# WinDRBD 1.2.0-rc7 released

**URL:** <https://forums.linbit.com/t/windrbd-1-2-0-rc7-released/594>\
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**Created:** [February 4, 2025, 12:33pm UTC](https://forums.linbit.com/t/windrbd-1-2-0-rc7-released/594 "2025-02-04T12:33:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johannes\_Thoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/779978/32.png) [@Johannes\_Thoma](https://forums.linbit.com/u/Johannes_Thoma)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 12:33pm UTC](https://forums.linbit.com/t/windrbd-1-2-0-rc7-released/594/1 "2025-02-04T12:33:30Z")

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Dear WinDRBD community,

We are proud to announce the first public testing version of the new brightly  
shining 1.2 branch of WinDRBD. Under the hood a lot has been changed  
in this branch. The most notable changes are:

\* WinDRBD 1.2 supports DRBD 9.1, DRBD 9.2 and future DRBD branches  
as HA block storage backends.

\* WinDRBD 1.2 can be built solely on Linux.

\* You can specify the DRBD engine to build against at build time.

\* There is a docker container containing all the build dependencies (still  
you can also create the container yourself or install the build dependencies  
on your host system).

\* WinDRBD 1.2 builds with MinGW instead of MS VC. This means that there  
are far less patches to DRBD necessary (less than 1% of DRBD is patched).

\* The patching system for DRBD has been completely reworked. Now manual  
patches reside on branches inside the DRBD repository. For example  
for DRBD 9.2 the current branch is win/windrbd-1.2-drbd-9.2.12. In  
addition there are 2 cocci patches which are applied by the build system.

\* And more code cleanups, bug fixes, ... more to follow.

There are downloadable installers at the Linbit website  
([LINBIT Software Download Page For LINSTOR And DRBD Linux Driver](https://linbit.com/linbit-software-download-page-for-linstor-and-drbd-linux-driver/))  
built against DRBD 9.0, 9.1 and 9.2.

In addition, it is very easy to compile an installer yourself, to get started go to:

> **[GitHub - LINBIT/windrbd at windrbd-1.2](https://github.com/LINBIT/windrbd/tree/windrbd-1.2)**
>
> windrbd-1.2

and follow the First things First instructions of the README.md.

I would love to hear about your experiences with WinDRBD 1.2,

Thanks a lot,

- Johannes

PS: Last but not least, WinDRBD 1.2 supports ReactOS (32 bit) as target system.  
This is very handy because the MinGW gcc (the compiler we use to build the  
driver) cannot output debug information for Microsoft Windows windbg but  
only for the GNU debugger (gdb). So we use gdb to debug WinDRBD on ReactOS  
which works suprisingly well. If you want to try WinDRBD on ReactOS, try  
running make help for build instructions. I'd also be more than happy to  
help out getting WinDRBD running on ReactOS, just drop me an eMail.