storage. Note: This feature is currently only available for Lightbits software deployed on AWS. |