Add glusterFS 9.6 release notes

Signed-off-by: Shwetha K Acharya <sacharya@redhat.com>

docs/release-notes/9.6.md

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+# Release notes for Gluster 9.6
+
+**Release date:** 19-Aug-2022
+
+This is a bugfix and improvement release. The release notes for [9.0](9.0.md), [9.1](9.1.md), [9.2](9.2.md), [9.3](9.3.md), [9.4](9.4.md), [9.5](9.5.md)  contain a listing of all the new features that were added and bugs fixed in the GlusterFS 9 stable release.
+
+**NOTE:**
+- Next minor release tentative date: Week of 20th Feb, 2023
+- Users are highly encouraged to upgrade to newer releases of GlusterFS.
+
+## Important fixes in this release
+- Optimize server functionality by enhancing server_process_event_upcall code path during the handling of upcall event
+- Fix all bricks not starting issue on node reboot when brick count is high(>750)
+
+## Builds are available at
+https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/9/9.6/
+
+## Issues addressed in this release
+- [#2080](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2080) Fix inability of glustereventsd from binding to the UDP port because of selinux policies
+- [#2962](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2962) Fix volume create without disperse count failures with ip addresses
+- [#3177](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/3177) Locks: Optimize the interrupt flow of POSIX locks
+- [#3187](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/3187) Fix Locks xlator leaks fd's when a blocked posix lock is cancelled
+- [#3191](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/3191) Fix double free issue in the cbk function dht_common_mark_mdsxattr_cbk
+- [#3321](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/3321) Optimize server functionality by enhancing server_process_event_upcall code path during the handling of upcall event
+- [#3332](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1060) Fix garbage value reported by static analyser
+- [#3334](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/3334) Fix errors and timeouts when creating qcow2 file via libgfapi
+- [#3375](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/3375) Fix all bricks not starting issue on node reboot when brick count is high(>750)
+- [#3470](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/3470) Fix spurious crash when "peer probing" a non existing host name

docs/release-notes/index.md

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 - [10.2](./10.2.md)
 
 ### GlusterFS 9 release notes
+- [9.6](./9.6.md)
 - [9.5](./9.5.md)
 - [9.4](./9.4.md)
 - [9.3](./9.3.md)

mkdocs.yml

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     - 10.0: release-notes/10.0.md
     - 10.2: release-notes/10.2.md
   - RELEASE 9.x:
+    - 9.6: release-notes/9.6.md
     - 9.5: release-notes/9.5.md
     - 9.4: release-notes/9.4.md
     - 9.3: release-notes/9.3.md