# drbd-reactor v1.8.0-rc.1

**URL:** https://forums.linbit.com/t/drbd-reactor-v1-8-0-rc-1/598
**Category:** Release Announcements
**Tags:** drbd
**Created:** [February 6, 2025, 9:47am UTC](https://forums.linbit.com/t/drbd-reactor-v1-8-0-rc-1/598 "2025-02-06T09:47:20Z")
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### Author: ![rck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c37758/32.png) [@rck](https://forums.linbit.com/u/rck)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2025, 9:47am UTC](https://forums.linbit.com/t/drbd-reactor-v1-8-0-rc-1/598/1 "2025-02-06T09:47:20Z")

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Dear DRBD users,

this is RC1 of the upcoming drbd-reactor version 1.8.0. All in all  
reactor proved to do what it should, but there is one improvement for  
the promoter plugin: We had a user that "drbd-reactorctl disabled" a  
resource where the demotion of the DRBD device did not work for whatever  
reason. Then the user enabled the resource again, but the services on  
top were not started. The explanation is simple: The device was already  
Primary, so drbd-reactor never saw a "may\_promote:yes" in the events2  
stream and well, did not react.

New behavior: On plugin start we generate the systemd target templates  
as usual, but we also check if we are already local Primary. If so, we  
also start the systemd target unit. This does not hurt and might help in  
such "things half started" scenarios.

Please test, if we don't find any bugs the final release will happen in  
about a week from now.

Regards, rck

GIT: [prepare v1.8.0-rc.1 · LINBIT/drbd-reactor@7a6f9c2 · GitHub](https://github.com/LINBIT/drbd-reactor/commit/7a6f9c29fdb3bae7324a76b5a82b65805b87abcb)  
TGZ: [https://pkg.linbit.com//downloads/drbd/utils/drbd-reactor-1.8.0-rc.1.tar.gz](https://pkg.linbit.com//downloads/drbd/utils/drbd-reactor-1.8.0-rc.1.tar.gz)  
PPA: [LINBIT DRBD9 Stack : “LINBIT” team](https://launchpad.net/~linbit/+archive/ubuntu/linbit-drbd9-stack)

Changelog:

[Roland Kammerer]  
\* doc: mv on-{stop,drbd-demote}-failure  
\* promoter: start services on activation  
\* doc,promoter: note about LINSTOR  
\* build: mv .cargo/config.{,toml}