Hello, Please find attached a news item warning the users of net-p2p/syncthing that version 1.2.0 and newer do not interoperate with version 0.14.45 and older. I have included the same warning in the 1.2.0 ebuild, that said I believe this deserves a news item because a) it could affect mission-critical file-replication set-ups, and b) old versions panic and shut down when fed incompatible data.
Thank you in advance for any and all feedback! -- MS
Title: Syncthing 1.2.0 and newer do not interoperate with 0.14.45 and older Author: Marek Szuba <mare...@gentoo.org> Posted: 2019-07-18 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 2.0 Display-If-Installed: net-p2p/syncthing Starting with version 1.2.0, Syncthing always uses large, variable-sized, blocks to index and transfer files larger than 256 MiB [1]. Syncthing version 0.14.45 and older will initially appear to accept files scanned with large blocks, but will later panic during some internal file operations. Do NOT enable large blocks in clusters with devices still on v0.14.45 or older, e.g. Debian Stretch servers using official packages. [1] https://docs.syncthing.net/advanced/folder-uselargeblocks.html
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