From ee08daff26f757a25964785cdf2668bc5f1567df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephan Wiesand Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 12:28:29 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update NEWS for 1.6.18pre1 Preliminary release notes for 1.6.18 Change-Id: I03fafe2ffa2f280ad2e7e67a00cbcc1bdc6ec5f2 Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.openafs.org/12242 Reviewed-by: Stephan Wiesand Tested-by: Stephan Wiesand --- NEWS | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 62 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 748c643ea..2367b7d0c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,67 @@ User-Visible OpenAFS Changes +OpenAFS 1.6.18 (in progress) + + All platforms + + * Documentation improvements (12224 11675 11613 12197) + + * Improved diagnostics and error messages (12129 12207 12185 12211 12113 + 12215 12216) + + * Check that CellServDB entries are valid IPv4 addresses, to avoid + occasional hangs or potentially other erratic behaviour due to invalid + entries (12210) (RT #131794) + + All client platforms + + * Gracefully handle cases where a client shutdown sequence is initiated + while the client is already shutting down, rather than cause a panic + (12179) + + * Fixed several bugs that could cause erratic behaviour when the write + offset into a file was more than 2 GiB beyond the file's current end + on the server (12213 12214) + + All server platforms + + * Avoid a possible volserver crash during volume dump or restore due + to invalid ACL entries (12127) + + * Allow recovering from a DAFS fileserver operation which allocates a + new vnode but fails to update the vnode index, rather than crashing the + server (12209) + + * Fixed a longstanding bug which could damage the volume location database + when "vos changeaddr" was run with "-oldaddr" and "-newaddr" and the + old address was present in a multi-homed entry (12089) + + FreeBSD + + * Added support for releases 10.2 and 10.3 (12232) + + Linux clients + + * Support for mainline kernel 4.4 and distribution kernels with + backports from it, alas at a performance penalty (12226 12227 12228) + (RT #132677 #132819) + + * Avoid using excessive amounts of kernel memory for dynamically + allocated vcaches, by improving the algorithm to free unused ones + (12256 12257) + + * In Red Hat packaging, make the init script use "ip" if available, with + "ifconfig" as a fallback (12193) + + OS X + + * Basic support for release 10.11 "El Capitan" (12212) + + IRIX clients + + * Fixed kernel module builds with optimization (12198) (RT #131261) + + OpenAFS 1.6.17 (Security Release) All server platforms -- 2.39.5