Merge pull request #702 from Shwetha-Acharya/master

add glusterfs 9.4 release notes

docs/release-notes/9.4.md

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+# Release notes for Gluster 9.4
+
+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) 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 Dec, 2021
+- Users are highly encouraged to upgrade to newer releases of GlusterFS.
+
+## Important fixes in this release
+- Fix changelog History Crawl resume failures after stop [#2133](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2133)
+- Fix Stack overflow when parallel-readdir is enabled [#2169](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2169)
+- Fix rebalance crashes in dht [#2239](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2239)
+
+## Builds are available at
+[https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/9/9.4/](https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/9/9.4/)
+
+## Issues addressed in this release
+
+- [#2133](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2133) changelog History Crawl resume fails after stop
+- [#2169](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2169) Stack overflow when parallel-readdir is enabled
+- [#2239](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2239) rebalance crashes in dht on master
+- [#2625](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2625) auth.allow value is corrupted after add-brick operation
+- [#2649](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2649) glustershd failed in bind with error "Address already in use"
+- [#2659](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2659) tests/basic/afr/afr-anon-inode.t crashed
+- [#2754](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2754) It takes a long time to execute the “gluster volume set volumename
+- [#2798](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2798) FUSE mount option for localtime-logging is not exposed
+- [#2690](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/pull/2690)   glusterd: reset mgmt_v3_lock_timeout after it be used
+- [#2691](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2691) georep-upgrade.t find failures
+- [#1101](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1101) volume brick fails to come online because other process is using port 49152
+

docs/release-notes/index.md

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 - [2.0.1](./glusterfs-selinux2.0.1.md)
 ### GlusterFS 9 release notes
 
+- [9.4](./9.4.md)
 - [9.3](./9.3.md)
 - [9.2](./9.2.md)
 - [9.1](./9.1.md)