doc: Added release notes for 6.1

Fixes: bz#1692394
Change-Id: I44a28ec98932d54851dbf997988e1f8fd9877f0a
Signed-off-by: ShyamsundarR <srangana@redhat.com>

doc/release-notes/6.1.md

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+# Release notes for Gluster 6.1
+
+This is a bugfix release. The release notes for [6.0](6.0.md) contains a listing of
+all the new features that were added and bugs fixed in the GlusterFS 6 stable
+release.
+
+**NOTE:** Next minor release tentative date: Week of 10th May, 2019
+
+## Major changes, features and limitations addressed in this release
+
+## Major issues
+
+**None**
+
+## Bugs addressed
+
+Bugs addressed since release-6.0 are listed below.
+
+- [#1679904](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1679904): client log flooding with intentional socket shutdown message when a brick is down
+- [#1690950](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1690950): lots of "Matching lock not found for unlock xxx" when using disperse (ec) xlator
+- [#1691187](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1691187): fix Coverity CID 1399758
+- [#1692101](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1692101): Network throughput usage increased x5
+- [#1692957](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1692957): rpclib: slow floating point math and libm
+- [#1693155](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1693155): Excessive AFR messages from gluster showing in RHGSWA.
+- [#1693223](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1693223): [Disperse] : Client side heal is not removing dirty flag for some of the files.
+- [#1693992](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1693992): Thin-arbiter minor fixes
+- [#1694002](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1694002): Geo-re: Geo replication failing in "cannot allocate memory"
+- [#1694561](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1694561): gfapi: do not block epoll thread for upcall notifications
+- [#1694610](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1694610): glusterd leaking memory when issued gluster vol status all tasks continuosly
+- [#1695436](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1695436): geo-rep session creation fails with IPV6
+- [#1695445](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1695445): ssh-port config set is failing
+- [#1697764](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1697764): [cluster/ec] : Fix handling of heal info cases without locks
+- [#1698471](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1698471): ctime feature breaks old client to connect to new server
+- [#1699198](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1699198): Glusterfs create a flock lock by anonymous fd, but can't release it forever.
+- [#1699319](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1699319): Thin-Arbiter SHD minor fixes
+- [#1699499](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1699499): fix truncate lock to cover the write in tuncate clean
+- [#1699703](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1699703): ctime: Creation of tar file on gluster mount throws warning "file changed as we read it"
+- [#1699713](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1699713): glusterfs build is failing on rhel-6
+- [#1699714](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1699714): Brick is not able to detach successfully in brick_mux environment
+- [#1699715](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1699715): Log level changes do not take effect until the process is restarted
+- [#1699731](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1699731): Fops hang when inodelk fails on the first fop