[DRBD-announce] drbd-8.3.0.tar.gz

[Philipp Reisner]

Hi,

This is the release containing all the features that formed DRBD+ before:
 * bit map in unmaped pages -> device sizes > 4TB (up to 16TB currently)
 * DRBD stacking -> replication to a 3rd node (even 4 are supported)
 * checksum based resync -> Speeds up resync processes over slow networks.

Besides these highlight, again a number of bugs was fixed, see the first five
items on the change log. Users of drbd-8.2.7 should upgrade to 8.3.0 .

BTW, this is the successor of drbd-8.2.7 and the drbd-8.2.x branch. 

8.3.0 (api:86/proto:86-89)
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  * Fixed 'sleep with spinlock held' in case online verify found a difference
  * Fixed error code pathes in request processing.
  * Fix for stack smashing in drbdmeta
  * Fixed a bug that could lead to a crash when detaching/attaching
    on the primary under heavy IO (Bugz 171)
  * Fixed a bug in the new epoch code (introduced with 8.2.7).
    Might cause crash at reconnect after connection loss during heavy IO
    (Bugz 160)
  * Fixed a bug in drbdsetup that could cause drbdsetup wait-connect to
    miss the connection event.
  * Fixed a race condition in the new barrier code. (Reordered barrier ACKs)
  * Do not rely on blkdev_issue_flush() returning ENOTSUPP
  * bitmap in unmapped pages = support for devices > 4TByte (was DRBD+)
  * checksum based resync (was DRBD+)
  * support for stacked resource (was DRBD+)
  * Added support for stacked resources to the bash completion stuff
  * Added missing documentation (manpages)
  * Fixed drbdadm handlers for stacked resources
  * Support of drbd-proxy in stacked setups
  * RedHat cluster suite (rgmanager) integration scripts
  * Renamed 'state' to 'role'
  * More build compatibility with older vendor kernels
  * Added drbd-overview.pl to the packages

http://oss.linbit.com/drbd/8.3/drbd-8.3.0.tar.gz
http://git.drbd.org/?p=drbd-8.3.git;a=tag;h=drbd-8.3.0
http://www.linbit.com/support/drbd-8.3.0/

-Phil
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