[Gluster-Maintainers] Announcing Gluster release 5.6

[Shyam Ranganathan]

The Gluster community is pleased to announce the release of Gluster
5.6 (packages available at [1]).

Release notes for the release can be found at [2].

Major changes, features and limitations addressed in this release:

- Release 5.x had a long standing issue where network bandwidth usage
was much higher than in prior releases. This issue has been addressed in
this release. Bug 1673058 has more details regarding the issue [3].

Thanks,
Gluster community

[1] Packages for 5.6:
https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/5/5.6/

[2] Release notes for 5.6:
https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/release-notes/5.6/

[3] Bandwidth usage bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1673058