# drbd-9.2.16 and drbd-9.3.0-rc.6 **URL:** \ **Category:** Release Announcements\ **Tags:** drbd\ **Created:** [November 25, 2025, 9:14pm UTC](https://forums.linbit.com/t/drbd-9-2-16-and-drbd-9-3-0-rc-6/1071 "2025-11-25T21:14:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![phil\_reisner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/779978/32.png) [@phil\_reisner](https://forums.linbit.com/u/phil_reisner)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 9:14pm UTC](https://forums.linbit.com/t/drbd-9-2-16-and-drbd-9-3-0-rc-6/1071/1 "2025-11-25T21:14:31Z")
Dear DRBD-users, Here is the drbd-9.2.16 final release. The bugs fixed in this release are mostly exotic corner cases. One fix is that a fatal user error causes the machine to enter an annoying out-of-memory condition in previous DRBD releases. The developers have switched their interest to the 9.3 branch. I want to roll it out internally, following the so-called 'eat your own dog food' strategy, before I declare it a final release. I plan to release 9.3.0 early next week. 9.2.16 (api:genl2/proto:86-101,118-122/transport:19) -------- \* Do not trigger the OOM-killer when allocating a too-big dirty    bitmap during attach; instead, fail the attach operation. \* Do not flush half-created packets out while closing a connection \* Fixed a bug that, in rare circumstances, when flapping between    Ahead and resync, can lead to a divide by zero error. \* Fixed a bug that caused DRBD to send too many P\_PEERS\_IN\_SYNC    packets when finishing a resync; on huge devices ( \>10TB), that led    to temporarily higher I/O latencies. \* Fixed two unhandled corner case to automatically reintegrate an I/O    frozen primary into a larger partition that created a newer data    generation \* Compatibility with Linux-6.17 and 6.18-rc6 > [https://pkg.linbit.com//downloads/drbd/9/drbd-9.2.16.tar.gz](https://pkg.linbit.com//downloads/drbd/9/drbd-9.2.16.tar.gz) 9.3.0-rc.6 (api:genl2/proto:86-101,118-123/transport:19) -------- \* Implemented support for bitmap granularity between 4k and 1M,    including exchanging bitmaps with peers with a different bitmap    block size \* Add support for omitting bitmap allocation for standalone devices \* Explicit config option for drbd8-api-compatibility mode \* Give filesystems mounted on DRBD a chance to bring their on-disk    representations into a consistent state before suspending I/O. \* Fixes for resync without replication \* All fixes from 9.2.14, 9.2.15 and 9.2.16 \* Compatibility with Linux-6.17 > [https://pkg.linbit.com//downloads/drbd/9/drbd-9.3.0-rc.6.tar.gz](https://pkg.linbit.com//downloads/drbd/9/drbd-9.3.0-rc.6.tar.gz)