Translations:ReleaseNotes/Liberty/155/en


 * Enabled support for availability zones.
 * Added administrator API components to share instances.
 * Added pool weigher which allows Manila scheduler to place new shares on pools with existing share servers.
 * Support for share migration from one hostpool to another hostpool (experimental).
 * Added shared extend capability in the generic driver.
 * Support for adding consistency groups, which allow snapshots for multiple filesystem shares to created at the same point in time (experimental).
 * Support for consistency groups in the NetApp cDOT driver and generic driver.
 * Support for oversubscription in thin provisioning.
 * New Windows SMB driver:
 * Support for handling Windows service instances and exporting SMB shares.
 * Added new  configuration option to improve the total throughput of the Manila API service.
 * Added share hooks feature, which allows actions to be performed before and after share drive methods calls, call additional periodic hook for each 'N' tick, and update the results of a driver's action.
 * Improvements to the NetApp cDOT driver:
 * Added variables netapp:dedup, and netapp:compression when creating the flexvol that backs up a new manila share.
 * Added manage/unmanage support and shrink_share support.
 * Support for  API component.
 * Support for netapp-lib PyPI project to communicate with storage arrays.
 * Improvements to the HP 3PAR driver:
 * Added reporting of dedupe, thin provisioning and hp3par_flash_cache capabilities. This allows share types and the CapabilitiesFilter to place shares on hosts with the requested capabilities.
 * Added share server support.
 * Improvements to the Huawei Manila driver:
 * Added support for storage pools, extend_share, manage_existing, shrink_share, read-only share, smartcache and smartpartition.
 * Added reporting of dedupe, thin provisioning and compression capabilities.
 * Added access-level support to the VNX Manila driver.
 * Added support for the Manila HDS HNAS driver.
 * Added GlusterFS native driver.
 * GlusterFS drivers can now specify the list of compatible share layouts.
 * Added microversion support (v2 API).