6.1.0.149

Version 6.1.0.149

- Made the dd used to wipe out a volume being removed use direct I/O.
- Added various protections against accidentally overwriting existing
  volumes when creating a new VDO volume unless the --force flag is
  supplied.
- Improved argument parsing, error handling, help text, and man pages for
  the vdo script.
- Added an error check when attempting to create a VDO volume on a device
  which is too large.
- Changed the default logical size to not be over-provisioned.
- Added write policy "auto" which will select async or sync mode based upon
  whether or not the storage below VDO reports requiring flushes. Made
  "auto" the default.
- Modified spec file to enable and disable the vdo systemd unit script.
- Made vdoformat more resilient against crashes.
- Changed the module target name from dedupe to vdo.
- Fixed bugs in the VDO Ansible module.

6.2.0.35

Version 6.2.0.35

Note: This is a pre-release version, future versions of VDO may not support
VDO devices created with this version.
- Added validation that the release version numbers in the geometry and
  super block match on load.
- Fixed bug where VDO would always be created with a dense index even when
  a sparse index was requested.
- Fixed compilation problems on newer versions of GCC.

6.2.0.32

Version 6.2.0.32

Note: This is a pre-release version, future versions of VDO may not support
      VDO devices created with this version.
- Add a library, libuser.a, to provide easy access to VDO user space code
  for other projects.
- Fixed a bug in vdo script when /dev/disk/by-id does not exist.
- Fixed an internationalization bug in the vdo script's --indexMemory
  option.
- Changed vdo script to not accept --vdoSlabSize=0 as a way of specifying
  the default since it was confusing. The default can be obtained by merely
  omitting the parameter entirely.

6.2.0.4

Version 6.2.0.4

- Initial pre-release for RHEL 8.
Please be aware that this version is not compatible with previous
versions of VDO. Support for loading or upgrading devices created with
VDO version 6.1 will be available soon.
- Management tools will work with both python 2 and python 3.
- Dedupe path improvements.
- Beginnings of support for non-x86 architectures.
- Removed obsolete code from UDS.

6.1.1.24

Version 6.1.1.24

- Modified spec files to work with the Fedora copr repository.
- Removed obsolete nagios module.
- Fixed prerun handling of loaded kernel modules
- Modified spec files to use systemd macros
- Updated the vdo.8 man page
- Improved some error messages

6.1.0.61

Merge pull request #5 from dm-vdo/6.1.0.61

Updated to version 6.1.0.61