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+# Release notes for Gluster 9.3
+
+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) 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 30th Aug, 2021
+- Users are highly encouraged to upgrade to newer releases of GlusterFS.
+
+## Important fixes in this release
+
+- Core dumps on Gluster 9 - 3 replicas [#2443](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2443)
+- geo-rep: Improve handling of gfid mismatches [#2423](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2388)
+- auth.allow list is corrupted after add-brick (buffer overflow?) [#2524](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2524)
+
+
+## Builds are available at
+
+[https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/9/9.3/](https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/9/9.3/)
+
+## Issues addressed in this release
+
+- [#705](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/705)  gf_backtrace_save inefficiencies
+- [#1000](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1000) [bug:1193929] GlusterFS can be improved
+- [#1384](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1384) mount glusterfs volume, files larger than 64Mb only show 64Mb
+- [#2388](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2388) Geo-replication gets delayed when there are many renames on primary
+- [#2394](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2394) Spurious failure in tests/basic/fencing/afr-lock-heal-basic.t
+- [#2398](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2398) Bitrot and scrub process showed like unknown in the gluster volume
+- [#2421](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2421) rsync should not try to sync internal xattrs.
+- [#2440](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2440) Geo-replication not working on Ubuntu 21.04
+- [#2443](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2443) Core dumps on Gluster 9 - 3 replicas
+- [#2470](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2470) sharding: [inode.c:1255:__inode_unlink] 0-inode: dentry not found
+- [#2524](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2524) auth.allow list is corrupted after add-brick (buffer overflow?)