From e67124fea4d73a72736dbb71ae37ba980a941685 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephan Wiesand Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 16:45:39 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update NEWS for 1.6.10pre1 Release notes for OpenAFS 1.6.10 Change-Id: I1d5679e375ee442e364c7ee189a316424b7e5d1b Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.openafs.org/11343 Reviewed-by: Andrew Deason Tested-by: BuildBot Reviewed-by: Stephan Wiesand --- NEWS | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 74 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3c6ec2f70..dae52c08e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,79 @@ User-Visible OpenAFS Changes +OpenAFS 1.6.10 (in progress) + + All platforms + + * Don't hide the "version" subcommand in help output (11214) + + * Documentation improvements (11126 11216 11222 11223 11225 11226) + + * Improved diagnostics and error messages (11154 11246 11247 11249 11181 + 11182 11183) + + * Build system improvements (11158 11221 11224 11225 11227..11241 11282 + 11342 11350 11353 11242 11367) + + * Avoid potentially erratic behaviour under certain error conditions by + either avoiding or at least not ignoring them, in various places (11008 + 11010..11065 11112 11148 11196) + + FreeBSD + + * Support releases 9.3 and 10.1 (11368 11369) + + All server platforms + + * Added volscan(8) (11252..11280 11387 11388) + + * Fixed a bug causing subgroups not to function correctly if their + ptdb entry had more than one continuation entry (11352) + + * Logging improvements (10946 11153) + + * Allow log rotation via copy and truncate (11193) + + * Avoid a server crash during startup only observed on a single platform + and when using a 3rd party library under certain circumstances, which is + a collateral effect of the security improvements introduced in OpenAFS + release 1.6.5 (11075) (RT #131852) + + All client platforms + + * Raised the free space reported for /afs to the maximum possible value of + just under 2 TiB - the old value was 9 GiB on most platforms (10984) + + * Reduced the amount of stack space used (11162 11163 11203 11164..11167 + 11338 11339 11364..11366 11381) + + * Sped up a periodic client task which could be problematically slow + on systems with a large number of PAGs and files in use (11307) + + * Fixed failure of the up command with large ACLs (11111) + + * Avoid a potential crash of aklog (11218) + + * Avoid potential crashes of scout and xstat_fs_test (11155) + + Linux clients + + * Support kernels up to at least 3.16 (11308 11309) + + * Fixed a regression introduced in OpenAFS release 1.6.6 that made + checking for existing write locks incorrectly fail on readonly volumes + (11361) + + * Fixed a regression introduced in OpenAFS release 1.6.8 that could + cause VFS cache inconsistencies when a previously-accessed directory + entry was removed and recreated with the same name but pointing to a + different file on another client (11358) + + * Use the right path to depmod in Red Hat packaging to avoid dependency + calculation incorrectly failing unless a link /sbin -> /usr/sbin is + present on the system performing it (11171) (RT #131860) + + * Do not ignore kernel module build errors (11205) + OpenAFS 1.6.9 All server platforms -- 2.39.5