[DOC-13899]: Create a release note for Couchbase Server 8.0.1

Signed-off-by: Ray Offiah <ray.offiah@couchbase.com>

Author: RayOffiah

modules/release-notes/pages/relnotes.adoc

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 For information about new features and major improvements made in Couchbase Server 8.0, see xref:introduction:whats-new.adoc[What's New].
 
+include::partial$docs-server-8.0.1-fixes-and-improvements.adoc[]
 include::partial$docs-server-8.0.0-fixes-and-improvements.adoc[]
 include::partial$docs-server-8.0.0-breaking-changes.adoc[]
 include::partial$docs-server-8.0.0-known-issues.adoc[]

modules/release-notes/partials/docs-server-8.0.1-fixes-and-improvements.adoc

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+[#release-801]
+== Release 8.0.1 (March 2026)
+
+Couchbase Server 8.0.1 was released in March 2026.
+This maintenance release contains fixes to issues.
+
+[#dlist-fixed-issues-801]
+== Fixed Issues
+
+
+
+
+[#dlist-fixed-issues-801-cluster-manager]
+=== Cluster Manager
+
+*https://jira.issues.couchbase.com/browse/MB-69026/[MB-69026]*::
+
+Addressed an issue with stuck rebalance email alerts in Couchbase Server.
+
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+
+This fix resolves problems observed when "Require encryption (TLS)" was configured,
+causing alert failures.
+
+*https://jira.issues.couchbase.com/browse/MB-69650/[MB-69650]*::
+
+A problem was introduced in 7.6.2 where the presence of a Cloud Native Gateway in the cluster would cause issues for services connecting to the cluster manager.
++
+The presence of Cloud Native Gateway no longer causes these issues.
+
+*https://jira.issues.couchbase.com/browse/MB-70441/[MB-70441]*::
+
+The upgrade to Erlang version 26 introduced a change in behavior which requires peer certification when TLS is being used for Alert emails.
+The peer certification introduced with the changes for this ticket uses the trusted CA certificates provided by the operating system.
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+
+[#dlist-fixed-issues-801-query-service]
+=== Query Service
+
+*https://jira.issues.couchbase.com/browse/MB-68969/[MB-68969]*::
+
+* With multi-collection indexes that contained fields with `include in _all` setting enabled - there was a possibility for false positives to show up for field agnostic (composite field) queries.
+This has been addressed by denying the sargability for such indexes.
+* Addressed an issue where fields not belonging to a particular keyspace were being included in multi-collection indexes.
+* Addressed a bug that could influence composite field (`_all`) availability based on the order in which fields were processed.
+
+*https://jira.issues.couchbase.com/browse/MB-69081/[MB-69081]*::
+
+To retrieve a document's expiration,
+the user had to specify the sub-path explicitly,
+i.e `META().expiration`.
+A call to the `META()` function without the sub-path would return the default expiration value 0 always which was incorrect.
+
+
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+
+Now,
+when a user’s query invokes META() function without explicitly specifying the sub-path the document's expiration value is returned.
+
+*https://jira.issues.couchbase.com/browse/MB-69083/[MB-69083]*::
+
+Problem:
+
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+
+A query may return an incorrect result under the following conditions:
+
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+
+* query contains one or more joins
+* one of the joins involves a sub-query (FROM clause subquery)
+* the FROM clause sub-query has a GROUP BY and/or aggregates
+* the FROM clause sub-query can take advantage of index group/aggregate pushdown
+(this requires an appropriate secondary index)
+* CBO is ON,
+and UPDATE STATISTICS has been run on all keyspaces/indexes involved
+
+*https://jira.issues.couchbase.com/browse/MB-69955/[MB-69955]*::
+
+`CYCLE` was added as a KEYWORD for RECURSIVE WITH’s CYCLE sub-clause.
++
+This causes a syntax error when a path or sub-path’s case-insensitive identifier is named `cycle`  when users upgraded to a version that supported the recursive with feature https://docs.couchbase.com/server/current/n1ql/n1ql-language-reference/with-recursive.html[WITH recursive clause]
++
+This is now handled by allowing `cycle` keyword as a permitted identifier.
+
+*https://jira.issues.couchbase.com/browse/MB-70112/[MB-70112]*::
+
+When a prepared request is made with the  `auto_execute` request parameter set as `true`,
+the request would incorrectly error out with error: `Unrecognizable prepared statement - cause: JSON unmarshalling error: auto_execute did not produce a prepared statement`
++
+In this release the server silently ignores the `auto_execute` request parameter when the request is a prepared request.
+
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+
+[#dlist-fixed-issues-801-index-service]
+=== Index Service
+
+*https://jira.issues.couchbase.com/browse/MB-69935/[MB-69935]*::
+
+Updated chronology for certain storage API calls to avoid rare corner case of shard metadata mismatch.
+
+
+
+[#dlist-fixed-issues-801-search-service]
+=== Search Service
+
+*https://jira.issues.couchbase.com/browse/MB-68969/[MB-68969]*::
+
+* With multi-collection indexes that contained fields with `include in _all` setting enabled - there was a possibility for false positives to show up for field agnostic (composite field) queries.
+This has been addressed by denying the sargability for such indexes.
+* Addressed an issue where fields not belonging to a particular keyspace were being included in multi-collection indexes.
+* Addressed a bug that could influence composite field (`_all`) availability based on the order in which fields were processed.
+
+
+
+[#dlist-fixed-issues-801-tools]
+=== Tools
+
+*https://jira.issues.couchbase.com/browse/MB-67774/[MB-67774]*::
+
+Support has been added for Debian 13,
+codenamed Trixie.
+This update ensures broader compatibility with recent operating system versions.
+Our internal testing has validated the integration of this new platform.
+
+// generated by gemini:gemini-2.5-flash
+
+
+
+*https://jira.issues.couchbase.com/browse/MB-70235/[MB-70235]*::
+
+In 8.0.0 restoring to a 7.6 and below cluster with `--auto-create-buckets`  did not work as we were sending a new setting.
+We now omit the setting depending on the version.
+
+*https://jira.issues.couchbase.com/browse/MB-70255/[MB-70255]*::
+
+Fixes bug where buckets with cross-cluster versioning enabled (link:https://docs.couchbase.com/server/current/learn/clusters-and-availability/xdcr-enable-crossclusterversioning.html[XDCR enable cross cluster versioning] ) would cause a merge to fail
+
+
+
+[#dlist-fixed-issues-801-uncategorized]
+=== Uncategorized
+
+*https://jira.issues.couchbase.com/browse/MB-67774/[MB-67774]*::
+
+Support has been added for Debian 13,
+codenamed Trixie.
+This update ensures broader compatibility with recent operating system versions.
+Our internal testing has validated the integration of this new platform.
+
+// generated by gemini:gemini-2.5-flash
+
+
+