glusterdocs/docs/release-notes/9.6.md

Release notes for Gluster 9.6

Release date: 19-Aug-2022

This is a bugfix and improvement release. The release notes for 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5 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 20th Feb, 2023
• Users are highly encouraged to upgrade to newer releases of GlusterFS.

Important fixes in this release

• Optimize server functionality by enhancing server_process_event_upcall code path during the handling of upcall event
• Fix all bricks not starting issue on node reboot when brick count is high(>750)

Builds are available at

https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/9/9.6/

Issues addressed in this release

• #2080 Fix inability of glustereventsd from binding to the UDP port because of selinux policies
• #2962 Fix volume create without disperse count failures with ip addresses
• #3177 Locks: Optimize the interrupt flow of POSIX locks
• #3187 Fix Locks xlator leaks fd's when a blocked posix lock is cancelled
• #3191 Fix double free issue in the cbk function dht_common_mark_mdsxattr_cbk
• #3321 Optimize server functionality by enhancing server_process_event_upcall code path during the handling of upcall event
• #3332 Fix garbage value reported by static analyser
• #3334 Fix errors and timeouts when creating qcow2 file via libgfapi
• #3375 Fix all bricks not starting issue on node reboot when brick count is high(>750)
• #3470 Fix spurious crash when "peer probing" a non existing host name