Version 1.3.0-rc2.

Version 1.3.0-rc2.

This is release candidate 2 for 1.3.0. QE/testing has not been completed, so it should be considered unstable.

Changes from 1.3.0-rc1 to 1.3.0-rc2:

• Fix rbd build error.

Release notes:

Improved Ceph support by Red Hat and China Mobile.

Note: HA setups should not be done manually with targetcli. The ceph-iscsi-cli tool is the preferred method. Documentation for setup is being done in this PR:

ceph/ceph#16182

Upstream kernel 4.13 with the following patches that we are trying to get into the next kernel, 4.14, are required:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/target-devel/msg15942.html

Improved Gluster support by Red Hat.

See https://github.com/gluster/gluster-block for gluster tools that should be used.

Thanks to @lxbsz and China Mobile there is vSphere/ESX VAAI support and tons of bug fixes.

Note that Persistent Group Reservations (PGRs) and Reserve/Release commands are not supported with ESX in HA tcmu-runner configurations. This means software like Windows clustering is not supported in HA configs and "ATS-only" must be used (see https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.0/com.vmware.vsphere.storage.doc/GUID-DE30AAE3-72ED-43BF-95B3-A2B885A713DB.html). HA has only been tested with vSphere 6.6 with vmfs 6 data stores.

@bgly and IBM have added support for new commands including WRITE_VERIFY, VERIFY, FORMAT and SYNCHRONIZE CACHE and have made many bug fixes to file_example, file_optical and tcmu-runner/libtcmu.

AIO support has been added by @vshankar at Red Hat.

Thanks to @tangwenji at ZTE for lots and lots of bug fixes.

Thanks to @mgerstner at SUSE for doing a security review and the patches.