# Release notes for Gluster 8.5

This is a bugfix release. The release notes for [8.0](8.0.md), [8.1](8.1.md), [8.2](8.2.md), [8.3](8.3.md) and [8.4](8.4.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 30th Jun, 2021
- Users are highly encouraged to upgrade to newer releases of GlusterFS.

## Important fixes in this release

- Slow write on ZFS bricks after healing millions of files due to adding arbiter brick [#1764](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1764)
- 4+1 arbiter setup is broken [#2192](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2192)

## Builds are available at 

[https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/8/8.5/](https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/8/8.5/)

## Issues addressed in this release

- [#1214](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1214) Running tests/basic/afr/inodelk.t on my VM crashes in dht
- [#1324](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1324) Inconsistent custom xattr on backend directories after bringing bac
- [#1764](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1764) Slow write on ZFS bricks after healing millions of files due to add
- [#2161](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2161) Crash caused by memory corruption
- [#2192](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2192) 4+1 arbiter setup is broken
- [#2198](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2198) There are blocked inodelks for a long time
- [#2210](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2210) glusterfsd memory leak observed when constantly running volume heal
- [#2234](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2234) Segmentation fault in directory quota daemon for replicated volume
- [#2253](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2253) Disable lookup-optimize by default in the virt group
- [#2313](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2313) Long setting names mess up the columns and break parsing