We are pleased to announce that the Lustre 2.12.6 Release has been declared GA and is available for download.<https://downloads.whamcloud.com/public/lustre/lustre-2.12.6/> You can also grab the source from git .<https://git.whamcloud.com/?p=fs/lustre-release.git;a=commit;h=ec36abd2f922eaf35ba412afd3368767b0fb2f26>

Details of changes since 2.12.5<http://wiki.lustre.org/Lustre_2.12.5_Changelog> can be found in the 2.12.6 change log.<http://wiki.lustre.org/Lustre_2.12.6_Changelog>

There are the following notable enhancements over 2.12.5:

RHEL 7.9 is now supported for servers and clients  (LU-13590 <https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-13590> ).
RHEL 8.3 is now supported for clients  (LU-13839<https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-13839>).

Please log any issues found in the issue tracking system<https://jira.whamcloud.com/>.

Thanks to all those who have contributed to the creation of this release.

The next LTS release will be 2.12.7