# Release notes for Gluster 3.8.1

This is a bugfix release. The [Release Notes for 3.8.0](3.8.0.md) contain a
listing of all the new features that were added and bugs fixed in the GlusterFS
3.8 stable release.

## Bugs addressed

A total of 35 patches have been sent, addressing 32 bugs:

- [#1345883](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1345883): [geo-rep]: Worker died with [Errno 2] No such file or directory
- [#1346134](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1346134): quota : rectify quota-deem-statfs default value in gluster v set help command
- [#1346158](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1346158): Possible crash due to a timer cancellation race
- [#1346750](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1346750): Unsafe access to inode->fd_list
- [#1347207](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1347207): Old documentation link in log during Geo-rep MISCONFIGURATION
- [#1347355](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1347355): glusterd: SuSE build system error for incorrect strcat, strncat usage
- [#1347489](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1347489): IO ERROR when multiple graph switches
- [#1347509](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1347509): Data Tiering:tier volume status shows as in-progress on all nodes of a cluster even if the node is not part of volume
- [#1347524](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1347524): NFS+attach tier:IOs hang while attach tier is issued
- [#1347529](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1347529): rm -rf to a dir gives directory not empty(ENOTEMPTY) error
- [#1347553](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1347553): O_DIRECT support for sharding
- [#1347590](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1347590): Ganesha+Tiering: Continuous "0-glfs_h_poll_cache_invalidation: invalid argument" messages getting logged in ganesha-gfapi logs.
- [#1348055](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1348055): cli  core dumped while providing/not wrong values during arbiter replica volume
- [#1348060](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1348060): Worker dies with [Errno 5] Input/output error upon creation of entries at slave
- [#1348086](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1348086): [geo-rep]: Worker crashed with "KeyError: "
- [#1349274](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1349274): [geo-rep]: If the data is copied from .snaps directory to the master, it doesn't get sync to slave [First Copy]
- [#1349711](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1349711): [Granular entry sh] - Implement renaming of indices in index translator
- [#1349879](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1349879): AFR winds a few reads of a file in metadata split-brain.
- [#1350326](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1350326): Protocol client not mounting volumes running on older versions.
- [#1350785](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1350785): Add relative path validation for gluster copy file utility
- [#1350787](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1350787): gfapi: in case of handle based APIs, close glfd after successful create
- [#1350789](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1350789): Buffer overflow when attempting to create filesystem using libgfapi as driver on OpenStack
- [#1351025](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1351025): Implement API to get page aligned iobufs in iobuf.c
- [#1351151](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1351151): ganesha.enable remains on in volume info file even after we disable nfs-ganesha on the cluster.
- [#1351154](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1351154): nfs-ganesha disable doesn't delete nfs-ganesha folder from /var/run/gluster/shared_storage
- [#1351711](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1351711): build: remove absolute paths from glusterfs spec file
- [#1352281](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1352281): Issues reported by Coverity static analysis tool
- [#1352393](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1352393): [FEAT] DHT - rebalance - rebalance status o/p should be different for 'fix-layout' option, it should not show 'Rebalanced-files' , 'Size', 'Scanned' etc as it is not migrating any files.
- [#1352632](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1352632): qemu libgfapi clients hang when doing I/O
- [#1352817](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1352817): [scale]: Bricks not started after node reboot.
- [#1352880](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1352880): gluster volume info --xml returns 0 for nonexistent volume
- [#1353426](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1353426): glusterd: glusterd provides stale port information when a volume is recreated with same brick path