# Release notes for Gluster 8.3

This is a bugfix release. The release notes for [8.0](8.0.md), [8.1](8.1.md) and [8.2](8.2.md)
contain a listing of all the new features that were added
and bugs fixed in the GlusterFS 8 stable release.

**NOTE:** 
- Next minor release tentative date: Week of 20th Feb, 2021
- Users are highly encouraged to upgrade to newer releases of GlusterFS.

## Highlights of Release

This release contains majorly the bug fixes as described in the issues section.

## Builds are available at 

[https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/8/8.3/](https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/8/8.3/)

## Issues addressed in this release

Please find the list of issues added to this release below.

- [#1836](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1836) posix: Update ret value in posix_get_gfid2path if GF_MALLOC fails
- [#1796](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1796) afr: call afr_is_lock_mode_mandatory only while xdata is valid
- [#1778](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1778) volume set: failed: ganesha.enable is already 'off'.
- [#1738](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1738) [cli] Improper error message on command timeout
- [#1699](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1699) One brick offline with signal received: 11
- [#1663](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1663) test case ./tests/bugs/core/bug-1650403.t is getting timed out
- [#1601](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1601) rfc.sh on release-8 needs to move to github flow
- [#1499](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1499) why not use JumpConsistentHash to replace SuperFastHash to cho...
- [#1438](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1438) syncdaemon/syncdutils.py: SyntaxWarning: "is" with a literal. ...
- [#1221](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1221) features/bit-rot: invalid snprintf() buffer size
- [#1060](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1060) [bug:789278] Issues reported by Coverity static analysis tool
- [#1002](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1002) [bug:1679998] GlusterFS can be improved
- [#1000](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1000) [bug:1193929] GlusterFS can be improved