From 622f4fe9a54cee03594227517db5b11719d6fdfc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephan Wiesand Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 15:09:04 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update NEWS for 1.6.21pre1 Release notes for the first OpenAFS 1.6.21 prerelease Change-Id: I9d01bd7856574e2c3da872854a5bffeac2119f3e Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.openafs.org/12634 Reviewed-by: Mark Vitale Tested-by: BuildBot Reviewed-by: Stephan Wiesand --- NEWS | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 58 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index d1746d4d5..68c5edc43 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,63 @@ User-Visible OpenAFS Changes +OpenAFS 1.6.21 (in progress) + + All platforms + + * Avoid a possible 100ms transmit delay in the RX protocol when a peer's + receive window transitions from closed to open (12627) + + * Documentation improvements (12476 12477 12559[RT #133339]) + + All server platforms + + * When bosserver is started with an unknown option, print an error message + and exit with a non-zero value rather than failing silently (12631) + + All DB server platforms + + * Hold the DB lock while checking for an aborted write transaction (12516) + + All file server platforms + + * On demand attach fileservers, don't save or restore a client's host + state if CPS ("Current Protection Subdomain") recalculation for it is + in progress, to avoid fileserver thread exhaustion (12568) + + * On demand attach fileservers, avoid flooding the log with error messages, + which could happen when the fileserver was restarted while a volume was + offline (12569) + + * Update a volume's "Last Update" time when its content is modified by + the salvager, to make the change visible in the output of "vos examine" + and to backup services (12633) + + All client platforms + + * Corrected the DCentries bucket counts for very large and zero length + files in the output of "fe getcacheparms -excessive" (12604 12605) + + * Fixed a bug that prevented users with GID 2748 and 2750 from executing + the "fs sysname" command on clients running afsd with -rmtsys (12607) + + * Provide a new -inumcalc switch for afsd to allow enabling the alternative + MD5 method of inode number calculation, which was previously only + possible on Linux and through the sysctl interface (12608 12632) + + Linux clients + + * Support for mainline kernel 4.12 and distribution kernels with backports + from it (12624 12626) + + * Re-added the improved algorithm for freeing unused vcaches to reduce + memory consumption first introduced with the 1.6.18 release, together + with a fix for the issue leading to its removal in 1.6.18.2 (12448..12451) + + macOS clients + + * Fixed a crash while stopping the client on macOS 10.12 "Sierra" (12602) + + OpenAFS 1.6.20.2 All platforms -- 2.39.5