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+```release-note:improvement
+raft: Use bbolt instead of the legacy boltdb implementation
+```
+
+```release-note:improvement
+raft: Emit boltdb related performance metrics
+```
+
+```release-note:improvement
+raft: Added a configuration to disable boltdb freelist syncing
+```