# Release notes for Gluster 7.8

This is a bugfix release. The release notes for [7.0](7.0.md), [7.1](7.1.md),
[7.2](7.2.md), [7.3](7.3.md), [7.4](7.4.md) [7.5](7.5.md), [7.6](7.6.md) and [7.7](7.7.md)
contain a listing of all the new features that were added
and bugs fixed in the GlusterFS 7 stable release.

**NOTE:**
1. Next minor release tentative date: Week of 30th Nov, 2020.
2. Next minor release would be the last release of release-7.x series.

## 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/7/7.8/](https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/7/7.8/)

## Issues addressed in this release

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

- [#763](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/763)  thin-arbiter: Testing report
- [#1000](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1000) [bug:1193929] GlusterFS can be improved
- [#1002](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1002) [bug:1679998] GlusterFS can be improved
- [#1250](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1250) geo-rep: Fix corner case in rename on mkdir during hybrid crawl
- [#1253](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1253) On Ovirt setup glusterfs performs poorly
- [#1332](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1332) Unable to Upgrade to Gluster 7 from Earlier Version
- [#1351](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1351) issue with gf_fill_iatt_for_dirent()
- [#1354](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1354) High CPU utilization by self-heal on disperse volumes with no ...
- [#1385](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1385) High CPU utilization by self-heal on disperse volumes when an ...
- [#1407](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1407) glusterd keep crashing when upgrading from 6.5 to 7.7
- [#1438](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1438) syncdaemon/syncdutils.py: SyntaxWarning: "is" with a literal. ...
- [#1440](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1440) glusterfs 7.7 fuse client memory leak
- [#1472](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1472) Readdir-ahead leads to inconsistent ls results