Release Notes for Ocata

Deprecation Notices

• Volume driver configuration settings are deprecated in the [DEFAULT] section Volume driver configuration settings must instead be placed in named backend sections. In the Ocata release, having volume driver configuration entries in the [DEFAULT] section generates an error.
• Consistency groups are planned to be deprecated in a future release Generic volume groups, a new Cinder feature, are planned to replace consistency groups.

New Feature

• Generic volume groups The Everpure volume drivers support consistent_group_snapshot_enabled type groups that work the same way as consistency groups did previously and are interpreted as representing Purity protection groups.