# drbd-9.2.16-rc.1 and drbd-9.3.0-rc.5 **URL:** \ **Category:** Release Announcements\ **Tags:** drbd\ **Created:** [November 18, 2025, 11:29pm UTC](https://forums.linbit.com/t/drbd-9-2-16-rc-1-and-drbd-9-3-0-rc-5/1062 "2025-11-18T23:29:22Z")\ **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 18, 2025, 11:29pm UTC](https://forums.linbit.com/t/drbd-9-2-16-rc-1-and-drbd-9-3-0-rc-5/1062/1 "2025-11-18T23:29:22Z")
Hello drbd users, The next releases are coming soon. Today I have the honour to announce the availability of release candidate 1 for drbd-9.2.16 and drbd-9.3.0-rc.5. The latter is already at 5, since we did some internal release candidates. This time it looks good. Regarding the fixes, everything is minor and boring. drbd-9.3 is where the exciting new features are. This time, it got support for tunable bitmap granularity and for disabling the change-tracking bitmap entirely. Please help test the release candidates. I plan to do the final releases in one week if nobody finds a showstopper. 9.2.16-rc.1 (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 an 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 > [https://pkg.linbit.com//downloads/drbd/9/drbd-9.2.16-rc.1.tar.gz](https://pkg.linbit.com//downloads/drbd/9/drbd-9.2.16-rc.1.tar.gz) 9.3.0-rc.5 (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 \* 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.5.tar.gz](https://pkg.linbit.com//downloads/drbd/9/drbd-9.3.0-rc.5.tar.gz) cheers, philipp