[cdwg] Lustre 2.4.3 released

[Jones, Peter A]

We are pleased to announce that the Lustre 2.4.3 Release has been declared GA and is available for <http://downloads.whamcloud.com/public/lustre/lustre-2.4.3/> download<http://downloads.whamcloud.com/public/lustre/lustre-2.4.3/> <http://downloads.whamcloud.com/public/lustre/lustre-2.4.3/> . You can also grab the source from git<http://git.whamcloud.com/?p=fs/lustre-release.git;a=commit;h=03c20f7ad344e1ded7eba39fdda1092195603c48>

** IMPORTANT SECURITY UPDATE **

Sites in production on Lustre 2.4.0/2.4.1/2.4.2 are recommended to upgrade to this release immediately in order to receive the fix for LU-4703/4704 unless ACL functionality has been disabled.

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The release highlights are

LU-4703<https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-4703> / LU-4704<https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-4704>: setxattr now checks permissions when setting ACL xattrs which prevents unauthorized alteration of ACL rules.

Fuller details can be found in the change log<https://wiki.hpdd.intel.com/display/PUB/Changelog+2.4>

The following are known issues in the Lustre 2.4.3 Release:

LU-3544<https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-3544>: Re-exporting Lustre over NFS from SLES11 SP2 has known issues
LU-4222<https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-4222>:  A race condition exists when mounting multiple filesystems from the same client

Work is in progress for these issues.

Please log any issues found in the issue tracking system<https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/>