Current (Unreleased) Release Notes

17.0.0.0rc1

Prelude

This release supports the latest OpenStack Swift release for 2026.1. It also officially supports newer JDK versions and and contains minor improvements.

New Features

  • Now the storlet_handler middleware can detect EC objects and runs storlet applications in proxy server automatically. Previously users had to request execution in proxy explicitly.

  • Storlets is now tested with OpenJDK 17, 21 and 25.

Upgrade Notes

  • Python 3.6 support has been removed.

  • OpenJDK 11 is no longer tested.