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diff --git a/metadata/news/2019-07-18-syncthing-update-incompatibility/2019-07-18-syncthing-update-incompatibility.en.txt b/metadata/news/2019-07-18-syncthing-update-incompatibility/2019-07-18-syncthing-update-incompatibility.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..c5a1537e0f26 --- /dev/null +++ b/metadata/news/2019-07-18-syncthing-update-incompatibility/2019-07-18-syncthing-update-incompatibility.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +Title: Syncthing 1.2.0 and newer do not interoperate with 0.14.45 and older +Author: Marek Szuba <marecki@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 |