User-Visible OpenAFS Changes
+OpenAFS 1.6.6 (in progress)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * As of this release, OpenAFS no longer ships uncompressed source tarballs.
+ Tarballs are still shipped with both compression formats, gzip and bzip2.
+ (10131)
+
+ * Documentation improvements (10136 10314)
+
+ * Improved diagnostics and error messages (9412 10085 10274)
+
+ * Avoid redefining "assert" in our public header files, which could
+ cause failures when building some applications using them. (10096)
+
+ * Fixes for parallel builds (10005 10309 10337)
+
+ * Added a -s switch to afscp (not installed by default) to help simulate
+ a slow client. (9416 9417)
+
+ * Added a -probe switch to vlclient test program (not installed by default)
+ to ping all vlservers in a cell in parallel. (9570)
+
+ All server platforms
+ * The fileserver now ignores any vice partitions with a NeverAttach flag
+ file present in the root directory. (RT #130561) (9470 9471)
+
+ * Enabled server side NAT pings. Since 1.6.0, client side NAT pings were
+ enabled to help keep up mappings for NATed clients. This change aims to
+ further improve on this by sending version packets from the server to its
+ clients as well. This may be backed out if there is no positive feedback
+ during prerelease testing. (9420)
+
+ * Restrict forcing CPS ("Current Protection Subdomain") recalculation in
+ the fileserver to administrators. Also fixed a bug that could cause this
+ operation to be incomplete. (9485 9487)
+
+ * Allow non-DAFS fileservers to attach unusable volumes, restoring pre-1.6
+ behaviour. (RT #131505) (9499)
+
+ * Restored the pre-1.6 behaviour when running vos examine for a volume
+ currently in a transaction, showing the volume as busy again rather than
+ offline. (9685 9915 9916)
+
+ * Reduced the minimum time a bos salvage takes from 5 seconds to 1. (9476)
+
+ * Fixed buserver to not segfault when started with the -servers option.
+ (RT #131706) (10166)
+
+ * Salvager fixes, addressing a wide variety of possible problems from
+ unnecessary salvaging to aborts (9282 9283 9457 9458 9459 9461 9462 9480
+ 9481 10165 10167)
+
+ * Fixed a bug that could cause saved state information to be discarded
+ when restarting a large or busy fileserver, which negatively impacted
+ performance. (9683)
+
+ * Fixed a bug that could have caused undefined behaviour in the vlserver
+ in rare cases when a fileserver registered its addresses in the VLDB.
+ (9429)
+
+ * Added the -preserve-vol-stats switch to volserver, allowing it to keep
+ the access statistics across volume restore and reclone operations
+ instead of resetting them. (9477)
+
+ * Inserted an exponential delay between retries when bosserver attempts to
+ restart a server process. (9571 10199)
+
+ * Improved vldb_check (not installed by default) to cope with broken
+ vlentry names and volids, and provide more output to aid debugging.
+ (10268)
+
+ * Releasing a volume after adding a new RO site no longer touches any of
+ the existing RO sites, if the RW data hasn't changed since the last
+ release. (10174)
+
+ * Make the copyDate field for RO clones have the same meaning as for
+ remote RO volumes. Previously, the copyDate field for clones was updated
+ every time we released. (9451)
+
+ * Fixed potentially undefined behaviour in ptserver when too many pts
+ ids are allocated. (10124)
+
+ Linux servers
+
+ * Start bosserver with -nofork in the systemd unit file, to allow systemd
+ to track its state (10093)
+
+ All client platforms
+
+ * No longer track file locks on read-only volumes. Write locks can't
+ succeed, read locks always will. Avoids log messages about this kind
+ of lock. (8910)
+
+ * Added the "fs flushall" subcommand, which makes the client discard all
+ cached data. This was previously available on Windows only. (9065 9388
+ 9389 9390)
+
+ * Fixed a bug that could make the client incorrectly believe its cache
+ is up to date. This change could negatively impact AFS <-> DFS
+ translators, should those still be running anywhere. (8898)
+
+ * Several changes to avoid panicing in certain error conditions.
+ (9131 9287 10354 10355 10356 10357) (partially addressing RT #131747)
+
+ * Added the -rxmaxfrags switch to afsd, allowing to limit the number
+ of UDP fragments sent or received per RX packet. (9430)
+
+ * Build fixes for aklog on several platforms (RT #131716) (9917 10107 10275)
+
+ * Require that the AFS mountpoint specified in the cacheinfo file is
+ an absolute path. Relative paths result in a client that basically
+ works but is not fully functional. (10253)
+
+ * Fixed a bug that could cause one of the afs threads to enter an infinite
+ loop (10431 .. 10436)
+
+ Linux clients
+
+ * Support Linux kernels up to 3.12 (10241)
+
+ * Fixed a bug that made readv/writev calls in AFS space fail with Linux
+ kernels where generic_file_aio_read exists but those operations have
+ not been switched to using aio_read/aio_write. This was a regression
+ introduced with release 1.6.3 and affected at least RHEL 5.9 kernels.
+ (10248)
+
+ * Fixed a similar bug making core dumps fail in AFS space, affecting
+ a much wider range of kernels including the most recent ones.
+ (RT #131729) (10254)
+
+ * Enhanced the keyring code to make PAGs work correctly on kernels with a
+ distribution specific change to the Linux keyring code. This affected at
+ least SLES 11 SP3 kernels. (10252)
+
+ * Fixed a bug that could make failures during PAG instantiation go
+ unnoticed. (10255)
+
+ * Fixed a bug that made compilation fail for Linux kernels without
+ keyring support. This affected at least the SLE 10 SDK and an
+ OEM version of SLES 11 SP1. (10325)
+
+ * Fixed build for kernels with user namespace support enabled. Likely
+ to be required for Ubuntu 14.04 and eventually other distributions.
+ (10456 10457 10458)
+
+ * Make tmpfs usable as the cache filesystem again. This had been broken
+ since kernel 3.1 (9950 10193)
+
+ * When starting the client fails, clean up the backing device information
+ created in sysfs, to avoid error messages during a subsequent start
+ and possible system instability later on (10454)
+
+ AIX clients
+
+ * Fixed a bug that caused the 1.6 AIX client to never receive any RX
+ packets in the kernel. (RT #131725)
+
+ FUSE client
+
+ * Support Solaris 11 (9454 9455)
+
+ * Allow other users to access filesystems mounted by root. (9452)
+
+ FreeBSD
+
+ * Build tvolser and dvolser on this platform (10122)
+ * Several fixes to catch up with newer releases (10374 .. 10381)
+
+ NetBSD
+
+ * Build tsalvaged, tvolser and dvolser on this platform (10121)
+ * Fixed build on NetBSD 5 and newer. (10138)
+
OpenAFS 1.6.5
All platforms
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