# drbd-reactor v1.8.0

**URL:** https://forums.linbit.com/t/drbd-reactor-v1-8-0/609
**Category:** Release Announcements
**Tags:** drbd
**Created:** [February 12, 2025, 8:29am UTC](https://forums.linbit.com/t/drbd-reactor-v1-8-0/609 "2025-02-12T08:29:10Z")
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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 12, 2025, 8:29am UTC](https://forums.linbit.com/t/drbd-reactor-v1-8-0/609/1 "2025-02-12T08:29:10Z")

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Dear DRBD users,

this is drbd-reactor version 1.8.0. There have not been any bug reports  
since the last RC. The initial announcement for convenience:

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.

Regards, rck

GIT: [prepare v1.8.0 · LINBIT/drbd-reactor@44c77aa · GitHub](https://github.com/LINBIT/drbd-reactor/commit/44c77aacc35a2a30f7c1000019c351b59c5189c5)  
TGZ: [https://pkg.linbit.com//downloads/drbd/utils/drbd-reactor-1.8.0.tar.gz](https://pkg.linbit.com//downloads/drbd/utils/drbd-reactor-1.8.0.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}