From: Stephan Wiesand Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 11:48:07 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Update NEWS for 1.6.18.2 X-Git-Tag: upstream/1.6.18.2^2~1 X-Git-Url: https://git.michaelhowe.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=13ac934bf2e16d5863b8ab87c7dc45f16976acc6;p=packages%2Fo%2Fopenafs.git Update NEWS for 1.6.18.2 Release notes for 1.6.18.2 Change-Id: I7cc22fa5c8734454eac11a9645e2bb366c43d9d5 Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.openafs.org/12334 Tested-by: BuildBot Reviewed-by: Stephan Wiesand --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8528ca49c..885822f62 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,28 @@ User-Visible OpenAFS Changes +OpenAFS 1.6.18.2 + + Linux clients + + * Support for mainline kernel 4.6 and distribution kernels with + backports from it (12332) + + * Switch back to the pre-1.6.18 algorithm for freeing unused vcaches. + While the new algorithm is still believed to be correct, it turned + out that at least on some kernels, including 4.5 and 4.6, the dentry + for the current working directory may be erroneously invalidated. + This could lead to errors like "Unable to read current working directory" + when a directory wasn't accessed for a few minutes. (12323) + + * Use a secure URL to retrieve the CellServDB in the script to create + the Red Hat source package (12330) + + FreeBSD + + * Added sysname IDs for 10.2 and 10.3 to fix the build on those platforms + (12322) + + OpenAFS 1.6.18.1 Linux clients