Dear DRBD and WinDRBD community, We just released a new minor release of the WinDRBD software package. For those who don't know, WinDRBD is a port of DRBD to the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems.
We mainly focussed on getting WinDRBD more stable for this release, we have two (non-boot via WinDRBD) VMs running on constant I/O for more than one week now. Also on machines booted via WinDRBD it is now more stable and can, in most cases, survive a network failure. However we still got report about crashes when using the boot feature (which we will fix in an upcoming release) so please do not use booting via WinDRBD in production enviroments yet. As a minor addition, the CGI script now tries forever to access the block device (causing iPXE to wait on booting until the device is ready) which fixes the annoying behaviour of not booting on Windows restart (because there was still the old Primary connection in which case DRBD devices cannot be opened at all, also not read-only). Again, please contribute to WinDRBD development by testing it, most of the issues we fixed came from the community (many thanks to Yannis and Oliver at this point), As always, you can download the newest version from https://www.linbit.com/en/drbd-community/drbd-download/ as an EXE installer signed by Linbit-HA. To learn how to set up WinDRBD with data devices or how to set it up with a WinDRBD boot device (diskless client booting via WinDRBD from the network), please consult the tech-guides at https://downloads.linbit.com/ (you need to register to download the guides). We will maintain a WHATSNEW.md file from now on that briefly describes what is new in the version. You can directly view it online at github: https://github.com/LINBIT/windrbd/blob/master/WHATSNEW.md Best regards and happy hacking !! - Johannes
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