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Dear DRBD and WinDRBD users,<br>
<br>
Finally we are releasing WinDRBD 1.0.0, the first stable
production-ready<br>
version of WinDRBD after almost 5 years of development. This is an<br>
important milestone in WinDRBD development. Technically it is <br>
the same as the last rc20 release canidate with a few extra DRBD<br>
patches.<br>
<br>
At this point I would like to thank everybody who helped to make<br>
this happen: Philipp Reisner and the DRBD team at Linbit, Sungeun<br>
Kim and the WDRBD team at Mantech and many members of the<br>
WinDRBD and DRBD community for testing and lots of ideas how<br>
to improve WinDRBD.<br>
<br>
This release is meant for using Microsoft Windows machines (and<br>
Windows / Linux mixed setups) in an HA environment. The next<br>
upcoming features are Secure Boot (we are already working on<br>
this), using DRBD 9.1 as DRBD engine and last but not least,<br>
LINSTOR support. If there is demand we may also continue our<br>
work on Microsoft cluster manager integration, please let us<br>
know when you need this. Also we can finalize WinDRBD as<br>
root device ("C:") which already works but is complicated to<br>
set up at the moment, again please drop us an eMail if this<br>
feature is on your wishlist.<br>
<br>
Since WinDRBD uses the original source code of DRBD internally,<br>
the features of WinDRBD are almost the same as the ones of<br>
DRBD. One noteable exception is auto promote which we don't<br>
support because Windows starts accessing a Disk as soon as<br>
it gets online (so nodes would compete for becoming Primary).<br>
Therefore auto promote does not really make sense on the<br>
Windows platforms.<br>
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As always we are providing a self-contained installer EXE for<br>
Windows: unless you want to develop for WinDRBD yourself<br>
it is recommended to use the installer since it also contains a <br>
Linbit (DigiCert) signed driver (note that SecureBoot is not<br>
supported yet):<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://linbit.com/linbit-software-download-page-for-linstor-and-drbd-linux-driver/#drbd-windows">https://linbit.com/linbit-software-download-page-for-linstor-and-drbd-linux-driver/#drbd-windows</a><br>
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Also, as always if you plan to use WinDRBD in your production<br>
environment it is highly recommended and appreciated that you<br>
talk to Linbit (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.linbit.com">www.linbit.com</a>) for support options.<br>
<br>
Thank you for using WinDRBD and looking forward to hearing<br>
from you,<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
<br>
- Johannes<br>
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