Release 3.18.4
Release Date
v3.18.4 was released to the public on October 4, 2026.
New in This Release
This release introduces the following changes since version 3.17.x. A change is classified as either a new feature, an enhancement, a major issue (e.g., an issue that could lead to potential data loss or service loss), or a minor issue.
Issue Type | Description | ID |
|---|---|---|
Enhancement | Add an option to set the KATO grace period | LBM1-47388 |
Minor | Fixed failing node-manager start when the number of healthy SSDs is lower than the | LBM1-48532 |
Minor | Fixed an issue with busy loops in management and error handling. Lightbits management uses state machines that retry operations with an increasing backoff delay until they succeed, to absorb lengthy or racy operations. After a sufficient run of consecutive failures of the same operation, the backoff stopped increasing and collapsed to effectively no delay - after roughly 1.5 minutes of consecutive retries in the 3.18.x release family, and roughly 16 hours in the 3.19.x and 3.20.x families. The resulting continuous retries could highly load a CPU core and emit a large number of log messages, potentially discarding older diagnostic history needed to investigate the original failure on that node. | LBM1-48041 |
Minor | Fixed stale nsid/version in GFTL, when a clone is created while a node is inactive and deleted shortly while the node is powering up. | LBM1-48012 |
Installation and Upgradeability
You can upgrade to this release from all previous Lightbits 3.15.x, 3.16.x, and 3.17.x releases.
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