Codership is pleased to announce the release of Galera Replication library 4.8, implementing wsrep API version 26. The library is now available as targeted packages and package repositories for a number of Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, RHEL and SLES. Obtaining packages using a package repository removes the need to download individual files and facilitates the deployment and upgrade of Galera nodes. This and future releases will be available from https://www.galeracluster.com. The latest version of Galera for FreeBSD is available in the FreeBSD Ports Collection. Notable fixes in Galera replication since last release by Codership (4.7): - Recovery to wrong position after process was killed during IST was fixed (codership/galera#210). - Support for X509 certificate chains (codership/galera#571). - Improved SSL error messages to contain also certificate verification error reason. - SSL certificates may now be reloaded by setting `socket.ssl_reload=1` provider option. - Upgrade path from non-SSL to SSL cluster with `socket.dynamic=1` provider option. With this option enabled, the cluster will operate in mixed mode allowing nodes to communicate over both TCP and SSL connections. - OpenSSL version in binary tarball build was bumped to 1.1.1k. Build fixes: - Atomic library linkage fixes for Debian platforms (codership/galera#558). - CMake post build check fixes to use correct objdump binary (codership/galera#558). - Byteswap compilation failures on FreeBSD were fixed (codership/galera#581). - Hardware CRC32C support for FreeBSD/ARM. Known Issues: - In order to install Galera package on CentOS 8 or RHEL 8, MySQL and MariaDB modules need to be disabled first with `dnf -y module disable mysql mariadb`.