Update NEWS for 1.6.11pre2

Preliminary release notes for OpenAFS 1.6.11

Change-Id: I5f23fcbe3ba8520ca4789984c26f84f966f70ff9
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.openafs.org/11744
Tested-by: BuildBot <buildbot@rampaginggeek.com>
Reviewed-by: Chas Williams - CONTRACTOR <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Reviewed-by: Perry Ruiter <pruiter@sinenomine.net>
Reviewed-by: Stephan Wiesand <stephan.wiesand@desy.de>

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@@ -7,18 +7,60 @@ OpenAFS 1.6.11 (in progress)
     * Allow aklog to succeed creating native K5 tokens even when mapping
       the K5 principal to a K4 one fails (11538)
 
+    * Build fixes (11435 11636)
+
+  All client platforms
+
+    * Avoid a potential kernel panic due to connection reference overcounts
+      (11645) (RT #131885)
+
+    * Avoid potential corruption of files written using memory mapped I/O
+      when the file is larger than the cache (11656) (RT #131976)
+
   Linux clients
 
-    * Support kernels at least up to 3.17 (11549 11550 11569 11570 11595)
+    * Support kernels at least up to 3.19 (11549 11550 11569 11570 11595
+      11658..11662 11694)
+
+      Note: By default this excludes kernels 3.17 to 3.17.2, which will leak
+            an inode reference when an error occurs in d_splice_alias(). The
+            module will build and work, but leak kernel memory, leading to
+           performance degradation and eventually system failure due to
+           memory exhaustion. Since it's impossible to detect this condition
+           automatically, the switch --enable-linux-d_splice_alias-extra-iput
+           must be passed to configure when building the module for those
+           kernels. The same would be necessary for any kernel with backports
+           of commit 908790fa3b779d37365e6b28e3aa0f6e833020c3 or commit
+           95ad5c291313b66a98a44dc92b57e0b37c1dd589 but not the fix in commit
+           51486b900ee92856b977eacfc5bfbe6565028070 in the linux-stable repo
+           (git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git) or
+           the corresponding changes on other branches.
 
     * Fixed a regression introduced in OpenAFS release 1.6.10 which could
       make the spurious "getcwd: cannot access parent directories" problem
       return (11558 11568) (RT #131780)
 
+    * Avoid leaking memory when scanning a corrupt directory (11707)
+
   OS X clients
 
     * Support OS X 10.10 "Yosemite" (11571 11572 11611) (RT #131946)
 
+  Solaris clients
+
+    * Avoid reading random data rather than correct cache content when using
+      ZFS as the cache file system on Solaris >= 11, and fix potential similar
+      problems on other platforms (11713 11714)
+
+  FreeBSD
+
+    * Build fix for releases >= 11.0 (11610)
+
+  OpenBSD
+
+    * Support release 5.4 (11700)
+
+
 OpenAFS 1.6.10
 
   All platforms