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# Alluxio Kubernetes Operator 3.7.2 Release Notes

## Summary

### New Features

* **S3 proxy deployment** lets you add an `s3Proxy` component to the AlluxioCluster specification and deploy it as a DaemonSet with its own service and configuration.
* **FoundationDB monitoring** includes a bundled exporter, Prometheus scraping, and a dedicated Grafana dashboard.
* **Component pod labels** let you apply custom labels to pods for individual AlluxioCluster components.

### Major Enhancements

* **Observability** adds dashboards and metrics for Operator controllers and the CSI driver, plus enhanced distributed-load monitoring.
* **ETCD resilience** improves recovery after parallel restarts, multi-node drains, and full-cluster reboots.
* **CSI FUSE safety** makes node-triggered FuseAttachment cleanup opt-in, so temporary node-object loss does not remove live mounts on healthy nodes.

### Bug Fixes

* **CSI FUSE recovery** correctly rebinds `subPath` volumes when volume handles have similar path prefixes.
* **CSI stability at scale** fixes a controller crash loop and reduces controller memory use in clusters with many pods.

## Breaking Changes

No breaking changes in this release.

## Upgrade Notes

* If an ETCD member permanently loses its data, remove it before allowing it to rejoin the cluster.