Hi,

Mainly because we, IBM/Red Hat, have accelerated development of new features.

There are a number of major new features including QoS, TLS, gRPC replacement for dbus, prometheus monitoring, memory statistics, RDMA support, write delegations, etc.

Every major feature is a bump in the major version. Sometimes two major features are in a single major version bump.

There's more in the pipeline too, as we work to match kNFS feature for feature, and more, so you can expect several more major version bumps in coming months.

hth.

On Mon, Jul 20, 2026 at 10:24 AM Robert Sworder <robert@thatcode.com> wrote:

Hi!

Firstly, thanks for all your work on NFS Ganesha, and sorry if this has been answered elsewhere that I couldn't find.

Is it possible to have some clarity on how you choose the next release version? I'm wondering because there's been a sudden change in the velocity of major releases, and I'm wondering what level of changes these really correspond to. The rapid increase in version numbers is causing some concern, so understanding what's happened to trigger it will help us organise a suitable level of testing!

To give examples:
V4.0->V5.0 - Dec 2021->Apr 2023 - 16 months
V5.0->V6.0 - Apr 2021->Aug 2024 - 16 months
V6.0->V7.0 - Aug 2024->Jul 2025 - 11 months
V7.0->V8.0 - Jul 2025->Oct 2025 - 3 months
V8.0->V9.0 - Oct 2025->Oct 2025 - 0 months
V9.0->V10.0 - Oct 2025->Jun 2026 - 8 months
V10.0->V12.0 (with V11.0 in the middle!) - Jun 2026-Jul 2026 - 1 month.

Is this due to an increased pace of development? Or specific high risk/churn features that have gone in? Or something else? What makes V10/11/12 new major releases rather than new minor releases?

Thanks for your time,
Robert
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