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Dear DRBD and WinDRBD community,<br>
<br>
We just released a new minor release of the WinDRBD software<br>
package. For those who don't know, WinDRBD is a port of <br>
DRBD to the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems.<br>
<br>
We mainly focussed on getting WinDRBD more stable for<br>
this release, we have two (non-boot via WinDRBD) VMs running<br>
on constant I/O for more than one week now. Also on machines<br>
booted via WinDRBD it is now more stable and can, in most<br>
cases, survive a network failure. However we still got report<br>
about crashes when using the boot feature (which we will<br>
fix in an upcoming release) so please do not use booting<br>
via WinDRBD in production enviroments yet.<br>
<br>
As a minor addition, the CGI script now tries forever to access<br>
the block device (causing iPXE to wait on booting until the<br>
device is ready) which fixes the annoying behaviour of not<br>
booting on Windows restart (because there was still the old<br>
Primary connection in which case DRBD devices cannot be<br>
opened at all, also not read-only).<br>
<br>
Again, please contribute to WinDRBD development by testing<br>
it, most of the issues we fixed came from the community<br>
(many thanks to Yannis and Oliver at this point),<br>
<br>
As always, you can download the newest version from<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.linbit.com/en/drbd-community/drbd-download/">https://www.linbit.com/en/drbd-community/drbd-download/</a><br>
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as an EXE installer signed by Linbit-HA. To learn how to set up<br>
WinDRBD with data devices or how to set it up with a WinDRBD<br>
boot device (diskless client booting via WinDRBD from the network),<br>
please consult the tech-guides at <br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://downloads.linbit.com/">https://downloads.linbit.com/</a><br>
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(you need to register to download the guides).<br>
<br>
We will maintain a WHATSNEW.md file from now on that<br>
briefly describes what is new in the version. You can directly<br>
view it online at github:<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/LINBIT/windrbd/blob/master/WHATSNEW.md">https://github.com/LINBIT/windrbd/blob/master/WHATSNEW.md</a><br>
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Best regards and happy hacking !!<br>
<br>
- Johannes<br>
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