Add NEWS entries for the 1.6.0 final release

The date will be slightly off from when it will be officially announced,
but it should be close enough.

Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.openafs.org/5287
Reviewed-by: Derrick Brashear <shadow@dementix.org>
Tested-by: Derrick Brashear <shadow@dementix.org>
(cherry picked from commit 361cf11db36db2fc94c7e4961061423fb13e4cf8)

Change-Id: I9e12ab8f0a749de3de1e9843705a294f913a5165
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.openafs.org/5289
Reviewed-by: Derrick Brashear <shadow@dementix.org>
Tested-by: Derrick Brashear <shadow@dementix.org>

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6f548362c4256ad0b3b409b141287442ff017a5e..b212ac8903216d5058da6fbb0e6073a6c86f5373 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
                        User-Visible OpenAFS Changes
 
-OpenAFS 1.6.0 (in progress)
+OpenAFS 1.6.0 (2011-08-15)
 
   All platforms
 
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ OpenAFS 1.6.0 (in progress)
 
     * Properly enable Rx connection hard timeouts.
 
+    * Rx NAT pings are not enabled until peer has answered.
+
     * Initialize rx_multi lock before use.
 
     * Avoid spurious crashes when initializing in "backup" client.
@@ -33,10 +35,16 @@ OpenAFS 1.6.0 (in progress)
     * xstat tools now cope with differing timeval structures between
       endpoints.
 
+    * Numerous fixes to command argument parsing.
+
     * Documentation updates.
 
   All server platforms
 
+    * A file descriptor leak which could result in corrupted files in the
+      fileserver was fixed. An IMMEDIATE upgrade from previous 1.5 release
+      fileservers is recommended.
+
     * Fix ptserver supergroups support on 64 bit platforms.
 
     * Demand attach salvaging doesn't use freed volume pointers.
@@ -93,6 +101,8 @@ OpenAFS 1.6.0 (in progress)
 
     * Demand attach: don't attach volumes with special status set.
 
+    * Avoid crashing on host table exhaustion. Instead, defer clients.
+
   Microsoft Windows
 
     * afs_config will not longer set the Tray Icon State in the registry
@@ -196,6 +206,29 @@ OpenAFS 1.6.0 (in progress)
 
     * Correct lock acquisition order during SMB locking.
 
+    * Add shutdown message to event log.
+
+    * Check offline volume status by policy rather than on each daemon
+      thread run.
+
+    * Return error on directory object not found instead of crashing.
+
+    * Improve error message output.
+
+    * afslogin.dll can start afsd_service if it's not starting or started.
+
+    * Optimize away release lock RPCs for deleted files.
+
+    * Background Daemon will not perform operations on deleted files.
+
+    * Resort recently used directories to the top of the LRU if the
+      directory is larger than the stat cache.
+
+    * Resort deleted objects to the bottom of the LRU.
+
+    * Use interlocked operations for state and queue fields to allow safe
+      bit set and clear on multiprocessor systems.
+
   All UNIX client platforms
 
     * Servers now marked down when GetCapabilities returns error.
@@ -224,6 +257,14 @@ OpenAFS 1.6.0 (in progress)
 
     * Do not attempt page flushes for directories.
 
+    * Rx connection reference counting is enabled.
+
+    * An Rx connection reference count leak is fixed in bulkstat.
+
+    * Handle unparsable directory objects.
+
+    * Handle Kerberos cred cache errors in aklog.
+
   AIX
 
     * Fix PAG usage to track by PAG identifier, not group list.
@@ -293,6 +334,12 @@ OpenAFS 1.6.0 (in progress)
 
     * Attempt to properly handle SELinux in packaging.
 
+    * Init script properly returns status as exit code.
+
+    * RPM packaging fixes (executable libraries, no postinstall message)
+
+    * Kill i386 from RPM packaging.
+
   MacOS
 
     * MacOS 10.7 support.
@@ -319,6 +366,12 @@ OpenAFS 1.6.0 (in progress)
 
     * Rework logic for bulk status operations to avoid a potential hang.
 
+    * Avoid panic when doing FSEvent synthesis.
+
+    * Fix bug when using non-dynroot.
+
+    * Update Kerberos support in PreferencesPane.
+
   NetBSD
 
     * Updates for platform support.
@@ -347,6 +400,8 @@ OpenAFS 1.6.0 (in progress)
 
     * Try harder to avoid deadlocks on file-larger-than-cache operations.
 
+    * Avoid panic on shutdown when mount failed.
+
 
 OpenAFS 1.5.78 (2010-11-04)