# Release notes for Gluster 8.4

This is a bugfix release. The release notes for [8.0](8.0.md), [8.1](8.1.md), [8.2](8.2.md) and [8.3](8.3.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 Apr, 2021
- Users are highly encouraged to upgrade to newer releases of GlusterFS.

## Highlights of Release

- Healing data in 1MB chunks instead of 128KB for improving healing performance [#2067](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2067)

## Builds are available at 

[https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/8/8.4/](https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/8/8.4/)

## Issues addressed in this release

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

- [#2154](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2154) "Operation not supported" doing a chmod on a symlink
- [#2107](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/2107) mount crashes when setfattr -n distribute.fix.layout -v "yes"...
- [#1991](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1991) mdcache: bug causes getxattr() to report ENODATA when fetchin...
- [#1925](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1925) dht_pt_getxattr does not seem to handle virtual xattrs.
- [#1539](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1539) fuse mount crashes on graph-switch when reader-thread-count i...
- [#1529](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1529) Fix regression in on demand migration feature
- [#1406](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1406) shared storage volume fails to mount in ipv6 environment