# Release notes for Gluster 8.6

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), [8.4](8.4.md) and [8.5](8.5.md) contain a listing of all the new features that were added and bugs fixed in the GlusterFS 8 stable release.

**NOTE:**
- This is the last release of Gluster 8 series
- Users are highly encouraged to upgrade to newer releases of GlusterFS.

## Important fixes in this release
- Improvement in handling of gfid mismatches of geo-rep: Geo-replication gets delayed when there are many renames on primary volume(https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2388)
- Resolve core dumps on Gluster 9 - 3 replicas: Initialize list head to prevent NULL de-reference(https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2443)


## Builds are available at

[https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/8/8.6/](https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/8/8.6/)

## Issues addressed in this release


- [#2388](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2388) Geo-replication gets delayed when there are many renames on primary volume
- [#2689](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/pull/2689)   glusterd: reset mgmt_v3_lock_timeout after it be used
- [#1000](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1000) GlusterFS can be improved: fix getcwd usage warning
- [#2394](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2394) Spurious failure in tests/basic/fencing/afr-lock-heal-basic.t
- [#2691](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2691) georep-upgrade.t find failures
- [#154](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/154)   Optimized CHANGELOG: upgrade script for geo-rep
- [#2443](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2443) Core dumps on Gluster 9 - 3 replicas: Initialize list head to prevent NULL de-reference
- [#2404](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2404) Spurious failure of tests/bugs/ec/bug-1236065.t