From 3f902d3213ca4bc5e2072c9a729e108ec9b5a0b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephan Wiesand Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 18:15:00 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update NEWS for 1.8.3pre1 Release notes for the OpenAFS 1.8.3 prerelease Change-Id: Ie9f988d0f03f1368125d0e5894d5dd5e9ef95d88 Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.openafs.org/13445 Reviewed-by: Benjamin Kaduk Tested-by: BuildBot Reviewed-by: Mark Vitale Reviewed-by: Michael Meffie Reviewed-by: Stephan Wiesand --- NEWS | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 58 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3460d5a15..b7a7e446f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,63 @@ User-Visible OpenAFS Changes +OpenAFS 1.8.3 (in progress) + + All platforms + + * Improved diagnostics and error messages (13186 13411 13417) + + * Avoid sending RX packets with random garbage in the userStatus field + (13332) + + * Fixed detection of the RX initialization status (13416) + + * Assorted fixes to avoid segmentation faults and other potential problems + by detecting internal errors rather than letting them go unnoticed + (13329 13372) + + All server platforms + + * Fixed a build problem accidentally introduced in release 1.8.2 (13328) + + * Assorted efficiency improvements in the ubik implementation (13153 13218 + 13188 13353) + + * Fixed locking around transaction list processing in volserver to avoid + segmentation faults and other potential problems (13336 13337) + + * When the volserver attempts to remove a temporary volume after a + transaction, but the volume was already removed, e.g., by the salvager, + this is no longer treated as an error (13235) + + All client platforms + + * Update the CellServDB to the latest version from grand.central.org from + May 14th 2018 (13409) + + * Avoid a panic during cache initialization when allocating the required + memory fails (13307) + + * Add back the packet counters and timestamps to "vos status" output + which had been missing since release 1.8.0 (13421) + + * Correctly handle errors encountered while reading data from the server + and writing it to the cache, e.g., due to a full cache partition (13443) + + * Avoid a panic due to a recoverable error while flushing cache items + (13503) + + Linux clients + + * Support mainline kernels 4.20 and 5.0 and distribution kernels with + backports from those (13405 13406 13440 13441 13442) + + * DKMS-related fixes in Red Hat packaging (13438 13479) + + macOS + + * Support building and packaging on macOS 10.14 "Mojave" (13412 13413) + + OpenAFS 1.8.2 All platforms -- 2.39.5