# Release notes for Gluster 5.5

This is a bugfix release. The release notes for [5.0](5.0.md), [5.1](5.1.md), [5.2](5.2.md) and [5.3](5.3.md) contains
a listing of all the new features that were added and bugs fixed in the
GlusterFS 5 stable release.

**NOTE:** Next minor release tentative date: Week of 10th May, 2019

**NOTE:** Release 5.4 was never announced as there was a fix which prevented
rolling upgrades from working correctly. Hence this release notes contains a
skip from 5.3 till 5.5 in terms of issues addressed and also addresses the
issue were rolling upgrades were broken.

## Major changes, features and limitations addressed in this release

**None**

## Major issues

**None**

## Bugs addressed

Bugs addressed since release-5.3 are listed below.

- [#1684385](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1684385): [ovirt-gluster] Rolling gluster upgrade from 3.12.5 to 5.3 led to shard on-disk xattrs disappearing
- [#1684569](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1684569): Upgrade from 4.1 and 5 is broken
- [#1687249](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1687249): Error handling in /usr/sbin/gluster-eventsapi produces IndexError: tuple index out of range
- [#1687687](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1687687): [geo-rep]: Checksum mismatch when 2x2 vols are converted to arbiter
- [#1649054](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1649054): glustereventsd does not start on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- [#1651246](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1651246): Failed to dispatch handler
- [#1665145](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1665145): Writes on Gluster 5 volumes fail with EIO when "cluster.consistent-metadata" is set
- [#1669382](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1669382): [ovirt-gluster] Fuse mount crashed while creating the preallocated image
- [#1670307](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1670307): api: bad GFAPI_4.1.6 block
- [#1671217](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1671217): core: move "dict is NULL" logs to DEBUG log level
- [#1671556](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1671556): glusterfs FUSE client crashing every few days with 'Failed to dispatch handler'
- [#1671611](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1671611): Unable to delete directories that contain linkto files that point to itself.
- [#1672248](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1672248): quorum count not updated in nfs-server vol file
- [#1672314](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1672314): thin-arbiter: Check with  thin-arbiter file before marking new entry change log
- [#1673268](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1673268): Fix timeouts so the tests pass on AWS
- [#1678726](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1678726): Integer Overflow possible in md-cache.c due to data type inconsistency
- [#1679968](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1679968): Upgrade from glusterfs 3.12 to gluster 4/5 broken