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8.3.11 (api:88/proto:86-96)
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 * Added missing spinlock in compressed bitmap receive (regression introduced
   in 8.3.10, could lead to "negative" out-of-sync stats and non-terminating
   resync when "use-rle" is enabled)
 * Fixed handling of read errors during online verify runs
 * Fixes for possible distributed deadlocks during online verify and
   checksum based resync processes
 * Fixed handling of IO errors with an on-io-error=pass-on policy; the
   disk state goes to inconsistent
 * Fixed the behavior in case ping-timeout and ping-int are set to the
   same value
 * Fix for connecting on high latency network links
 * Fixed wrong connection drops ("PingAck did not arrive in time") with
   asymmetrically congested networks
 * Fixed state transitions if fence-peer handler returns after connection was
   established again
 * Fixes to drbdmeta and drbdsetup for the > 16TByte support
 * Made negotiation of max_bio_size conservative instead of optimistic
 * Network timeouts for mirrored write requests are now always enforced,
   no longer only when the socket is congested

8.3.10 (api:88/proto:86-96)
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 * Fixed a subtle performance degradation that might affected synchronous
   work loads (databases) (introduced in 8.3.9)
 * Fixed a locking regression (introduced in 8.3.9)
 * Fixed on-no-data-accessible for Primary, SyncTarget nodes (Bugz 332)
 * Progress bar for online verify
 * Optionally use the resync speed control loop code for the online verify
   process as well
 * Added code to detect false positives when using data-integrity-alg
 * New config option on-congestion and new connection states ahead and behind
 * Reduced IO latencies during resync, bitmap exchange and temporal states
 * Only build a single kernel module package on distributions that provide
   the infrastructure to have kernel version independent modules
 * On 64bit architectures allow device sizes up to one petabyte

8.3.9 (api:88/proto:86-95)
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 * Fix for possible deadlock on IO error during resync
 * Fixed a race condition between adding and removing network configuration.
   Lead to a BUG_ON() when triggered.
 * Fixed spurious full syncs that could happen after an empty resync and
   concurrent connection loss.
 * Fixed spurious full syncs that happened when connection got lost while
   one node was in WFSyncUUID state (Bugz 318)
 * Fixed a race in the meta-data update code path, that could lead to forgotten
   updates to the meta-data. That in fact could lead to unexpected behavior
   at the next connect
 * Fixed potential deadlock on detach
 * Fixed potential data divergence after multiple failures
 * Implicitly create unconfigured devices which are referenced in sync-after
   dependencies.
 * OCF RA now also works with pacemaker 1.1
 * Allow BIO sizes of up to 128kByte. Note: In case drbd-proxy is used, at least
   version 1.0.16 of drbd-proxy is required.
 * New configuration keyword on-no-data-accessible. Possible values
   io-error, and suspend-io. The default is "io-error", which matches the
   previous behavior.
 * If the fencing policy is set to resource-and-stonith, the primary node
   will creates the new current UUID _after_ the fencing handler
   returned. (Before it did immediately)
 * Rewrote the resync speed control loop code. New configuration parameters
   c-plan-ahead, c-fill-target, c-delay-target, c-max-rate, c-min-rate.
 * Disable activity log updates when all blocks of an unconnected device is
   are out of sync. That can be activated by using "invalidate-remote" on an
   unconnected primary.
 * Improved IPv6 support: link local addresses
 * Improved resync speed display in /proc/drbd

8.3.8 (api:88/proto:86-94)
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 * Do not expose failed local READs to upper layers, regression introduced
   in 8.3.3
 * Fixed support for devices with 4k hard sector size (again)
 * Fixed a potential Oops in the disconnect code
 * Fixed a race condition that could cause DRBD to consider the peers disk
   as Inconstent after resync instead of UpToDate (Bugz 271)
 * Fixed a reace condition that could cause DRBD to consider the peers disk
   as Outdated instead of Inconsistent during resync (Bugz 277)
 * Disallow to start a resync with invalidate / invalidate-remote when the
   source disk is not UpToDate
 * Forcing primary works now also for Consistent, not only for Outdated and
   Inconsistent (Bugz 266)
 * Improved robustness against corrupt or malicous sector addresses when
   receiving data
 * Added the initial-split-brain, it gets called also if the split-brain gets
   automatically resolved
 * Added the --assume-clean option for the resize command, it causes drbd to
   not resync the new storage after an online grow operation
 * drbdadm: Do not segfault if stacked-on-top-of refers to an undefined res
 * drbdadm: Do not consider configs with invalid after statements as invalid
 * drbdadm: Do not segfault if the peer's proxy section is missing
 * drbdadm: Allow nullglob in include statement
 * drbdadm: Fixed the use of waitpid
 * init script: fix insserv headers (Debian 576901)
 * Gave the receiving code the ability to use multiple BIOs for writing a
   single data packet; now DRBD works with BIOs up to 32kByte also on LVM
   devices; from now on the use_bmbv config option does nothing
 * New command check-resize, that allows DRBD to detect offline resizing
   and to move internal meta-data accordingly
 * Added a control loop, that allows DRBD to find auto tune the resync
   speed, on connections with large queues (drbd-proxy)
 * --dry-run option for connect; disconnects after sync handshake
 * --overwrite-data-of-peer got an alias named --force
 * Improvements to crm-fence-peer
 * Fixed option parsing and stacking in snapshot-resync-target-lvm.sh
 * Compiles on 2.6.33 and 2.6.34

8.3.7 (api:88/proto:86-91)
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 * Lots of fixes to the new RPM packaging
 * Lots of fixes to the autoconfig stuff
 * Following the rename of CONFIG_LBD to CONFIG_LBDAF
 * Silenced an assert. Could trigger after changing write ordering (Bugz 261)
 * Fixed a race condition between detach and ongoing IO. Very hard to
   trigger, caused an OOPS in make_request/drbd_make_request. (Bugz 262)
 * Fixed a regression in the resync handshake code introduced before 8.3.3.
   That bug causes DRBD to block during the initial handshake when a partial
   resync is not possible but a full resync is necessary. Happens very rarely.
   (Bugz 260)
 * Do not drop into StandAlone mode when connection is lost during authentication
 * Corrected a null test in the authentication code, found by conccinelle,
   thanks to upstream integration. The chance to trigger that was probably 10^-9.
 * crm-fence-peer.sh is now also usable if DRBD is managed from the xen block
   helper script
 * Fixes to the init script's dependencies
 * Backported cleanups that where contributed to the in kernel DRBD
 * Allow online resizing of disconnected devices, new option to drbdsetup
   drbdsetup /dev/drbdX resize --assume-peer-has-space
 * Allow multiple after options in the syncer section for stacked setups
 * Correctly process relative paths in include statements in drbd.conf
 * New option (-t) for drbdadm to test syntax of config snippets
 * Following Linux upstream changes 2.6.32 (SHASH and in_flight issues)
 * New /etc/drbd.conf example that suggests the use of /etc/drbd.d/xxx.res

8.3.6 (api:88/proto:86-91)
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 * Make sure that we ship all unplug events
 * Introduced autoconf, new RPM packaging

8.3.5 (api:88/proto:86-91)
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 * Fixed a regression introduced shortly before 8.3.3, which might
   case a deadlock in DRBD's disconnect code path. (Bugz 258)
 * Fixed drbdsetup X resume-io which is needed for the recovery
   from the effects of broken fence-peer scripts. (Bugz 256)
 * Do not reduce master score of a current Primary on connection loss,
   to avoid unnecessary migrations
 * Do not display the usage count dialog for /etc/inti.d/drbd status

8.3.4 (api:88/proto:86-91)
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 * Fixed a regression in the connector backport introduced with 8.3.3.
   Affected only kernels older than 2.6.14. I.e. RHEL4 and SLES9.

8.3.3 (api:88/proto:86-91)
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 * Correctly deal with large bitmaps (Bugz 239, 240)
 * Fixed a segfault in drbdadm's parser for unknown sync-after dependencies
 * DRBD_PEER was not set for handlers (introduced in 8.3.2) (Bugz 241)
 * Fixed a bug that could cause reads off diskless DRBD devices to get very slow
 * Fixed a deadlock possible when IO errors occure during resync (Bugz 224)
 * Do not do a full sync in case P_SYNC_UUID packet gets lost (Bugz 244)
 * Do not forget a resync in case the last ACK of a resync gets lost
 * The UUID compare function now handles more cases when connection/disk got
   lost during UUID updates (Bugz 251, 254)
 * If a resource gets renamed (only) update its /dev/
 * drbdsetup get-gi/show-gi sometimes warned about unknown tags (Bugz 253)
 * Autotune sndbuf-size and rcvbuf-size by default
 * Fixed many spelling errors
 * Improvements on the crm-fence-peer Pacemaker integration
 * Do not upgrade a Consistent disk to UpToDate when the fence-peer handler
   can not reach the peer (Bugz 198)
 * Support for Infiniband via SDP (sockets direct protocol)
 * Install bash completion stuff on SLES11
 * Following Linux upstream changes 2.6.31

8.3.2 (api:88/proto:86-90)
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 * Fixed the "Not a digest" issue for hash functions already ported to shash
 * Fixed a race condition between device configuration and de-configuration
 * Fixed: The sync-after logic modified flags of an unconfigured
   device. This caused very weird symptoms later. (Bugz 214)
 * Fixed a possible imbalance of the 'pe' counter during online verify
 * Fixed activity-log reading; could have been (partially) ignored,
   leading to incomplete resync after primary crash.
 * Fixed a deadlock when using automatic split brain recovery
 * Fixed a possible kernel crash in DRBD on highmem kernels. Was triggered by
   reading in the bitmap on one device, and writing data to an other, disconnected
   devices at the same time.
 * Fix for potential segfaults in drbdadm's sh-status & status commands
 * Correctly clean up resync status if a detach interrupts a resync (Bugz 223)
 * Reasonable error reporting if 'drbdadm invalidate' fails because resync already runs
 * New module parameter: disable_sendpage. Workaround for a Xen on DRBD issue
 * Allow detach while being SyncTarget (Bugz 221)
 * Optional RLE compression of the bitmap exchange ('use-rle' keyword)
 * Rewrite of the LRU code
 * Allow to skip initial resync: 'drbdadm -- --clear-bitmap new-current-uuid'
 * Upon request of Dolphin NICS: The 'sci' keyword is now called 'ssocks'
 * Allow more than two host ('on' keyword) sections, new drbdadm option '--peer'
 * New, alternate keyword 'floating' for host sections, for matching by ip-address
 * An OCF resource agent for pacemaker [Marked as BETA for this release]
 * crm-fence-peer.sh: A fence peer handler using pacemaker constraints
 * /etc/init.d/drbd stop now works completely independent of the config file
 * arbitrary custom device names (prefix drbd_ required)
 * Code cleanups for Linux mainline submission (no functional change)
 * Using Linux's own tracing framework instead of our own
 * Compatibility with Linux 2.6.30 and 2.6.31-rc1

8.3.1 (api:88/proto:86-89)
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 * Fixed drbdadm invalidate on disconnected devices (reg in 8.2.7)
 * Fixed a hard to trigger spinlock deadlock when using device stacking
   with the upper device having a smaller minor number than the lower device.
   (Bugz 210)
 * Adding a missing range check in ensure_mdev()
 * Implemented a congested_fn; the kernel can keep its pdflushes running now
 * Improvements the connection code for high latency links
 * Fix for several potential memory leaks when allocating a device
 * Use an additional meta data bit to store the fact of an old crashed primary
 * Udev rule that populates /dev/drbd/by-res/ and /dev/drbd/by-disk/
 * New timeout option: outdated-wfc-timeout
 * New drbdmeta option: --ignore-sanity-checks
 * Include statement for drbd.conf
 * Improvements to drbd-overview.pl
 * Fixed snapshot-resync-target-lvm.sh to work with more than 10 devices
 * Do not force a full resync after a detach on a primary node
 * Compatibility with Linux 2.6.27, 2.6.28 and 2.6.29

8.3.0 (api:88/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

8.2.7 (api:88/proto:86-88)
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 * Fixed possible Oops on connection loss during sync handshake
 * Fixed various possible deadlocks in the disconnect/reconnect and
   online-verify code
 * Fixed possible access-after-free
 * Added support for TCP buffer autotuning
 * Added support for AF_SCI aka "Super Sockets"
 * Added support for IPV6
 * latency improvements
 * Support for using barriers to enforce write ordering on the secondary
   node. New config options: no-disk-barrier, no-disk-drain
 * Merged all changes from 8.0.12 -> 8.0.14 into 8.2

8.2.6 (api:88/proto:86-88)
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 * The details of the LRU data structures is now hidden from
   /proc/drbd but can be re-enabled by echoing 1 to
   /sys/module/drbd/parameters/proc_details
 * Bash completion support for drbdadm (Installs on all distributions
   but RedHat, since they lack the /etc/bash_completion.d directory)
 * Fixed the out-of-sync handler it never fired.
 * Added the before-resync-target handler, and a default
   implementation of a handler that snapshots the target
   of a resynchronisation in case it is a LVM2 logic volume.
 * Improved error messages and documentation in regards to
   false positives of online verify and data-integrity-alg
   mechanisms in the presence of ReiserFS or the Linux
   swap code.
 * Added the max-bio-bvecs option to workaround issues in
   a stack of DRBD/LVM/Xen.
 * Merged all changes from 8.0.11 -> 8.0.12 into 8.2
 * Fixed online resizing in case it is triggered from the
   secondary node.

8.2.5 (api:88/proto:86-88)
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 * Fixed a race between online-verify and application writes.
   It caused drbd to report false positives, and very likely
   deadlocked immediately afterwards.
 * When DRBD is build for kernels older than 2.6.16 mutexes are
   provided by a wrapper include file which is shipped with DRBD.
   We had a bug in there that caused one of DRBD's threads to
   lockup after the first connection loss. Fixed.
 * Merged all changes from 8.0.8 -> 8.0.11 into 8.2

8.2.4 (api:88/proto:86-88)
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 * Fixed the online-verify and data-integrity-alg features.
   While preparing DRBD for Linux-2.6.24 a bug was introduced
   that rendered most digest based functionality in DRBD useless.

8.2.3 (api:88/proto:86-88)
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 * Released the online-verify feature from DRBD+ into drbd-8.2
 * Fixed the data-integrity-alg feature to work correctly
   in 'allow-two-primaries' mode.
 * Significant latency improvement: Implemented sane default
   CPU bindings (affinity mask) of threads, and added the tuning
   option 'cpu-mask'.
 * A completely new drbdmeta - finally dealing with
   all drbd-0.7 to drbd-8.x conversion cases correctly.
 * Merged all changes from 8.0.7 -> 8.0.8 into 8.2

8.2.1 (api:86/proto:86-87)
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 * Fixed the OOPS when _not_ using a shared secret on kernel 
   before Linux-2.6.19 (=old crypto API).
 * Support for drbd-proxy's configuration directives in drbdadm.
 * Look for /etc/drbd-82.conf before drbd-08.conf before drbd.conf
 * drbdadm now allows one to move the device, disk and meta-disk
   statements out of the host ("on") sections into the resource
   section. This allows you to shorten your config files.
 * Merged all changes from 8.0.6 -> 8.0.7 to 8.2

8.2.0 (api:86/proto:86-87)
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 * Branch for new features after 8.1 and 8.0. We will do a number of
   features that do not fiddle with the general architecture of DRBD.
   This will be like the the current Linux-2.6 development model.
 * Implemented the data-integrity-alg option. When this is set to
   one of the kernel's hash algorithms, such a hash is shipped with
   every user-data carrying packet. In case user-data is corrupted
   on the network DRBD protests by dropping the connection.


Changelog for fixes propagated from 8.0.x:
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8.0.16 (api:86/proto:86)
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 * Fixed the init script to work with all flavors of LSB

8.0.15 (api:86/proto:86)
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 * Adding a missing range check in ensure_mdev()
 * Fix for several potential memory leaks when allocating a device (Bugz 135)
 * Fixed error code pathes in request processing (Bugz 149)
 * Fixed an minor issue with the exposed data UUID logic (Bugz 164)
 * Fixed tight attach/detach loops (Bugz 171)
 * Fixed drbdadm adjust, when a running config contains "--discard-my-data" (Bugz 201)
 * Fix stack smashing in drbdmeta
 * Adding a missing range check in ensure_mdev() (Bugz 199)
 * Compatibility with Linux 2.6.27 and 2.6.28

8.0.14 (api:86/proto:86)
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 * fixed some access-after-free corner cases
 * fixed some potential deadlocks on state changes
 * don't use bounce buffers (reduce unnecessary buffer page bounces on 32bit)
 * properly serialize IO operations on the whole bitmap
 * reduce race possibilities in our thread restart code
 * linux 2.6.27 compatibility
 * latency improvements using TCP_QUICKACK
 * reduced spurious coding differrences between drbd-8.0 and drbd-8.2
 * drbdsetup now checks for /proc/drbd instead of playing netlink ping-pong
   to determin whether the drbd kernel module is present.
 * fixed (harmless but annoying) stack corruption in drbdadm
 * adjusted timeouts on 'detach' and 'down'
 * fixed unit conversion of disk size configuration parameter
 * fixed drbdadm/drbdsetup default unit mismatch
   for disk size configuration parameter
 * drbd.spec file update
 * documentation update

8.0.13 (api:86/proto:86)
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 * Fixed online resizing if there is application IO on the fly when the
   resize is triggered.
 * Fixed online resizing if it is triggered from the secondary node.
 * Fixed a possible deadlock in case "become-primary-on-both" is used, and
   a resync starts
 * Fixed the invocation of the pri-on-incon-degr handler
 * Fixed the exit codes of drbdsetup
 * sock_create_lite() to avoid a socket->sk leak
 * Auto-tune socket buffers if sndbuf-size is set to zero
 * Made it to compile on Linux-2.6.26

8.0.12 (api:86/proto:86)
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 * Corrected lock-out of application IO during bitmap IO.
   (Only triggered issues with multi-terrabyte volumes)
 * If an attach would causes a split-brain,
   abort the attach, do not drop the connection
 * A node without data (no disk, no connection) only accepts data
   (attach or connect) if that data matches the last-known data
 * Fixed various race conditions between state transitions
 * Various bugfixes to issues found by using the sparse tool
 * Corrected the exit codes of drbdsetup/drbdadm to match
   the expectations of dopd (drbd-outdate-peer-daemon)
 * Corrected the online changing of the number of AL extents while
   application IO is in flight.
 * Two new config options no-disk-flushes and no-md-flushes to disable
   the use of io subsystem flushes and barrier BIOs.
 * Make it compile on Linux-2.6.25
 * Support for standard disk stats
 * Work on stalling issues of the resync process
 * drbdsetup /dev/drbdX down no longer fails for non-existing minors
 * Added wipe-md to drbdadm

8.0.11 (api:86/proto:86)
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 * If we had no IO while a device was connected it could happen that
   the pending count was erroneously decreased to -1 at disconnect.
   Fixed.
 * Fixed a race that could deadlock worker and receiver while
   disconnecting a diskless node from a primary peer.
 * Fixed a minimal meory leak, upon each module unload of DRBD.

8.0.10 (api:86/proto:86)
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 * Fixed a race condition in the disconnect code path that could cause
   the pending count to not return to zero. This means that the
   next role change will block forever.

8.0.9 (api:86/proto:86)
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 * In case our backing devices support write barriers and cache
   flushes, we use these means to ensure data integrity in
   the presence of volatile disk write caches and power outages.
 * Fixed DRBD to no longer log
   "Sync bitmap getting lost (drbd_bm_set_bits_in_irq: (!b->bm))"
   endlessly after the local disk was lost.
 * Fixed protocol A for BIOs larger than the page size. If you
   hit the bug, DBBD would simply lose connection.
 * Don't accidentally truncate the device in case a secondary with
   a too small disk gets connected.
 * Changed state processing so that state changes visible
   via the drbdsetup events interface are always in the right order.
 * Made drbddisk's exit codes more LSB compliant.
 * Back-ported the new drbdmeta to drbd-8.0 (from drbd-8.2).
 * More robustness to the code that establishes connections.
 * Made '/etc/init.d/drbd status' to print a nice overview.
 * Made it to compile on Linux-2.6.24.

8.0.8 (api:86/proto:86)
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 * Improvements to the bitmap code. (The old code might re-enable
   interrupts by accident)
 * Fixed a endianness issue in the write protocol. C bit-fields are
   might by laid out differently on little/big endian machines.
 * Drbdadm's adjust forgot sometimes to adjust options values that
   where inherited from the common section, fixed that.
 * Removed dopd. It gets (and should be) shipped with heartbeat.
 * When peer authentication is enabled, you could trick drbd to send
   a state report packet before it authenticated itself. Fixed that.
 * Added robustness to resync pause/continue.
 * Drbdsetup should not report a random error if no netlink
   answer is received from the drbd module.
 * Fixes to error code paths. ( drbd_drain_block() and lc_alloc() )
 * Fixed a possible OOPS in case one manages to loose disk and
   network concurrently. (iSCSI disk and network over same switch)
 * Fixed the broadcasting of state change events to userspace.

8.0.7 (api:86/proto:86)
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 * Fixed drbdmeta's conversion of 07 style meta data.
 * Handle the failure of vmalloc() in the bitmap code more gracefully.
 * Do not pause resync on unconfigured devices.
 * Added missing pieces of the implementation of the "pri-lost" handler.
 * Added the "split-brain" handler.
 * Drop the network config after failure to authenticate.
 * Made it to compile on Linux-2.6.24-rc1.
 * Fixed an unlikely race that could cause a device to get stuck
   in SyncPause.
 * Online resizing failed to start resync properly (although it
   set up all the meta data correct). Fixed that.
 * Minor improvements to documentation and error messages.

8.0.6 (api:86/proto:86)
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 * Fixed DRBD to not deadlock while doing bitmap updates on Linux
   2.6.22 and later.
 * Make it compile on Linux-2.6.22 and later.
 * Removed a hard coded path to docbook DTDs from our SGML files,
   maybe improving the situation with building the documentation.
 * When a drbd connect attempt gets accepted onto a other program,
   that simply closes the socket, drbd stays for some seconds in the
   "BrokenPipe" network state. When one removed the network
   config during that time, drbd OOPSed. This is fixed now.
 * drbdmeta can now also initialize meta data on meta devices
   smaller than 128MB.
 * Added an explicit NULL argument to our ioctl() calls in drbdmeta.
 * Added scripts/block-drbd, which is a nice way hand over DRBD
   role assignment to Xen, allowing one to do Xen live migrations
   in a sane way.
 * Added scripts/pretty-proc-drbd.sh
 * Added an option to drbd.conf which instructs the init script
   to promote DRBD devices to primary role upon machine start up.

8.0.5 (api:86/proto:86)
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 * Changed the default behavior of the init script. Now the init
   script terminates in case the devices refuse to because they 
   had a split brain. Introduced an option to preserve the old
   behavior.
 * Fixed a bug where the local_cnt could get imbalanced upon a 
   state change.
 * Fixed an bug in the UUID algorithm, that could lead to both
   sides in cs:WFBitMapT state. It was triggered when the disk
   on the SyncTarget gets detached and attached.
 * Implemented proper size checking on strings that get communicated
   with DRBD's netlink protocol.
 * Changed the maximal length of device names from 32 characters to
   128 characters. (udev based disk names might be very long nowadays)
 * Fixed the after-sb-0pri policies discard-younger/discard-older
 * When the resync speed was changed to a considerably lower 
   value while resync was running, it could happen that we erroneously
   decremented the local_cnt too often.
 * Fixed a bug in the UUID code, that caused drbd to erroneously report 
   a split brain after changing the role of a diskless node multiple 
   times.
 * Both nodes ended up in SyncSource when a state change occurred on 
   one node while the disk state on the other node is in the temporal 
   'Negotiating' state. Fixed got fixed.
 * drbdmeta's parse/scan code for meta-data dumps got fixed for 
   huge devices, and an improved error reporting.
 * drbdadm had difficulties with option values of type string that
   start with an digit. Fixed.
 * Fixed a code path that should it make possible to unload the
   module even in case some of our receive buffers leaked.
 * The usermode helper program is now user definable. It is no
   longer hardcoded set to 'drbdadm'.

8.0.4 (api:86/proto:86)
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 * Fixed an OOPS in case you do an invalidate on an diskless device. And
   made invalidates on diskless devices possible by using drbdmeta.
 * Fix for an possible OOPS in drbd_al_to_on_disk_bm().
 * Fix for a possible OOPS. This issue was triggered when you do an
   attach very soon (ms) after the disk was dropped.
 * Fix for a race condition in receive_state(). Symptom was that the
   resync stalls at 100% on a node.
 * Some block devices fail requests by clearing the BIO_UPTODATE flag
   (that is ok), but not returning an error (that is strange). 
   We now deal with that correctly.
 * Drbdadm's parser will now reject config files with resources with 
   missing "on" sections. (Instead of segfaulting)
 * Init script continues in case the setup of a single resource fails.
 * Improvements to the "drbdsetup events" interface: Updates about
   the resync progress and initial state of all devices if called with "-a".
 * The benchmark/dm program can now also create custom bandwidth loads.

8.0.3 (api:86/proto:86)
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 * Fixed a race condition that could cause us to continue to traverse a bio
   after it was freed. (led to an OOPS)
 * Fixed a race condition that could cause us to use members of an ee, after
   it was freed. (led to various weirdness)
 * Language fixes for the man pages.
 * The drbdsetup commands (events, wait-connect,...) release the lock now.
 * Minor fixes and updates to the user land tools and to the peer outdater.

8.0.2 (api:86/proto:86)
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 * Removed a bug that could cause an OOPS in drbd_al_to_on_disk_bm()
 * Improved the robustness of the UUID based algorithm that decides
   about the resync direction.
 * Fixed the error handling in case a the open() of a backing
   block device fails.
 * Fixed a race condition that could cause a "drbdadm disconnect" to hang.
 * More verbosity in we can not claim a backing block device.
 * More verbosity and paranoia in the bitmap area.
 * On some vendor kernels 8.0.1 did not load because of kzalloc. fixed.
 * Fault injection can now not only be turned on or off, but can be 
   enabled on a per device basis.
 * Fixed the scripts and files needed to build drbd into a kernel.

8.0.1 (api:86/proto:86)
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 * Fixed some race conditions that could trigger an OOPS when the local disk
   fails and DRBD detaches itself from the failing disk.
 * Added a missing call to drbd_try_outdate_peer().
 * LVM's LVs expose ambiguous queue settings. When a RAID-0 (md) PV is
   used the present a segment size of 64k but at the same time allow only
   8 sectors. Fixed DRBD to deal with that fact correctly.
 * New option "always-asbp" to also use the after-after-split-brain-policy
   handlers, even it is not possible to determine from the UUIDs that
   the data of the two nodes was related in the past.
 * More verbosity in case a bio_add_page() fails.
 * Replaced kmalloc()/memset() with kzmalloc(), and a wrapper for older kernels
 * A fast version of drbd_al_to_on_disk_bm(). This is necessary for short
   (even sub-second) switchover times while having large "al-extents" settings.
 * Fixed drbdadm's array overflows (of on stack objects)
 * drbdsetup can now dump its usage in a XML format
 * New init script for gentoo
 * Fixed Typos in the usage of /proc/sysrq-trigger in the example config.

8.0.0 (api:86/proto:86)
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 * No effective changes to rc2.

8.0rc2 (api:86/proto:86)
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 * Added the well known automagically adjust drbd_config.h to
   make drbd compile on every by vendor's backports defaced 
   kernel. ( Linux-2.6.x only of course )
 * Fixed races with starting and finishing resync processes 
   while heavy application IO is going on.
 * Ported DRBD to the new crypto API (and added a emulation of the
   now API on top of the old one for older 2.6.x kernels)
 * Code to perform better on Ethernet networks with jumbo
   frames.
 * Bugfixes to our request code (race conditions).
 * Every error code that is returned by drbdsetup has a 
   textual description by now.

8.0rc1 (api:86/proto:85)
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 * The drbd-peer-outdater got updated to work in multi node heartbeat
   clusters. (But we still not succeeded to get this into Heartbeat's
   repository accepted.)
 * Fixed resync decision after a crash in a pri-pri cluster.
 * Implemented the ping-timeout option for "sub-second" failover clusters.
 * Implemented all the "violently" options in the reconnect handling.
 * Updated man pages of drbd.conf and drbdsetup.
 * Removed the "self-claiming" on secondary nodes.
 * Fixed an uncountable number of bugs.

8.0pre6 (api:85/proto:85)
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 * All panic() calls where removed from DRBD.
 * IO errors while accessing the backing storage device are now handled
   correct.
 * Conflict detection for two primaries is in place and tested.
 * More tracing stuff
 * Lots of bugs found and fixed

8.0pre5 (api:84/proto:83)
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 * The request code was completely rewritten.
 * The write conflict detection code for primary-primary is currently
   broken, but will be fixed soon.
 * drbdsetup is no longer based on IOCTL but works now via
   netlink/connector.
 * drbd_panic() is on its way out.
 * A runtime configurable tracing framework got added.
 * A lot of effort was put into finding and fixing bugs.

8.0pre4 (api:83/proto:82)
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 * Added the "drbd-peer-outdater" heartbeat plugin.
 * New ("cluster wide") state changes. (Cluster wide serialization of
   major state changes, like becoming primary, invalidating a disk etc...)
 * Write requests are now sent by the worker instead out of the process's
   context that calls make_request().
 * The worker thread no longer gets restarted upon loss of connection.
 * A test suite developed by students of 'FH Hagenberg' was added.

8.0pre3 (api:82/proto:80)
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 * Now it works on device mapper (LVM) as well as on "real" block devices.
 * Finally (after years) a sane "drbdadm adjust" implementation, which is
   really really robust.
 * Fixes for 64bit kernel / 32 bit userland environments
 * Fixes in the sys-v init script
 * Renamed "--do-what-I-say" to "--overwrite-data-of-peer". Hopefully
   people now understand what this option does.

8.0-pre2 (api:81/proto:80)
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 * removed the "on-disconnect" and "split-brain-fix" config options and
   added the "fencing" config option instead.
 * Updated all man pages to cover drbd-8.0
 * /proc/drbd shows the whole drbd_state_t, as well the logging of state
   changes shows every field of drbd_state_t now.
 * Deactivated most of the TCQ code for now, since it changed again
   in the mainline kernel.
 * Minor other fixes.

8.0_pre1 (api:80/proto:80)
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 * Removed support for Linux-2.4.x
 * Cleanup of the wire protocol.
 * Added optional peer authentication with a shared secret.
 * Consolidated state changes into a central function.
 * Improved, tunable after-split-brain recovery strategies.
 * Always verify all IDs used in the protocol that are used as pointers.
 * Introduced the "outdate" disk state, and commands for managing it.
 * Introduced the "drbdmeta" command, and require the user to create
   meta-data explicitly.
 * Support for primary/primary (for OCFS2, GFS...)
 * Replaced the sync-groups with the sync-after mechanism.
 * The "common" section in the configuration file.
 * Replaced the generation counters (GCs) with data-generation-UUIDs
 * Improved performance by using Linux-2.6's BIOs with up to 32k per
   IO request. Before we transferred only up to 4k per IO request.
 * A Warning if the disk sizes are more than 10% different.
 * A connection teardown packet to differentiate between a crash
   of the peer and a peer that is shut down gracefully.
 * External imposable SyncPause states, to serialize DRBD's resynchronization
   with the resynchronization of backing storage's RAID configurations.
 * Backing storage can be hot added to disk less nodes.
 * Prepared for advanced integration to Heartbeat-2.0
 * Changed internal APIs so that missed writes of the meta-data super
   block are reported as they happen.
 * The http://usage.drbd.org sub project.
 * Rewrote the scanner/parser of drbd.conf. 10 times smaller/faster and
   easier to maintain.
 * Asynchronous meta-data IO [ Code drop from the DRBD+ branch ]