Release notes for Gluster 8.4

Release date: 01-Mar-2021

This is a bugfix release. The release notes for 8.0, 8.1, 8.2 and 8.3 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 20th Apr, 2021
Users are highly encouraged to upgrade to newer releases of GlusterFS.

Highlights of Release

Healing data in 1MB chunks instead of 128KB for improving healing performance #2067

Builds are available at

https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/8/8.4/

Issues addressed in this release

Please find the list of issues added to this release below.

#2154 "Operation not supported" doing a chmod on a symlink
#2107 mount crashes when setfattr -n distribute.fix.layout -v "yes"...
#1991 mdcache: bug causes getxattr() to report ENODATA when fetchin...
#1925 dht_pt_getxattr does not seem to handle virtual xattrs.
#1539 fuse mount crashes on graph-switch when reader-thread-count i...
#1529 Fix regression in on demand migration feature
#1406 shared storage volume fails to mount in ipv6 environment