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Change-Id: Id909cd4559c8d828eb9a77a0b4f27b7b59dfca4a
Signed-off-by: Shyam <srangana@redhat.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.gluster.org/17207
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+# Release notes for Gluster 3.11.0
+
+This is a major Gluster release that includes some substantial changes. The
+features revolve around, improvements to small file workloads, Halo replication
+enhancement from Facebook, some usability and performance improvements, among
+other bug fixes.
+
+The most notable features and changes are documented on this page. A full list
+of bugs that has been addressed is included further below.
+
+## Major changes and features
+
+### Switched to storhaug for ganesha and samba high availability
+*Notes for users:*
+
+*Limitations:*
+
+*Known Issues:*
+
+### Added SELinux support for Gluster Volumes
+*Notes for users:*
+
+*Limitations:*
+
+*Known Issues:*
+
+### Several memory leaks are fixed in gfapi during graph switches
+*Notes for users:*
+
+*Limitations:*
+
+*Known Issues:*
+
+### get-state CLI is enhanced to provide client and brick capacity related information
+*Notes for users:*
+
+*Limitations:*
+
+*Known Issues:*
+
+### Ability to serve negative lookups from cache has been added
+*Notes for users:*
+
+*Limitations:*
+
+*Known Issues:*
+
+### New xlator to help developers detecting resource leaks has been added
+*Notes for users:*
+
+*Limitations:*
+
+*Known Issues:*
+
+### Feature for metadata-caching/small file performance is production ready
+*Notes for users:*
+
+*Limitations:*
+
+*Known Issues:*
+
+### "Parallel Readdir" feature is production ready
+*Notes for users:*
+
+*Limitations:*
+
+*Known Issues:*
+
+### Object versioning is enabled only if bitrot is enabled
+*Notes for users:*
+
+*Limitations:*
+
+*Known Issues:*
+
+### Distribute layer provides more robust transactions during directory namespace operations
+*Notes for users:*
+
+*Limitations:*
+
+*Known Issues:*
+
+### gfapi readdirplus API has been enhanced to return handles
+*Notes for users:*
+
+*Limitations:*
+
+*Known Issues:*
+
+### Improved adoption of standard refcounting functions across the code
+*Notes for users:*
+
+*Limitations:*
+
+*Known Issues:*
+
+### Performance improvements to rebalance have been made
+*Notes for users:*
+
+*Limitations:*
+
+*Known Issues:*
+
+### Halo Replication feature in AFR has been introduced
+*Notes for users:*
+
+*Limitations:*
+
+*Known Issues:*
+
+## Bugs addressed
+
+Bugs addressed since release-3.10 are listed below.
+
+<<TO DO>>