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@@ -372,6 +372,79 @@ Notable Changes
 * rocksdb: update to latest (Xiaoxi Chen)
 * rpm: loosen ceph-test dependencies (Ken Dreyer)
 
+v0.94.3 hammer (draft)
+======================
+
+* The commands of "pg ls-by-{pool,primary,osd}" and "pg ls" now take "recovering"
+instead of "recovery", to include the recovering pgs in the listed pgs.
+
+Notable Changes
+---------------
+* librbd: aio calls may block (`issue#11770 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11770>`_, `pr#4875 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/4875>`_, Jason Dillaman)
+* osd: make the all osd/filestore thread pool suicide timeouts separately configurable (`issue#11701 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11701>`_, `pr#5159 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5159>`_, Samuel Just)
+* mon: ceph fails to compile with boost 1.58 (`issue#11982 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11982>`_, `pr#5122 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5122>`_, Kefu Chai)
+* tests: TEST_crush_reject_empty must not run a mon (`issue#12285,11975 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12285,11975>`_, `pr#5208 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5208>`_, Kefu Chai)
+* osd: FAILED assert(!old_value.deleted()) in upgrade:giant-x-hammer-distro-basic-multi run (`issue#11983 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11983>`_, `pr#5121 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5121>`_, Samuel Just)
+* build/ops: linking ceph to tcmalloc causes segfault on SUSE SLE11-SP3 (`issue#12368 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12368>`_, `pr#5265 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5265>`_, Thorsten Behrens)
+* common: utf8 and old gcc breakage on RHEL6.5 (`issue#7387 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/7387>`_, `pr#4687 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/4687>`_, Kefu Chai)
+* crush: take crashes due to invalid arg (`issue#11740 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11740>`_, `pr#4891 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/4891>`_, Sage Weil)
+* rgw: need conversion tool to handle fixes following #11974 (`issue#12502 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12502>`_, `pr#5384 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5384>`_, Yehuda Sadeh)
+* rgw: Swift API: support for 202 Accepted response code on container creation (`issue#12299 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12299>`_, `pr#5214 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5214>`_, Radoslaw Zarzynski)
+* common: Log::reopen_log_file: take m_flush_mutex (`issue#12520 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12520>`_, `pr#5405 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5405>`_, Samuel Just)
+* rgw: Properly respond to the Connection header with Civetweb (`issue#12398 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12398>`_, `pr#5284 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5284>`_, Wido den Hollander)
+* rgw: multipart list part response returns incorrect field (`issue#12399 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12399>`_, `pr#5285 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5285>`_, Henry Chang)
+* build/ops: ceph.spec.in: 95-ceph-osd.rules, mount.ceph, and mount.fuse.ceph not installed properly on SUSE (`issue#12397 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12397>`_, `pr#5283 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5283>`_, Nathan Cutler)
+* rgw: radosgw-admin dumps user info twice (`issue#12400 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12400>`_, `pr#5286 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5286>`_, guce)
+* doc: fix doc build (`issue#12180 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12180>`_, `pr#5095 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5095>`_, Kefu Chai)
+* tests: backport 11493 fixes, and test, preventing ec cache pools (`issue#12314 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12314>`_, `pr#4961 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/4961>`_, Samuel Just)
+* rgw: does not send Date HTTP header when civetweb frontend is used (`issue#11872 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11872>`_, `pr#5228 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5228>`_, Radoslaw Zarzynski)
+* mon: pg ls is broken (`issue#11910 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11910>`_, `pr#5160 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5160>`_, Kefu Chai)
+* librbd: A client opening an image mid-resize can result in the object map being invalidated (`issue#12237 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12237>`_, `pr#5279 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5279>`_, Jason Dillaman)
+* doc: missing man pages for ceph-create-keys, ceph-disk-* (`issue#11862 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11862>`_, `pr#4846 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/4846>`_, Nathan Cutler)
+* tools: ceph-post-file fails on rhel7 (`issue#11876 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11876>`_, `pr#5038 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5038>`_, Sage Weil)
+* build/ops: rcceph script is buggy (`issue#12090 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12090>`_, `pr#5028 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5028>`_, Owen Synge)
+* rgw: Bucket header is enclosed by quotes (`issue#11874 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11874>`_, `pr#4862 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/4862>`_, Wido den Hollander)
+* build/ops: packaging: add SuSEfirewall2 service files (`issue#12092 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12092>`_, `pr#5030 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5030>`_, Tim Serong)
+* rgw: Keystone PKI token expiration is not enforced (`issue#11722 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11722>`_, `pr#4884 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/4884>`_, Anton Aksola)
+* build/ops: debian/control: ceph-common (>> 0.94.2) must be >= 0.94.2-2 (`issue#12529,11998 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12529,11998>`_, `pr#5417 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5417>`_, Loic Dachary)
+* mon: Clock skew causes missing summary and confuses Calamari (`issue#11879 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11879>`_, `pr#4868 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/4868>`_, Thorsten Behrens)
+* rgw: rados objects wronly deleted (`issue#12099 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12099>`_, `pr#5117 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5117>`_, wuxingyi)
+* tests: kernel_untar_build fails on EL7 (`issue#12098 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12098>`_, `pr#5119 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5119>`_, Greg Farnum)
+* fs: Fh ref count will leak if readahead does not need to do read from osd (`issue#12319 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12319>`_, `pr#5427 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5427>`_, Zhi Zhang)
+* mon: OSDMonitor: allow addition of cache pool with non-empty snaps with co… (`issue#12595 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12595>`_, `pr#5252 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5252>`_, Samuel Just)
+* mon: MDSMonitor: handle MDSBeacon messages properly (`issue#11979 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11979>`_, `pr#5123 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5123>`_, Kefu Chai)
+* tools: ceph-disk: get_partition_type fails on /dev/cciss... (`issue#11760 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11760>`_, `pr#4892 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/4892>`_, islepnev)
+* build/ops: max files open limit for OSD daemon is too low (`issue#12087 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12087>`_, `pr#5026 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5026>`_, Owen Synge)
+* mon: add an "osd crush tree" command (`issue#11833 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11833>`_, `pr#5248 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5248>`_, Kefu Chai)
+* mon: mon crashes when "ceph osd tree 85 --format json" (`issue#11975 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11975>`_, `pr#4936 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/4936>`_, Kefu Chai)
+* build/ops: ceph / ceph-dbg steal ceph-objecstore-tool from ceph-test / ceph-test-dbg (`issue#11806 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11806>`_, `pr#5069 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5069>`_, Loic Dachary)
+* rgw: DragonDisk fails to create directories via S3: MissingContentLength (`issue#12042 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12042>`_, `pr#5118 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5118>`_, Yehuda Sadeh)
+* build/ops: /usr/bin/ceph from ceph-common is broken without installing ceph (`issue#11998 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11998>`_, `pr#5206 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5206>`_, Ken Dreyer)
+* build/ops: systemd: Increase max files open limit for OSD daemon (`issue#11964 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11964>`_, `pr#5040 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5040>`_, Owen Synge)
+* build/ops: rgw/logrotate.conf calls service with wrong init script name (`issue#12044 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12044>`_, `pr#5055 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5055>`_, wuxingyi)
+* common: OPT_INT option interprets 3221225472 as -1073741824, and crashes in Throttle::Throttle() (`issue#11738 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11738>`_, `pr#4889 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/4889>`_, Kefu Chai)
+* doc: doc/release-notes: v0.94.2 (`issue#11492 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11492>`_, `pr#4934 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/4934>`_, Sage Weil)
+* common: admin_socket: close socket descriptor in destructor (`issue#11706 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11706>`_, `pr#4657 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/4657>`_, Jon Bernard)
+* rgw: Object copy bug (`issue#11755 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11755>`_, `pr#4885 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/4885>`_, Javier M. Mellid)
+* rgw: empty json response when getting user quota (`issue#12245 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12245>`_, `pr#5237 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5237>`_, wuxingyi)
+* fs: cephfs Dumper tries to load whole journal into memory at once (`issue#11999 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11999>`_, `pr#5120 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5120>`_, John Spray)
+* rgw: Fix tool for #11442 does not correctly fix objects created via multipart uploads (`issue#12242 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12242>`_, `pr#5229 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5229>`_, Yehuda Sadeh)
+* rgw: Civetweb RGW appears to report full size of object as downloaded when only partially downloaded (`issue#12243 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12243>`_, `pr#5231 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5231>`_, Yehuda Sadeh)
+* osd: stuck incomplete (`issue#12362 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12362>`_, `pr#5269 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5269>`_, Samuel Just)
+* osd: start_flush: filter out removed snaps before determining snapc's (`issue#11911 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11911>`_, `pr#4899 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/4899>`_, Samuel Just)
+* librbd: internal.cc: 1967: FAILED assert(watchers.size() == 1) (`issue#12239 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12239>`_, `pr#5243 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5243>`_, Jason Dillaman)
+* librbd: new QA client upgrade tests (`issue#12109 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12109>`_, `pr#5046 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5046>`_, Jason Dillaman)
+* librbd: [  FAILED  ] TestLibRBD.ExclusiveLockTransition (`issue#12238 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12238>`_, `pr#5241 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5241>`_, Jason Dillaman)
+* rgw: Swift API: XML document generated in response for GET on account does not contain account name (`issue#12323 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12323>`_, `pr#5227 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5227>`_, Radoslaw Zarzynski)
+* rgw: keystone does not support chunked input (`issue#12322 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12322>`_, `pr#5226 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5226>`_, Hervé Rousseau)
+* mds: MDS is crashed (mds/CDir.cc: 1391: FAILED assert(!is_complete())) (`issue#11737 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11737>`_, `pr#4886 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/4886>`_, Yan, Zheng)
+* cli: ceph: cli interactive mode does not understand quotes (`issue#11736 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11736>`_, `pr#4776 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/4776>`_, Kefu Chai)
+* librbd: add valgrind memory checks for unit tests (`issue#12384 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12384>`_, `pr#5280 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5280>`_, Zhiqiang Wang)
+* build/ops: admin/build-doc: script fails silently under certain circumstances (`issue#11902 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11902>`_, `pr#4877 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/4877>`_, John Spray)
+* osd: Fixes for rados ops with snaps (`issue#11908 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11908>`_, `pr#4902 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/4902>`_, Samuel Just)
+* build/ops: ceph.spec.in: ceph-common subpackage def needs tweaking for SUSE/openSUSE (`issue#12308 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12308>`_, `pr#4883 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/4883>`_, Nathan Cutler)
+* fs: client: reference counting 'struct Fh' (`issue#12088 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12088>`_, `pr#5222 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5222>`_, Yan, Zheng)
+* build/ops: ceph.spec: update OpenSUSE BuildRequires  (`issue#11611 <http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/11611>`_, `pr#4667 <http://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/4667>`_, Loic Dachary)
 
 v0.94.2 Hammer
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