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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">We are pleased to announce that the <b>Lustre 2.12.8<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Release </b>has been declared GA and is available for
</span><a href="https://downloads.whamcloud.com/public/lustre/lustre-2.12.8/"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">download.</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"> You can also grab the source from
</span><a href="https://git.whamcloud.com/?p=fs/lustre-release.git;a=commit;h=067cb5518f2f976dd9d805cf49b010f81ae86396"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">git .</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Details of changes since <a href="https://wiki.lustre.org/Lustre_2.12.7_Changelog">2.12.7</a> can be found in the </span><a href="http://wiki.lustre.org/Lustre_2.12.8_Changelog"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext">2.12.8
change log.</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">There is the following notable enhancement over 2.12.7:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;background:white">RHEL 8.5 </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;background:white">is now supported for clients<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"> (</span><a href="https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-15126"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext">LU-15126</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">). </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Please log any issues found in the </span><a href="https://jira.whamcloud.com/"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:purple">issue tracking system</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Thanks to all those who have contributed to the creation of this release.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">The next LTS release will likely be 2.12.9</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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