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Release notes for Gluster 8.5

Release date: 17-May-2021

This is a bugfix release. The release notes for 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4 contain a listing of all the new features that were added and bugs fixed in the GlusterFS 8 stable release.

NOTE:

  • Next minor release tentative date: Week of 30th Jun, 2021
  • Users are highly encouraged to upgrade to newer releases of GlusterFS.

Important fixes in this release

  • Slow write on ZFS bricks after healing millions of files due to adding arbiter brick #1764
  • 4+1 arbiter setup is broken #2192

Builds are available at

https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/8/8.5/

Issues addressed in this release

  • #1214 Running tests/basic/afr/inodelk.t on my VM crashes in dht
  • #1324 Inconsistent custom xattr on backend directories after bringing bac
  • #1764 Slow write on ZFS bricks after healing millions of files due to add
  • #2161 Crash caused by memory corruption
  • #2192 4+1 arbiter setup is broken
  • #2198 There are blocked inodelks for a long time
  • #2210 glusterfsd memory leak observed when constantly running volume heal
  • #2234 Segmentation fault in directory quota daemon for replicated volume
  • #2253 Disable lookup-optimize by default in the virt group
  • #2313 Long setting names mess up the columns and break parsing