-OpenAFS News -- history of user-visible changes. October 19, 2001
+ User-Visible OpenAFS Changes
-* Changes incorporated in OpenAFS 1.2.3
+OpenAFS 1.6.0 (in progress)
-** Cell aliases for dynroot can be specified in the CellAlias file in
- /usr/vice/etc or /usr/local/etc/openafs, in format "realname alias",
- one per line. They can also be managed at runtime with "fs newalias"
- and "fs listaliases".
+ All platforms
-* Changes incorporated in OpenAFS 1.2.2
+ * vos now properly deals with matching sites when servers are
+ multihomed.
-** Solaris 9 and Linux PA-RISC are now supported
+ * Don't stop Rx keepalives after an ackall is received, avoiding
+ spurious connection timeouts. (128848)
-** fileserver will not erroneously delay legitimate errors for 3 seconds
- after 10 errors are returned (e.g. stat() on a directory you can't read)
-
-** Rx MTU calculation now works for Irix, Solaris and Linux
-
-** If afsd is started with the -dynroot flag, /afs will be locally
- generated from the CellServDB. AFSDB cells will be mounted
- automatically upon access.
-
-** The namei fileserver allows vice "partitions" to be directories instead
- of partitions and will attach and display accordingly. Creating the file
- "AlwaysAttach" in the /vicepX directory is used as the trigger to attach it.
-
-** TSM support for butc no longer requires editing a Makefile, simply
- specify the --enable-tivoli-tsm configure option.
-
-** Linux builds no longer require source changes every time the kernel
- inode structure changes; the OpenAFS sources will now configure
- itself to the actual inode structure as defined in the kernel
- sources.
-
-* Changes incorporated in OpenAFS 1.2.1
-
-** vfsck on Digital UNIX and Solaris will now refuse to fsck mounted
- mounted partitions.
-
-* Changes incorporated in OpenAFS 1.2.0
-
-** AFS now supports --prefix and the other directory options of
- configure. By default AFS builds assuming it will be installed in
- /usr/local. In order to get traditional AFS directory paths (/usr/afs
- and /usr/vice/etc) use the --enable-transarc-paths option to
- configure. More details on the new directory layout are found in README.
-
-* Changes incorporated in OpenAFS 1.1.1a
-
-** Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 - Consistent versioning
- Installation, AFS Control Center, Client dialog boxes and properties
- pages for executables display a consistent OpenAFS version number.
- Installation detects previous installation and prompts the user for upgrade
- options.
-
-** Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 - Installation features
- During installation the user can select the source of the CellservDB file,
- AFS home cell, and drive mappings. During installation a drive path
- mapping can include a variable that will be substituted with the current
- UserName that is logged in.
-
-** Windows 2000/NT - Integrated logon
- The Integrated Logon feature works now.
-
-** Windows 95/98/ME - Logon script features
- The Windows 95/98/ME client now offers a command-line option for starting up
- the AFS client without authenication. It is now possilbe to start the AFS
- client first and obtain tokens, and map drives all through Windows scripts.
- This helps using Windows 95/98/ME client in Kerberos 5 environment.
-
-** Windows 2000/NT - LANA numbers
- AFS client now scans the LANA numbers to establish the correct NETBIOS
- connection. NetBEUI is no longer needed. The user no longer needs to find
- the correct LANA number.
-
-** Windows 2000/NT - OpenAFS naming consistancy
- Further progress has been made to remove references to "Transarc AFS"
- and replace with "OpenAFS".
-
-
-
-* Changes since OpenAFS 1.0
-
-** AFS now builds with configure. The README for building has been
- updated and includes full details.
-
-** A client system can now have multiple sysname values for @sys.
- They will be searched in order when looking up files in AFS. The
- -newsysname argument to fs sysname can be repeated to set multiple
- sysnames.
-
-** A new system group is created for new cells (system:ptsviewers
- with id -203). If this group exists, members of this group can
- examine and read the entire protection database. They can examine
- all users and groups and can get the membership of any group.
-
-** A new program, pt_util has been added to the distribution. This
- program allows users to print the contents of the protection
- database or to edit the protection database without running a
- ptserver. It can be used to set up a new cell without ever running
- in noauth mode. Run pt_util -h for help.
-
-** The fs setcrypt and fs getcrypt commands have been added. These
- commands allow the system administrator to require that the client
- encrypt all authenticated traffic between the client workstation
- and AFS. The encryption used is weak, but is likely better than
- sending unencrypted traffic in most environments. Some functions,
- such as looking for a volume may not be encrypted, but data
- transfer certainly is. By default data is not encrypted. At this
- time no significant experimentation with server performance has
- been conducted.
-
-** By default AFS is compiled with AFS_AFSDB_ENV, enabling the -afsdb
- option to be given to afsd on startup. If this option is used, then new
- cells will be looked up using AFSDB records stored in DNS if they
- are not found in CellServDB. This means that users can create
- cross-cell mountpoints in directories they control to access cells
- not in root.afs, and that cells in root.afs need not be in the
- client's CellServDB.
-
-** AFS database servers can be marked as read-only clones. Surround
- the hostname in square brackets on the bos addhost command and the
- database server will never be elected sync site. This is useful
- for cells distributed over a wide region.
-
-** The AFS servers now support the -syslog flag. This flag causes
- them to log to syslog rather than to files. This flag is not
- supported on NT. For all servers besides the salvager, the flag can
- also be specified as -syslog=facility, where facility is an integer
- facility code from syslog.h. A -syslogfacility option is provided for
- the salvager to accomplish the same goal.
-
-** If the --enable-fast-restart flag is given when configuring AFS,
- then the salvager supports the -dontsalvage flag which causes it to
- exit without salvaging any volumes. If this is configured into the
- third command of a fs process, then the fileserver will start without
- salvaging. It will fail to attach volumes that need salvaging and they
- can be salvaged manually. This provides significantly better server
- startup performance at the cost of administrative complexity.
-
-** If the --enable-bitmap-later flag is given when configuring AFS,
- then the fileserver creates bitmaps for free vnodes on demand, allowing
- faster starts.
-
-** If bosserver finds a BosConfig.new file at startup, it reads this
- file and renames it to BosConfig. This allows bosserver to be
- reconfigured at next restart.
-
-** The bosserver can be placed in a restricted mode in
- which AFS superusers are only granted limited access to the server
- host. The following functionality is disabled when restricted mode is in
- use:
-
- bos exec
- bos getlog (except for files with no '/'s in their name)*
- bos create *
- bos delete
- bos install
- bos uninstall
-
- specific exceptions are made for functionality that "bos salvage"
- uses:
-
- a cron bnode who's name is "salvage-tmp", time is now, and command
- begins with "/usr/afs/bin/salvager" may be created. This bnode
- deletes itself when complete, so no special "delete" support is needed.
- This functionality may be removed in the future if a "Salvage" RPC is
+ * Don't retry Rx calls on channels returning busy errors and improve
+ Rx busy call channel error handling. (128671)
+
+ * Properly enable Rx connection hard timeouts.
+
+ * Initialize rx_multi lock before use.
+
+ * Avoid spurious crashes when initializing in "backup" client.
+
+ * Revert UUID support in vos.
+
+ * pt_util fixed to properly create new databases.
+
+ * MTU discovery now properly shut down on call reset.
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Fix ptserver supergroups support on 64 bit platforms.
+
+ * Demand attach salvaging doesn't use freed volume pointers.
+
+ * Properly hold host lock during host enumeration in fileserver.
+
+ * Attempt to recovery more quickly from timed out volume release
+ transactions.
+
+ * Auditing now properly byte order swaps IP addresses when printing.
+
+ * vos split now has improved error handling.
+
+ * Many changes to again support Windows fileservers.
+
+ * During volume removal, data removal speed improved.
+
+ * Improve CPU utilization during volume attaching by DAFS.
+
+ * In salvager check-only mode, avoid potentially fixing a vnode.
+
+ * Fix support for large (greater than 2gb) volume special files.
+
+ * Salvager will not crash if multiple or bad volume link tables are
+ encountered.
+
+ * Avoid erroneous full dump by remembering which sites were out of
+ date at the start of the release.
+
+ * A deleted volume can now be recreated properly.
+
+ * Callbacks are again not broken during whole partition salvages.
+
+ * Positional vectored IO fixed for largefile (>2GB) capable systems.
+
+ * Fileserver per-client thread usage again properly enforced.
+
+ * Anonymous dropbox support improved and drawbacks documented.
+
+ * Demand attach: ensure vnodes are not reallocated while in use due to
+ volume bitmap errors.
+
+ Microsoft Windows:
+
+ * afs_config will not longer set the Tray Icon State in the registry
+ if the checkbox is not present in the dialog. (128591)
+
+ * AFS Explorer Shell Extension now works from folder backgrounds.
+ Overlays for mount points and symlinks are present in the dll, but
+ are not registered at present by the installers.
+
+ * Do not use RankServerInterval registry value as the value for
+ PerformanceTuningInterval.
+
+ * When the data version of a mountpoint or symlink changes, the target
+ string in the cm_scache_t object must be cleared.
+
+ * "fs checkservers" now includes vldb servers in the output and only
+ lists multi-homed servers once. A multi-homed server that has at
+ least one up interface is no longer considered to be down.
+
+ * When asynchronously storing dirty data buffers to the file server
+ ensure that (a) the cm_scache_t object and the cm_buf_t object are
+ for the same File ID so that locking and signalling work properly;
+ and (b) if the FID no longer exists on the file server, do not
+ panic, just discard the buffer.
+
+ * When processing VNOVOL, VMOVED and VOFFLINE errors perform server
+ comparisons by UUID or address and not simply by cm_server_t
+ pointer. Otherwise, server failover may not succeed.
+
+ * Do not preserve status information for cm_scache_t objects when the
+ issuing server is multi-homed.
+
+ * Giving up all callbacks when shutting down or suspending the machine
+ is now significantly faster due to the use of an rx_multi
+ implementation. (This functionality is still off by default and
+ must be activated by a registry value.)
+
+ * Race conditions were possible when updating the state of the
+ cm_volume_t flags and when moving the volumes within the least
+ recently used list.
+
+ * Ensure that the lanahelper library does not perform a NCBRESET of
+ each lan adapter when enumerating the current network bindings.
+ Correcting this permits OpenAFS to work on Windows 7 when the
+ network adapter settings change.
+
+ * Fix creation of mount points and symlinks as \\AFS\xxxx
+
+ * Icon tray state now conditionally set. (128591)
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * Servers now marked down when GetCapabilities returns error.
+
+ * In-use vcache count is now properly tracked.
+
+ * Check for /afs existance before starting, unless -nomount is
+ specified.
+
+ * Avoid a potential panic when using /afs/.:mount syntax.
+
+ * Avoid a panic in memcache mode due to missing CellItems file.
+
+ * FUSE client support fixed for non-/afs mounts.
+
+ FreeBSD
+
+ * Fix socket termination on shutdown.
+
+ * Support for 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 and 8.2 included.
+
+ * References to vcaches are no longer leaked during root or reclaim.
+
+ * Remove support for "Giant" lock as we no longer need to use it.
+
+ * Don't sleep with AFS GLOCK.
+
+ * Properly enable 64 bit long long support.
+
+ * Restore support for FreeBSD 7 (128612)
+
+ * Fix locking issues at shutdown.
+
+ Linux
+
+ * Support through kernel 2.6.38.
+
+ * Red Hat init script allows deferring for a new binary restart.
+
+ * Red Hat packaging now properly supports RHEL6.
+
+ * Use rx_Readv in cache bypass to improve performance.
+
+ * Properly handle 0-length replies during cache bypass operations.
+
+ * Properly handle non-contiguous readpage cache bypass operations.
+
+ * Do proper locking when transitioning to or from cache bypass.
+
+ * Avoid extra runs of vcache freeing routine. (128756)
+
+ * Perform vcache eviction via a fast path before visiting vcaches
+ where sleep is needed.
+
+ MacOS
+
+ * Properly handle setpag errors. PAGs are not supported.
+
+ * Check for unloaded kernel extensions when decoding AFS panics.
+
+ * Disable "get tokens at login" in prefs pane if AD authentication
+ plugin is configured.
+
+ * aklog AuthorizationPlugin now provided.
+
+ OpenBSD
+
+ * Bug fixes for issues introduced previously in 1.5 series.
+
+ * Support through OpenBSD 4.8.
+
+ Solaris
+
+ * Switch to ioctl() syscall replacement for Solaris 11 since syscall
+ 65 is not safe.
+
+ * Fix support for Solaris pre-10.
+
+ * Corrected Solaris 11 startup script.
+
+ * vcache mappings freed on shutdown to avoid panic.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.78 (2010-11-04)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Revisions to Rx to fix performance issues.
+
+ * Make fs getfid behave consistently across all platforms. (128372)
+
+ * Properly check IDs handed to pts when creating users or groups so
+ useful error messages can be provided. (128343)
+
+ * Correct byte order handling of port in afsconf_LookupServer for SRV
+ records.
+
+ * Force a full dump when releasing to a site which was previously
+ marked "don't use", in case the previous clone was out of date.
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Demand salvage of attached volumes now correctly track attachment
+ state.
+
+ * Avoid a potential crash due to failure to hold a lock when attaching
+ a volume fails.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * Track SMB connections by SID rather than username.
+
+ * Error write attempts to known-readonly volumes earlier.
+
+ * Validate directory buffers to avoid potential crashes.
+
+ * Handle VIO errors from bulkstatus.
+
+ * Make PMTU discovery configurable and register error handlers for it.
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * Use larger I/O sizes in memcache to improve performance.
+
+ * Avoid potential alignment issues doing I/O for pioctl calls.
+
+ FreeBSD
+
+ * Avoid panicing if the listener process is not findable.
+
+ * Avoid deadlock issues while performing lookups.
+
+ Linux
+
+ * Handle stale file handle errors for some cache partition types.
+
+ * Avoid blocking with xvcache lock when attempting to free in-use
+ vcaches.
+
+ * Build fixes for older kernels.
+
+ * Properly configure LWP to use ucontext() on platforms where it
+ should.
+
+ * Eliminate spurious errors from AFS system call returns. (126230)
+
+ MacOS
+
+ * Attempt to honor configured Kerberos defaults in Preferences Pane.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.77 (2010-09-08)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Rx path MTU detection will terminate detection in cases where the
+ minimum required packet size cannot be transferred.
+
+ * vos dryrun mode now shows effects for syncvldb single volume case.
+
+ * vos dryrun mode now shows "status after" for syncvldb and syncserv.
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * RXAFS_GetStatistics64 now returns statistics properly.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * Attempt to properly identify the local system SMB connection for
+ token tracking.
+
+ * Remap timeout and offline errors to proper NT RPC errors.
+
+ * Properly fail over to other replicas on bulkstat IO errors.
+
+ * Properly error delete-mode createfile if a file is set readonly.
+
+ * Validate directory entry buffers to avoid crashing the service.
+
+ * Log file modes properly.
+
+ * Log cell name when logging server information.
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * cacheout program for discarding callbacks is now built.
+
+ * bulkstatus kernel locking is corrected to avoid a potential panic.
+
+ Dragonfly BSD
+
+ * userspace support update
+
+ FreeBSD
+
+ * Updated vnode locking for children returned via lookup().
+
+ * Avoid file open undercount with needed calls to
+ FakeOpen/FakeClose().
+
+ * Use vnode_pager_setsize to properly track file size during kernel
+ IO.
+
+ * Update system call installation.
+
+ * Fix shutdown of Rx kernel listener to avoid potential dereference
+ after it's gone.
+
+ * Avoid closing vnodes during vnode recycle.
+
+ * Fix bogus call to FlushVS for vnode reclaims.
+
+ Linux
+
+ * Packaging updated for current configure options and built files.
+
+ * Cache bypass now holds reference on pages during readpage.
+
+ * s390x setgroups32 patching update.
+
+ MacOS
+
+ * DNS resolver is reinitialized on IP address change. (126440)
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.76 (2010-08-16)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Updates to build-time configuration.
+
+ * Fix XDR support in Rx to match header definition.
+
+ * vos status now shows transaction creation, not action creation.
+
+ * Rx avoids reporting loopback adapters when listing interfaces.
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Demand-Attach Fileserver always built and installed (dafileserver,
+ davolserver, dasalvager).
+
+ * Return VNOVOL from fileserver when a volume is deleted.
+
+ * Ignore duplicate tags during volume restore operation.
+
+ * Update inode array after salvage repairs volume.
+
+ * Zero a corrupted header in memory during salvage to avoid further
+ corruption.
+
+ * Fix NAMEI backend to allow low-numbered volumes to work properly.
+
+ * ptserver does not include cell name as part of length check for
+ names.
+
+ * Updated error messages for unblessed volumes.
+
+ * vlserver avoids buffer overflow with regex pattern
+
+ * Attach-time failures now note failures as the rest of the fileserver
+ would.
+
+ * Server argument logging will no longer overflow stack.
+
+ * Provide fast-restart-like unsafe-nosalvage option for DAFS.
+
+ * Deal with host hash collisions in the fileserver.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * Avoid crashing when interpreting a drive letter as potentially
+ matching a cell name.
+
+ * Properly handle volume package errors.
+
+ * Allow page recycling from known-readonly content without ensuring
+ they are not dirty.
+
+ * 32 bit tools installer should not override client configuration.
+
+ * Ensure root scache item has a valid callback when use is attempted.
+
+ * Freelance directory changes now properly invalidate and replace the
+ old root object.
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * Support disconnected reconnecting with specified UID for PAGless
+ platforms.
+
+ * Proper disconnected vnode reference tracking.
+
+ * Update server site blacklisting to not return success if nothing was
+ blacklisted.
+
+ * Avoid a panic during vcache contention due to CVInit vcache
+ racing. (127645)
+
+ FreeBSD
+
+ * Update for network stack in 8.1/9.0.
+
+ HP-UX
+
+ * Bug fixes.
+
+ Linux
+
+ * 2.6.36 support
+
+ * Disable PMTU error packet handling.
+
+ * flock() fixes.
+
+ * Debian packaging updated.
+
+ * freezer interface updates.
+
+ MacOS
+
+ * Hold references to disconnected mode written vnodes properly.
+
+ Solaris
+
+ * Handle NFS translator module references for amd64.
+
+ * INODE fileserver backend support now exists for amd64.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.75 (2010-07-07)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Prevent rx_rpc_stats global lock from being a bottleneck.
+
+ * Path MTU discovery is now provided to allow traffic to pass networks
+ with sub-1500 byte MTUs and poor fragment handling.
+
+ * Further reduce Rx NAT ping transmission when enabled.
+
+ * Update Kerberos 5-based token handling in rxkad from upstream
+ Heimdal. (127554)
+
+ * Update version numbers emitted during build to reflect what is
+ actually being built.
+
+ * Add "-human" switch for human-readable units in fs diskfree and
+ listquota. (124529)
+
+ * vos provides reasons for locked volumes when known.
+
+ * Do not count retransmission and ping acks as non-idle for Rx
+ connections.
+
+ * Rx: provide service-specific data getter and setter routines.
+
+ * Update build-time Kerberos detection.
+
+ * Updated userspace AFS client.
+
+ * Beginning of a modernized test suite.
+
+ * Additional documentation.
+
+ * Updated documentation, notably the Administrators Guide.
+
+ * Substantial code cleanup.
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Update handling of vnode allocation failures.
+
+ * DAFS: allow salvaging volumes not known to the fileserver, to allow
+ cleanup of data not attached to a current volume.
+
+ * Properly handle volumes slated for destruction.
+
+ * Handle volumes with many files properly.
+
+ * Force core file generation in bosserver by overriding default
+ resource limits when possible.
+
+ * Update vlclient and vldb_check.
+
+ * Avoid potentially corrupting a volume on creation if files are left
+ from previous failed cleanup.
+
+ * Note volume changed during salvage as needed.
+
+ * DAFS: do not assume invalid addresses are in fileserver address hash
+ table.
+
+ * Avoid tying up fileserver threads with volumes that are being taken
+ offline.
+
+ * Do not set inUse on volumes for non-DAFS other than in fileserver.
+
+ * Break origin's callback on target of rename operation.
+
+ * Avoid unneeded parent directory link updates during some rename
+ operations.
+
+ * Do not open /dev/console for writing in the fileserver.
+
+ * DAFS: avoid spurious restarts when binary restarts are configured.
+
+ * Avoid spurious and unneeded calls to sync(), which can slow down the
+ fileserver.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * Revised SMB QuerySecurityInfo to address issues caused by MS10-020
+ (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/980232)
+
+ * Prevent use of the AFSCache file contents if mapped to a new
+ address.
+
+ * Make fs newcell include behavior compatible with the non-Windows
+ version.
+
+ * Provide a registry option (FreelanceImportCellServDB) to pre-create
+ mount points in the AFS root for all cells in CellServDB.
+
+ * Fix a memory leak in the cm_FreeServerList() routine.
+
+ * Reduce privilege when reading registry CellServDB.
+
+ * Add support for RPC Pipe Service NetWkstaGetInfo levels needed for
+ Windows 7.
+
+ * Prevent overflow when computing quota percentage in Explorer Shell.
+ (126846)
+
+ * Generate meaningful errors for ACL operations on freelance AFS root.
+
+ * Fix error handling on InlineBulkStatus RPCs.
+
+ * Show configuration pages for all types of MSI installations.
+
+ * Improve freemount AFS root directory handling and operations.
+
+ * Properly validate GetVolumeStatus pioctl responses.
+
+ * Commit file length changes and dirty buffers when flushing a file.
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * Update version of files for disk cache.
+
+ * Do not call afs_FlushVCBs with xvcache lock held, to improve
+ parallelization.
+
+ * Add mariner log messages for creating and removing files.
+
+ * Don't hold xvcache lock while creating symlinks, to improve
+ parallelization.
+
+ * Provide -dynroot-sparse mode to not show all cells in CellServDB in
+ dynroot mode.
+
+ * Avoid a potential crash in aklog in linked cell handling.
+
+ * Log MTU-caused packet retransmission.
+
+ * Prevent crashes caused be fs checkservers while cache is being set
+ up.
+
+ * fs getserverprefs now has a buffer large enough for the default
+ CellServDB.
+
+ * Report server address when logging warnings.
+
+ * Avoid panic in GetCapabilities when cell is not known.
+
+ * Lock process name and id for advisory lock warnings when possible.
+
+ * Handle need for allocating additional Rx packets.
+
+ * Properly handle errors from InlineBulkStatus operations.
+
+ * Fix errors returned from fcntl() on readonly files locked for write.
+
+ * Flush pending changes to the server on LOCK_EX unlock.
+
+ * Reflect length changes as a result of callbacks even when file is
+ open for write.
+
+ * Avoid hanging due to error exit when attempting to store a large
+ file to a non-largefile fileserver.
+
+ * Recover from afs_GetVolSlot errors.
+
+ FreeBSD
+
+ * Bugfixes for kernel VFS and network routines.
+
+ IRIX
+
+ * Provide makesname().
+
+ Linux
+
+ * Avoid syscall probes when keyrings are present, by default. (125215)
+
+ * Remove "Big Kernel Lock" from VFS operations.
+
+ * Use filehandles for all Linux 2.6 versions to avoid need for matched
+ afsd. (127530)
+
+ * Updated RPM packaging.
+
+ * Fix dkms configuration provided with RPMs.
+
+ * Hold reference on pages during background I/O for cache bypass.
+
+ * Fix cache bypass handling of non-largefile fileservers.
+
+ * Protect truncate_inode_pages mappings with mutex or semaphore as
+ needed.
+
+ * Fix pagevec use in cache bypass. (127505)
+
+ * Updates for 2.6.35
+
+ MacOS
+
+ * Improve launchd configuration.
+
+ * Avoid hanging on recursive cache file lock acquisition when user
+ notification is enabled.
+
+ * Fix and re-enable bulkstat mode.
+
+ OpenBSD
+
+ * Build updates.
+
+ Solaris
+
+ * Precluding unmount while AFS is busy.
+
+ * Avoid deadlocking when releasing the VFS object.
+
+ * Stop network interface poller in kernel on AFS shutdown.
+
+ * Avoid issues with lookups on empty directory names. (127356)
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.74 (2010-04-22)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Add "vos setaddrs" command.
+
+ * Rx library lock contention avoidance between rx_NewCall and
+ rx_EndCall.
+
+ * Rx library races due to inconsistent use of rx_connection
+ conn_data_lock to protect the flags field.
+
+ * Rx library inconsistent use of RX_CALL_TQ_WAIT which could result in
+ deadlocks.
+
+ * Rx library must signal transmit queue waiters when flushing.
+
+ * afsmonitor shows busy counts now.
+
+ * afsmonitor displays xstat callback statistics.
+
+ * Provide expandgroups for pts mem on a supergroups server.
+
+ * Provide supergroup option to liste nested groups during pts mem.
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Avoid volume lock contention during DAFS startup.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * Avoid a race when updating cell vldb server lists that can result in
+ a crash.
+
+ * Avoid a deadlock when managing CM_SCACHESYNC_STOREDATA state
+ operations for directory objects.
+
+ * Add new Windows Application Event log messages for VBUSY,
+ VRESTARTING, ALL_BUSY, ALL_OFFLINE, and ALL_DOWN.
+
+ * Reduce lock contention by waiting for cm_buf_t I/O operations.
+
+ * Split the cm_buf_t flags field to separate the flags that are
+ protected by the cm_buf_t mutex from those protected by the
+ buf_globalLock.
+
+ * In cm_UpdateVolumeLocation, avoid searching for a ".readonly" volume
+ on a numeric volume name.
+
+ * File buffer allocations whose offsets are beyond server EOF should
+ be locally allocated and zero filled. The file server should not be
+ issued a FetchData rpc which is guaranteed to fail.
+
+ * Enable integrated logon to work with Windows 7/2008 when user logons
+ are performed with a non-Domain Kerberos principal.
+
+ * Add Protection Error messages to aklog output.
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * Provide a FUSE-interfacing userspace afs client.
+
+ * Updates to libuafs userspace cache manager.
+
+ * Probe servers using GetCapabilities instead of GetTime, thus
+ requiring fewer RPCs.
+
+ * Fix DNS SRV record handling for cell lookup.
+
+ FreeBSD
+
+ * Fix sleep/wakeup routines.
+
+ * Update for 8.0 release.
+
+ Linux
+
+ * Handle high memory addresses correctly.
+
+ MacOS
+
+ * Make 32 bit AFS syscalls work again.
+
+ * Work around finder "Duplicate" failure (caused by setting modes on
+ symlinks).
+
+ * Disable bulkstat again (will be re-enabled at or before .75).
+
+ * Provide symlink type hints during readdir.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.73 (2010-03-24)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * NAT keepalive support at Rx level.
+
+ * Corrected SRV record support for cell name canonicalization.
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Fix volume callback notification to not notify unaffected clients.
+ (126497)
+
+ * Allow root directory recreation by salvager. (94658)
+
+ * Numerous DAFS fixes.
+
+ * Improvements to callback table overflow handling. (126451)
+
+ * bosserver now shuts down cleanly on SIGTERM.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * Prevent the Explorer Shell extension from crashing if symlink
+ creation failed. (126406)
+
+ * A Rx level NAT ping has been implemented. A registry value enables.
+
+ * Adds krb5 error message translation to aklog, afscreds,
+ afslogon.dll, the network identity manager afs provider and
+ translate_et.
+
+ * Default mode bit settings for file and directory creation are now
+ provided, and can be configured.
+
+ * An SMB request trace facility is provided and can be enabled for
+ debugging.
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * Rx idle deadtime does not stop file writes.
+
+ * Disconnected AFS no longer has a race condition during remove ops.
+
+ * Fakestat avoids a condition which could cause it to block on network
+ activity.
+
+ * Several fixes to handle interruptions in vos operations. (33360,
+ 125535)
+
+ * Allow more sysnames in a sysname list.
+
+ * Attempt to enforce timeouts on AFSDB lookups.
+
+ AIX
+
+ * Clean up properly on mount failure.
+
+ * Add entry to /etc/vfs to allow umount to work.
+
+ Linux
+
+ * Several issues to deal with older kernels.
+
+ * Avoid leaking the global lock in the /proc cellservdb code.
+
+ * Keyring destruction now cleans up all tokens.
+
+ * Keyring quotas are not enforced against root.
+
+ MacOS
+
+ * Some FSEvents hinting for authentication events now done. (23781)
+
+ * Update uninstaller. (125634)
+
+ * Rewrite afssettings and fstab code to avoid licensing issue with
+ APSL.
+
+ * Growl client for user monitoring of AFS events included.
+
+ * Properly support insert-only dropboxes.
+
+ * Add bulkstat support.
+
+ * Include support for moving in Finder across mount points.
+
+ * Preferences Pane includes support for Kerberos 5 ticket renewal.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.72 (2010-02-15)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Provide internationalization support in com_err.
+
+ * Fix array length checking to avoid crashes when checking for a
+ volume type based on name in vos.
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Provide backward compatible "-f" flag to salvager for force mode.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * Restore use of DNS AFSDB and SRV records by kaserver clients.
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * Fix client cache file truncation to not lose chunks when truncating
+ a large file.
+
+ * Ensure a cache writeback hook is installed in the client (bug from
+ 1.5.71).
+
+ * Avoid spurious free memory warnings during clean shutdown.
+
+ * Fakestat mode avoids AFSDB lookups.
+
+ * "fs storebehind" now correctly reports errors on readonly volumes.
+
+ * Additional documentation for "fs getcacheparms"
+
+ * Forced new uuid generation with "fs uuid -generate" now works
+ enforced permission correctly.
+
+ MacOS
+
+ * Add optimized Rx event handler in kernel.
+
+ * Installer now allows installing an older version.
+
+ * Panic decoder can now deal with MacOS 10.5 again.
+
+ * MacOS ._ files are now correctly not looked up as cellnames.
+
+ Linux
+
+ * To deal with SELinux file labeling, try cache accesses with current
+ credentials in event of failure.
+
+ * Rx XDR encoding bug on i386 Linux is fixed (bug introduced in
+ 1.5.71).
+
+ IRIX
+
+ * Code compilation fixes.
+
+ OpenBSD
+
+ * Update for OpenBSD 4.6.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.69 (2010-01-19)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Configuration of BOSserver no longer defaults to weekly restarts
+ enabled.
+
+ * Provide BOS restricted mode by default.
+
+ * Add support for "vos endtrans" command.
+
+ * Default to providing full output from vos listvol.
+
+ * Correct additional-address tracking in the fileserver.
+
+ * Improve Rx performance by not unnecessarily dropping and reacquiring
+ call locks in read and write processes.
+
+ * Avoid crashes when monitoring volserver transactions across
+ potential transaction garbage collection.
+
+ * Numerous warning fixes.
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Avoid saving fileserver state in demand attach fileserver when
+ panicing.
+
+ * Demand attach fileserver allows other callers to schedule salvages.
+
+ * Demand attach "bos salvage" now works correctly with restricted
+ mode.
+
+ Microsoft Windows:
+
+ * Numerous changes to the client-internal btree directory handling to
+ prevent errors.
+
+ * fs examine reports owner and group ids as signed values (PTS groups
+ are negative).
+
+ * Preclude corruption due to races writing to smb buffers.
+
+ * Allow MTU settings in registry to be used.
+
+ * Apply MTU to both send and receive sizes.
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * Avoid double-freeing Rx call structure if reading a response from
+ the file server results in a short read.
+
+ * Handle negative lengths in FetchStatus results correctly.
+
+ * Properly clean up allocated memory at shutdown.
+
+ * Default to AFSDB compiled into the cache manager.
+
+ * Avoid inadvertant disclosure of stat() information to clients not so
+ entitled.
+
+ * Correct a bug with AFSDB lookups introduced with SRV record support.
+
+ MacOS
+
+ * Install kernel panic processing tool in /Library/OpenAFS/Tools.
+
+ * Include debugging symbols for kernel extension in additional package.
+
+ * Support "Application Firewall" users.
+
+ * Avoid ._cellname AFSDB lookups.
+
+ * Compile preferences pane as a universal binary.
+
+ Linux
+
+ * Use splice to speed up storing files.
+
+ * When using memcache, avoid duplicating work in readpages.
+
+ * Use dget_parent to safely find an inode's parent.
+
+ * Disable access time updates in our superblock.
+
+ * Avoid crashing doing writeback if no credentials were stashed at
+ file open.
+
+ * Simplify keyring support.
+
+ * Properly clean up vcache in event of failed mount.
+
+ FreeBSD
+
+ * Update for current FreeBSD 8.
+
+ Solaris
+
+ * Abstractly manipulate groups as now required.
+
+ * Abstractly access time instead of using lbolt directly.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.68 (2009-12-08)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * aklog now attempts to convert non-AFS errors to human-readable
+ strings.
+
+ * Make stack not executable when compiling assembler source with GCC.
+
+ * Numerous source warning cleanups and code reorganization.
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Compute midnight for volume statistics calculation from local time.
+
+ * Salvager now orphans duplicate special inodes when running to allow
+ recovery in event of a problem, instead of simply ignoring the
+ issue.
+
+ * Support to ensure a server panic attempt leaves a core and thus
+ restarts in a timely manner, rather than potentially hanging. Use
+ panic to attempt cleanup before leaving a core when possible.
+
+ * Volume sync data reported during bulkstatus is now set correctly.
+
+ * Provide better tuning for fileserver file descriptor caching.
+
+ * Allow more than 128 threads in fileserver by modifying host
+ structure in-use tracking.
+
+ * Avoid crashes getting volume server status during transaction
+ cleanup.
+
+ * Improved logging of offline volume conditions.
+
+ * Correct volume statistics when cloning a volume.
+
+ * Avoid referencing host structures in the fileserver which are marked
+ for deletion.
+
+ * Demand attach fileserver corrections to avoid coring during an
+ aborted startup.
+
+ * host array bounds checking corrections to avoid buffer overflow.
+
+ * Handle special inodes correctly when promoting an inode fileserver
+ readonly volume to read-write.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * Set the DOS Readonly attribute on a file/directory whenever the unix
+ mode combined with the mask 0200 is true. Previously there was a
+ discrepency between the mask used for testing for readonly behavior
+ and that used for setting the attribute.
+
+ * Disable AFSVolSync based .readonly "whole-volume callback" support
+ because the all file servers prior to 1.5.67 (and perhaps 1.4.12) do
+ not properly assign a value to the AFSVolSync structure in bulk
+ status RPC responses.
+
+ * Improve the error output from aklog to output the value from krb5
+ error_message() if the afs_com_err output indicates an unknown
+ value.
+
+ * Convert VBUSY and VRESTARTING to CM_ERROR_ALLBUSY and do not permit
+ them to be exposed to the smb redirector.
+
+ * Convert STATUS_TIMEOUT responses to STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT to avoid
+ confusion within the smb redirector.
+
+ * Fix the byte order assigned to port numbers associated with AFSDB
+ record lookups. They must be network byte order not host byte
+ order.
+
+ * Add dynamic server ranking based on RPC round trip time
+ measurements.
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * Additional shutdown-time memory leaks removed.
+
+ * Improved logging of resource contention.
+
+ * Provide dumping for Rx debug packet tracking support in source.
+
+ * Update afscp test client to build, and provide an unlock client.
+
+ * Client buffers for directory parsing can now be allocated beyond the
+ fixed set formerly provided.
+
+ * Work around race condition when manipulating read-only volume
+ callbacks.
+
+ * Bugfixes to get PAG value pioctl.
+
+ * Bugfixes to SRV record support.
+
+ Linux
+
+ * Path MTU tracking code cleanup.
+
+ * Avoid an oops due to racing with vcache recycling thread.
+
+ * Changes to keyring PAG handling: for sufficiently new kernels, use
+ only keyring-based PAGs, and disable group PAGs entirely.
+
+ * Updates to the kernel page cache interface: writing pages will now
+ not spuriously leak page locks, and will avoid requiring duplicate
+ work.
+
+ * Credential references are now tracked using native atomic counters.
+
+ * Kernel mutex/semaphore lock ordering fix to avoid deadlocks.
+
+ * Manipulate disk cache with credentials used to initialize it, to
+ avoid security issues.
+
+ MacOS
+
+ * Fix fstrace message catalog location.
+
+ * Fix kernel fstrace logging.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.66 (2009-10-25)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Avoid calling exit() in library code.
+
+ * Add rx window size and peer timeout tuning APIs.
+
+ * Correct rx peer timeout handling to disallow 0ms timeouts.
+
+ * Correct calculation of rx RTT by disregarding retransmitted packets.
+
+ * vos manpages updated to reflect changes in recent versions.
+
+ * GNU-style long options (e.g. --cell) are now supported in all
+ commands.
+
+ * fs listacl can now print a command to recreate the current ACL.
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Fix a race on transaction objects in the volserver which can cause a
+ crash.
+
+ * Avoid destroying and setting to NULL the callback connection when it
+ could still be being used.
+
+ * Correct unlink handling in salvager.
+
+ * Improve error messages due to I/O errors in the volserver.
+
+ * Correct an issue which caused converted RO to RW volumes on namei
+ fileservers to not come online immediately.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * Official support for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2.
+
+ * Prevent a file server bug (FetchData returning an invalid length
+ instead of zero) from causing an "unexpected network error" when
+ writing to files.
+
+ * Promote DNS SRV records as superior to DNS AFSDB records. Support
+ arbitrary port numbers for vldb servers.
+
+ * Add AFSVolSync based .readonly "whole-volume callback" support.
+ With this functionality, multiple objects from a .readonly volume
+ can have their status validated by issuing a single
+ RXAFS_FetchStatus RPC.
+
+ * Remove drive mapping functionality and service start/stop from
+ afscreds.exe.
+
+ * Remove drive mapping functionality from afs_config.exe.
+
+ * Use {HKLM,HKCU}\SOFTWARE\OpenAFS\Client DWORD "ShowMountTab" to
+ restore access to drive mapping functionality in afscreds.exe and
+ afs_config.exe.
+
+ * Adjust SMB error return codes to avoid returning STATUS_TIMEOUT
+ which results in the SMB redirector disconnecting.
+
+ * Network Identity Manager OpenAFS Provider now provides its own "AFS
+ lock" notification icon to report the status of "have tokens, have
+ no tokens, service not started, service started but inaccessible".
+ Hovering over the icon lists the cells for which tokens exist (if
+ any) and the OpenAFS version number. Double-clicking executes the
+ Network Identity Manager default action.
+
+ * Prevent pioctl calls from retrying indefinitely when a sharing
+ violation error occurs.
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * Correct a condition which could discard the error from initializing
+ a fetch request.
+
+ * Avoid using invalid references to afs_Conn connection structures,
+ and thus potentially producing invalid data when a retry is needed.
+
+ * SRV records are now supported for discovering AFS servers.
+
+ Linux
+
+ * Correct writepage behavior.
+
+ * Fix error code handling in the writepage code.
+
+ * Avoid leaking page locks, which could potentially hang a machine.
+
+ MacOS X
+
+ * Preferences Pane improvements.
+
+ HP-UX
+
+ * Avoiding attempting to handle critical signals in servers, so that
+ core file handling works correctly.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.65 (2009-10-06)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Code compilation warning fixes, to enable better finding and
+ tracking bugs.
+
+ * Provide configure-time switch to enable code warning compilation.
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Demand-attach fileserver now makes volume LRU list operations
+ exclusive operations to avoid races during adding to the list.
+
+ * Fileservers now avoid potential "negative length" fetches.
+
+ * A leak in host tracking objects in the fileserver has been fixed.
+
+ * Salvager now unlinks all files by full path, to deal with the change
+ to not chdir for core file tracking.
+
+ * Salvager avoids asserting if the volume header is unreadable.
+
+ * Demand-attach fileserver puts back volume references from fssync
+ handlers when done.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * Improved service response to suspend and shutdown event
+ notifications.
+
+ * Avoid a bug in the file server that can result in an invalid length
+ being returned as part of a fetch data response if the client
+ attempts to read beyond the length of the file.
+
+ * Do not publish a default stream object for directories and mount
+ point objects. This was impacting the ability of some Windows XP
+ systems to save roaming profiles.
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * A bug which could cause erroneous handling of lengths on data reads
+ has been fixed.
+
+ * A bug where erroneous length returns from the fileserver could
+ result in a false error has been fixed.
+
+ Linux
+
+ * Background page copies are now supported for enhanced disk cache
+ read performance.
+
+ * Blocking readahead is supported in readpages() to reduce overhead.
+
+ * Use readpage() instead of read() to access cache data to avail disk
+ cache users of the kernel backing cache for improved performance.
+
+ * Minimize credential handling for improved performance.
+
+ MacOS X
+
+ * Preferences Pane cleanup.
+
+ Solaris
+
+ * Provide a fs_pathconf method with sensible defaults.
+
+ * Provide a _PC_FILESIZEBITS method to fix some NFS translator
+ consumers.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.64 (2009-09-22)
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * The demand attach fileserver now puts back volume references gotten
+ via the fssync interface.
+
+ * The demand attach fileserver had a structure reference error, which
+ has been correected.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * Restores Windows 2000 compatibility.
+
+ * Fixes a data consistency error between the output of NetWkstaGetInfo
+ and NetServerGetInfo RPCs, specify the Lan workstation group name
+ "AFS", and report server name as "AFS" instead of "\\AFS" when the
+ caller asks for "\\AFS".
+
+ * Enables executables to be run from \\AFS on Windows 7. Returns
+ "Name not found" instead of "File not found" when a directory or
+ file name cannot be found. This avoids loader errors when system
+ dlls cannot be located in the executable directory.
+
+ * Prevents cache manager from marking the file server "down" when the
+ data returned in response to either RXAFS_FetchData64 or
+ RXAFS_StoreData64 is invalid.
+
+ * Adds pioctl data validation to the AFS Explorer Shell extension.
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * A bug which could cause a kernel panic in 1.5.63 has been corrected.
+ This would manifest as a GetDCache panic or oops.
+
+ Linux
+
+ * aklog -setpag works again with recent kernels when keyring is in
+ use.
+
+ MacOS
+
+ * When Fast User Switch is in use, AFS login is now handled correctly
+ by the integration tool included with the preferences pane.
+
+ * Several packaging bugs have been corrected.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.63 (2009-09-11)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * The restorevol command is now documented and installed as a user
+ command.
+
+ * The uss command now properly translates vldb entries to its expected
+ format when handling them in all cases.
+
+ * Documentation now refers to Kerberos instead of kaserver.
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * bosserver now handles BosConfig.new when restarting, allowing
+ configuration to be replaced at restart time rather than with bos
+ delete and bos create. Documentation is updated to reflect this.
+
+ * The demand attach fileservice not longer potentially hangs trying to
+ terminate demand-salvages which have already exited.
+
+ * The demand attach fileservice has been modified to avoid spurious
+ 'SYNC_putRes: write failed' warnings when some protocol messages
+ cannot be acknowledged due to the sender terminating the connection.
+
+ * In the event of failure to contact the vlserver or ptserver, the
+ fileserver will not exit and trigger a forced salvage. It will
+ continue to try in the background to contact the needed services.
+
+ * The salvager can now repair certain cases of a damamged vnode index.
+
+ * The accessDate metadata for a volume is now updated correctly.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * CRITICAL: Some applications for example those based on Cygwin were
+ unable to access data stored in the AFS name space. Explorer Shell
+ also experienced inconsistent behavior. This is fixed.
+
+ * CRITICAL: Multiple AFS pioctl requests issued nearly simultaneously
+ by applications could result in pioctl responses being received by
+ the wrong requester. This in turn could result in application
+ crashes. symlink.exe, fs.exe, afslogon.dll, afscreds.exe, and the
+ netidmgr afscred.dll plugin were all affected.
+
+ * Some XP machines running 1.5.62 had trouble saving roaming profile
+ data. This is fixed.
+
+ * Integrated Logon (afslogon.dll) did not function with domain
+ specific configurations.
+
+ * Ensure that access denied and over quota errors experienced while
+ storing data to the file server do not result in on-going retry
+ attempts.
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * Except on Solaris and AIX, the compiler may now be overriden at
+ configure time by setting the CC environment variable.
+
+ * afsd now properly deals with large cache partitions.
+
+ FreeBSD
+
+ * Build shared libafsauthent and libafsrpc.
+
+ Linux
+
+ * Kernel module DKMS support now installs an unstripped module to
+ allow debugging information to be collected.
+
+ MacOS
+
+ * Preferences pane properly updates token information.
+
+ MacOS 10.6
+
+ * klog will now properly handle passwords of 8 or fewer characters
+ with an AFS string to key on hosts able to run 64 bit binaries.
+
+ * A panic at AFS shutdown due to "NO PCB" on a udp_lock has been
+ addressed.
+
+ * The panic decoder script included in the source now properly handles
+ 32 and 64 bit panics.
+
+ NetBSD
+
+ * Avoid defining AFS_KERBEROS_ENV globally as it creates a circular
+ dependency.
+
+ * Build shared libafsauthent and libafsrpc.
+
+ OpenBSD
+
+ * Build shared libafsauthent and libafsrpc.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.62 (2009-08-28)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Numerous invisible changes to improve code maintainability,
+ portability and enhanceability.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * CRITICAL: Fixes two errors that can result in data loss when storing
+ data to the file server.
+ 1. Failure to Store Portions of Unaligned Writes
+ 2. Failure to Store Data to File Servers Lacking Large File Support
+ Read the announcement for more details:
+ http://www.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-announce/2009/000305.html
+
+ * CRITICAL: The cache manager daemon thread could terminate when the
+ machine enters suspend mode. This daemon thread performs the
+ background check of down servers, offline volumes, callback
+ expirations, etc.
+
+ * CRITICAL: Integrated Logon (afslogon.dll) was terminating
+ unexpectedly. Error checking has been improved and NULL pointer
+ dereferences after Lsa API calls fail have been eliminated.
+
+ * For the first time, the OpenAFS SMB Server supports the DCE RPC
+ services SRVSVC and WKSSVC. Browsing \\AFS with the Explorer Shell
+ or NET VIEW will now be faster and provide additional functionality.
+ No longer will cell names longer than 12 characters be truncated.
+
+ * Improvements to DFS Referral request processing have been
+ implemented.
+
+ * Unnecessary DNS lookups of share names are avoided improving
+ performance.
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * Non-Kerberos PAM modules work correctly again.
+
+ MacOS X
+
+ * MacOS 10.6 (Snowleopard) is now supported, both 32 and 64 bit mode.
+
+ * Updates to the AFSCommander preferences pane.
+
+ * Installer now permits cell names with dashes.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.61 (2009-08-06)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Correct another race condition in the Rx library that could result
+ in an unexpected panic while freeing the Rx call iovq.
+
+ * rx packet resend and data packets sent counts were incorrect.
+
+ * fs setquota, fs setcachesize, vos setfields, and vos create now
+ accept human readable orders of magnitude. (K, M, G)
+
+ * fs listquota fixed to permit large quota sizes to be displayed.
+
+ * Correct documentation of bosserver permissions requirements.
+
+ * Modify vlserver to avoid potentially corrupting the database through
+ volume id reuse.
+
+ * Generalized support for fast Rx timeout due to network
+ down/unreachable.
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Allow audit logs to be sent via sys5 IPC message queues instead of
+ logged directly.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * If a file server becomes inaccessible while the cache manager has
+ dirty buffers to write, the afsd_service buf_IncrSync thread can
+ attempt to use 100% of the cpu.
+
+ * Fix "fs newcell" which was broken in 1.5.60.
+
+ * Do not attempt to synchronize dirty buffers if the associated volume
+ is known to be unavailable.
+
+ * Modify behavior of a Freelance mountpoint target that does not
+ specify a cell. Instead of assuming the target volume is in the
+ Freelance.Local cell, use the workstation "Cell" specified in the
+ registry. A mountpoint target of "#root.cell." will now mean the
+ root.cell volume in the workstation cell for the current session.
+ If the workstation cell changes from "athena.mit.edu" to
+ "andrew.cmu.edu", the referenced volume will also change without
+ requiring that the mount point targets be altered.
+
+ * Add cm_FindServerByUuid(). Re-implement RXAFS_InitCallBackState3()
+ to permit the server Uuid to be used to lookup the server object and
+ from that determine the cell. This permits callbacks that are
+ received from alternate addresses to be processed with a known
+ server object. Previously a request from an unknown server would
+ clear all callbacks from all cells.
+
+ * Fix a bug that prevented optimal performance when using a non-zero
+ value for 'daemonCheckVolCBInterval'. As a reminder, when
+ "daemonCheckVolCBInterval" is set to a non-zero value, all .readonly
+ volume callbacks are automatically renewed 90 minutes before their
+ expiration.
+
+ * Fix automatic ranking of vldb servers whose values are obtained from
+ the CellServDB file.
+
+ * Add failover for RX CALL TIMEOUT errors when the volume is readonly
+ or the call is to a vldb server.
+
+ * Add registry based cell search functionality to NetIdMgr,
+ afs_config.exe, and klog.exe.
+
+ * afsconf_GetCellInfo() has been modified to perform gethostbyname()
+ lookups on the host names in the CellServDB instead of using the
+ specified IP addresses. This provides aklog, pts, vos, etc. the
+ same CellServDB behavior that the Windows Cache Manager uses.
+
+ * When updating the stat cache entry callback of a .readonly object
+ from the volume group object, update the file server reference to
+ ensure it matches the most update to date callback.
+
+ * Add proper support for processing callbacks from multi-homed file
+ servers. Instead of comparing servers by cm_server_t pointer,
+ compare them by UUID when the UUID is known.
+
+ * During a shutdown short circuit the offline volume check daemon
+ functionality.
+
+ * Return the error code of RXAFS_FetchData / RXAFS_StoreData in
+ preference to an error code reported by rx_EndCall.
+
+ * Add "PerFileAccessCheck" registry value to permit testing against
+ experimental file servers that include per-file acl support. This
+ value is intentionally undocumented. It is not to be used by
+ production environment deployments.
+
+ * Fix a bug introduced in 1.5.60 that prevents the afs netidmgr
+ provider from obtaining tokens when referrals are in play.
+
+ * Add "fs chown" and "fs chgrp" commands to permit the owner and group
+ of objects stored in AFS to be set from Windows.
+
+ * Avoid performing background daemon operations when the machine is
+ going into suspend mode.
+
+ * Perform offline volume checks in most recently used order.
+
+ * Prevent crash when a data version for a cache object goes backwards.
+
+ * Multi-thread safe library versions are now being generated and used.
+ mtafsubik.lib, mtafsutil.lib, mtafsvldb.lib, mtafsvol.lib.
+
+ * Microsoft SMB Redirector (mrxsmb.sys) support for
+ ExtendedSessTimeout values are now available on XP through Windows
+ 7. Add functionality to autodetect if such support is present on
+ the machine. If so, configure it if necessary and dynamically
+ adjust the AFS Rx timeout values accordingly.
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * Fix out-of-tree source builds.
+
+ MacOS
+
+ * GUI installer now asks for local cell information.
+
+ * AFS Commander preferences pane is now installed by default.
+
+ Solaris
+
+ * Avoid kernel panics due to null pointer dereferences in the network
+ interface poller kernel thread.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.60 (2009-05-31)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Retry volserver transaction creation on failure.
+
+ * Allow building HTML and PDF documentation from included XML copies
+ of User Guide, Admin Guide and Quick Start Guide for Unix.
+
+ * Documentation updates and additional documentation.
+
+ * Add -encrypt support to pts client.
+
+ * Convert MR-AFS fs commands to OSD commands.
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Updated background sync process in fileserver to avoid a race which
+ could result in a volume being taken offline.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * On April 9th Microsoft released a Hot Fix for Windows Server 2003
+ SP2 that corrects a deadlock in the smb redirector and also adds new
+ functionality that permits the AFS SMB server to be given a longer
+ timeout than is normally the case. New functionality has been added
+ to configure these additional LanmanWorkstation\Parameter values.
+ (This functionality has been backported to XP SP3 and is scheduled
+ to be released on June 5th.)
+
+ * Fix RT#124787, a race condition between "fs flush <dir>", "fs
+ flushvolume", or "fs flushall" and on-going directory operations
+ that can result in afsd_service.exe crashing.
+
+ * Release Notes, User and Administrator guides are now shipped as
+ indexed Windows HtmlHelp Files. (.chm). Shortcuts are provided from
+ the Start Menu.
+
+ * A method of specifying Client CellServDB information within the
+ registry has been added that can be used to either override the
+ CellServDB file or force the use of DNS lookups for a given cell.
+ See the release notes for details.
+
+ * The pioctl interface now properly handles drive letter substitution
+ to UNC paths. (SUBST <d:> <\\afs\cell\path>)
+
+ * The BackConnectionHostNames registry value configuration was broken
+ when dynamic re-establishment of Netbios Name registrations was
+ added. This release restores the functionality.
+
+ * All hidden vos.exe commands are now revealed.
+
+ * Attempts to store the same dirty file chunk from multiple threads
+ are now prevented.
+
+ * The IsPathInAfs test in Explorer Shell Extension and fs.exe now
+ permits broken symlinks to be treated as being in AFS.
+
+ * vos.exe commands that output 64-bit integer values once again do so.
+ This was broken in 1.5.59.
+
+ * Cygwin Import Libraries are provided in the SDK for all OpenAFS
+ DLLs. This permits building cygwin applications against OpenAFS
+ libraries.
+
+ * NSIS installer does a much better job of cleaning up files left over
+ from previous installs.
+
+ * libafsconf.dll moved from Client\Program to Common directory as is
+ is now used by all modules for CellServDB processing.
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * Write back changes on last store for memcache to avoid discarding
+ changes.
+
+ * Abstract disk cache support to allow for path, fh, inode based
+ caches with no need for messy ifdef structures each time a new type
+ is added.
+
+ DragonflyBSD
+
+ * Support as a userland port.
+
+ FreeBSD
+
+ * Corrected structure definition for userspace cache manager to allow
+ builds to complete.
+
+ Linux
+
+ * Corrected client locking support.
+
+ * Updated patch to stop deadlocking in the kernel during mmap.
+
+ * Avoid oops when setting up groups for PAGs to match keyrings.
+
+ * Use Linux fh-based cache in cases where possible by default.
+
+ MacOS 10.3:
+
+ * Corrected structure definition for userspace cache manager to allow
+ builds to complete.
+
+ OpenBSD
+
+ * Support for OpenBSD 4.5.
+
+ Solaris
+
+ * Corrected support for server-side vos split interface.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.59 (2009-04-06)
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * Increased service priority class to "High" to match the priority of
+ system components that are dependent upon the a timely response.
+
+ * SMB error responses avoid returning errors that could confuse the
+ Microsoft SMB redirector into disconnecting the connection to \\AFS.
+
+ All UNIX client platforms (except MacOS X 10.4 and 10.5)
+
+ * OpenAFS 1.5.59 contains fixes for the client issues addressed by the
+ security advisories OPENAFS-SA-2009-001 and OPENAFS-SA-2009-002.
+
+ Linux platforms
+
+ * Support for prerelease Linux 2.6.30 kernels.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.58 (2009-03-30)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Code cleanup and prototyping.
+
+ * Avoid unnecessary blocking in Rx periodic cleanup code.
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Fileserver CopyOnWrite routine optimized for performance.
+
+ * Make fileserver callback dumps 64 bit safe.
+
+ * Fix byte order issues with fileserver host hashing.
+
+ * Fix buffer size issues with butc.
+
+ * Fix several Ubik recovery issues.
+
+ * Avoid leaking file references in the fileserver.
+
+ * Fix a race in DAFS while closing vnodes, and another offlining
+ volumes.
+
+ * volserver interfaces for volume splitting client.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * [RT 124293] A race condition exists which can result in a crash.
+
+ * [RT 124276] If the vldb is out of sync with the contents of the file
+ servers, afsd_service will retry too many times when a file server
+ reports a volume as not being present. Now if the list reported by
+ the vldb is the same as the previously seen list, then the retry is
+ aborted.
+
+ * [RT 124276] Read-only volume failover was broken in 1.5.53 whenever
+ accessing a volume results in VNOVOL or VMOVED.
+
+ * [RT 124276] Prior to 1.3.70 the volume server reference list was not
+ reference counted and would be prematurely freed while in use. When
+ reference counting was added in 1.3.70 a bug was introduced that
+ could result in service reference list corruption.
+
+ * Add Windows Application Event Log warning messages for "Client SMB
+ MPX value too large" and "Client SMB Buffer Size too small".
+
+ * Renaming of files across directory boundaries would result in an
+ invalid handle error when attempting to access the files after the
+ move.
+
+ * Fix the handling of Tran2 Set Path Info RPCs. Do not fail when a
+ smb file descriptor cannot be found. The whole point of using a
+ Path Info function is because an smb file descriptor wasn't
+ allocated.
+
+ * More edge cases in which dynamic addition of Freelance root.afs
+ entries would get the wrong FID or where the root.afs directory
+ would not be refreshed.
+
+ * Buffer overflow could occur if the workstation cell name was longer
+ than 64 characters. Crashes could occur in afscreds.exe,
+ afslogon.dll, and afsd_service.exe.
+
+ * VNOSERVICE and VOFFLINE errors were leaking and were exposed to the
+ smb client.
+
+ * Log file server uuid values as part of the cm_server object when
+ available. Dump the cm_server object list in response to "fs
+ memdump".
+
+ * Optimize the performance of resetting access control lists when
+ tokens are set or removed.
+
+ * Remove symlink recursion tests and increase max symlink count to 64
+ from 16.
+
+ * Windows specific Rx performance improvements.
+
+ * Support for Network Identity Manager 2.0
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * Avoid issues with freeing resources at shutdown.
+
+ * Numerous fixes to disconnected AFS.
+
+ * Disconnected AFS fixes for replaying changes without double-freeing.
+
+ * Attempt to use krb524 principal conversion in aklog if available.
+
+ AIX
+
+ * Kerberos configuration at build time corrected.
+
+ Linux
+
+ * Default to dynamic allocation of AFS kernel cache entries to allow
+ growth for inotify()-pinned entries. (beagle, famd, etc)
+
+ * Change client truncation routines to avoid locking issues.
+
+ * IA64 port clients fixed on Linux 2.6.
+
+ * RPMs now install fstrace message catalog.
+
+ * Support through kernel 2.6.29 tested.
+
+ * Fix locking issues on CellServDB file in /proc.
+
+ OpenBSD
+
+ * Support OpenBSD 4.4
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.57 (2009-01-23)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Conditional compilation of rxdebug support is now possible.
+
+ * Documentation updates.
+
+ * Further race connditions in Rx have been corrected.
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Salvager no longer attempts to recreate headers in the wrong
+ partition.
+
+ * Volumes are properly marked in use on creation and subsequently on
+ examination with vos.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * Undo the "UAC manifest fix" applied to afs_config.exe.
+
+ * Ensure that Freelance allocation of vnodes follow the AFS convention
+ of odd vnodes are directories and everything else is an even vnode.
+
+ * Add Freelance logic to mount point and symlink evaluation functions.
+
+ * Enhance smb_ParseASCIIBlock() so that it can handle all of the
+ STRING formats defined by the CIFS Technical Report 1.0.
+
+ * Validate the output of smb_ParseASCIIBlock() in all callers. Return
+ CM_ERROR_BADSMB if the STRING field cannot be parsed.
+ CM_ERROR_BADSMB will cause the contents of the packet to be logged.
+
+ * If multiple SMB Raw Write operations were taking place at the same
+ time, there could be data corruption because unique event objects
+ were not generated for each Netbios receive operation.
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * Userspace AFS library can now deal with large files when supported
+ by the platform.
+
+ * Numerous updates to disconnected AFS support, including changes to
+ allow reconnection to work in more circumstances.
+
+ FreeBSD
+
+ * FreeBSD unstrategy code has been updated.
+
+ Linux
+
+ * A race during file truncation has been corrected.
+
+ * System call probing routines have been updated.
+
+ * 2.6.29 is now supported.
+
+ MacOS
+
+ * 10.3 support has been corrected.
+
+ OpenBSD
+
+ * Initial OpenBSD 4.4 support.
+
+ Solaris
+
+ * Updates to allow compiling on newer OpenSolaris are now included.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.56 (2008-12-30)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * libuafs (userspace cache manager) updated to correct several errors.
+
+ * Additional rx debugging support is available as a conditional
+ compile.
+
+ * A race condition in Rx leading to a panic has been corrected.
+
+ * Rx idle time tracking has been corrected.
+
+ * ubik clone server support has been corrected.
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Salvager no longer leaves cores in vice partitions.
+
+ * The vol-dump tool now supports dumps larger than 2gb where possible.
+
+ * Operations on multiple files now report all FIDs in the audit log.
+
+ * butc XBSA support now works correctly on amd64.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * The NetIDMgr AFS Provider automated configuration logic was broken
+ by the introduction of Kerberos referrals. If the realm of the
+ identity cannot be determined, the workstation cell is now assumed
+ to belong to the newly created identity.
+
+ * Avoid a reference count under flow during rename operations.
+
+ * Avoid a crash caused by treating an arbitrary length directory
+ search mask as an 8.3 mask.
+
+ * Prevent rename operations if a case insensitive match for the target
+ name already exists and does not refer to the object being renamed.
+
+ * Increase the maximum number of background daemons to 64.
+
+ * Fix the UAC manifest applied to afs_config.exe
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * Updates to disconnected AFS support.
+
+ FreeBSD
+
+ * FreeBSD 7.1 is now supported.
+
+ * amd64 FreeBSD is now supported.
+
+ Linux
+
+ * Generic fh (exportfs API) cache type is now available.
+
+ * Avoid some oopses due to backing_dev_info inode fields not being
+ filled.
+
+ * 2.6.28 is now supported.
+
+ MacOS
+
+ * 10.3 support has been corrected.
+
+ Solaris
+
+ * Large partition support has been corrected.
+
+ * Filesystem-agnostic cache is now available on Solaris 10 and 11.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.55 (2009-11-10)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Salvager avoids leaving core files in vice partitions.
+
+ * NFS translator fixes.
+
+ * Unresponsive server handling fixes.
+
+ * A volserver race which could result in duplicate transactions is
+ fixed.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * Fixes a panic caused by corruption of the SMB virtual circuit list.
+ (race condition)
+
+ * Fixes a panic caused by receipt of a UTF-16 string that cannot be
+ converted to UTF-8.
+
+ * Implements a more aggressive recovery algorithm for Netbios errors
+ that result in loss of communication to the AFS SMB server.
+
+ * Improve pioctl response time when testing whether or not a PATH is
+ in AFS.
+
+ * Adds support for linked cells.
+
+ * Increases the length of the cell and realm names that can be input
+ into the Network Identity Manage AFS provider configuration dialog.
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * Disconnected AFS avoids infinite recursion during rmdir.
+
+ Linux
+
+ * Support for 2.6.28 (not complete for NFS translator modules).
+
+ * Support for using exportfs API for filesystem-agnostic cache.
+
+ * Disable backing store readahead.
+
+ * Avoid deadlocks when writing back mmapped files larger than the
+ cache.
+
+ * Avoid Oops when doing PAG garbage collection.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.54 (2008-10-08)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Updates for new Tivoli X/Open API finding.
+
+ * A double-free is corrected in Rx.
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Ubik cleans up file descriptor cache correctly when doing recovery.
+
+ * Enhanced vldb error checker included.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * Prevent a crash that could occur when multiple file / directory
+ change notifications are processed simultaneously.
+
+ MacOS
+
+ * AFS claims more free space so Finder will attempt file copies.
+
+ Linux
+
+ * Avoid spurious ENOENT when calling gwtcwd() on a volume root.
+
+ * Avoid spurious ENOTDIR during fakestat.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.53 (2008-09-26)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * rx avoids many packet leaks.
+
+ * rx jumbogram disabling now works (and is the default).
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Demand Attach fileserver tries to avoid issues tracking offline
+ status of volumes.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * Many potential deadlock conditions due to out of order lock
+ acquisitions have been corrected.
+
+ * A race condition resulting in an undercount on the cm_scache_t
+ reference counts has been corrected.
+
+ * An empty string when sent as an ioctl path is now properly
+ interpreted as meaning the current directory. This affects "fs
+ lsm", "symlink list", etc.
+
+ * Fix smb string parsing differences where the smb protocol
+ documentation does not match the actual Windows implementation.
+
+ * Random access denied errors fixed.
+
+ * A file server lock synchronization issue was corrected in SMB
+ NTCreateX and NTTranCreate operations. This bug prevented properly
+ operation when loading roaming profiles.
+
+ * Fix a heap overwrite error during server probe operations if a new
+ server is added while a probe operation is in progress.
+
+ * Fix an LSA memory leak that was the result of an LSA error.
+
+ * Do not leak cm_cell_t objects if the VLDB server lookup fails.
+
+ * Only initialize rx mutex/lock objects once.
+
+ * Do not nul terminate the AFS volume name when reported to Windows.
+
+ * Improve VNOVOL error handling. Prevent updated vl information from
+ being destroyed immediately after it was acquired. This bug
+ prevented proper fail over when volumes are moved or removed from a
+ server.
+
+ * Remove volume id from the server volume list in response to VMOVED
+ and VNOVOL errors.
+
+ * "fs flushXXX" commands now destroy locally built B+ directory trees.
+
+ * Prevent mixture of locally modified directory pages and file server
+ directory pages.
+
+ * Fail over to alternate vl servers if a ubik error is returned.
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * Disconnected AFS now supports read-write mode.
+
+ * volserver now builds correctly.
+
+ AIX
+
+ * AIX 6 is now supported.
+
+ FreeBSD
+
+ * FreeBSD 7 is now supported.
+
+ Linux
+
+ * cache bypass is now supported.
+
+ * 2.6.x kmod compilation now uses kernel compile options always.
+
+ * Support through 2.6.27.
+
+ MacOS
+
+ * Show more space free so Finder doesn't get confused.
+
+ Solaris 10
+
+ * Default to namei rather than inode.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.52 (2008-08-18)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Initialize volume updateDate at volume creation.
+
+ * Avoid potential corruption of directories during salvage.
+
+ * Check for out of memory condition during allocation of additional Rx
+ packets.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * Restore support for Windows 2000 (broken in 1.5.50).
+
+ * Perform additional validation on volume names in mount points during
+ creation and evaluation.
+
+ * Fix several deadlocks, races, and reference count issues.
+
+ * Further optimize SMB Directory Search processing and minimize the
+ number of InlineBulkStatus RPCs sent to the file server.
+
+ * Enable "bos restricted" operations.
+
+ * Fix the create of submounts used by the AFSCreds and afs_config
+ drive mapping tabs.
+
+ * Fix a short name truncation bug. (1.5.50)
+
+ * Fix the error code reported when attempting to delete a file on a
+ readonly volume or one that is marked with the readonly DOS
+ attribute.
+
+ * Fix a heap corruption error when reading the CellServDB file
+ location.
+
+ * Add the "RxUdpBufSize" registry value. The new default is 256KB.
+
+ * Do not include trailing NULs in the directory search output.
+ (1.5.50)
+
+ * Pre-allocate 64 Rx Packet buffers per thread in order to improve
+ performance.
+
+ * For debugging: add smb lock requests and stat cache lock allocations
+ to the output from "fs memdump".
+
+ NetBSD
+
+ * Workaround broken sigwait() to allow fileserver to shut down
+ correctly pre NetBSD 5.0.
+
+ Solaris 10
+
+ * Default to namei fileserver; Allow inode fileserver at configure
+ time by override.
+
+ NFS translator
+
+ * Try harder to avoid kernel panics for malformed requests.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.51 (2008-07-29)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * salvager tries harder to arrange for clients to get VBUSY while
+ salvaging single volumes.
+
+ * salvager avoids certain corruption when salvaging directories.
+
+ * Rx connection clones disabled.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * The 32-bit EXE 1.5.50 installer failed to properly install the C
+ Runtime library. When used as an upgrade OpenAFS would continue to
+ work but when used as a new installation, OpenAFS binaries would
+ fail to load.
+
+ * Fixes the "fs" and "symlink" commands to properly parse Unicode path
+ prefixes during the pioctl remote procedure call. This bug would
+ result in file not found errors for files and directories that
+ clearly exist. (Bug introduced in 1.5.50)
+
+ * Large File support is disabled. (Bug introduced in 1.5.50)
+
+ * Removes the possibility of a deadlock during volume location update
+ operation if all of the reported file servers are unreachable at the
+ time of the update.
+
+ * Ensures that reference counts are properly incremented/decremented
+ on Rx connection objects used for volume location RPCs.
+
+ * Over Quota errors during cm_FSync() calls would lead to an infinite
+ loop as the error was never propagated to the caller.
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * Bugfixes to disconnected AFS support in the cache manager.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.50 (2008-07-16)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * volserver puts recloned volumes back online before returning the
+ volume to the fileserver, avoiding spurious VNOVOL errors.
+
+ * Updated TSM X/Open API support available.
+
+ * Demand Attach fileserver will not crash due to accesses during
+ volume cloning.
+
+ * Substantial documentation updates.
+
+ * Demand Attach fileserver state tracking and analyzer tool
+ improvements.
+
+ * UAFS userspace cachemanager updates.
+
+ * Corrected support for anti-meltdown protection in the client.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * UNICODE Character Set Support.
+
+ * Pioctl interfaces to the cache manager have been refactored to
+ provide layering between the SMB specific code and the general
+ purpose ioctl operation.
+
+ * Garbage collect dead SMB virtual circuits as soon as they are no
+ longer being referenced. This avoids problems with outstanding
+ locks not being dropped when the virtual circuit becomes invalid.
+
+ * Remove the IBM Administration Reference documentation and replace it
+ with the OpenAFS Command Reference Manual.
+
+ * Avoid calling rx_SetDeadTime and rx_SetHardDeadTime functions each
+ time a connection is about to be used. Do not hold a lock on the rx
+ connection object while it is being selected. This avoids a race
+ between threads attempting to set the timeout values and removes a
+ bottleneck that was hampering performance.
+
+ * Ensure that the smb directory attribute is set for all directory
+ objects.
+
+ * Replace the VC Runtime EXE installer with the MSI installer in the
+ NSIS installer scripts.
+
+ Solaris
+
+ * Support for updates to OpenSolaris.
+
+ Linux
+
+ * Correct dentry revalidation for cross-directory renames.
+
+ * Updated rpm packaging materials for 1.5 release series and 2.4
+ kernels.
+
+ * Corrected syscall table probing.
+
+ * NFS translator updates for current kernels.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.39 (2008-06-24)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Updates for Demand Attach fileserver.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * Fix two memory leaks.
+
+ * Fix one missing lock.
+
+ * Handle access denied errors when writing dirty buffers.
+
+ * Fix two errors that would cause the *experimental* AFS Servers
+ to crash.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.38 (2008-05-24)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Add read-only disconnected support.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.37 (2008-05-21)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Includes a number of optimizations for testing.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.36 (2008-05-09)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Rx optimizations now attempt to deal with high latency WANs.
+
+ * Client will not wait infinitely for a server which is not providing
+ data. Additional servers will be polled without marking the server
+ which is not providing data down.
+
+ * vos move will not erroneously unlock locked vldb entries on failure.
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Fileserver avoids a potential infinite loop when a client
+ relinquishes an address.
+
+ * Fileserver large setting now configures more threads.
+
+ * Fileserver properly registers uuids of new clients.
+
+ * Ubik servers do not improperly hide updates from clients.
+
+ * Fileservers reserve enough file descriptors such that each thread
+ can cache one to avoid spurious errors.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * Fix a cm_buf_t reference count leak when attempts to write dirty
+ buffers to the file server from within cm_IncrSyncer() fail.
+
+ * Prevent udebug from crashing.
+
+ * Another VNOVNODE issue fixed. When writing a dirty buffer to the
+ file server, if VNOVNODE is received, mark all buffers as invalid
+ without further attempts to contact the file server.
+
+
+=======> Changes back to 1.3 have not yet been incorporated here <=======
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.3
+
+ * -nosettime is now the default for afsd. Use "-settime" to get the
+ old behavior.
+
+ * OpenBSD is now supported.
+
+ * Mountpoint directory information is now only faked for cross-cell
+ mountpoints when using the -fakestat flag (e.g. for the directories
+ under /afs, but not for most other volumes mounted inside the cell).
+ The -fakestat-all switch can be used to fake information for all
+ mountpoints.
+
+ * When fakestat is enabled on MacOSX, the Finder can be used to browse
+ a fully-populated /afs directory. However, this precludes reliable
+ use of entire volumes as MacOS bundles (i.e. containing a Contents
+ directory in the root of the volume).
+
+ * Mountpoint directory information can be faked by the cache manager,
+ making operations such as stat'ing all cells under /afs much faster.
+ This is enabled by passing -fakestat to afsd, but might not be stable
+ on all platforms.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.2.9
+
+ * The kaserver now defaults to not allowing interrealm authentication,
+ due to security vulnerabilities in the krb4 protocol. The new
+ "-crossrealm" flag to the kaserver is provided to reenable interrealm
+ authentication if desired.
+
+ * RedHat Linux 9.0 is now supported.
+
+ * Solaris 9 12/02 is now supported. Solaris 7 and 8 x86 should now
+ work again.
+
+ * On Linux machines using 2.2 series kernels, 2.2.19 or higher is now
+ required.
+
+ * An OpenAFS 1.2.9 afsd will not work with kernel modules built from
+ an earlier OpenAFS release. In general, using a mismatched afsd and
+ kernel modules set is unsupported; it is not recommended that you use
+ such a configuration on a regular basis.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.2.8
+
+ * Mountpoint directory information is now only faked for cross-cell
+ mountpoits when using the -fakestat flag (e.g. for the directories
+ under /afs, but not for most other volumes mounted inside the cell).
+ The -fakestat-all switch can be used to fake information for all
+ mountpoints.
+
+ * HPUX 11.0 is now supported.
+
+ * It is now possible for AFS to use Kerberos 5 directly, via rxkad 2b.
+ See the OpenAFS 1.2.8 Release Notes for more information on using this
+ capability.
+
+ * An NFS translator kernel module is now included and compiled by
+ default for Solaris only.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.2.7
+
+ * MacOS X 10.2 is now supported. FreeBSD 4.3 and later support is
+ included in this release, but is still under active development and
+ should only be used by those doing active development on the OpenAFS
+ FreeBSD client.
+
+ * When fakestat is enabled on MacOSX, the Finder can be used to browse a
+ fully-populated /afs directory. However, this precludes reliable use
+ of entire volumes as MacOS bundles (i.e. containing a Contents
+ directory in the root of the volume).
+
+ * The fileserver will now use Rx pings to determine if clients are
+ reachable prior to allocating resources to them, to prevent asymmetric
+ clients from consuming all fileserver resources.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.2.6
+
+ * Mountpoint directory information can be faked by the cache manager,
+ making operations such as stat'ing all cells under /afs much faster.
+ This is enabled by passing -fakestat to afsd.
+
+ * Solaris 9 FCS and Solaris 7 and 8 x86 are now supported.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.2.5
+
+ * A remote denial of service attack in the AIX and IRIX clients has been
+ fixed. Users of those platforms are strongly encouraged to upgrade.
+
+ * Fixed race conditions in fileserver that could result in crash.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.2.4
+
+ * Server logfiles now more consistant about format in which hosts are
+ referred to.
+
+ * vfsck on Solaris will now allow force runs (using -y flag) even if old
+ inodes exist.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.2.3
+
+ * Cell aliases for dynroot can be specified in the CellAlias file in
+ /usr/vice/etc or /usr/local/etc/openafs, in format "realname alias",
+ one per line. They can also be managed at runtime with "fs newalias"
+ and "fs listaliases".
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.2.2
+
+ * Solaris 9 and Linux PA-RISC are now supported.
+
+ * fileserver will not erroneously delay legitimate errors for 3 seconds
+ after 10 errors are returned (e.g. stat() on a directory you can't
+ read).
+
+ * Rx MTU calculation now works for Irix, Solaris and Linux
+
+ * If afsd is started with the -dynroot flag, /afs will be locally
+ generated from the CellServDB. AFSDB cells will be mounted
+ automatically upon access.
+
+ * The namei fileserver allows vice "partitions" to be directories
+ instead of partitions and will attach and display accordingly.
+ Creating the file "AlwaysAttach" in the /vicepX directory is used as
+ the trigger to attach it.
+
+ * TSM support for butc no longer requires editing a Makefile, simply
+ specify the --enable-tivoli-tsm configure option.
+
+ * Linux builds no longer require source changes every time the kernel
+ inode structure changes; the OpenAFS sources will now configure itself
+ to the actual inode structure as defined in the kernel sources.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.2.1
+
+ * vfsck on Digital UNIX and Solaris will now refuse to fsck mounted
+ mounted partitions.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.2.0
+
+ * AFS now supports --prefix and the other directory options of
+ configure. By default AFS builds assuming it will be installed in
+ /usr/local. In order to get traditional AFS directory paths (/usr/afs
+ and /usr/vice/etc) use the --enable-transarc-paths option to
+ configure. More details on the new directory layout are found in
+ README.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.1.1a
+
+ * Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 - Consistent versioning: Installation, AFS
+ Control Center, Client dialog boxes and properties pages for
+ executables display a consistent OpenAFS version number. Installation
+ detects previous installation and prompts the user for upgrade
+ options.
+
+ * Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 - Installation features: During installation
+ the user can select the source of the CellservDB file, AFS home cell,
+ and drive mappings. During installation a drive path mapping can
+ include a variable that will be substituted with the current UserName
+ that is logged in.
+
+ * Windows 2000/NT - Integrated logon: The Integrated Logon feature
+ works now.
+
+ * Windows 95/98/ME - Logon script features: The Windows 95/98/ME client
+ now offers a command-line option for starting up the AFS client
+ without authenication. It is now possilbe to start the AFS client
+ first and obtain tokens, and map drives all through Windows scripts.
+ This helps using Windows 95/98/ME client in Kerberos 5 environment.
+
+ * Windows 2000/NT - LANA numbers: AFS client now scans the LANA numbers
+ to establish the correct NETBIOS connection. NetBEUI is no longer
+ needed. The user no longer needs to find the correct LANA number.
+
+ * Windows 2000/NT - OpenAFS naming consistancy: Further progress has
+ been made to remove references to "Transarc AFS" and replace with
+ "OpenAFS".
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.0
+
+ * AFS now builds with configure. The README for building has been
+ updated and includes full details.
+
+ * A client system can now have multiple sysname values for @sys. They
+ will be searched in order when looking up files in AFS. The
+ -newsysname argument to fs sysname can be repeated to set multiple
+ sysnames.
+
+ * A new system group is created for new cells (system:ptsviewers with id
+ -203). If this group exists, members of this group can examine and
+ read the entire protection database. They can examine all users and
+ groups and can get the membership of any group.
+
+ * A new program, pt_util has been added to the distribution. This
+ program allows users to print the contents of the protection database
+ or to edit the protection database without running a ptserver. It can
+ be used to set up a new cell without ever running in noauth mode. Run
+ pt_util -h for help.
+
+ * The fs setcrypt and fs getcrypt commands have been added. These
+ commands allow the system administrator to require that the client
+ encrypt all authenticated traffic between the client workstation and
+ AFS. The encryption used is weak, but is likely better than sending
+ unencrypted traffic in most environments. Some functions, such as
+ looking for a volume may not be encrypted, but data transfer certainly
+ is. By default data is not encrypted. At this time no significant
+ experimentation with server performance has been conducted.
+
+ * By default AFS is compiled with AFS_AFSDB_ENV, enabling the -afsdb
+ option to be given to afsd on startup. If this option is used, then
+ new cells will be looked up using AFSDB records stored in DNS if they
+ are not found in CellServDB. This means that users can create
+ cross-cell mountpoints in directories they control to access cells not
+ in root.afs, and that cells in root.afs need not be in the client's
+ CellServDB.
+
+ * AFS database servers can be marked as read-only clones. Surround the
+ hostname in square brackets on the bos addhost command and the
+ database server will never be elected sync site. This is useful for
+ cells distributed over a wide region.
+
+ * The AFS servers now support the -syslog flag. This flag causes them
+ to log to syslog rather than to files. This flag is not supported on
+ NT. For all servers besides the salvager, the flag can also be
+ specified as -syslog=facility, where facility is an integer facility
+ code from syslog.h. A -syslogfacility option is provided for the
+ salvager to accomplish the same goal.
+
+ * If the --enable-fast-restart flag is given when configuring AFS, then
+ the salvager supports the -dontsalvage flag which causes it to exit
+ without salvaging any volumes. If this is configured into the third
+ command of a fs process, then the fileserver will start without
+ salvaging. It will fail to attach volumes that need salvaging and
+ they can be salvaged manually. This provides significantly better
+ server startup performance at the cost of administrative complexity.
+
+ * If the --enable-bitmap-later flag is given when configuring AFS, then
+ the fileserver creates bitmaps for free vnodes on demand, allowing
+ faster starts.
+
+ * If bosserver finds a BosConfig.new file at startup, it reads this file
+ and renames it to BosConfig. This allows bosserver to be reconfigured
+ at next restart.
+
+ * The bosserver can be placed in a restricted mode in which AFS
+ superusers are only granted limited access to the server host. The
+ following functionality is disabled when restricted mode is in use:
+
+ bos exec
+ bos getlog (except for files with no '/'s in their name)*
+ bos create *
+ bos delete
+ bos install
+ bos uninstall
+
+ specific exceptions are made for functionality that "bos salvage"
+ uses:
+
+ A cron bnode who's name is "salvage-tmp", time is now, and command
+ begins with "/usr/afs/bin/salvager" may be created. This bnode deletes
+ itself when complete, so no special "delete" support is needed. This
+ functionality may be removed in the future if a "Salvage" RPC is
implimented.
The file with the exact path /usr/afs/logs/SalvageLog may be fetched,
Restricted mode is enabled using a new bos command (bos setrestricted)
or bossever command line switch (bosserver -restricted). Restricted
- mode can be disabled by a) sending the bosserver process a SIGFPE (which
- will then allow restricted operations until the next restart or
- setrestricted command) or b) editing /usr/afs/local/BosConfig
- (or BosConfig.new), and restarting the bosserver.
-
-** The bos UserList of trusted administrators can now contain
- cross-realm Kerberos principals.
-
-** udebug now takes --server not --servers.
-
-** Several error messages have been improved to include volume
- numbers.
-
-** Several new ports have been included for UNIX platforms: Darwin
- (ppc_darwin_12 and ppc_darwin_13), Linux 2.4 (i386_linux24), Linux on
- the Powerpc (ppc_linux22 and ppc_linux24), Linux on the Sparc
- (sparc_linux22, sparc64_linux22 and sparc64_linux24) .
-
-** Incomplete FreeBSD and Alpha Linux ports are included. The
- FreeBSD port has a working server and the Alpha Linux port has a
- partially working client.
-
-** A native client for Windows 95/98/ME has been added to the distribution.
- With this program, a gateway machine is no longer required for Windows 9x
- to access AFS files. One drive letter will be created on your machine by
- default - Z:. The Z: drive will be the root of the AFS tree, allowing you
- to browse all sites that have AFS servers available. Additional drive
- letters can be defined for other AFS directories. A Windows Explorer
- shell extension is included that allows you to right click on items
- within an AFS tree to bring up an "AFS" menu item and perform various
- operations on a file or directory. The most useful item is "Access
- Control Lists", which allows you to view and edit the permissions of a
- particular directory. Command line tools are also available in the
- install directory. These commands include klog, unlog, tokens, kpasswd,
- symlink, fs and pts. The installable includes a readme file that contains
- more information on how to use the client program and known issues.
-
-** support for large caches in afsd. Cachefiles are stored in
- subdirectories. The default is 2048 files per subdirectory, which
- should work fine in most situations. You can use the new afsd
- option -files_per_subdir to change this number. Note that the first
- time you run afsd with this patch, your cachefiles will get moved
- into subdirectories. If you subsequently run an older version of
- afsd, you will lose all your cached files.
+ mode can be disabled by a) sending the bosserver process a SIGFPE
+ (which will then allow restricted operations until the next restart or
+ setrestricted command) or b) editing /usr/afs/local/BosConfig (or
+ BosConfig.new), and restarting the bosserver.
+
+ * The bos UserList of trusted administrators can now contain cross-realm
+ Kerberos principals.
+
+ * udebug now takes --server not --servers.
+
+ * Several error messages have been improved to include volume numbers.
+
+ * Several new ports have been included for UNIX platforms: Darwin
+ (ppc_darwin_12 and ppc_darwin_13), Linux 2.4 (i386_linux24), Linux on
+ the Powerpc (ppc_linux22 and ppc_linux24), Linux on the Sparc
+ (sparc_linux22, sparc64_linux22 and sparc64_linux24).
+
+ * Incomplete FreeBSD and Alpha Linux ports are included. The FreeBSD
+ port has a working server and the Alpha Linux port has a partially
+ working client.
+
+ * A native client for Windows 95/98/ME has been added to the
+ distribution. With this program, a gateway machine is no longer
+ required for Windows 9x to access AFS files. One drive letter will be
+ created on your machine by default - Z:. The Z: drive will be the
+ root of the AFS tree, allowing you to browse all sites that have AFS
+ servers available. Additional drive letters can be defined for other
+ AFS directories. A Windows Explorer shell extension is included that
+ allows you to right click on items within an AFS tree to bring up an
+ "AFS" menu item and perform various operations on a file or directory.
+ The most useful item is "Access Control Lists", which allows you to
+ view and edit the permissions of a particular directory. Command line
+ tools are also available in the install directory. These commands
+ include klog, unlog, tokens, kpasswd, symlink, fs and pts. The
+ installable includes a readme file that contains more information on
+ how to use the client program and known issues.
+
+ * Support for large caches in afsd. Cachefiles are stored in
+ subdirectories. The default is 2048 files per subdirectory, which
+ should work fine in most situations. You can use the new afsd option
+ -files_per_subdir to change this number. Note that the first time you
+ run afsd with this patch, your cachefiles will get moved into
+ subdirectories. If you subsequently run an older version of afsd, you
+ will lose all your cached files.