Alluxio 1.7.0 Release Candidate 1

[and...@alluxio.com]

Dear Alluxio developers,

I'm happy to announce the release candidate (RC1) of Alluxio 1.7.0. This release provides significant architecture and usability improvements. Here are some highlights:

• Asynchronous caching

• Kubernetes integration

• Configurable locality tiering, including support for rack locality

• Ability to reflect any UFS changes in Alluxio after a configurable period
  

• Improved FUSE support. The FUSE integration has graduated from the experimental stage to being fully supported by the project.
  

If you are an Alluxio user, you can help us test this release by taking an older version Alluxio workload and running it on this release candidate, then reporting any issues or regressions. Based on your testing, give a "+1" vote in this thread if you are happy with the result; otherwise, please give a "-1",  explain the reason and describe the issues or regressions from 1.6.1 or earlier releases.

A pre-compiled version can be downloaded from

http://alluxio.org/downloads/files/1.7.0-RC1/alluxio-1.7.0-RC1-bin.tar.gz

The client jar is included in the client/ folder of the download

To access the source code, a tag of this release candidate on github can be found at

https://github.com/Alluxio/alluxio/tree/v1.7.0-RC1

To use and test this version, please refer to the documentation corresponding to this release candidate:

https://www.alluxio.org/docs/1.7/en/Getting-Started.html

Best,

Andrew