Merge pull request #618 from rkothiya/rkothiya-updating-releasenotes-for-7.9

Added release notes for 7.9 and 8.3

docs/release-notes/7.9.md

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+# Release notes for Gluster 7.9
+
+This is a bugfix release. The release notes for [7.0](7.0.md), [7.1](7.1.md),
+[7.2](7.2.md), [7.3](7.3.md), [7.4](7.4.md) [7.5](7.5.md), [7.6](7.6.md), [7.7](7.7.md) and [7.8](7.8.md)
+contain a listing of all the new features that were added
+and bugs fixed in the GlusterFS 7 stable release.
+
+**NOTE:**
+
+This release would be the last release of release-7.x series. 
+Users are highly encouraged to upgrade to newer releases of GlusterFS.
+
+## Highlights of Release
+
+This release contains majorly the bug fixes as described in the issues section.
+
+## Builds are available at
+
+[https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/7/7.9/](https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/7/7.9/)
+
+## Issues addressed in this release
+
+Please find the list of issues added to this release below.
+
+- [#1852](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1852) glusterd: Can't run rebalance due to long unix socket
+- [#1836](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1836) posix: Update ret value in posix_get_gfid2path if GF_MALLOC fails
+- [#1738](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1738) [cli] Improper error message on command timeout
+- [#1699](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1699) One brick offline with signal received: 11
+- [#1604](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1604) rfc.sh on release-7 needs to move to github flow
+- [#1499](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1499) why not use JumpConsistentHash to replace SuperFastHash to cho...
+- [#1221](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1221) features/bit-rot: invalid snprintf() buffer size
+- [#1060](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1060) [bug:789278] Issues reported by Coverity static analysis tool
+

docs/release-notes/8.3.md

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+# Release notes for Gluster 8.3
+
+This is a bugfix release. The release notes for [8.0](8.0.md), [8.1](8.1.md) and [8.2](8.2.md)
+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 Feb, 2021
+- Users are highly encouraged to upgrade to newer releases of GlusterFS.
+
+## Highlights of Release
+
+This release contains majorly the bug fixes as described in the issues section.
+
+## Builds are available at 
+
+[https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/8/8.3/](https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/8/8.3/)
+
+## Issues addressed in this release
+
+Please find the list of issues added to this release below.
+
+- [#1836](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1836) posix: Update ret value in posix_get_gfid2path if GF_MALLOC fails
+- [#1796](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1796) afr: call afr_is_lock_mode_mandatory only while xdata is valid
+- [#1778](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1778) volume set: failed: ganesha.enable is already 'off'.
+- [#1738](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1738) [cli] Improper error message on command timeout
+- [#1699](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1699) One brick offline with signal received: 11
+- [#1663](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1663) test case ./tests/bugs/core/bug-1650403.t is getting timed out
+- [#1601](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1601) rfc.sh on release-8 needs to move to github flow
+- [#1499](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1499) why not use JumpConsistentHash to replace SuperFastHash to cho...
+- [#1438](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1438) syncdaemon/syncdutils.py: SyntaxWarning: "is" with a literal. ...
+- [#1221](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1221) features/bit-rot: invalid snprintf() buffer size
+- [#1060](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1060) [bug:789278] Issues reported by Coverity static analysis tool
+- [#1002](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1002) [bug:1679998] GlusterFS can be improved
+- [#1000](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1000) [bug:1193929] GlusterFS can be improved
+

docs/release-notes/index.md

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 ### GlusterFS 8 release notes
 
+- [8.3](./8.3.md)
 - [8.2](./8.2.md)
 - [8.1](./8.1.md)
 - [8.0](./8.0.md)
 
 ### GlusterFS 7 release notes
+- [7.9](./7.9.md)
 - [7.8](./7.8.md)
 - [7.7](./7.7.md)
 - [7.6](./7.6.md)

mkdocs.yml

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 - Release Notes:
   - index: release-notes/index.md
   - RELEASE 8.x:
+    - 8.3: release-notes/8.3.md
     - 8.2: release-notes/8.2.md
     - 8.1: release-notes/8.1.md
     - 8.0: release-notes/8.0.md
   - RELEASE 7.x:
+    - 7.9: release-notes/7.9.md
     - 7.8: release-notes/7.8.md
     - 7.7: release-notes/7.7.md
     - 7.6: release-notes/7.6.md