User-Visible OpenAFS Changes
-OpenAFS 1.6.0 (in progress)
+OpenAFS 1.6.2.1
+
+ Linux clients
+
+ * Support Linux kernels up to 3.8.
+
+ * Make the init script cope with the output of ifconfig on recent Fedora.
+
+OpenAFS 1.6.2
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Fix buffer overflows in fileserver and ptserver.
+
+ * Abort an rx connection when given an unknown service (Gerrit 7593).
+
+ * "idle dead" behavior improvements.
+
+ * Documentation updates.
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Fix rare file corruption during background sync (Gerrit 8796).
+
+ * Fix corrupting clients' metadata cache during certain errors (Gerrit
+ 6957).
+
+ * Avoid saying a volume doesn't exist when accessed as the volume is
+ going offline (Gerrit 7488).
+
+ * Fix fileservers to properly report >2 TiB partitions.
+
+ * Fix stale volume info from vos examine on non-DAFS filservers.
+
+ * Fix possible volume corruption with vos convertROtoRW.
+
+ * Fix bosserver to preserve all command-line options over restart.
+
+ * Fix bosserver to properly kill hung processes during shutdown.
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * Fixes for memcache, especially on Solaris.
+
+ * Increase the size of the DNS resolver answer buffer to allow sites
+ with a long response list to use SRV and AFSDB records.
+
+ * Fix a crash when a server appears to run out of addresses (Gerrit
+ 7487).
+
+ * Fix cache corruption when reading from a file another client is
+ simultaneously writing to (Gerrit 7994).
+
+ * Improve handling of disk cache disk errors.
+
+ Linux
+
+ * fix DKMS configuration for DKMS 2.2.
+
+ * Avoid generating inode number 0 with md5 inodes (Gerrit 7276).
+
+ * Fix a crash when reading /proc/fs/openafs/unixusers (Gerrit 7914).
+
+ * Make PAG-less access use the real UID of the calling process
+ instead of the effective UID, when determining what credentials to
+ use (Gerrit 7931).
+
+ * Fix possible abuse of fs mkmount.
+ Prior to 1.6.2, users could crash a client by nesting volume mounts.
+
+ * Fix fileserver memory corruption on RHEL 6
+ Prior to 1.6.2, fileservers on RHEL 6 may crash under heavy load.
+
+ * Fix client page cache corruption on Linux
+ When multiple clients read and write to a file, the reading client
+ may see first page (4096 bytes) of a file as nulls.
+
+ * Support Linux kernels up to 3.7.
+
+ * Support newer glibc versions.
+
+ * Improve client systemd unit file.
+
+ * Update Red Hat packaging.
+
+ OS X
+
+ * Fix crashes on shutdown.
+
+ * Prevent unloading the module before shutdown completes.
+
+ * Security improvement for the OpenAFS preference pane.
+
+ Solaris
+
+ * Support newer versions of the Sun Studio compiler software.
+
+ * Support compiling on newer versions of Solaris 11 and Solaris 10.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.6.0 (2011-08-15)
All platforms
* Properly enable Rx connection hard timeouts.
+ * Rx NAT pings are not enabled until peer has answered.
+
* Initialize rx_multi lock before use.
* Avoid spurious crashes when initializing in "backup" client.
* xstat tools now cope with differing timeval structures between
endpoints.
+ * Numerous fixes to command argument parsing.
+
* Documentation updates.
All server platforms
* A file descriptor leak which could result in corrupted files in the
- fileserver was fixed. An IMMEDIATE upgrade from previous 1.6 release
- candidates as well as 1.5 release fileserver is recommended.
+ fileserver was fixed. An IMMEDIATE upgrade from previous 1.5 release
+ fileservers is recommended.
* Fix ptserver supergroups support on 64 bit platforms.
* Demand attach: don't attach volumes with special status set.
+ * Avoid crashing on host table exhaustion. Instead, defer clients.
+
Microsoft Windows
* afs_config will not longer set the Tray Icon State in the registry
* Correct lock acquisition order during SMB locking.
+ * Add shutdown message to event log.
+
+ * Check offline volume status by policy rather than on each daemon
+ thread run.
+
+ * Return error on directory object not found instead of crashing.
+
+ * Improve error message output.
+
+ * afslogin.dll can start afsd_service if it's not starting or started.
+
+ * Optimize away release lock RPCs for deleted files.
+
+ * Background Daemon will not perform operations on deleted files.
+
+ * Resort recently used directories to the top of the LRU if the
+ directory is larger than the stat cache.
+
+ * Resort deleted objects to the bottom of the LRU.
+
+ * Use interlocked operations for state and queue fields to allow safe
+ bit set and clear on multiprocessor systems.
+
All UNIX client platforms
* Servers now marked down when GetCapabilities returns error.
* Do not attempt page flushes for directories.
+ * Rx connection reference counting is enabled.
+
+ * An Rx connection reference count leak is fixed in bulkstat.
+
+ * Handle unparsable directory objects.
+
+ * Handle Kerberos cred cache errors in aklog.
+
AIX
* Fix PAG usage to track by PAG identifier, not group list.
* Attempt to properly handle SELinux in packaging.
+ * Init script properly returns status as exit code.
+
+ * RPM packaging fixes (executable libraries, no postinstall message)
+
+ * Kill i386 from RPM packaging.
+
MacOS
* MacOS 10.7 support.
* Rework logic for bulk status operations to avoid a potential hang.
+ * Avoid panic when doing FSEvent synthesis.
+
+ * Fix bug when using non-dynroot.
+
+ * Update Kerberos support in PreferencesPane.
+
NetBSD
* Updates for platform support.
* Try harder to avoid deadlocks on file-larger-than-cache operations.
+ * Avoid panic on shutdown when mount failed.
+
OpenAFS 1.5.78 (2010-11-04)