User-Visible OpenAFS Changes
-OpenAFS 1.5.74 (2010-04-22)
+OpenAFS 1.9.0
All platforms
- * Add "vos setaddrs" command.
+ Introduce the rxgk Rx security class, initially limited to server-to-server
+ traffic and local keys (gerrit topic: rxgk-phase1).
- * Rx library lock contention avoidance between rx_NewCall and
- rx_EndCall.
+ Add options to the vos and pts commands for server-to-server rxgk support.
- * Rx library races due to inconsistent use of rx_connection
- conn_data_lock to protect the flags field.
+ Add support to add and delete rxgk keys with asetkey. Add support to
+ generate random keys with asetkey, which can be useful to create certain
+ types of rxgk keys.
- * Rx library inconsistent use of RX_CALL_TQ_WAIT which could result in
- deadlocks.
+ Raise implementation-defined anti-DoS length limits for prdb-related XDR
+ array types, which were being reached at some sites (13838).
- * Rx library must signal transmit queue waiters when flushing.
+ Bring "-setpag" functionality in klog to parity with aklog (14146).
- * afsmonitor shows busy counts now.
+ Fix potential Rx hang when an incoming call must wait (14158).
- * afsmonitor displays xstat callback statistics.
+ Fix latent bug preventing RX_CONN_NAT_PING from working (13041).
- * Provide expandgroups for pts mem on a supergroups server.
+ Fix potential rx_connection leak in pthreaded programs (13042).
- * Provide supergroup option to liste nested groups during pts mem.
+ Avoid NatPing storm with many connections to the same server (14312).
- All server platforms
+ Do not leave empty directories behind in the file server vice partition
+ when running the "vos zap -force" command (12879, 12839).
- * Avoid volume lock contention during DAFS startup.
+ Make non-verbose "vos remsite" output output more readable (14127).
- Microsoft Windows
+ Display the usage of simple commands (commands without subcommands) when run
+ only with the -help option (10983).
- * Avoid a race when updating cell vldb server lists that can result in
- a crash.
+ Replace SOURCE-MAP with a README.md (14003).
- * Avoid a deadlock when managing CM_SCACHESYNC_STOREDATA state
- operations for directory objects.
+ Improve documentation of minimum required dependency versions (14305).
- * Add new Windows Application Event log messages for VBUSY,
- VRESTARTING, ALL_BUSY, ALL_OFFLINE, and ALL_DOWN.
+ Remove unused definition of LINUX_PKGREL from configure.ac (14117).
- * Reduce lock contention by waiting for cm_buf_t I/O operations.
+ Improve logging and diagnostic messages:
+ * Add a warning message to vos when performing an incremental volume
+ restore over an existing volume which is newer than the dump
+ volume (13251)
+ * Log the binding address and port during startup in the cache manager and
+ all of the server processes (13272)
+ * Improve volume server logging to provide better information during
+ volume restore failures (13252)
+ * Improved cache manager syslog tracing (11858)
+ * Improved database server logging to log important messages at the
+ default logging level, log information during database synchronizations,
+ and log diagnostic messages during recovery aborts (12617, 13079, 12618)
+ * Set a thread name for rx listener threads (13600)
+ * Avoid truncating authentication information in vlserver log
+ messages (13466)
+ * Log when ubik recovery aborts a running remote transaction (13862).
- * 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.
+ Fix warnings issued by static code analyzers:
+ * Fix possible undefined variable in disconnected mode (13207)
+ * Remove redundant conditionals (13158, 13157)
+ * Exit if out of memory while attempting to format command help
+ messages (13335)
+ * Fix possible undefined variable when reading old vldb formats (13755)
- * In cm_UpdateVolumeLocation, avoid searching for a ".readonly" volume
- on a numeric volume name.
+ Assorted memory-handling fixes (13461, 12293, 13355, 13395, 13396, 13161,
+ 13659, 13714, 13715, 13760, 13716, 13761).
- * 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.
+ Fix many (but not all) of the new warnings issued by recent versions of
+ gcc and clang (12987..12989, 13010, 13287, 13462..13464, 13467..13468,
+ 13470..13476, 13494, 13660..13664, 13684, 13726, 13754, 14049, 14092,
+ 14106, 14207, 14273, 14277, 14274, 14275, 14279, 14292, 14125).
- * Enable integrated logon to work with Windows 7/2008 when user logons
- are performed with a non-Domain Kerberos principal.
+ Added unit tests for functions mapping vice partition to id (13176).
- * Add Protection Error messages to aklog output.
+ Fix issues resulting in parallel "make install" to fail (13786, 14137).
- All UNIX client platforms
+ Updated libauth test program (13394).
- * Provide a FUSE-interfacing userspace afs client.
+ General code cleanup; remove unused code or obsolete code, old comments,
+ or refactor for clarity
+ (12988, 13204, 13209, 13210, 13213, 13226, 13227, 13260, 13271, 13277,
+ 13309, 13310, 13324, 13325, 13339, 13345, 13346, 13351, 13361, 13362, 13363,
+ 13390, 13397, 13408, 13414, 13458, 13490, 13500, 13509, 13514, 13557, 13640,
+ 13655, 13282, 13683, 13995, 14218, 14219, 14236, 14246, 14322, 14338).
- * Updates to libuafs userspace cache manager.
+ Build system clean up and fixes
+ (12956, 12961, 12962, 12963, 12992, 12993, 12994, 13237, 13275, 13338,
+ 13357, 13360, 13387, 13419, 13594, 13652, 14115, 14148..14150, 14132,
+ 14133, 14135, 14153).
- * Probe servers using GetCapabilities instead of GetTime, thus
- requiring fewer RPCs.
+ All server platforms
- * Fix DNS SRV record handling for cell lookup.
+ Improve database server logging by logging messages when and why a server
+ is marked as down (12616).
- FreeBSD
+ Log a warning message when starting server processes with no encryption
+ keys available (13911).
- * Fix sleep/wakeup routines.
+ Fix use of triple-DES cell-wide keys for rxkad.krb5 (14203).
- * Update for 8.0 release.
+ Remove redundant lseek system calls and use positional I/O in the database
+ servers to improve performance (12271, 12272).
- Linux
+ Fix option parsing to enable parallel salvageserver operation (14201).
- * Handle high memory addresses correctly.
+ Fix an edge case where writes were errneously allowed on readonly
+ fileservers (13934).
- MacOS
+ Add an option to allow members of system:administrators to perform
+ write operations on otherwise readonly fileservers (13707).
- * Make 32 bit AFS syscalls work again.
+ Allow "vos rename" to be re-run to finish a previously interrupted
+ volume rename operation (13720).
- * Work around finder "Duplicate" failure (caused by setting modes on
- symlinks).
+ Return errors for short reads during volume dumps instead of silently
+ padding with NUL bytes (14255).
- * Disable bulkstat again (will be re-enabled at or before .75).
+ Work around potential deadlocks when the salvageserver spawns a child
+ at the same time another thread is writing to the log (14239).
- * Provide symlink type hints during readdir.
+ Do not overwrite the errno variable when logging certain database sendfile
+ errors (13263).
+ Avoid confusing log message ("Unable to create the volume") when
+ restoring over an existing volume (14208).
-OpenAFS 1.5.73 (2010-03-24)
+ Fix vldb listing of created-but-not-released RO replicas (14154).
- All platforms
+ Avoid confusing "half-locked" state for interrupted volume renames (14157).
- * NAT keepalive support at Rx level.
+ Prevent attempts to grow the VLDB past the maximum 2GB size (14180).
- * Corrected SRV record support for cell name canonicalization.
+ Fix a bug that prevented logging of discarded callbacks (14256).
- All server platforms
+ Code migration to POSIX Threads (pthreads) from LWP.
+ * Convert upserver and upclient to pthreads (12754)
+ * Convert xstat libraries and related utilities to pthreads (12745, 12746,
+ 12747, 12753, 13454, 13455)
- * Fix volume callback notification to not notify unaffected clients.
- (126497)
+ All client platforms
- * Allow root directory recreation by salvager. (94658)
+ Attempt to detect and report some common types of cache corruption
+ (13436, 13747, 13969, 14002).
- * Numerous DAFS fixes.
+ Log a warning when the cache is "stressed" (almost full) to suggest
+ possible re-tuning (13255).
- * Improvements to callback table overflow handling. (126451)
+ Require opt-in to use the historical/deprecated single-DES krb5
+ encryption types, which are being removed from krb5 distributions (13689).
- * bosserver now shuts down cleanly on SIGTERM.
+ Fix incorrect informational messages when the AFSCELL environment
+ variable is set (13371).
- Microsoft Windows
+ Assorted cleanup and microoptimizations (12655, 13254, 12656, 13253, 14241,
+ 13256, 14254).
- * Prevent the Explorer Shell extension from crashing if symlink
- creation failed. (126406)
+ Tidy up the shutdown sequence, closing some memory leaks and not
+ generatin Rx traffic while Rx datastructures are being deconstructed
+ (13718, 13719).
- * A Rx level NAT ping has been implemented. A registry value enables.
+ Fix reading entries of historic vldb formats (13465).
- * Adds krb5 error message translation to aklog, afscreds,
- afslogon.dll, the network identity manager afs provider and
- translate_et.
+ Suppress warning about running unauthenticated for `bos -noauth` (14306).
- * Default mode bit settings for file and directory creation are now
- provided, and can be configured.
+ Linux
- * An SMB request trace facility is provided and can be enabled for
- debugging.
+ Support upstream kernels through Linux 5.9.
- All UNIX client platforms
+ Be more careful about overriding the current credentials for operations
+ on cache files, preventing spurious permission errors when systems like
+ AppArmor and SELinux are in use (13751, 14098).
+
+ Avoid panics from procfs when the kernel module is loaded but afsd is
+ not running (14093).
- * Rx idle deadtime does not stop file writes.
+ Improve ppc64le support (13980, 14046).
- * Disconnected AFS no longer has a race condition during remove ops.
+ Improve RPM packaging (14114, 14116, 14266)
- * Fakestat avoids a condition which could cause it to block on network
- activity.
+ MacOS
- * Several fixes to handle interruptions in vos operations. (33360,
- 125535)
+ Simplify background-move return-code processing (13280).
- * Allow more sysnames in a sysname list.
+ Support macOS Catalina (13935, 13936, 13668..13671, 13928, 14062, 14222).
- * Attempt to enforce timeouts on AFSDB lookups.
+ Add OpenAFS.pkg to the list of files to be codesigned (14221).
- AIX
+ Solaris
- * Clean up properly on mount failure.
+ Remove references to (unspported) SunOS 4 (13506).
- * Add entry to /etc/vfs to allow umount to work.
+ Build system fixes for parallel make on Solaris.
- Linux
+ Support function attributes when building with recent versions of Solaris
+ compilers.
- * Several issues to deal with older kernels.
+ Fix many (but not all) of the compiler warnings when building on the Solaris
+ platform.
- * Avoid leaking the global lock in the /proc cellservdb code.
+ Add autoconf support for Studio 12.6 tools (13867).
- * Keyring destruction now cleans up all tokens.
+ FreeBSD
- * Keyring quotas are not enforced against root.
+ General improvements to VFS compliance.
- MacOS
+ Create destination kernel module directory when installing on
+ FreeBSD (13653, 13690)).
- * Some FSEvents hinting for authentication events now done. (23781)
+ Add param.h files and sysnames for FreeBSD 11.2 (13534), 11.3 (13792),
+ and 12.1 (13982).
- * Update uninstaller. (125634)
+ Fix fcntl-style locks by adapting to quirky historical behavior (12579).
- * Rewrite afssettings and fstab code to avoid licensing issue with
- APSL.
+ Support kernels that use VIMAGE support at runtime, not just at
+ build-time (12580).
- * Growl client for user monitoring of AFS events included.
+ Change LWP stack strategy to avoid SIGBUS errors (13691).
- * Properly support insert-only dropboxes.
+ Skip SIGBUS test (for reasons unrelated to the previous) (14145).
- * Add bulkstat support.
- * Include support for moving in Finder across mount points.
+OpenAFS 1.8.6
- * Preferences Pane includes support for Kerberos 5 ticket renewal.
+ All platforms
+ * Address warnings and errors encountered when building OpenAFS with
+ modern compilers like gcc9 or recent clang (13727..45 13749..50 13756
+ 13846 13879)
-OpenAFS 1.5.72 (2010-02-15)
+ * Avoid some rare cases of Rx calls getting stuck in the incoming queue
+ (13892)
- All platforms
+ * Display the usage of simple commands (commands without subcommands) when
+ run only with the -help option (13894)
- * Provide internationalization support in com_err.
+ * Fix a memory leak in the cache manager and the fileserver while
+ processing "fs uuid" or "fs setcbaddr" (13899)
- * Fix array length checking to avoid crashes when checking for a
- volume type based on name in vos.
+ * Fix a memory leak when reopening krb local realms configuration (13900)
+
+ * Avoid possible crashes when freeing kerberos contexts (13902)
All server platforms
- * Provide backward compatible "-f" flag to salvager for force mode.
+ * Do not leave empty directories behind in the file server vice partition
+ when running the "vos zap -force" command (13897)
- Microsoft Windows
+ * Fix "vos zap -force" failures when the volume being zapped does not have
+ an entry in the fileserver's volume group cache (e.g., during fileserver
+ startup) (13896)
- * Restore use of DNS AFSDB and SRV records by kaserver clients.
+ * Relax the length limits on some membership lists used in ptserver RPCs,
+ introduced in release 1.8.0 to prevent denial of service attacks, to
+ accommodate use cases of some larger existing sites (13844)
- All UNIX client platforms
+ * Improved diagnostics and error messages (13898 13906..8 13938)
- * Fix client cache file truncation to not lose chunks when truncating
- a large file.
+ * Ensure that fileservers running in readonly mode actually reject all
+ write requests, but introduce a -admin-write switch allowing writes
+ by members of the system:administrators group (14018 14019)
- * Ensure a cache writeback hook is installed in the client (bug from
- 1.5.71).
+ All client platforms
- * Avoid spurious free memory warnings during clean shutdown.
+ * Require the -insecure_des switch to be passed to aklog and klog.krb5
+ to make them work with single-DES encryption types (13791)
- * Fakestat mode avoids AFSDB lookups.
+ * Avoid a panic due to a retryable error - retry in a background request
+ instead (13847)
- * "fs storebehind" now correctly reports errors on readonly volumes.
+ * Avoid blocking other functions on the completion of some potentially
+ long-running RPCs issued by the server (13893)
- * Additional documentation for "fs getcacheparms"
+ * Fix a potential memory leak in "fs getserverprefs" when the pioctl fails
+ with E2BIG (13895)
- * Forced new uuid generation with "fs uuid -generate" now works
- enforced permission correctly.
+ * Avoid the local cache incorrectly reflecting the state of a file on the
+ fileserver after flushing large chunks of data to the server. This
+ issue was present on FreeBSD clients, but probably not Linux/Solaris
+ ones (13951) (RT #135041)
- MacOS
+ * After a VLDB lookup of a read-write volume already failed, don't bother
+ looking up corresponding read-only or backup volumes since those lookups
+ are bound to fail, in order to make the client more responsive and
+ avoid unnecessary load on the vlserver (13968)
- * Add optimized Rx event handler in kernel.
+ * Allow a "vos rename" to succeed if the new volume name is the same as
+ that in the current VLDB, to make it possible to complete a previously
+ interrupted volume rename (14055)
- * Installer now allows installing an older version.
+ * Allow processes which are sleeping due to PAG throttling to be killable
+ (13974).
- * Panic decoder can now deal with MacOS 10.5 again.
+ * Fix set PAG failures due to signals (13975).
- * MacOS ._ files are now correctly not looked up as cellnames.
+ Linux clients
- Linux
+ * Support mainline kernels up to and including 5.7 (14069 14094 14095
+ 14209 14210)
- * To deal with SELinux file labeling, try cache accesses with current
- credentials in event of failure.
+ * Make builds succeed with --enable-checking for mainline kernels
+ 5.3-rc2 and later (13910)
- * Rx XDR encoding bug on i386 Linux is fixed (bug introduced in
- 1.5.71).
+ * Avoid possible deadlocks (13748 13765)
- IRIX
+ * Fix build of libuafs on ppc64le (14104)
- * Code compilation fixes.
+ * Fix build on certain recent 32-bit distributions (14234) (RT #135084)
- OpenBSD
+ macOS
- * Update for OpenBSD 4.6.
+ * Support building, packaging and notarization on macOS 10.15 "Catalina"
+ (14031..7 14068)
+ Microsoft Windows
-OpenAFS 1.5.69 (2010-01-19)
+ * Build fixes (13848..52)
- All platforms
+OpenAFS 1.8.5
- * Configuration of BOSserver no longer defaults to weekly restarts
- enabled.
+All platforms
- * Provide BOS restricted mode by default.
+ * Fix OPENAFS-SA-2019-001: information leakage in failed RPC output
+ Generated RPC handler routines ran output variables through XDR encoding
+ even when the call had failed and would shortly be aborted (and for
+ which uninitialized output variables is common); any complete packets
+ assembled in the process would be sent to the peer, leaking the contents
+ of the uninitialized memory in question.
- * Add support for "vos endtrans" command.
+ * Fix OPENAFS-SA-2019-002: information leakage from uninitialized scalars
+ Generated RPC handler routines did not initialize output variables of
+ scalar (fixed-length) type, since they did not require dedicated logic to
+ free. Such variables allocated on the stack could remain uninitialized
+ in some cases (including those affected by OPENAFS-SA-2019-001), and the
+ contents of uninitialized memory would be returned to the peer.
- * Default to providing full output from vos listvol.
+All server platforms
- * Correct additional-address tracking in the fileserver.
+ * Fix OPENAFS-SA-2019-003: fix crash in database servers
+ The ubik debugging RPCs prioritize being fast and non-disruptive to
+ database operations over strict correctness, and do not adhere to the
+ usual locking protocol for data access. A data race could cause a NULL
+ dereference if the second memory load was not optimized out by the
+ compiler.
- * Improve Rx performance by not unnecessarily dropping and reacquiring
- call locks in read and write processes.
+OpenAFS 1.8.4
- * Avoid crashes when monitoring volserver transactions across
- potential transaction garbage collection.
+ All platforms
- * Numerous warning fixes.
+ Build system updates to remove obsolete autoconf macros and remove missing
+ script warning during builds (13480, 13481, 13482, 13483, 13484, 13486,
+ 13789, 13790).
+
+ Build system update to fix a conditional check in the pthread.m4 autoconf
+ file (13595)
+
+ Build system update to create the man3 subdirectory, fixing a
+ reported build failure (13535).
+
+ Remove the last reference to src/mcas in the documentation (13558).
All server platforms
- * Avoid saving fileserver state in demand attach fileserver when
- panicing.
+ Fix fileserver's parsing of the options -vlruthresh, -vlruinterval,
+ -vlrumax and -novbc (13680).
- * Demand attach fileserver allows other callers to schedule salvages.
+ Fixes to make ptserver's behaviour when run in restricted mode consistent
+ with the documentation: Non-members of the system:administrators group
+ are no longer allowed to issue the adduser, setfields and delete pts
+ commands, and all members of system:administrators are now allowed to
+ issue pts commands in this mode, not just the admin principal (13686..88).
- * Demand attach "bos salvage" now works correctly with restricted
- mode.
+ All client platforms
- Microsoft Windows:
+ Fix missing Rx call clean-up after failing to read dcaches from a file
+ server (13511).
- * Numerous changes to the client-internal btree directory handling to
- prevent errors.
+ Fix an Rx call leak for calls aborted by a connection abort after the call
+ was initialized but before use (13517).
- * fs examine reports owner and group ids as signed values (PTS groups
- are negative).
+ Remove the obsolete afs_xosi lock to remove unnecessary serialization of
+ VOP_GETATTR calls. This can lead to improved performance under heavy
+ workloads (13529).
- * Preclude corruption due to races writing to smb buffers.
+ Increase the size of the Directory Name Lookup Cache (DNLC) to improve
+ cache performance (13559).
- * Allow MTU settings in registry to be used.
+ Fix getting tokens for cells with a three character name (13679).
- * Apply MTU to both send and receive sizes.
+ Avoid a misleading message about the cell being used when aklog is run
+ with the -cell parameter but the AFSCELL environment variable is set to
+ a different cell (13676).
- All UNIX client platforms
+ Build system update to honor the CFLAGS environment variable when building
+ libuafs (13544).
- * Avoid double-freeing Rx call structure if reading a response from
- the file server results in a short read.
+ Linux
- * Handle negative lengths in FetchStatus results correctly.
+ Support for mainline kernels up to 5.3 (13787, 13789).
- * Properly clean up allocated memory at shutdown.
+ More fixes for improper use of ENOENT fixes to avoid incorrect use of linux
+ negative dentry cache, which can lead to false ENOENT errors (13542, 13543,
+ 13590, 13692) (RT #134904).
- * Default to AFSDB compiled into the cache manager.
+ Return errors instead of returning incomplete directory listings when the
+ directory objects are incomplete in the cache (13591).
- * Avoid inadvertant disclosure of stat() information to clients not so
- entitled.
+ Add ppc64le_linux26 sysname for the ppc64le architecture (13636, 13637,
+ 13589).
- * Correct a bug with AFSDB lookups introduced with SRV record support.
+ Fix configure check for a kernel time function in order to build on
+ Linux 5.0 (13523).
+
+ RPM packaging update for RHEL8 adding a build requirement to ensure the
+ kernel module can be built from the SRPM (13563) (RT #134900).
+
+ On systemd based RHEL/Fedora systems, start the client after dkms startup
+ is finished if the latter is installed and enabled, to avoid attempting
+ starts without the kernel module being available yet (13674) (RT #134974).
MacOS
- * Install kernel panic processing tool in /Library/OpenAFS/Tools.
+ Build system updates for MacOS (13584).
- * Include debugging symbols for kernel extension in additional package.
+ Solaris
- * Support "Application Firewall" users.
+ Add CTF debugging records to userspace objects to improve debugging
+ of servers (13487).
- * Avoid ._cellname AFSDB lookups.
+ Convert the cache manager vnodes to be non-embebbed on Solaris 11 in order
+ to make the cache manager more resilient across Solaris 11 changes (13524,
+ 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528).
- * Compile preferences pane as a universal binary.
- Linux
+OpenAFS 1.8.3
- * Use splice to speed up storing files.
+ All platforms
- * When using memcache, avoid duplicating work in readpages.
+ * Improved diagnostics and error messages (13186 13411 13417)
- * Use dget_parent to safely find an inode's parent.
+ * Avoid sending RX packets with random garbage in the userStatus field
+ (13332)
- * Disable access time updates in our superblock.
+ * Fixed detection of the RX initialization status (13416)
- * Avoid crashing doing writeback if no credentials were stashed at
- file open.
+ * Assorted fixes to avoid segmentation faults and other potential problems
+ by detecting internal errors rather than letting them go unnoticed
+ (13329 13372)
- * Simplify keyring support.
+ All server platforms
- * Properly clean up vcache in event of failed mount.
+ * Fixed a build problem accidentally introduced in release 1.8.2 (13328)
- FreeBSD
+ * Assorted efficiency improvements in the ubik implementation (13153 13218
+ 13188 13353)
- * Update for current FreeBSD 8.
+ * Fixed locking around transaction list processing in volserver to avoid
+ segmentation faults and other potential problems (13336 13337)
- Solaris
+ * When the volserver attempts to remove a temporary volume after a
+ transaction, but the volume was already removed, e.g., by the salvager,
+ this is no longer treated as an error (13235)
- * Abstractly manipulate groups as now required.
+ All client platforms
- * Abstractly access time instead of using lbolt directly.
+ * Update the CellServDB to the latest version from grand.central.org from
+ May 14th 2018 (13409)
+ * Avoid a panic during cache initialization when allocating the required
+ memory fails (13307)
-OpenAFS 1.5.68 (2009-12-08)
+ * Add back the packet counters and timestamps to "vos status" output
+ which had been missing since release 1.8.0 (13421)
- All platforms
+ * Correctly handle errors encountered while reading data from the server
+ and writing it to the cache, e.g., due to a full cache partition (13443)
- * aklog now attempts to convert non-AFS errors to human-readable
- strings.
+ * Avoid a panic due to a recoverable error while flushing cache items
+ (13503)
- * Make stack not executable when compiling assembler source with GCC.
+ Linux clients
- * Numerous source warning cleanups and code reorganization.
+ * Support mainline kernels 4.20 and 5.0 and distribution kernels with
+ backports from those (13405 13406 13440 13441 13442)
- All server platforms
+ * DKMS-related fixes in Red Hat packaging (13438 13479)
- * Compute midnight for volume statistics calculation from local time.
+ macOS
- * Salvager now orphans duplicate special inodes when running to allow
- recovery in event of a problem, instead of simply ignoring the
- issue.
+ * Support building and packaging on macOS 10.14 "Mojave" (13412 13413)
- * 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.
+OpenAFS 1.8.2
- * Provide better tuning for fileserver file descriptor caching.
+ All platforms
- * Allow more than 128 threads in fileserver by modifying host
- structure in-use tracking.
+ * Fix OPENAFS-SA-2018-002: information leakage in RPC output variables
+ Various RPC routines did not always initialize all output fields,
+ exposing memory contents to network attackers. The relevant RPCs include
+ an AFSCB_ RPC, so cache managers are affected as well as servers.
- * Avoid crashes getting volume server status during transaction
- cleanup.
+ All server platforms
- * Improved logging of offline volume conditions.
+ * Fix OPENAFS-SA-2018-003: denial of service due to excess resource consumption
+ Various RPCs were defined as allowing unbounded arrays as input, allowing
+ an unauthenticated attacker to cause excess memory allocation and tie up
+ network bandwidth by sending (or claiming to send) large input arrays.
- * Correct volume statistics when cloning a volume.
+ * Fix OPENAFS-SA-2018-001: unauthenticated volume operations via butc
+ On systems using the in-tree backup system, the butc process was running
+ with administrative credentials, but accepted incoming RPCs over
+ unauthenticated connections; these incoming RPCs in turn triggered
+ outgoing RPCs using the administrative credentials. Unauthenticated
+ attackers could construct volue dumps containing arbitrary contents
+ and cause these dumps to be restored and overwrite arbitrary volume
+ contents; afterward, the backup database could be restored to its
+ initial state, hiding evidence of the unauthorized changes.
- * Avoid referencing host structures in the fileserver which are marked
- for deletion.
+ Running butc with -localauth now requires authenticated incoming
+ connections, and the backup utility makes authenticated connections to
+ the butc. Audit capabilities have been added to the butc RPC handlers.
+ Command-line arguments are provided to retain the (insecure) historical
+ behavior until all systems have been upgraded.
- * Demand attach fileserver corrections to avoid coring during an
- aborted startup.
+OpenAFS 1.8.1.1
- * host array bounds checking corrections to avoid buffer overflow.
+ Linux Clients
- * Handle special inodes correctly when promoting an inode fileserver
- readonly volume to read-write.
+ * Support for mainline kernel 4.18 and distribution kernels with backports
+ from it (13268)
- Microsoft Windows
+OpenAFS 1.8.1
- * 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.
+ All Platforms
- * 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 usability and consistency of the public API: install missing
+ headers, and add additional symbols to the export list for shared libraries.
- * Improve the error output from aklog to output the value from krb5
- error_message() if the afs_com_err output indicates an unknown
- value.
+ * Improved Rx abort generation: use the proper serial number for an existing
+ connection if possible, and 0 otherwise (to improve debugging).
- * Convert VBUSY and VRESTARTING to CM_ERROR_ALLBUSY and do not permit
- them to be exposed to the smb redirector.
+ * Assorted minor fixes in response to static analysis of the codebase.
- * Convert STATUS_TIMEOUT responses to STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT to avoid
- confusion within the smb redirector.
+ * Fix memory-safety error in XDR decoding of enumerated types.
- * Fix the byte order assigned to port numbers associated with AFSDB
- record lookups. They must be network byte order not host byte
- order.
+ All Server Platforms
- * Add dynamic server ranking based on RPC round trip time
- measurements.
+ * Fix reference counting error that could cause an assertion failure
+ in some workloads.
- All UNIX client platforms
+ * vldb_check -fix will no longer corrupt the vldb when multiple MH blocks are present.
- * Additional shutdown-time memory leaks removed.
+ * Assorted cleanups and efficiency improvements in the ubik implementation.
- * Improved logging of resource contention.
+ * Return a valid InlineBulkStatus response in error cases.
- * Provide dumping for Rx debug packet tracking support in source.
+ * The fileserver now rejects invalid partition names when attaching partitions.
- * Update afscp test client to build, and provide an unlock client.
+ All Client Platforms
- * Client buffers for directory parsing can now be allocated beyond the
- fixed set formerly provided.
+ * Fix volume callbacks (e.g., when running 'vos release').
- * Work around race condition when manipulating read-only volume
- callbacks.
+ * Treat failure to obtain a DSlot as a hard error for that cache partition,
+ avoiding a flood of "disk cache read error in CacheItems" log messages,
+ and reducing the chance of subsequent panic.
- * Bugfixes to get PAG value pioctl.
+ * Improve error messages for invalid values with -volume-ttl.
- * Bugfixes to SRV record support.
+ * Remove useless error message:
+ "find_preferred_connection: no connection and !create".
+
+ * Avoid passing NULL to a kernel memory deallocator, which is not guaranteed
+ to be safe on all systems.
Linux
- * Path MTU tracking code cleanup.
+ * Add support for 64-bit ARM clients ("arm64").
- * Avoid an oops due to racing with vcache recycling thread.
+ * Fix panic when cache bypass is enabled.
- * Changes to keyring PAG handling: for sufficiently new kernels, use
- only keyring-based PAGs, and disable group PAGs entirely.
+ * Improve cache manager behavior when unable to open cache files.
- * Updates to the kernel page cache interface: writing pages will now
- not spuriously leak page locks, and will avoid requiring duplicate
- work.
+ * Improvements to the RPM packaging.
- * Credential references are now tracked using native atomic counters.
+ * Detect out-of-memory when using kernel pages for writing.
- * Kernel mutex/semaphore lock ordering fix to avoid deadlocks.
+ Solaris
- * Manipulate disk cache with credentials used to initialize it, to
- avoid security issues.
+ * Fix various issues in the build process for recent Solaris versions.
MacOS
- * Fix fstrace message catalog location.
+ * Fix clients on OS X 10.13.
+
+ FreeBSD / NetBSD / OpenBSD
+
+ * Fix panic triggered during periodic cleanup operations and shutdown.
+
+OpenAFS 1.8.0
+
+ All Platforms
+
+ * Substantial code quality improvements, largely spotted by Coverity and
+ clang's static analysis.
+ - Add new library for platform independent functions (opr).
+ - Remove arbitrary path name length limits.
+ - Convert to Heimdal's roken library for reliability.
+ - Avoid garbage in allocated buffers (calloc).
+ - Modernize signal handling in pthreaded server processes (softsig).
+ - Improve code comments and additional Doxygen style comments.
+ - Reduce compiler warnings, dead code, unused variables, and
+ undefined behavior.
+ - Fix bugs found by static code analyzer (clang-analyzer).
+ - Improved unit test coverage.
+ - Make VLDB flag definitions consistent.
+ - Improve use of run-time assertions and add static assertions.
+ - Add compiler attributes to assist static analyzers.
+ - Clean up include headers in the entire tree.
+ - Improve command-line handling library (libcmd).
+ - Replace hash functions with Jenkin's hash function for faster
+ and more evenly distributed lookups.
+ - Provide a red-black tree data structure to enable algorithmic speedups.
+ - Convert backup and salvage servers to the common logging API (libutil).
+ - Improve volume id data type consistency (VolumeId).
+ - Import APIs for kerberos-style profile configuration support.
+ - Add new APIs to support UserList identities.
+ - Add new APIs to support tabular output from command-line utilities.
+ - Convert vnode macros to inline-functions.
+
+ * Improved support for non-DES encryption types:
+ - Convert to Heimdal's hcrypto library to support RFC 3961.
+ - Add extended key file format replacing rxkad.keytab, and
+ new key management APIs.
+ - Add support for extended key types to asetkey.
+ - Add akeyconvert to assist in upgrading to OpenAFS 1.8.x by converting an
+ existing rxkad.keytab file to an extended key file.
+ - Do not install the kaserver and related utilities by default to
+ discourage the use of these DES-dependent components.
+ - Remove obsolete klogin and klogin.krb programs.
+ - Add new token APIs to support new rx security classes.
+
+ * Migrate from LWP to POSIX threads (pthreads):
+ - Convert the ptserver and vlserver from LWP to pthreads.
+ - Remove LWP version of the file server binary.
+ - Convert afsd, aklog, asetkey, klog.krb5, pts, udebug, and vos, from LWP
+ to pthreads.
+
+ * Improvements to Rx:
+ - Restructure the Rx API to privatize the implementation.
+ - Convert rx events to a red-black tree data structure to improve
+ performance.
+ - Convert from mutexes to atomic operations for counters to reduce lock
+ contention.
+ - Provide per-opcode Rx statistics.
+ - Add an rx_opaque data type to support non-DES encryption types
+ and general code cleanup.
+ - Wake up the application thread after 'twind' is updated to avoid 100ms
+ transmit delays when the receive window transitions from closed to
+ open.
+ - Fix for OPENAFS-SA-2017-001: sanity-check peer transport parmeters
+ received in ack trailers
+
+ * Libraries (both internal and installed) are built using libtool, including
+ libuafs. The resulting shared libraries for libafsrpc and libafsauthent
+ should be more usable than previously.
+
+ * Improvements to the build system:
+ - Convert to libtool to build shared libraries.
+ - Clean up and improve the build system.
+ - Support out of tree builds.
+ - Add a makefile target to generate Doxygen source code documentation.
+ - Link the Java API for OpenAFS with libuafs.a and remove the
+ libjuafs.a library.
+ - Always build the rxperf tool.
+ - Fix man-page generation by make after ./regen.sh -q
+ - Support the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable to improve build
+ reproducibility.
+ - Modernize language specific SWIG typemaps for libuafs Perl bindings.
+ - Refactor acinclude.m4 into a set of smaller m4 files (12876, 12877, 12878)
+
+ * Improvements to documentation:
+ - Document the new KeyFileExt file.
+ - Reorganized the README files.
+ - Improvements and fixes to documentation generation.
+ - Add experimental epub and mobi support
+ - Remove obsolete LWP information from the file server documentation.
+ - Update and reorganize the Quick Start Guide.
+ - Update the Admin Guide.
+ - Remove AIX, HP-UX, and IRIX information from the Quick Start Guide.
+ - Document the vldb and prdb (ubik) file formats.
+ - Add PtLog man page.
+ - Corrections and clarifications to man pages.
+ - Add ubik threading analysis doc.
+ - Normalize the location of text documents in the source tree.
+
+ * Improvements for troublshooting, debugging, and testing:
+ - Log more details on volume-server-to-fileserver communication errors
+ when possible.
+ - Set thread names in pthreaded servers on platforms which support
+ thread names.
+ - Add dynroot lock tracking to cmdebug
+ - Fix tracking of an fstrace call site in the cache manager background
+ process.
+ - Add the afsload tool to simulate multiple cache managers for file server
+ load testing.
+ - Add run-time checks for refcount imbalances in the cache manager.
+ - Fix missing newlines in afsd -debug output.
+
+ * Developer tool improvements:
+ - Improvements and fixes for rxgen (used to generate Rx RPC bindings).
+ - Add tool for man page verification of command options.
+ - Add tool to find Unix cache manager lock identification numbers.
+ - Add an option for pretty build output.
+
+ * RPM packaging updates:
+ - Update the spec file to keep up with accumulated changes.
+ - Move the klog.krb5 man page to the openafs-krb5 sub-package.
+ - Remove stray man pages. (12870, 12871)
+ - Prevent double-starting client on RHEL7
+ - Convert rpm spec file from deprecated 'make dest' to 'make install'.
+ - Fix rpmbuild command line option default handling.
+ - Support older versions of rpmbuild which do not support the
+ rpmbuild %exclude directive. (12873)
+ - Move the legacy kaserver and related programs to separate sub-packages,
+ which are only built when rpmbuild is given the '--with kauth' option
+ (12600, 12872)
+ - Package the libuafs perl bindings (12921)
+
+ * Add a new protection error code (PRNAMETOOLONG) instead of silently
+ truncating names which exceed the maximum name length (PR_MAXNAMELEN).
+
+ * Add an implementation limit (50000) on the number of names/ids which can
+ be transmitted by unauthenticated clients to the ptserver, avoiding
+ excessive resource consumption from unauthenticated requests.
+
+ * Add the -config option to vos, pts, and aklog to specify the path to the
+ cell configuration files.
+
+ * Add more details in vos release -verbose output.
+
+ * Add the cacheout -encrypt option to encrypt communication between the
+ cacheout client and the fileserver.
+
+ * Add the command line options to the afsio program to enable encryption of
+ traffic between afsio and the fileserver (-clear, -crypt).
+
+ * Add the vos release -force-reclone option to force recloning the volume to
+ be released without forcing a full volume dump being transmitted to all
+ remote sites.
+
+ * Fix vos to avoid writing loopback addresses into the VLDB in
+ certain cases.
+
+ * Print bos and pts error messages to standard error instead of
+ standard out.
+
+ * Improve formatting of the -help output of all commands.
+
+ * Change -n to -dryrun in all backup subcommands.
- * Fix kernel fstrace logging.
+ * Change the backup deletedump -port command line option to -portoffset.
+ * Add user and build host in the version string returned by
+ rxdebug -version.
-OpenAFS 1.5.66 (2009-10-25)
+ * Support recent versions of gcc (7.2.1) (12897)
- All platforms
+ All Server Platforms
- * Avoid calling exit() in library code.
+ * Ubik servers using pthreads are now available and are used by default
- * Add rx window size and peer timeout tuning APIs.
+ * As part of improving Ubik reliability in certain edge cases, an extra
+ election cycle (about 60 seconds) may be needed before writes are
+ permitted. This is a conservative change that may be removed in
+ the future.
- * Correct rx peer timeout handling to disallow 0ms timeouts.
+ * Avoid continually retransmitting the ubik database to remote sites when
+ a write transaction occurs as remote sites are attempting to rejoin the
+ ubik cluster. (12896)
- * Correct calculation of rx RTT by disregarding retransmitted packets.
+ * Ensure the ubik database version number is updated on remote sites at the
+ point the database is transferred to remote sites instead of waiting for
+ the next ubik beacon. This avoids write transaction failures during the
+ window between the database transfer and the next ubik beacon (12885).
- * vos manpages updated to reflect changes in recent versions.
+ * Remove periodic background fsync by the fileserver (ihandle fsync thread).
- * GNU-style long options (e.g. --cell) are now supported in all
- commands.
+ * Fix potential file handle leak in the file server ihandle caching layer.
- * fs listacl can now print a command to recreate the current ACL.
+ * Disable the so-called "hot threads" feature in the file server. The hot
+ threads feature was intended as an optimization for dispatching incoming
+ calls to the current listener thread, but has been reported to incur a
+ performance penalty on modern multi-core systems.
- All server platforms
+ * Do not permit creation of users with id of ANONYMOUSID.
- * Fix a race on transaction objects in the volserver which can cause a
- crash.
+ * Do not save/restore host states in the fsstate.dat file for hosts which
+ are in the process of retrieving CPS information from the ptserver when
+ the fileserver is being shutdown. This fixes a bug in which the fileserver
+ will incorrectly block all threads following a restart.
- * Avoid destroying and setting to NULL the callback connection when it
- could still be being used.
+ * Add the ptserver -restrict_anonymous option to inhibit exposure of user
+ names from the ptserver.
- * Correct unlink handling in salvager.
+ * Do not truncate server log files by default when server processes
+ are started. The -transarc-logs option provides backward compatibility
+ with IBM AFS log handling on server startup. Log messages may be lost
+ in back-to- back restarts when a server is running in this mode.
- * Improve error messages due to I/O errors in the volserver.
+ * Reopen server logs on SIGUSR1. This may be used by third-party log
+ rotation tools, such as logrotate, to reopen the log file handles after
+ log files have been renamed.
- * Correct an issue which caused converted RO to RW volumes on namei
- fileservers to not come online immediately.
+ * Fix various bugs when logging with -mrafslogs enabled.
- Microsoft Windows
+ * Dynamically reload the kerberos realm to AFS cell mapping (krb.conf) and
+ exclusions for mapping kerberos principals to AFS identities (krb.excl)
+ configuration when the CellServDB cell configuration file is touched.
+ Previously, a restart of the file server was required after updating the
+ kerberos mapping configuration files.
- * Official support for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2.
+ * Add a command line option (-restricted_query) to the vlserver and
+ volserver to restrict information queries about volumes to a specific
+ group of users.
- * Prevent a file server bug (FetchData returning an invalid length
- instead of zero) from causing an "unexpected network error" when
- writing to files.
+ * Add a command line option to the server programs to specify an alternate
+ fully qualified log file name (-logfile).
- * Promote DNS SRV records as superior to DNS AFSDB records. Support
- arbitrary port numbers for vldb servers.
+ * Add a command line option (-config) to the server programs to specify
+ an alternate path to the server configuration.
- * 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.
+ * Add a command line option to the ptserver and vlserver to specify an
+ alternate path to the database data files.
- * Remove drive mapping functionality and service start/stop from
- afscreds.exe.
+ * Add a command line option to the volume server to enable encryption of
+ volume-server-to-volume-server-traffic (-s2scrypt).
- * Remove drive mapping functionality from afs_config.exe.
+ * Increase the maximum number of LWP threads allowed for the ptserver and
+ vlserver from 16 to 64 (-lwp).
- * Use {HKLM,HKCU}\SOFTWARE\OpenAFS\Client DWORD "ShowMountTab" to
- restore access to drive mapping functionality in afscreds.exe and
- afs_config.exe.
+ * Remove an unused file server command line option (-k).
- * Adjust SMB error return codes to avoid returning STATUS_TIMEOUT
- which results in the SMB redirector disconnecting.
+ * Fix an incorrect assertion in Demand Attach File Server which could cause
+ the file server process to abort in certain rare conditions.
- * 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.
+ * Deprecate the -bitmap-later configure option for non-Demand-Attach File
+ Servers (DAFS).
- * Prevent pioctl calls from retrying indefinitely when a sharing
- violation error occurs.
+ * Add -vhashsize support to non-Demand-Attach File Servers (DAFS).
- All UNIX client platforms
+ * Add support for subnet ranges in the NetInfo and NetRestrict
+ configuration files.
- * Correct a condition which could discard the error from initializing
- a fetch request.
+ * Add the GetXStats RPC to the audit log.
- * Avoid using invalid references to afs_Conn connection structures,
- and thus potentially producing invalid data when a retry is needed.
+ * Fix directory creation by bosserver when built for non-Transarc paths.
- * SRV records are now supported for discovering AFS servers.
+ * Fix incomplete list of server addresses retreived by vos listaddr when the
+ vldb contains unreferenced multi-homed server entries.
- Linux
+ * Remove obsolete bos blockscanner and unblockscanner commands that
+ were only needed for the removed MR-AFS functionality.
- * Correct writepage behavior.
+ * Remove obsolete bos salvage options that were only used by the
+ removed MR-AFS functionality..
- * Fix error code handling in the writepage code.
+ * Remove calls to the deprecated sbrk() function.
- * Avoid leaking page locks, which could potentially hang a machine.
+ * Add an experimental feature to database servers to support ubik reads
+ while write transactions are in progress, enabled at build time with the
+ --enable-ubik-read-while-write configure option. This feature is not
+ considered ready for production usage at this time.
- MacOS X
+ * Avoid filling the FileLog with "Volume x offline: not in service" when
+ a volume is administratively taken offline with vos offline.
- * Preferences Pane improvements.
+ * Print an error message when bosserver is started with an unknown
+ command line option.
- HP-UX
+ * Modify the volume updateDate when the volume is changed by a salvage.
- * Avoiding attempting to handle critical signals in servers, so that
- core file handling works correctly.
+ * Volume usage statistics are now preserved during reclone and restore
+ operations by default, the behavior previously enabled by
+ the -preserve-vol-stats flag to the volserver. The historical behavior
+ can be retained via the -clear-vol-stats argument.
+ All Client Platforms
-OpenAFS 1.5.65 (2009-10-06)
+ * Use rxkad_crypt by default for connections to fileservers. This matches
+ the existing behavior of the Windows client and has been applied by
+ the distribution packaging on many platforms already.
- All platforms
+ * Add support for relative ACL changes with fs setacl. If a single plus (+)
+ or minus (-) character is appended to the rights' letters argument, the
+ new rights are computed relatively to the existing ones.
- * Code compilation warning fixes, to enable better finding and
- tracking bugs.
+ * Remove afsd -settime and afsd -nosettime support.
- * Provide configure-time switch to enable code warning compilation.
+ * Add the afsd -inumcalc option to specify the method used to calculate
+ inode numbers presented by AFS.
- All server platforms
+ * Add the afsd -volume-ttl option to specify set the maximum amount of time
+ information retrieved from the vlserver will be cached, regardless of
+ callback expiry times.
- * Demand-attach fileserver now makes volume LRU list operations
- exclusive operations to avoid races during adding to the list.
+ * Return EIO on internal errors instead of the misleading ENOENT.
- * Fileservers now avoid potential "negative length" fetches.
+ * Log ICMP errors received, if any, for unreachable servers.
- * A leak in host tracking objects in the fileserver has been fixed.
+ * Improve performance of clients with multiple PAGs for different cells.
- * Salvager now unlinks all files by full path, to deal with the change
- to not chdir for core file tracking.
+ * Fix race condition between changing and using user tokens among cache
+ manager threads.
- * Salvager avoids asserting if the volume header is unreadable.
+ * Fix fs sysname for users with UID 2748 and 2750 when not running
+ in -rmtsys mode.
- * Demand-attach fileserver puts back volume references from fssync
- handlers when done.
+ * Add Perl bindings for the user-space cache manager library (libuafs).
- Microsoft Windows
+ * Fixes to the bypasscache feature.
- * Improved service response to suspend and shutdown event
- notifications.
+ * Fix fs getcacheparms miscounts.
- * 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.
+ * Remove the obsolete Netscape plugin.
- * 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.
+ * Fix building gtx when ncurses is linked against libtinfo.
- All UNIX client platforms
+ * Update to the GCO CellServDB update from 14 March 2017.
- * A bug which could cause erroneous handling of lengths on data reads
- has been fixed.
+ Linux
- * A bug where erroneous length returns from the fileserver could
- result in a false error has been fixed.
+ * Remove Linux 2.2 and 2.4 support.
- Linux
+ * Changes to avoid EIO errors with multiple processes doing intensive mmap
+ writing. (Drop PageReclaim AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE.)
- * Background page copies are now supported for enhanced disk cache
- read performance.
+ * Prevent fakestat data inconsistencies in certain cases (131855).
- * Blocking readahead is supported in readpages() to reduce overhead.
+ * Fix dentry leak which can cause a crash on shutdown.
- * Use readpage() instead of read() to access cache data to avail disk
- cache users of the kernel backing cache for improved performance.
+ * Fix improper use of ENOENT and avoid incorrect use of linux negative
+ dentry cache.
- * Minimize credential handling for improved performance.
+ * Use a more correct (less aggressive) scheme to react to downward
+ pressure on cache usage, avoiding d_invalidate(), which can cause
+ getcwd() failures on RHEL 7.4.
- MacOS X
+ * Apply a workaround to be compatible with RHEL 7.5's KABI preservation
+ strategy for reading directories.
- * Preferences Pane cleanup.
+ * Improve error reporting when encountering corrupt directories.
- Solaris
+ * Improve rx error handling in the Linux cache manager.
- * Provide a fs_pathconf method with sensible defaults.
+ * Rename kpasswd to kapasswd when packaging RPMs to avoid colliding with
+ Kerberos kpasswd.
- * Provide a _PC_FILESIZEBITS method to fix some NFS translator
- consumers.
+ * Do not use the obsolete --enable-largefile-fileservers configure option
+ when packaging RPMs.
+ * In Red Hat packaging, use a separate rpm for kmod debuginfo,
+ removing a needless tight version dependency on the userspace package.
+ (12822, 12875)
-OpenAFS 1.5.64 (2009-09-22)
+ * Use the RemainAfterExit systemd feature to avoid premature exit
+ when -afsdb is not given, for RPM packages.
- All server platforms
+ * Remove Debian packaging files from the OpenAFS source tree. Debian
+ packaging files are currently maintained in the downstream Debian
+ infrastructure.
- * The demand attach fileserver now puts back volume references gotten
- via the fssync interface.
+ * Add the sparc_linux26 sysname.
- * The demand attach fileserver had a structure reference error, which
- has been correected.
+ * Desupport 32-bit Linux kernels on s390/s390x.
- Microsoft Windows
+ * Fix Debian/Ubuntu build regression on kernel 3.16.39.
- * Restores Windows 2000 compatibility.
+ * Fix --enable-kernel-debug for linux 4.8+.
- * 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".
+ * Fix a hang encountered when accessing a previously removed
+ directory entry (12811).
- * 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.
+ * Support linux 4.10, 4.11, 4.12, 4.13, 4.14, 4.15
- * Prevents cache manager from marking the file server "down" when the
- data returned in response to either RXAFS_FetchData64 or
- RXAFS_StoreData64 is invalid.
+ Solaris
- * Adds pioctl data validation to the AFS Explorer Shell extension.
+ * Remove support for all Solaris and SunOS platforms prior to Solaris 8.
- All UNIX client platforms
+ * Build 64-bit binaries for Solaris x86 by default.
- * A bug which could cause a kernel panic in 1.5.63 has been corrected.
- This would manifest as a GetDCache panic or oops.
+ * Use one-group PAGs on Solaris 11, which is required for PAG support
+ on Solaris 11 since supplemental groups must be sorted starting with
+ Solaris 11.1.
- Linux
+ * Update search paths for solaris cc for recent versions Solaris Studio.
- * aklog -setpag works again with recent kernels when keyring is in
- use.
+ * Modernize declaration of module dependences by converting from the
+ deprecated _depends_on symbol to ELF dependencies.
+
+ * Avoid BAD TRAP panic due to invalid opcodes on x86 with Studio 12.5.
+
+ * Add ctf debug records to Solaris kernel modules when debug builds
+ are enabled and the ctf tools are present (ctfconvert/ctfmerge).
+
+ * Save kernel module function arguments on x86 for debugging purposes.
MacOS
- * When Fast User Switch is in use, AFS login is now handled correctly
- by the integration tool included with the preferences pane.
+ * Stop processing upcalls once rx shutdown starts.
- * Several packaging bugs have been corrected.
+ * Enable atomics for the darwin kernel.
+ * Add a syscall to enable/disable bulkstat at run-time, which is
+ disabled by default.
-OpenAFS 1.5.63 (2009-09-11)
+ * Fix path to binaries in the prefpane.
- All platforms
+ * Fix builds on MacOS 10.12 by building only the active architecture
+ by default.
- * The restorevol command is now documented and installed as a user
- command.
+ * Support versions up through 10.13 (High Sierra) and APFS
- * The uss command now properly translates vldb entries to its expected
- format when handling them in all cases.
+ FreeBSD
- * Documentation now refers to Kerberos instead of kaserver.
+ * Use the native kernel module build system instead of an ad hoc
+ replacement build system.
- All server platforms
+ * Remove FreeBSD packaging files from the OpenAFS source tree. FreeBSD
+ packaging files are currently maintained in the downstream FreeBSD Ports
+ Collection.
- * 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.
+ * Stay up to date with new FreeBSD releases (through 10.3).
- * The demand attach fileservice not longer potentially hangs trying to
- terminate demand-salvages which have already exited.
+ * Do not claim AFS_VM_RDWR_ENV
- * 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.
+ * Add sysnames and files for i386 and amd64 10.4, 11.1, and 12.0
+ (12-CURRENT, at present). (12887, 12888)
- * 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.
+ * Remove trailing semicolons to fix the build on FreeBSD (12899)
- * The salvager can now repair certain cases of a damamged vnode index.
+ NetBSD
- * The accessDate metadata for a volume is now updated correctly.
+ * Stay up to date with new NetBSD releases (through 7.x)
- Microsoft Windows
+ * Update to use cprng(9) as the randomness source on NetBSD 6.99/7.x.
- * 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.
+ * Build system updates for NetBDS 6.99.x
- * 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.
+ * Do not claim AFS_VM_RDWR_ENV
- * Some XP machines running 1.5.62 had trouble saving roaming profile
- data. This is fixed.
+ OpenBSD
- * Integrated Logon (afslogon.dll) did not function with domain
- specific configurations.
+ * Stay up to date with new OpenBSD releases (through 4.7)
- * Ensure that access denied and over quota errors experienced while
- storing data to the file server do not result in on-going retry
- attempts.
+ * Do not claim AFS_VM_RDWR_ENV
- All UNIX client platforms
+ AIX
- * Except on Solaris and AIX, the compiler may now be overriden at
- configure time by setting the CC environment variable.
+ * Updates for AIX support.
- * afsd now properly deals with large cache partitions.
+ * Fix build system for AIX exports.
- FreeBSD
+ * Add the uidpag and localuid runtime options to the aklog LAM plugin.
+ (These runtime options override the use of UID-based PAGs, which were
+ introduced to appease the CDE screensaver.)
- * Build shared libafsauthent and libafsrpc.
- Linux
+OpenAFS 1.6.21
- * Kernel module DKMS support now installs an unstripped module to
- allow debugging information to be collected.
+ All platforms
- MacOS
+ * Avoid a possible 100ms transmit delay in the RX protocol when a peer's
+ receive window transitions from closed to open (12627)
- * Preferences pane properly updates token information.
+ * Documentation improvements (12476 12477 12559[RT #133339])
- MacOS 10.6
+ All server platforms
- * 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.
+ * When bosserver is started with an unknown option, print an error message
+ and exit with a non-zero value rather than failing silently (12631)
- * A panic at AFS shutdown due to "NO PCB" on a udp_lock has been
- addressed.
+ All DB server platforms
- * The panic decoder script included in the source now properly handles
- 32 and 64 bit panics.
+ * Hold the DB lock while checking for an aborted write transaction (12516)
- NetBSD
+ All file server platforms
- * Avoid defining AFS_KERBEROS_ENV globally as it creates a circular
- dependency.
+ * On demand attach fileservers, don't save or restore a client's host
+ state if CPS ("Current Protection Subdomain") recalculation for it is
+ in progress, to avoid fileserver thread exhaustion (12568)
- * Build shared libafsauthent and libafsrpc.
+ * On demand attach fileservers, avoid flooding the log with error messages,
+ which could happen when the fileserver was restarted while a volume was
+ offline (12569)
- OpenBSD
+ * Update a volume's "Last Update" time when its content is modified by
+ the salvager, to make the change visible in the output of "vos examine"
+ and to backup services (12633)
- * Build shared libafsauthent and libafsrpc.
+ All client platforms
+ * Corrected the DCentries bucket counts for very large and zero length
+ files in the output of "fs getcacheparms -excessive" (12604 12605)
-OpenAFS 1.5.62 (2009-08-28)
+ * Fixed a bug that prevented users with GID 2748 and 2750 from executing
+ the "fs sysname" command on clients running afsd with -rmtsys (12607)
- All platforms
+ * Provide a new -inumcalc switch for afsd to allow enabling the alternative
+ MD5 method of inode number calculation, which was previously only
+ possible on Linux and through the sysctl interface (12608 12632)
- * Numerous invisible changes to improve code maintainability,
- portability and enhanceability.
+ Linux clients
- Microsoft Windows
+ * Support for mainline kernel 4.12 and distribution kernels with backports
+ from it (12624 12626)
- * 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
+ * Re-added the improved algorithm for freeing unused vcaches to reduce
+ memory consumption first introduced with the 1.6.18 release, together
+ with a fix for the issue leading to its removal in 1.6.18.2 (12448..12451)
- * 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.
+ macOS clients
- * 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.
+ * Fixed a crash while stopping the client on macOS 10.12 "Sierra" (12602)
- * 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.
+OpenAFS 1.6.20.2
- * Unnecessary DNS lookups of share names are avoided improving
- performance.
+ All platforms
- All UNIX client platforms
+ * Build fixes required by recent compilers or platforms (12514 12521 12534
+ 12536 12538)
- * Non-Kerberos PAM modules work correctly again.
+ * Allow the bos server to start successfully in the presence of those, by
+ accepting a now checked return value indicating that the client ThisCell
+ and CellServDB already exist (12522)
- MacOS X
+ Linux clients
- * MacOS 10.6 (Snowleopard) is now supported, both 32 and 64 bit mode.
+ * Support for mainline kernels 4.10 and - most likely - 4.11 and
+ distribution kernels with backports from them (12530 12588..12590 12598)
- * Updates to the AFSCommander preferences pane.
+ * Support for distribution kernels with partial backports from 4.9 (12535)
+ (RT #134158)
- * Installer now permits cell names with dashes.
+ * In Red Hat packaging, moved the klog.krb5 manual page into the krb5
+ subpackage (12511)
+ * In Red Hat packaging, prevent systemd from double-starting the client
+ (12587)
-OpenAFS 1.5.61 (2009-08-06)
+ * Allow aklog to function on current S390/S390x (12499)
- All platforms
+ Solaris clients
- * Correct another race condition in the Rx library that could result
- in an unexpected panic while freeing the Rx call iovq.
+ * Make process authentication groups work on Solaris 11, now using a single
+ group ID (12524..12527)
- * rx packet resend and data packets sent counts were incorrect.
+ * Fix a BAD TRAP panic on Solaris 11 clients built with Studio 12.5 (12567)
- * fs setquota, fs setcachesize, vos setfields, and vos create now
- accept human readable orders of magnitude. (K, M, G)
+ macOS clients
- * fs listquota fixed to permit large quota sizes to be displayed.
+ * Fixed the preference pane for OS X 10.11 and later (12512)
- * Correct documentation of bosserver permissions requirements.
+OpenAFS 1.6.20.1
- * Modify vlserver to avoid potentially corrupting the database through
- volume id reuse.
+ All platforms
- * Generalized support for fast Rx timeout due to network
- down/unreachable.
+ * Build fixes required by recent compilers (12482..12484)
- All server platforms
+ Linux clients
- * Allow audit logs to be sent via sys5 IPC message queues instead of
- logged directly.
+ * Support for mainline kernel 4.9 and distribution kernels with
+ backports from it (12478..12480)
- Microsoft Windows
+ * In Red Hat packaging, make systemd deal correctly with the client
+ when no userland processes remain after starting it (12481)
+ (RT #133482)
- * 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.
+ macOS
- * Fix "fs newcell" which was broken in 1.5.60.
+ * Support for release 10.12 "Sierra" (12431 12432)
- * Do not attempt to synchronize dirty buffers if the associated volume
- is known to be unavailable.
+ * Avoid a crash in the Mounts tab of the OpenAFS preference pane (12447)
- * 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
+OpenAFS 1.6.20 (Security Release)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Fix for OPENAFS-SA-2016-003: file and directory names leak due to
+ reuse of directory objects without zeroing the contents
+ (12461 12462 12463 12464 12465)
+
+OpenAFS 1.6.19
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Documentation improvements (12304)
+ * Fixes for test failures (12396 12415)
+
+ All DB server platforms
+
+ * Avoid potentially writing to an out of date volume location or protection
+ database, or losing a database write, which could happen in rare cases
+ under special conditions during database leader election
+ (12339 12389)
+
+ Solaris clients
+
+ * Allow the fsinfo::: DTrace provider to work with AFS files (12371)
+
+ Linux clients
+
+ * Don't commit more data to a file than was actually copied during writes,
+ which could happen on architectures with a page size > 4 KiB (12413)
+ * Fixed build on PPC64 with GCC 6.1 (12388) (RT #133407)
+ * Fixed build on x86_64 with recent GCC (12365 12366)
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.6.18.3
+
+ Linux clients
+
+ * Support for mainline kernel 4.7 and distribution kernels with
+ backports from it (12348)
+
+ Solaris clients
+
+ * Fixed memory mapped I/O on files >= 4 GiB (12349 12350)
+
+ Note that there is a suspicion that this might break the client
+ on very old Solaris releases (2.6). If it does, the breakage should
+ occur at build time.
+
+ OS X
+
+ * Added tooling to build a package for OS X 10.10 "Yosemite" and
+ 10.11 "El Capitan" (12335 12351)
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.6.18.2
+
+ Linux clients
+
+ * Support for mainline kernel 4.6 and distribution kernels with
+ backports from it (12332)
+
+ * Switch back to the pre-1.6.18 algorithm for freeing unused vcaches.
+ While the new algorithm is still believed to be correct, it turned
+ out that at least on some kernels, including 4.5 and 4.6, the dentry
+ for the current working directory may be erroneously invalidated.
+ This could lead to errors like "Unable to read current working directory"
+ when a directory wasn't accessed for a few minutes. (12323)
+
+ * Use a secure URL to retrieve the CellServDB in the script to create
+ the Red Hat source package (12330)
+
+ FreeBSD
+
+ * Added sysname IDs for 10.2 and 10.3 to fix the build on those platforms
+ (12322)
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.6.18.1
+
+ Linux clients
+
+ * Support for mainline kernel 4.5 and distribution kernels with
+ backports from it (12300..12302)
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.6.18
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Documentation improvements (12224 11675 11613 12197)
+
+ * Improved diagnostics and error messages (12129 12207 12185 12211 12113
+ 12215 12216)
+
+ * Check that CellServDB entries are valid IPv4 addresses, to avoid
+ occasional hangs or potentially other erratic behaviour due to invalid
+ entries (12210) (RT #131794)
+
+ All client platforms
+
+ * Gracefully handle cases where a client shutdown sequence is initiated
+ while the client is already shutting down, rather than cause a panic
+ (12179)
+
+ * Fixed several bugs that could cause erratic behaviour when the write
+ offset into a file was more than 2 GiB beyond the file's current end
+ on the server (12213 12214)
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Avoid a possible volserver crash during volume dump or restore due
+ to invalid ACL entries (12127)
+
+ * Allow recovering from a DAFS fileserver operation which allocates a
+ new vnode but fails to update the vnode index, rather than crashing the
+ server (12209)
+
+ * Fixed a longstanding bug which could damage the volume location database
+ when "vos changeaddr" was run with "-oldaddr" and "-newaddr" and the
+ old address was present in a multi-homed entry (12089)
+
+ FreeBSD
+
+ * Added support for releases 10.2 and 10.3 (12232)
+
+ Linux clients
+
+ * Support for mainline kernel 4.4 and distribution kernels with
+ backports from it, alas at a performance penalty (12226 12227 12228)
+ (RT #132677 #132819)
+
+ * Avoid using excessive amounts of kernel memory for dynamically
+ allocated vcaches, by improving the algorithm to free unused ones
+ (12256 12257)
+
+ * In Red Hat packaging, make the init script use "ip" if available, with
+ "ifconfig" as a fallback (12193)
+
+ OS X
+
+ * Basic support for release 10.11 "El Capitan" (12212)
+
+ IRIX clients
+
+ * Fixed kernel module builds with optimization (12198) (RT #131261)
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.6.17 (Security Release)
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Fix for OPENAFS-SA-2016-001: foreign users can create groups as
+ if they were an administrator (RT #132822) (CVE-2016-2860)
+
+ All client platforms
+
+ * Fix for OPENAFS-SA-2016-002: information leakage from sending
+ uninitialized memory over the network. Multiple call sites
+ were vulnerable, with potential for leaking both kernel and
+ userland stack data (RT #132847)
+
+ * Update to the GCO CellServDB update from 01 January 2016 (12188)
+
+ Linux clients
+
+ * Fix a crash when the root volume is not found and dynroot is not
+ in use, a regression introduced in 1.6.14.1 (12166)
+
+ * Avoid introducing a dependency on the kernel-devel package corresponding
+ to the currently running system while building the srpm (12195)
+
+ * Create systemd unit files with mode 0644 instead of 0755
+ (12196) (RT #132662)
+
+OpenAFS 1.6.16
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Documentation improvements (11932 12096 12100 12112 12120)
+
+ * Improved diagnostics and error messages (11586 11587)
+
+ * Distribute the contributor code of conduct with the stable release (12056)
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Create PID files in the right location when bosserver is started with
+ the "-pidfiles" argument and transarc paths are not being used (12086)
+
+ * Several fixes regarding volume dump creation and restore (11433 11553
+ 11825 11826 12082)
+
+ * Avoid a reported bosserver crash, and potentially others, by replacing
+ fixed size buffers with dynamically allocated ones in some user handling
+ functions (11436) (RT #130719)
+
+ * Obey the "-toname" parameter in "vos clone" operations (11434)
+
+ * Avoid writing a loopback address into the server CellServDB - search
+ for a non-loopback one, and fail if none is found (12083 12105)
+
+ * Rebuild the vldb free list with "vldb_check -fix" (12084)
+
+ * Fixed and improved the "check_sysid" utility (12090)
+
+ * Fixed and improved the "prdb_check" utility (12101..04)
+
+ All client platforms
+
+ * Avoid a potential denial of service issue, by fixing a bug in pioctl
+ logic that allowed a local user to overrun a kernel buffer with a single
+ NUL byte (commit 2ef86372) (RT #132256) (CVE-2015-8312)
+
+ * Refuse to change multi-homed server entries with "vos changeaddr",
+ unless "-force" is given, to avoid corruption of those entries (12087)
+
+ * Provide a new vos subcommand "remaddrs" for removing server entries, to
+ replace the slightly confusing "vos changeaddr -remove" (12092 12094)
+
+ * Make "fs flushall" actually invalidate all cached data (11894)
+
+ * Prevent spurious call aborts due to erroneous idle timeouts (11594)
+
+ * Provide a "--disable-gtx" configure switch to avoid building and
+ installing libgtx and its header files as well as the depending
+ "scout" and "afsmonitor" applications (12095)
+
+ * Fixed building the gtx applications against newer ncurses (12125)
+
+ * Allow pioctls to work in environments where the syscall emulation
+ pseudo file is created in a read-only pseudo filesystem, like in
+ containers under recent versions of docker (12124)
+
+ Linux clients
+
+ * In Red Hat packaging, avoid following a symbolic link when writing
+ the client CellServDB, which could overwrite the server CellServDB,
+ by removing an existing symlink before writing the file (12081)
+
+ * In Red Hat packaging, avoid a conflict of openafs-debuginfo with
+ krb5-debuginfo by excluding our kpasswd executable from debuginfo
+ processing (12128) (RT #131771)
+
+OpenAFS 1.6.15 (Security Release)
+
+ All client and server platforms
+
+ * Fix for OPENAFS-SA-2015-007 "Tattletale"
+
+ When constructing an Rx acknowledgment (ACK) packet, Andrew-derived
+ Rx implementations do not initialize three octets of data that are
+ padding in the C language structure and were inadvertently included
+ in the wire protocol (CVE-2015-7762). Additionally, OpenAFS Rx in
+ versions 1.5.75 through 1.5.78, 1.6.0 through 1.6.14, and 1.7.0
+ through 1.7.32 include a variable-length padding at the end of the
+ ACK packet, in an attempt to detect the path MTU, but only four octets
+ of the additional padding are initialized (CVE-2015-7763).
+
+OpenAFS 1.6.14.1
+
+ Linux clients
+
+ * Support kernels up to 4.2
+
+ Due to changes to internal data structures with this kernel release,
+ the OpenAFS client can no longer reset the link count during path
+ lookups. Since volume root directories must behave like symlinks
+ instead of normal directories in order to satisfy Linux kernel
+ invariants, looking up paths containing more than 40 mount points
+ will fail with ELOOP on such kernels.
+
+OpenAFS 1.6.14
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Prior to the OpenAFS security release 1.6.13, the Volume Location
+ Server (vlserver) RPC VL_ListAttributesN2() supported wildcard volume
+ name lookups via regular expression (regex) pattern matching. This
+ support was completely disabled in 1.6.13 because it was judged to be
+ a security risk due to buffer overruns in the implementation, as well
+ as the possibility of denial of service attacks where certain regular
+ expressions could cause excessive CPU usage in some regex
+ implementations.
+
+ Unfortunately, after 1.6.13 was released, it was discovered that
+ the native OpenAFS 'backup' system uses the VL_ListAttributesN2()
+ regex support to evaluate configured volume sets. If you use the
+ OpenAFS 'backup' system (or another backup system which relies on it,
+ such as Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM, aka Tivoli ADSM)), and are using
+ volume sets which require regular expressions for the volume name,
+ then those volume sets cannot be resolved by OpenAFS 1.6.13. The next
+ paragraph provides details on how to identify any affected volume sets.
+
+ OpenAFS backup volume sets may be described by fileserver, partition
+ name, and volume name. The fileserver and partition specifications
+ never require regular expression support. The volume name specification
+ always requires regular expression support except for when specifying
+ _all_ volumes via two special cases: the universal wildcard ".*", or "".
+ For example, volume name "proj" or "*.backup" or "homevol.*" all
+ require regex support - even if the specification contains no wildcard
+ characters and/or exactly matches an existing volume name.
+
+ As a result of this issue, OpenAFS 1.6.14 replaces the 1.6.13 changes
+ to VL_ListAttributesN2. 1.6.14 prevents the buffer overruns and
+ reenables the regex support, but restricts it to OpenAFS super-users
+ and -localauth only. This is sufficient to restore the OpenAFS 'backup'
+ system's ability to work correctly with any previously supported volume
+ set. The OpenAFS 'backup' commands are already documented to require
+ super-user authorization, so this restriction is moot for the backup
+ system.
+
+ There are no other direct consumers of the VL_ListAttributesN2() regex
+ support in the OpenAFS tree. However, the VL_ListAttributesN2 RPC is
+ publicly accessible and might be used by third party tools directly or
+ indirectly via OpenAFS's libadmin. Any such tools that issue
+ VL_ListAttributesN2 RPCs must now be executed using super-user or
+ -localauth tokens.
+
+ None of the other security fixes in OpenAFS 1.6.13 are known to have
+ any issues, and are still included unchanged in OpenAFS 1.6.14.
+
+ If there are any questions concerning the possible impact of OpenAFS
+ 1.6.13 or 1.6.14 at your site, please contact your OpenAFS support
+ provider or the openafs-info@openafs.org mailing list for further
+ assistance.
+
+OpenAFS 1.6.13
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Fix for CVE-2015-3282: vos leaks stack data onto the wire in the
+ clear when creating vldb entries
+
+ * Workaround for CVE-2015-3283: bos commands can be spoofed, including
+ some which alter server state
+
+ * Disabled searching the VLDB by volume name regular expression to avoid
+ possible buffer overruns in the volume location server
+
+ All client platforms
+
+ * Fix for CVE-2015-3284: pioctls leak kernel memory
+
+ * Fix for CVE-2015-3285: kernel pioctl support for OSD command passing
+ can trigger a panic
+
+ Solaris clients
+
+ * Fix for CVE-2015-3286: Solaris grouplist modifications for PAGs can
+ panic or overwrite memory
+
+OpenAFS 1.6.12
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Avoid database corruption if a database server is shut down and then
+ brought up again quickly with an altered database (11773 11774)
+ (RT #131997)
+
+ All client platforms
+
+ * Fixed a potential buffer overflow in aklog (11808)
+
+ * Avoid a bogus warning regarding the checkserver daemon, which could be
+ logged during startup when the cache initialization was very fast (11680)
+
+ * Added documentation of the inaccuracy of the 'partition' field in
+ 'fs listquota' output for partitions larger than 2 TiB (11626)
+
+ Linux clients
+
+ * Support kernels up to 4.1 (11872 11873)
+
+ * Avoid spurious EIO errors when writing large chunks of data to
+ mmapped files (11877)
+
+ OS X
+
+ * Build fixes required at least on OS X 10.10 Yosemite with the latest
+ XCode (11859 11876 11842..11845 11863 11878 11879)
+
+OpenAFS 1.6.11.1
+
+ Linux clients
+
+ * Support kernels up to 4.0 (11760 11761)
+
+ FreeBSD clients
+
+ * Fixed kernel module build on systems with an updated clang which no
+ longer accepts the -mno-align-long-strings as a no-op (11809)
+
+OpenAFS 1.6.11
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Allow aklog to succeed creating native K5 tokens even when mapping
+ the K5 principal to a K4 one fails (11538)
+
+ * Build fixes (11435 11636)
+
+ All client platforms
+
+ * Avoid a potential kernel panic due to connection reference overcounts
+ (11645) (RT #131885)
+
+ * Avoid potential corruption of files written using memory mapped I/O
+ when the file is larger than the cache (11656) (RT #131976)
+
+ Linux clients
+
+ * Support kernels at least up to 3.19 (11549 11550 11569 11570 11595
+ 11658..11662 11694 11752)
+
+ Note: By default this excludes kernels 3.17 to 3.17.2, which will leak
+ an inode reference when an error occurs in d_splice_alias(). The
+ module will build and work, but leak kernel memory, leading to
+ performance degradation and eventually system failure due to
+ memory exhaustion. Since it's impossible to detect this condition
+ automatically, the switch --enable-linux-d_splice_alias-extra-iput
+ must be passed to configure when building the module for those
+ kernels. The same would be necessary for any kernel with backports
+ of commit 908790fa3b779d37365e6b28e3aa0f6e833020c3 or commit
+ 95ad5c291313b66a98a44dc92b57e0b37c1dd589 but not the fix in commit
+ 51486b900ee92856b977eacfc5bfbe6565028070 in the linux-stable repo
+ (git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git) or
+ the corresponding changes on other branches.
+
+ * Fixed a regression introduced in OpenAFS release 1.6.10 which could
+ make the spurious "getcwd: cannot access parent directories" problem
+ return (11558 11568) (RT #131780)
+
+ * Avoid leaking memory when scanning a corrupt directory (11707)
+
+ OS X clients
+
+ * Support OS X 10.10 "Yosemite" (11571 11572 11611) (RT #131946)
+
+ Solaris clients
+
+ * Avoid reading random data rather than correct cache content when using
+ ZFS as the cache file system on Solaris >= 11, and fix potential similar
+ problems on other platforms (11713 11714)
+
+ FreeBSD
+
+ * Build fix for releases >= 11.0 (11610)
+
+ OpenBSD
+
+ * Support release 5.4 (11700)
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.6.10
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Don't hide the "version" subcommand in help output (11214)
+
+ * Documentation improvements (11126 11216 11222 11223 11225 11226)
+
+ * Improved diagnostics and error messages (11154 11246 11247 11249 11181
+ 11182 11183)
+
+ * Build system improvements (11158 11221 11224 11225 11227..11241 11282
+ 11342 11350 11353 11242 11367 11392)
+
+ * Avoid potentially erratic behaviour under certain error conditions by
+ either avoiding or at least not ignoring them, in various places (11008
+ 11010..11065 11112 11148 11196 11530)
+
+ FreeBSD
+
+ * Support releases 9.3 and 10.1 (11368 11369 11402 11403 11404)
+
+ * Makes a disk cache more likely to work on FreeBSD, though such
+ configurations remain not very tested (11448)
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Added volscan(8) (11252..11280 11387 11388)
+
+ * Fixed a bug causing subgroups not to function correctly if their
+ ptdb entry had more than one continuation entry (11352)
+
+ * Logging improvements (10946 11153)
+
+ * Allow log rotation via copy and truncate (11193)
+
+ * Avoid a server crash during startup only observed on a single platform
+ and when using a 3rd party library under certain circumstances, which is
+ a collateral effect of the security improvements introduced in OpenAFS
+ release 1.6.5 (11075) (RT #131852)
+
+ All client platforms
+
+ * Raised the free space reported for /afs to the maximum possible value of
+ just under 2 TiB - the old value was 9 GiB on most platforms (10984)
+
+ * Reduced the amount of stack space used (11162 11163 11203 11164..11167
+ 11338 11339 11364..11366 11381)
+
+ * Sped up a periodic client task which could be problematically slow
+ on systems with a large number of PAGs and files in use (11307)
+
+ * Fixed failure of the up command with large ACLs (11111)
+
+ * Avoid a potential crash of aklog (11218)
+
+ * Avoid potential crashes of scout and xstat_fs_test (11155)
+
+ Linux clients
+
+ * Support kernels up to 3.16 (11308 11309)
+
+ * Fixed a regression introduced in OpenAFS release 1.6.6 that made
+ checking for existing write locks incorrectly fail on readonly volumes
+ (11361)
+
+ * Fixed a regression introduced in OpenAFS release 1.6.8 that could
+ cause VFS cache inconsistencies when a previously-accessed directory
+ entry was removed and recreated with the same name but pointing to a
+ different file on another client (11358)
+
+ * Use the right path to depmod in Red Hat packaging to avoid dependency
+ calculation incorrectly failing unless a link /sbin -> /usr/sbin is
+ present on the system performing it (11171) (RT #131860)
+
+ * Do not ignore kernel module build errors (11205)
+
+OpenAFS 1.6.9
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Fix for OPENAFS-SA-2014-002
+
+OpenAFS 1.6.8
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Documentation improvements (10751 10875 10931 10897 10883 10954 10955)
+
+ * Improved diagnostics and error messages (10756 10814 10949)
+
+ * Fixed a bug in RX that could make errors during packet reception go
+ unnoticed. (10733)
+
+ * Fixed a bug that made "vos size -dump" display the wrong size for
+ large volumes. (10933) (RT #131819)
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Change the default fileserver sync behavior from "delayed" to "onclose".
+ This means that explicit syncing only happens when a volume is detached.
+ (10809)
+
+ * Added the -offline-timeout and -offline-shutdown-timeout options to the
+ fileserver, to implement interrupting clients accessing volumes we are
+ trying to take offline. (6266 10799)
+
+ All client platforms
+
+ * When a client is shut down, it will give up its callbacks. The Windows
+ client has been doing this since 2007. Note that older fileservers
+ (1.3.50 to 1.4.5 and 1.5.0 to 1.5.27) had a bug in the implementation of
+ the relevant RPC that could cause crashes or other undefined behavior
+ when this happens. (6272 8840 10855)
+
+ * Restored the pre-1.6 behavior of "vos e" being an alias for "vos examine".
+ (10886)
+
+ * Avoid flooding logs with warnings about byte-range locks, by throttling
+ them per file. Also, make the messages more useful by including the
+ FID. (10836..10839)
+
+ * Avoid a possible panic during shutdown while tracing. (10932)
+
+ Linux clients
+
+ * Fixed a bug that could cause the "getcwd: cannot access parent
+ directories" problem (10804 10984)
+
+ * Avoid a delay when accessing uncached data in AFS in a confined
+ context under SELinux. (10598)
+
+ * Red Hat packaging improvements (10600 10767 10807)
+
+OpenAFS 1.6.7
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Fix for OPENAFS-SA-2014-001
+
+ * Fix for a potential DOS attack against RX servers
+
+OpenAFS 1.6.6
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * As of this release, OpenAFS no longer ships uncompressed source tarballs.
+ Tarballs are still shipped with both compression formats, gzip and bzip2.
+ (10131)
+
+ * Documentation improvements (10136 10314 10601)
+
+ * Improved diagnostics and error messages (9412 10085 10274)
+
+ * Avoid redefining "assert" in our public header files, which could
+ cause failures when building some applications using them. (10096)
+
+ * Fixes for parallel builds (10005 10309 10337)
+
+ * Added a -s switch to afscp (not installed by default) to help simulate
+ a slow client. (9416 9417)
+
+ * Added a -probe switch to vlclient test program (not installed by default)
+ to ping all vlservers in a cell in parallel. (9570)
+
+ All server platforms
+ * The fileserver now ignores any vice partitions with a NeverAttach flag
+ file present in the root directory. (RT #130561) (9470 9471)
+
+ * Restrict forcing CPS ("Current Protection Subdomain") recalculation in
+ the fileserver to administrators. Also fixed a bug that could cause this
+ operation to be incomplete. (9485 9487)
+
+ * Allow non-DAFS fileservers to attach unusable volumes, restoring pre-1.6
+ behaviour. (RT #131505) (9499)
+
+ * Restored the pre-1.6 behaviour when running vos examine for a volume
+ currently in a transaction, showing the volume as busy again rather than
+ offline. (9685 9915 9916)
+
+ * Reduced the minimum time a bos salvage takes from 5 seconds to 1. (9476)
+
+ * Fixed buserver to not segfault when started with the -servers option.
+ (RT #131706) (10166)
+
+ * Salvager fixes, addressing a wide variety of possible problems from
+ unnecessary salvaging to aborts (9282 9283 9457 9458 9459 9461 9462 9480
+ 9481 10165 10167)
+
+ * Fixed a bug that could cause saved state information to be discarded
+ when restarting a large or busy fileserver, which negatively impacted
+ performance. (9683)
+
+ * Fixed a bug that could have caused undefined behaviour in the vlserver
+ in rare cases when a fileserver registered its addresses in the VLDB.
+ (9429)
+
+ * Added the -preserve-vol-stats switch to volserver, allowing it to keep
+ the access statistics across volume restore and reclone operations
+ instead of resetting them. (9477)
+
+ * Inserted an exponential delay between retries when bosserver attempts to
+ restart a server process. (9571 10199)
+
+ * Improved vldb_check (not installed by default) to cope with broken
+ vlentry names and volids, and provide more output to aid debugging.
+ (10268)
+
+ * Releasing a volume after adding a new RO site no longer touches any of
+ the existing RO sites, if the RW data hasn't changed since the last
+ release. (10174)
+
+ * Make the copyDate field for RO clones have the same meaning as for
+ remote RO volumes. Previously, the copyDate field for clones was updated
+ every time we released. (9451)
+
+ * Fixed potentially undefined behaviour in ptserver when too many pts
+ ids are allocated. (10124)
+
+ * Note that the server side NAT pings feature present in the prereleases
+ was removed before the final release, since no positive feedback
+ was provided during prerelease testing. (9420 10135)
+
+ Linux servers
+
+ * Start bosserver with -nofork in the systemd unit file, to allow systemd
+ to track its state (10093)
+
+ All client platforms
+
+ * No longer track file locks on read-only volumes. Write locks can't
+ succeed, read locks always will. Avoids log messages about this kind
+ of lock. (8910)
+
+ * Added the "fs flushall" subcommand, which makes the client discard all
+ cached data. This was previously available on Windows only. (9065 9388
+ 9389 9390)
+
+ * Fixed a bug that could make the client incorrectly believe its cache
+ is up to date. This change could negatively impact AFS <-> DFS
+ translators, should those still be running anywhere. (8898)
+
+ * Several changes to avoid panicing in certain error conditions.
+ (9131 9287 10354 10355 10356 10357) (partially addressing RT #131747)
+
+ * Added the -rxmaxfrags switch to afsd, allowing to limit the number
+ of UDP fragments sent or received per RX packet. (9430)
+
+ * Build fixes for aklog on several platforms (RT #131716) (9917 10107 10275)
+
+ * Require that the AFS mountpoint specified in the cacheinfo file is
+ an absolute path. Relative paths result in a client that basically
+ works but is not fully functional. (10253)
+
+ * Fixed a bug that could cause one of the afsd threads to enter an infinite
+ loop (10431 .. 10436)
+
+ Linux clients
+
+ * Support Linux kernels up to 3.13 (10241)
+
+ * Fixed a bug that made readv/writev calls in AFS space fail with Linux
+ kernels where generic_file_aio_read exists but those operations have
+ not been switched to using aio_read/aio_write. This was a regression
+ introduced with release 1.6.3 and affected at least RHEL 5.9 kernels.
+ (10248)
+
+ * Fixed a similar bug making core dumps fail in AFS space, affecting
+ a much wider range of kernels including the most recent ones.
+ (RT #131729) (10254)
+
+ * Enhanced the keyring code to make PAGs work correctly on kernels with a
+ distribution specific change to the Linux keyring code. This affected at
+ least SLES 11 SP3 kernels. (10252)
+
+ * Fixed a bug that could make failures during PAG instantiation go
+ unnoticed. (10255)
+
+ * Fixed a bug that made compilation fail for Linux kernels without
+ keyring support. This affected at least the SLE 10 SDK and an
+ OEM version of SLES 11 SP1. (10325)
+
+ * Fixed build for kernels with user namespace support enabled. Likely
+ to be required for Ubuntu 14.04 and eventually other distributions.
+ (10456 10457 10458 10518 10472)
+
+ * Support RHEL 6.5 kernels, and possibly others with changes backported
+ from recent mainline kernels that touch getname/putname, by no longer
+ using those functions. Previously, the client could cause a kernel
+ panic when syscall auditing was enabled. (10578)
+
+ * Make tmpfs usable as the cache filesystem again. This had been broken
+ since kernel 3.1 (9950 10193)
+
+ * When starting the client fails, clean up the backing device information
+ created in sysfs, to avoid error messages during a subsequent start
+ and possible system instability later on (10454)
+
+ * Update Red Hat packaging to support Fedora >= 20, RHEL >= 7 and
+ ELrepo kernels (10597 10619 10622 10703 10704)
+
+ OS X Clients
+
+ * Support OS X 10.9 "Mavericks" (10519 10541 10542 10543 10548 10549)
+
+ AIX clients
+
+ * Fixed a bug that caused the 1.6 AIX client to never receive any RX
+ packets in the kernel. (RT #131725)
+
+ FUSE client
+
+ * Support Solaris 11 (9454 9455)
+
+ * Allow other users to access filesystems mounted by root. (9452)
+
+ FreeBSD
+
+ * Build tvolser and dvolser on this platform (10122)
+ * Several fixes to catch up with newer releases (10374 .. 10381)
+
+ NetBSD
+
+ * Build tsalvaged, tvolser and dvolser on this platform (10121)
+ * Fixed build on NetBSD 5 and newer. (10138)
+
+OpenAFS 1.6.5
+
+All platforms
+
+ * Fixes for OpenAFS-SA-2013-0003 and OpenAFS-SA-2013-0004
+
+OpenAFS 1.6.4
+
+All platforms
+
+ * Obey the jumbo/nojumbo settings for ubik servers (the DB servers)
+ too. In previous releases, those servers may have used jumbograms
+ even if they were not configured to do so. This change corrects
+ the actual behaviour, and will improve performance and reliability
+ for sites where jumbograms are problematic. It could cause a decrease
+ in performance for sites where jumbograms work, but those can turn
+ them back on manually.
+
+ * Dozens of fixes for common coding problems like use after free,
+ use of possibly uninitialised memory, reading or writing past the
+ end of arrays and potential NULL pointer derefences. Spotted by
+ code analysis tools or human inspection.
+
+ * Documentation improvements.
+
+ * Fixes and improvements to the diagnostic or log messages printed by
+ vos, the fileserver and others.
+
+ * Build fixes, making parallel builds more reliable with certain
+ configuration options and helping various platforms including
+ recent releases of IRIX, Solaris and several flavours of Linux.
+
+ * Avoid sending a small amount of data over the wire unencrypted
+ under certain conditions, and emit the correct error message in
+ this case.
+
+All server platforms
+
+ * Avoid generating duplicate IDs for readonly and backup volumes,
+ which could happen under certain conditions.
+
+ * Allow the fileserver to return volume data like quota or free space,
+ which is available publicly elsewhere, without the additional access
+ check for read permissions on a volume's root directory the fileserver
+ performed before.
+
+ * The fileserver now emits a log message when it ran out of memory for
+ callbacks.
+
+ * Avoid several potential fileserver problems, including memory
+ corruption and segmentation faults, due to client bookkeeping.
+
+ * Avoid known cases of silent data corruption due to background syncs
+ on the fileserver, especially during Copy on Write.
+
+ * Make the fileserver sync behaviour runtime configurable. Up to 1.4.5,
+ we had synchronous syncs which were safe but really slow. Since 1.4.5,
+ we've had asynchronous syncs which are much faster but believed to
+ be the cause of rare data corruption issues, and while all known cases
+ of these happening are believed to be fixed in the 1.6.3 release, doubts
+ remain. This change allows choosing between those, and in addition allows
+ to turn syncs by the fileserver off altogether, thus relying on the vice
+ partition's backend filesystem and the operating system, or to just
+ execute them when a volume is detached. The default behaviour is
+ unchanged from releases since 1.4.5, but it's highly recommended to
+ consider the additional options this change provides. Future OpenAFS
+ releases will default to "-sync=none".
+
+ * For dbservers, avoid a situation where misinterpreting transient
+ network errors causes long-term issues with achieving ubik quorum.
+
+All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * Improvements to the detection of an aklog-specific krb5 configuration
+ file, for the purposes of turning on "weak crypto" for aklog.
+
+ * Fixed a regression introduced in release 1.6.2 which caused the
+ supposedly persistent disk cache to be discarded upon client start.
+ (RT #131655)
+
+Linux clients
+
+ * Support Linux kernels up to 3.10
+
+ * Fixed two bugs making it impossible to unmount a disk cache filesystem
+ after it has been used by the client. (RT #131613)
+
+ * Fixed a bug that could cause an oops with kernels 3.6 and later
+
+OpenBSD
+
+ * Improved support for OpenBSD 4.9 to 5.3
+
+OpenAFS 1.6.3
+
+ This release number had to be skipped for technical reasons.
+
+OpenAFS 1.6.2.1
+
+ Linux clients
+
+ * Support Linux kernels up to 3.8.
+
+ * Make the init script cope with the output of ifconfig on recent Fedora.
+
+OpenAFS 1.6.2
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Fix buffer overflows in fileserver and ptserver.
+
+ * Abort an rx connection when given an unknown service (Gerrit 7593).
+
+ * "idle dead" behavior improvements.
+
+ * Documentation updates.
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Fix rare file corruption during background sync (Gerrit 8796).
+
+ * Fix corrupting clients' metadata cache during certain errors (Gerrit
+ 6957).
+
+ * Avoid saying a volume doesn't exist when accessed as the volume is
+ going offline (Gerrit 7488).
+
+ * Fix fileservers to properly report >2 TiB partitions.
+
+ * Fix stale volume info from vos examine on non-DAFS filservers.
+
+ * Fix possible volume corruption with vos convertROtoRW.
+
+ * Fix bosserver to preserve all command-line options over restart.
+
+ * Fix bosserver to properly kill hung processes during shutdown.
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * Fixes for memcache, especially on Solaris.
+
+ * Increase the size of the DNS resolver answer buffer to allow sites
+ with a long response list to use SRV and AFSDB records.
+
+ * Fix a crash when a server appears to run out of addresses (Gerrit
+ 7487).
+
+ * Fix cache corruption when reading from a file another client is
+ simultaneously writing to (Gerrit 7994).
+
+ * Improve handling of disk cache disk errors.
+
+ Linux
+
+ * fix DKMS configuration for DKMS 2.2.
+
+ * Avoid generating inode number 0 with md5 inodes (Gerrit 7276).
+
+ * Fix a crash when reading /proc/fs/openafs/unixusers (Gerrit 7914).
+
+ * Make PAG-less access use the real UID of the calling process
+ instead of the effective UID, when determining what credentials to
+ use (Gerrit 7931).
+
+ * Fix possible abuse of fs mkmount.
+ Prior to 1.6.2, users could crash a client by nesting volume mounts.
+
+ * Fix fileserver memory corruption on RHEL 6
+ Prior to 1.6.2, fileservers on RHEL 6 may crash under heavy load.
+
+ * Fix client page cache corruption on Linux
+ When multiple clients read and write to a file, the reading client
+ may see first page (4096 bytes) of a file as nulls.
+
+ * Support Linux kernels up to 3.7.
+
+ * Support newer glibc versions.
+
+ * Improve client systemd unit file.
+
+ * Update Red Hat packaging.
+
+ OS X
+
+ * Fix crashes on shutdown.
+
+ * Prevent unloading the module before shutdown completes.
+
+ * Security improvement for the OpenAFS preference pane.
+
+ Solaris
+
+ * Support newer versions of the Sun Studio compiler software.
+
+ * Support compiling on newer versions of Solaris 11 and Solaris 10.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.6.0 (2011-08-15)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Substantial Rx updates to correct erroneous behavior.
+
+ * vos now properly deals with matching sites when servers are
+ multihomed.
+
+ * Don't stop Rx keepalives after an ackall is received, avoiding
+ spurious connection timeouts. (128848)
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * Rx NAT pings are not enabled until peer has answered.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * Avoid leaking references to hosts during callback break multi-Rx
+ operations. (129376)
+
+ * xstat tools now cope with differing timeval structures between
+ endpoints.
+
+ * Numerous fixes to command argument parsing.
+
+ * Documentation updates.
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * A file descriptor leak which could result in corrupted files in the
+ fileserver was fixed. An IMMEDIATE upgrade from previous 1.5 release
+ fileservers is recommended.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * Properly support large volume numbers (larger than 2147483647).
+
+ * Allow salvager to be run manually again when DAFS is being
+ used. (129458)
+
+ * Avoid leaking references to hosts during callback break multi-Rx
+ operations. (129376)
+
+ * Demand attach: unlink fileserver state file on standalone salvage.
+
+ * Salvager tries harder to detect linktable issues.
+
+ * Demand attach: don't attach volumes with special status set.
+
+ * Avoid crashing on host table exhaustion. Instead, defer clients.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * afs_config will not longer set the Tray Icon State in the registry
+ 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)
+
+ * Properly create new cell mount points in freelance mode.
+
+ * Avoid recursive offline volume checks.
+
+ * Fix caching of non-existent volumes. The test to trigger an
+ immediate CM_ERROR_NOSUCHVOLUME in cm_UpdateVolumeLocation() was
+ backwards.
+
+ * Prevent the background daemon from checking the status of
+ non-existent volumes. cm_CheckOfflineVolumes() should skip volume
+ groups with the CM_VOLUMEFLAG_NOEXIST flag set.
+
+ * The afskfw library should return an error immediately if the
+ krb5_32.dll library cannot be loaded. Affects afslogon.dll and
+ afscreds.exe.
+
+ * No longer depend on leashw32.dll in afskfw library.
+
+ * NPLogonNotify must provide the user password in all calls to
+ KFW_AFS_get_cred(). It cannot count on a credential cache being
+ preserved between calls. Permits tokens to be acquired for all
+ cells listed in the TheseCells registry value for a domain.
+
+ * Improve the trace logging from NPLogonNotify().
+
+ * Avoid a race when writing the cm_scache_t mountPointString
+ when acquiring mount point or symlink target data via
+ cm_GetData(). The race could result in bogus target
+ data being cached.
+
+ * Permit the use of des-cbc-md5 and des-cbc-md4 enctypes
+ as DES keys in asetkey.exe.
+
+ * aklog supports dotted Kerberos v5 principal names.
+
+ * afskfw library always attempts afs/cell@USER-REALM
+
+ * afskfw library must test return code from krb5_cc_start_seq_get() or
+ will trigger a null pointer exception when using Heimdal.
+
+ * Lock protected fields must be 32-bit in order to avoid memory
+ overwrite races.
+
+ * Add support for NTFS symlinks.
+
+ * Handle file search requests for virtual syscall ioctl file.
+
+ * Process SyncOps properly to enforce ordered operations.
+
+ * Avoid recursing during NewServer operations.
+
+ * Correct lock acquisition order during SMB locking.
+
+ * Add shutdown message to event log.
+
+ * Check offline volume status by policy rather than on each daemon
+ thread run.
+
+ * Return error on directory object not found instead of crashing.
+
+ * Improve error message output.
+
+ * afslogin.dll can start afsd_service if it's not starting or started.
+
+ * Optimize away release lock RPCs for deleted files.
+
+ * Background Daemon will not perform operations on deleted files.
+
+ * Resort recently used directories to the top of the LRU if the
+ directory is larger than the stat cache.
+
+ * Resort deleted objects to the bottom of the LRU.
+
+ * Use interlocked operations for state and queue fields to allow safe
+ bit set and clear on multiprocessor systems.
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * Servers now marked down when GetCapabilities returns error.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * Avoid a potential deadlock (which times out) when we need to
+ allocate more callback returns and must flush some already in use.
+
+ * Deal with libcom_err conflicts with other packages using it
+ (e.g. krb5) (128640)
+
+ * Fall back to afs3-vlserver SRV record values when afs3-ptserver SRV
+ record is not available.
+
+ * Avoid holding unneeded locks when probing server capabilties.
+
+ * Do not attempt page flushes for directories.
+
+ * Rx connection reference counting is enabled.
+
+ * An Rx connection reference count leak is fixed in bulkstat.
+
+ * Handle unparsable directory objects.
+
+ * Handle Kerberos cred cache errors in aklog.
+
+ AIX
+
+ * Fix PAG usage to track by PAG identifier, not group list.
+
+ 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 and avoid panic at shutdown due to
+ vcache flushing.
+
+ * Support for virtual network stacks.
+
+ * New RC script, updated packaging.
+
+ IRIX
+
+ * Properly create new vnodes to avoid crashing in the client.
+
+ Linux
+
+ * Support through kernel 2.6.39. Treat Linux 3.0 as Linux 2.6 for
+ sysname purposes.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * setpag() errors are now properly reported.
+
+ * Avoid attempting to free stat cache entries when we are below
+ user-specified number of entries in use.
+
+ * Properly track user-specified number of stat cache entries to use as
+ a desired usage target.
+
+ * Don't read pages beyond EOF in the cache. (128452)
+
+ * Various corrections and improvements to Red Hat packaging, including
+ modifying the init script to allow deferring for a new binary
+ restart and properly supporting RHEL6.
+
+ * Fix lockup in 2.6.38 due to erroneous kernel feature configure test.
+
+ * Improve RPM building tools.
+
+ * Attempt to properly handle SELinux in packaging.
+
+ * Init script properly returns status as exit code.
+
+ * RPM packaging fixes (executable libraries, no postinstall message)
+
+ * Kill i386 from RPM packaging.
+
+ MacOS
+
+ * MacOS 10.7 support.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * Preferences Pane behavior fixed for 1.6 series (version detection is
+ used to select default behavior).
+
+ * A potential kernel panic during bulkstat operations is
+ fixed. (128511)
+
+ * 64-bit MacOS kernel performance is greatly improved. (128934)
+
+ * Properly shut down AFS, closing the Rx socket in the upcall handler
+ to avoid attempting to process data after we can no longer do so.
+
+ * Rework logic for bulk status operations to avoid a potential hang.
+
+ * Avoid panic when doing FSEvent synthesis.
+
+ * Fix bug when using non-dynroot.
+
+ * Update Kerberos support in PreferencesPane.
+
+ NetBSD
+
+ * Updates for platform support.
+
+ 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.
+
+ * Properly report errors for AFS system call callers.
+
+ * Don't leave dangling function references if kernel extension fails
+ to load.
+
+ * Try harder to avoid deadlocks on file-larger-than-cache operations.
+
+ * Avoid panic on shutdown when mount failed.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.6.0pre2
+
+ All systems: Minor bugfixes.
+
+ ADDITIONAL CHANGES IN 1.6.0PRE2
+
+ All platforms:
+
+ - Documentation updates.
+
+ - Don't stop Rx keepalives after an ackall is received, avoiding
+ spurious connection timeouts. (128848)
+
+ - Don't retry Rx calls on channels returning busy errors. (128671)
+
+ - vos will not die with a double free error at command completion.
+
+ - Properly enable Rx connection hard timeouts.
+
+ - Initialize rx_multi lock before use.
+
+ - Avoid spurious crashes when initializing in "backup" client.
+
+ All unix platforms:
+
+ - 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.
+
+ All server platforms:
+
+ - 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.
+
+ FreeBSD:
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - RedHat 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)
+
+ MacOS:
+
+ - Check for unloaded kernel extensions when decoding AFS panics.
+
+ - Properly handle setpag errors. PAGs are not supported.
+
+ - Disable "get tokens at login" in prefs pane if AD authentication
+ plugin is configured.
+
+ OpenBSD:
+
+ - support through OpenBSD 4.8.
+
+ Solaris:
+
+ - Fix support for Solaris pre-10.
+
+ 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
+
+ PREVIOUS CHANGES:
+
+ All platforms:
+
+ - vos now properly deals with matching sites when servers are multihomed.
+
+ All Unix platforms:
+
+ - Servers now marked down when GetCapabilities returns error.
+
+ - In-use vcache count is now properly tracked.
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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.
+
+ Linux:
+
+ - Define llseek handler to avoid ESPIPE error in 2.6.37.
+
+ - Mount interface replaces get_sb (new for 2.6.37, not yet required).
+
+ - RedHat init script allows deferring for a new binary restart.
+
+ - DEFINE_MUTEX replaces DECLARE_MUTEX for 2.6.37.
+
+ MacOS:
+
+ - Correct return value from setpag syscall.
+
+ OpenBSD:
+
+ - Bug fixes for issues introduced previously in 1.5 series.
+
+ Solaris:
+
+ - Switch to ioctl() syscall replacement for Solaris 11 since syscall 65
+ is not safe.
+
+
+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 systems: Minor bugfixes. New features.
+
+ * New functionality:
+
+ All systems:
+
+ - NAT keepalive support at Rx level.
+
+ * Bugfixes:
+
+ All systems:
+
+ - Corrected server IP address output in vos syncvldb verbose mode.
+
+ - Corrected server IP address output for last "yes" host in udebug.
+
+ - Corrected SRV record support for canonicalizing cell names.
+
+ All UNIX clients:
+
+ - Fixed a potential race in Disconnected AFS "remove" support.
+
+ - Fix a potential blocking condition in fakestat mode.
+
+ - Avoid some errors and stack overflow reports when vos is interrupted.
+ (33360,125535)
+
+ - Clean up several minor memory leaks.
+
+ - If a large file is stored to a non-largefile fileserver, avoid
+ a potential deadlock.
+
+ - Increase maximum number of sysnames to 32.
+
+ - Readd fs mariner "storing" message, missing since AFS 3.3.
+
+ - Attempt timeouts on AFSDB lookups in userspace.
+
+ - Avoid interrupting writes due to an idle deadtime timeout.
+
+ All server platforms:
+
+ - Properly notify only affected hosts for volume callbacks. (126497)
+
+ - Allow volumes with trashed root directory to be recovered. (94658)
+
+ - Hold lock in file and volservers when traversing partition list.
+
+ - Use finer-grained locking in DAFS: volume, instead of partition locks.
+
+ - Schedule all DAFS salvages via FSSYNC.
+
+ - Avoid stale ptserver credential caching issue on keyfile update.
+
+ - Improve callback table overflow handling. (126451)
+
+ - Preclude deadlocks on when attempting to save DAFS state.
+
+ - Avoid races deleting hosts. (126454)
+
+ - Improve salvage speed for DAFS (124488)
+
+ - The bosserver now handles 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.
+
+ AIX:
+
+ - Clean up properly on mount failure.
+
+ - Add entry to /etc/vfs to allow umount to work.
+
+ FreeBSD:
+
+ - Additional work to support FreeBSD 8-current.
+
+ IRIX:
+
+ - Fix build issues with library order.
+
+ Linux:
+
+ - Fix s390 support conflict with executable stack patches.
+
+ - Don't count root's AFS session keyrings against quota.
+
+ - Correct dkms support in RPM config file.
+
+ - Keyring destructor now properly cleans up all tokens.
+
+ - Build again on old 2.6 kernels.
+
+ - Avoid GLOCK leak when updating CellServDB in-core.
+
+ - Fix byte-range lock handling.
+
+ - Attempt to deal with bdi issues. (126514)
+
+ 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.
+
+ OpenBSD:
+
+ - Some support for OpenBSD 4.7.
+
+
+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.
+ * 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.
- * 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.
+ All UNIX client platforms
- * Fix automatic ranking of vldb servers whose values are obtained from
- the CellServDB file.
+ * Bugfixes to disconnected AFS support in the cache manager.
- * 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.
+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.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.4.12
+
+ All client systems: Major bugfixes.
+ File servers: Major bugfixes.
+
+ * New functionality:
+
+ All systems:
+
+ - Provide portable (pioctl) method for discovering what PAG a user is
+ in. Required to support userspace PAG information collection on AIX
+ 5.1, and knowing whether Linux uses one group, two group, or only
+ keyring based PAGs. (124709)
+
+ * Bugfixes:
+
+ All systems:
+
+ - Fixes to avoid issues cleaning up deleted hosts in the fileserver (126454)
+
+ - Fixes to avoid dropping writes due to server idle timeouts.
+
+ - Don't miss cache chunks of large files while truncating.
+
+ - Avoid null pointer dereference for unexpected volume names in volume
+ utilities.
+
+ - Don't mark connections waiting for additional packet window availability
+ idle.
+
+ - Kerberos 5 utilities (klog.krb5, aklog) enable weak encryption support.
+
+ - Avoid a double-free of an Rx call structure during a client fetch error.
+
+ - Avoid losing hosts during address changes. (125215)
+
+ - Clients shouldn't trust Fetchdata replies for the size of returned data.
+
+ - fileserver will not hang when attempting to cleanup and dump core.
+
+ - salvager will not leave core files in random directories.
+
+ - avoid letting retransmit timer get to 0 seconds.
+
+ - in event of dbserver contact failure, shut fileserver down cleanly.
+
+ - handle large partitions during check for needed disk space at
+ client start.
+
+ - time out Rx connections if network unreachable error received.
+
+ - avoid dereferencing NULL pointer freeing Rx packets in receive. (125110)
+
+ - mark stack not executable in LWP. (125491)
+
+ - return a correct VolumeSync structure from Bulkstat RPCs in fileserver.
+
+ - client attempts to better free memory at shutdown.
+
+ - clear rx call queue safely. (125110)
+
+ - retry VLserver registration on failure in fileserver.
+
+ - update accessdate for volumes on access in fileserver.
+
+ - additional safety checks on vlserver operations to avoid
+ database corruption.
+
+ - make ktc_curpag available on all builds. (125155)
+
+ FreeBSD:
+
+ - Build fixes.
+
+ Linux:
+
+ - Handle kernel changes through 2.6.33.
+
+ - Fix oops in clear_inode due to missed locking. (125589)
+
+ - Better handle /afs mount failures.
+
+ - Clean up after failures creating our kernel kmem cache.
+
+ - Work around memory management issues with some kernels when configuring
+ the buffer cache/bdi (126514)
+
+ - Rename compile_et to afs_compile_et to avoid RPM conflicts.
+
+ - Handle whole-file locks properly. (126561)
+
+ - Deal with kernel autoconf header renaming.
+
+ - Handle SELinux cache backing file labels better to avoid potential oops.
+ (92944,125544)
+
+ MacOS:
+
+ - klog now works correctly on 64 bit machines.
+
+ - launchd now used to launch AFS at boot.
+
+ - Preferences pane included for 10.4 and later.
+
+ - Older versions can now be installed from packages.
+
+ - Finder does not trigger bogus AFSDB lookups in /afs in dynroot mode.
+
+ - Include package with debug kernel module symbols.
+
+ OpenBSD:
+
+ - Build fixes.
+
+ - Support for x86_64.
+
+ Solaris:
+
+ - Handle ZFS caches usefully. (125365)
+
+ - Implement additional pathconf support.
+
+OpenAFS 1.4.11
+
+ Linux client systems: Major bugfixes.
+ All client systems: Minor bugfixes.
+ File servers: Major bugfixes.
+
+ * New functionality:
+
+ All systems:
+
+ - Provide portable (pioctl) method for discovering what PAG a user is
+ in. Required to support userspace PAG information collection on AIX
+ 5.1, and knowing whether Linux uses one group, two group, or only
+ keyring based PAGs. (124709)
+
+ * Bugfixes:
+
+ All systems:
+
+ - Fix bosserver to invoke salvager with "-force" instead of ambiguous
+ "-f". (124916)
+
+ - Cleanup for ptserver argument parsing to allow debug mode to work. (124893)
+
+ - Sanity checking for ptserver log levels. (124894)
+
+ - Fix for uninitialized memory dereference in klog.krb5.
+
+ - Fix an overflow in the cellconfig code used by client and server. (124891)
+
+ - Fix an erroneous vos verbose mode format string.
+
+ - Avoid losing writes on mmap()ed files when cache is memcache. (124671)
+
+ - Provide an afsd switch to allow override of the maximum MTU. (124880)
+
+ - Provide support for encrypt mode in pts.
+
+ - Fix race in background sync code which could cause volumes to go offline.
+ (124359)
+
+ - Fix fileserver to avoid a null pointer dereference in client identity
+ lookup routines. (125020)
+
+ - Improve handling of moves of volumes from 1.5 series fileservers. (18349)
+
+ FreeBSD:
+
+ - UKERNEL build fix. (124681)
+
+ Linux:
+
+ - Allow syscall probing to be disabled by switch to configure at build time.
+
+ - Fix bug in anti-recursion protection for mmap clients. (124627)
+
+ - Avoid a panic caused by changing credentials during VFS operations. (124737)
+
+ - Avoid need for rcu subsystem when unavailable. (124986)
+
+ - Improve keyring PAG setup code. (125001)
+
+ - Avoid possible ext3 cache truncation issues. (124942)
+
+ MacOS:
+
+ - MacOS 10.3 UKERNEL build fix. (124681)
+
+ OpenBSD:
+
+ - Update support for 4.5 (124719)
+
+ OpenSolaris:
+
+ - Updates for newer OpenSolaris kernels. (124116, 124924)
+
+OpenAFS 1.4.10
+
+ All client systems: Security fixes.
+ File servers: Major bugfixes.
+ All systems: Minor bugfixes.
+
+ * Security fixes:
+
+ All client systems:
+
+ - Avoid a potential kernel memory overrun if more items than requested are
+ returned from an InlineBulk or BulkStatus message. (124579)
+
+ Linux client systems:
+
+ - Avoid converting negative errors into invalid kernel memory pointers. (124580)
+
+ * Bugfixes:
+
+ AIX:
+
+ - Don't build aklog NAS module when krb5 is not available. (124522)
+
+ FreeBSD:
+
+ - Additional fixes and support. (124107, 123917)
+
+ Linux:
- * 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.
+ - Support 2.6.28. (123580)
- * 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.
+ - Support 2.6.29. (124115)
- * 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.
+ - Attempt to support 2.6.30 (124560)
- * During a shutdown short circuit the offline volume check daemon
- functionality.
+ - Avoid race during truncation. (124094)
- * Return the error code of RXAFS_FetchData / RXAFS_StoreData in
- preference to an error code reported by rx_EndCall.
+ - Dynamic vcache allocation support, to deal with inotify vcache pinning. (124334)
- * 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.
+ - Correct use of truncate_inode_pages to vmtruncate for locking issues. (124128)
- * Fix a bug introduced in 1.5.60 that prevents the afs netidmgr
- provider from obtaining tokens when referrals are in play.
+ - Update RPM configuration. (123650, 102673, 124272)
- * Add "fs chown" and "fs chgrp" commands to permit the owner and group
- of objects stored in AFS to be set from Windows.
+ - Update kernel feature detection. (124507, 123604)
- * Avoid performing background daemon operations when the machine is
- going into suspend mode.
+ - Do appropriate locking for CellServDB in /proc. (124407)
- * Perform offline volume checks in most recently used order.
+ MacOS:
- * Prevent crash when a data version for a cache object goes backwards.
+ - Fix MacOS 10.3 support.
- * Multi-thread safe library versions are now being generated and used.
- mtafsubik.lib, mtafsutil.lib, mtafsvldb.lib, mtafsvol.lib.
+ - Add candidate Darwin 10 support.
- * 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.
+ NetBSD:
- All UNIX client platforms
+ - Corrected NetBSD version tests. (123647)
- * Fix out-of-tree source builds.
+ OpenBSD:
- MacOS
+ - Update support for 4.4 (124541)
- * GUI installer now asks for local cell information.
+ Solaris:
- * AFS Commander preferences pane is now installed by default.
+ - Support cache filesystems which do not allow open by inode number, enabled by
+ default on Solaris 9 and later. (123677)
- Solaris
+ - Improve error code return quality. (124426)
- * Avoid kernel panics due to null pointer dereferences in the network
- interface poller kernel thread.
+ - Allow large partitions on Solaris servers.
+ All client systems:
-OpenAFS 1.5.60 (2009-05-31)
+ - Avoid improper error messages about key version when krb5 is in use. (124220)
- All platforms
+ - Avoid attempting to free kernel memory which was already freed. (124531)
- * Retry volserver transaction creation on failure.
+ - Properly count offline volumes in vos client. (124333)
- * Allow building HTML and PDF documentation from included XML copies
- of User Guide, Admin Guide and Quick Start Guide for Unix.
+ All server systems:
- * Documentation updates and additional documentation.
+ - Avoid 64 bit time issues in callback dump files. (124451)
- * Add -encrypt support to pts client.
+ - Support more than one local Kerberos realm; Usernames are assumed to be the
+ same across realms.
- * Convert MR-AFS fs commands to OSD commands.
+ - Ubik recovery is corrected to avoid spurious errors. (123723)
- All server platforms
+ - Do proper host address hashing for little endian machines in fileserver. (124447)
- * Updated background sync process in fileserver to avoid a race which
- could result in a volume being taken offline.
+ - Update backup utility to properly compute header needs in the backup buffer.
+ (124425)
- Microsoft Windows
+ - Avoid blocking during Rx unused connection reaping.
- * 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.)
+ - Avoid leaking file handles in the fileserver when closing a volume. (124359)
- * 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.
+ - Fix bosserver corefile naming to be y2k-safe. (124340)
- * Release Notes, User and Administrator guides are now shipped as
- indexed Windows HtmlHelp Files. (.chm). Shortcuts are provided from
- the Start Menu.
+ - Avoid potential infinite loop in deleted host handling in the fileserver.
- * 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.
+ - Support large volume dumps in vol-dump. (123984)
- * The pioctl interface now properly handles drive letter substitution
- to UNC paths. (SUBST <d:> <\\afs\cell\path>)
+ - Build butc XBSA support on 64 bit systems.
- * The BackConnectionHostNames registry value configuration was broken
- when dynamic re-establishment of Netbios Name registrations was
- added. This release restores the functionality.
+ All systems:
- * All hidden vos.exe commands are now revealed.
+ - Properly track Rx connection idleness for timeouts.
- * Attempts to store the same dirty file chunk from multiple threads
- are now prevented.
+ - Additional documentation. (124472)
- * The IsPathInAfs test in Explorer Shell Extension and fs.exe now
- permits broken symlinks to be treated as being in AFS.
+ - Avoid a race which may result in an in-use Rx packet being freed. (123799)
- * vos.exe commands that output 64-bit integer values once again do so.
- This was broken in 1.5.59.
+OpenAFS 1.4.9
- * Cygwin Import Libraries are provided in the SDK for all OpenAFS
- DLLs. This permits building cygwin applications against OpenAFS
- libraries.
+ All client systems: Security fixes.
- * NSIS installer does a much better job of cleaning up files left over
- from previous installs.
+ * Security fixes:
- * libafsconf.dll moved from Client\Program to Common directory as is
- is now used by all modules for CellServDB processing.
+ All client systems:
- All UNIX client platforms
+ - Avoid a potential kernel memory overrun if more items than requested are
+ returned from an InlineBulk or BulkStatus message. (124579)
- * Write back changes on last store for memcache to avoid discarding
- changes.
+ Linux client systems:
- * 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.
+ - Avoid converting negative errors into invalid kernel memory pointers. (124580)
- DragonflyBSD
+OpenAFS 1.4.8
- * Support as a userland port.
+ File servers: Major bugfixes.
+ All systems: Minor bugfixes.
- FreeBSD
+ * Bugfixes:
- * Corrected structure definition for userspace cache manager to allow
- builds to complete.
+ AIX:
- Linux
+ - AIX 6.1 is now supported.
- * Corrected client locking support.
+ - Unpin kernel memory references after free. (99456)
- * Updated patch to stop deadlocking in the kernel during mmap.
+ FreeBSD:
- * Avoid oops when setting up groups for PAGs to match keyrings.
+ - FreeBSD 7 is now supported.
- * Use Linux fh-based cache in cases where possible by default.
+ Linux:
- MacOS 10.3:
+ - Avoid deadlock when writing back pages in an mmap()ed file larger than
+ the cache. (120491)
- * Corrected structure definition for userspace cache manager to allow
- builds to complete.
+ - Update process tree walking for PAG garbage collection to avoid oopses.
+ (116603)
- OpenBSD
+ - fakestat mode now correctly avoids spurious ENOTDIR errors.
- * Support for OpenBSD 4.5.
+ - Use kernel build system for all platforms.
- Solaris
+ - Remove openafs directory from proc in correct order. (112910)
- * Corrected support for server-side vos split interface.
+ - Handle renames across directories correctly in the linux dcache. (74672)
+ - Probe syscall table when possible. (105457)
-OpenAFS 1.5.59 (2009-04-06)
+ - Mount point parsing is now updated to handle only well-formed mount
+ points rather than similarly-formed symlinks. (113558, 100836)
- Microsoft Windows
+ - ucontext-style LWP is now anbled for glibc versions newer than 2.3.
- * Increased service priority class to "High" to match the priority of
- system components that are dependent upon the a timely response.
+ MacOS:
- * SMB error responses avoid returning errors that could confuse the
- Microsoft SMB redirector into disconnecting the connection to \\AFS.
+ - Update available space shown. (112910)
- All UNIX client platforms (except MacOS X 10.4 and 10.5)
+ NetBSD:
- * OpenAFS 1.5.59 contains fixes for the client issues addressed by the
- security advisories OPENAFS-SA-2009-001 and OPENAFS-SA-2009-002.
+ - Work around broken SIGWAIT. (111404)
- Linux platforms
+ Solaris:
- * Support for prerelease Linux 2.6.30 kernels.
+ - Solaris 10 now defaults to namei fileservers.
+ - NFS translator issues fixed.
-OpenAFS 1.5.58 (2009-03-30)
+ - Changes to address Solaris updates. (105495)
- All platforms
+ All client systems:
- * Code cleanup and prototyping.
+ - udebug correctly displays the last "yes" host.
- * Avoid unnecessary blocking in Rx periodic cleanup code.
+ - Allow more vldb lookups to be cached in the client.
- All server platforms
+ - Fix aklog to not be excessively verbose when not requested.
- * Fileserver CopyOnWrite routine optimized for performance.
+ - Add support for timing out accesses which are not completing in a timely
+ manner.
- * Make fileserver callback dumps 64 bit safe.
+ - Properly flag backup volumes being added to the vldb by vos syncvldb.
- * Fix byte order issues with fileserver host hashing.
+ All server systems:
- * Fix buffer size issues with butc.
+ - fileserver "large" setting now implies 128 threads instead of 12.
- * Fix several Ubik recovery issues.
+ - fileserver check for duplicate uuids is now applied correctly.
- * Avoid leaking file references in the fileserver.
+ - Newer xbsa APIs are supported for TSM integration in butc.
- * Fix a race in DAFS while closing vnodes, and another offlining
- volumes.
+ - salvager avoids corrupting length of directory objects. (111585, 107767)
- * volserver interfaces for volume splitting client.
+ - volserver avoids a race during volume release so a volume will not
+ appear to be offline. (107258)
- Microsoft Windows
+ - Add support for returning errors when accesses are not completing
+ in a timely manner.
- * [RT 124293] A race condition exists which can result in a crash.
+ - Avoid potential race in the volserver when creating transactions. (121263)
- * [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.
+ - Return sensible error when a release or restore exhausts server
+ resources. (121040)
- * [RT 124276] Read-only volume failover was broken in 1.5.53 whenever
- accessing a volume results in VNOVOL or VMOVED.
+ - volserver now returns EXDEV if a new replica would duplicate one which
+ already existed elsewhere on the server.
- * [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.
+ - Disable jumbograms by default.
- * Add Windows Application Event Log warning messages for "Client SMB
- MPX value too large" and "Client SMB Buffer Size too small".
+ - volserver updates a volume's updateDate on volume creation. (110943)
- * Renaming of files across directory boundaries would result in an
- invalid handle error when attempting to access the files after the
- move.
+ - Partitions over 2tb are now supported. (88811)
- * 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.
+ All systems:
- * 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.
+ - Re-enable Rx client keepalives. (20727)
- * 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.
+ - Support autoconf 2.62. (118058)
- * VNOSERVICE and VOFFLINE errors were leaking and were exposed to the
- smb client.
+ - Update Rx to avoid leaking packets.
- * 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".
+ - vos supports the -noresolve options to avoid issues with 127.0.0.1 being
+ named in /etc/hosts.
- * Optimize the performance of resetting access control lists when
- tokens are set or removed.
+ - Additional documentation. (104110)
- * Remove symlink recursion tests and increase max symlink count to 64
- from 16.
+OpenAFS 1.4.7
- * Windows specific Rx performance improvements.
+ File servers: Major bugfixes.
+ All systems: Minor bugfixes.
- * Support for Network Identity Manager 2.0
+ * Bugfixes:
- All UNIX client platforms
+ AIX:
- * Avoid issues with freeing resources at shutdown.
+ - Kerberos as included in AIX has missing symbols. AFS krb5 tools now
+ deal correctly.
- * Numerous fixes to disconnected AFS.
+ - AIX LAM aklog plugin can now be used CDE screenlocker.
- * Disconnected AFS fixes for replaying changes without double-freeing.
+ - Add support for getting the current PAG in pagsh and PAM.
- * Attempt to use krb524 principal conversion in aklog if available.
+ - Avoid sending a terminal hangup to STREAMS in aklog.
- AIX
+ - Fix afsdb support in the client.
- * Kerberos configuration at build time corrected.
+ Linux:
- Linux
+ - Kernels through 2.6.25 are now supported. (77370,88000,83716,83890,80463)
- * Default to dynamic allocation of AFS kernel cache entries to allow
- growth for inotify()-pinned entries. (beagle, famd, etc)
+ - Client now only hashes dirty inodes. (78544)
- * Change client truncation routines to avoid locking issues.
+ - Fix to avoid returning invalid mount point data when -fakestat-all is in use.
+ (93898)
- * IA64 port clients fixed on Linux 2.6.
+ - RPM build system updates. (93616)
- * RPMs now install fstrace message catalog.
+ - Restored write-on-close-or-fsync semantics when possible. (17509)
- * Support through kernel 2.6.29 tested.
+ - Enabled support for flock() on files in AFS. (53457)
- * Fix locking issues on CellServDB file in /proc.
+ - ARM Linux now supported.
- OpenBSD
+ - Kernel keyring support updated.
- * Support OpenBSD 4.4
+ - Fix client-displayed timestamp ordering by zeroing nanosecond field.
+ MacOS:
-OpenAFS 1.5.57 (2009-01-23)
+ - Boot time init script now uses afs.conf to store config options. (81825)
- All platforms
+ - Avoid kernel panic due to excessive lock tracking when removing files.
- * Conditional compilation of rxdebug support is now possible.
+ - Avoid leaking kernel memory when trying to read() a directory.
- * Documentation updates.
+ Solaris:
- * Further race connditions in Rx have been corrected.
+ - Avoid potential kernel panic if the root vnode of AFS changes.
- All server platforms
+ - Avoid potential kernel panic when shutting down if contracts are in use.
- * Salvager no longer attempts to recreate headers in the wrong
- partition.
+ - Avoid potential delays when creating new PAGs if the system clock
+ has gone backwards.
- * Volumes are properly marked in use on creation and subsequently on
- examination with vos.
+ All client systems:
- Microsoft Windows
+ - At client shutdown, try harder to clean up in-use resources. (74479)
- * Undo the "UAC manifest fix" applied to afs_config.exe.
+ - When fakestat is in use, enable optimization for Gnome Nautilus lookups.
- * Ensure that Freelance allocation of vnodes follow the AFS convention
- of odd vnodes are directories and everything else is an even vnode.
+ - Properly hold lock when updating disk cache metadata to avoid
+ kernel panic. (59136)
- * Add Freelance logic to mount point and symlink evaluation functions.
+ - Avoid wrapping to the start of a file when attempting to write a large file
+ to a pre-largefile fileserver. (73720)
- * Enhance smb_ParseASCIIBlock() so that it can handle all of the
- STRING formats defined by the CIFS Technical Report 1.0.
+ All server systems:
- * 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.
+ - Fixed to avoid truncating ubik databases during recovery. (77183)
- * 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.
+ - fileserver issue with internal file cache filling has been fixed. (87977)
- All UNIX client platforms
+ - fileserver thread quota enforcement now done in all cases. (87416)
- * Userspace AFS library can now deal with large files when supported
- by the platform.
+ - fileserver avoids potential network-related deadlock when breaking
+ callbacks.
- * Numerous updates to disconnected AFS support, including changes to
- allow reconnection to work in more circumstances.
+ - fileserver avoids crash due to race of resource creation and user requests
+ at startup.
- FreeBSD
+ - fileserver avoids crash when reinitializing Ubik connections.
- * FreeBSD unstrategy code has been updated.
+ - volserver fixed to avoid leaving orphaned files during restore. (46937)
- Linux
+ - volserver now supports convertROtoRW for inode fileservers.
- * A race during file truncation has been corrected.
+ - Support disabling kerberos 4 style username protection in servers. (75101)
- * System call probing routines have been updated.
+ All systems:
- * 2.6.29 is now supported.
+ - Fix to butc to avoid crash due to threaded library variant.
- MacOS
+ - Fix to avoid network retransmission issues if the system clock goes
+ backwards.
- * 10.3 support has been corrected.
+ - vos syncvldb and syncserver now support a dryrun (do nothing) mode.
- OpenBSD
+ - vos addsite now supports adding a site where a replica is already
+ available.
- * Initial OpenBSD 4.4 support.
+ - vos clone now supports creating properly-named readonly and backup clones.
- Solaris
+ - vos restore now allows an older copy of a volume at an alternate site to
+ not be removed.
- * Updates to allow compiling on newer OpenSolaris are now included.
+ - cmdebug now supports dumping a client's CellServDB.
+ - cmdebug now supports showing human-readable expiration times.
-OpenAFS 1.5.56 (2008-12-30)
+ - aklog now handles Kerberos referrals.
- All platforms
+ - Additional documentation now included. (89288,89289,86677)
- * libuafs (userspace cache manager) updated to correct several errors.
+OpenAFS 1.4.6
- * Additional rx debugging support is available as a conditional
- compile.
+ All systems: Major bugfixes.
- * A race condition in Rx leading to a panic has been corrected.
+ * Bugfixes:
- * Rx idle time tracking has been corrected.
+ All systems:
- * ubik clone server support has been corrected.
+ - fileserver host tracking code had a missing lock on a host structure;
+ that lock has been added.
- All server platforms
+ - fileserver handling for clients which are giving up callbacks did not
+ hold a lock, making it unsafe and allowing clients to potentially
+ crash the server by racing.
- * Salvager no longer leaves cores in vice partitions.
+ - fileserver will now leave a corefile when it is doing a shutdown due
+ to error conditions.
- * The vol-dump tool now supports dumps larger than 2gb where possible.
+ - fileserver again allows ufs as a valid filesystem type (regression in 1.4.5).
- * Operations on multiple files now report all FIDs in the audit log.
+ - cbd handler for fileserver status data has an interpretation error which
+ could cause crashes corrected.
- * butc XBSA support now works correctly on amd64.
+ - fileserver accurately tracks number of callbacks on a given file.
- Microsoft Windows
+OpenAFS 1.4.5
- * 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.
+ All systems: Minor bugfixes.
+ New systems: MacOS 10.5.
- * Avoid a reference count under flow during rename operations.
+ All systems:
+
+ - fileserver address tracking is improved to avoid potentially merging
+ unrelated hosts.
- * Avoid a crash caused by treating an arbitrary length directory
- search mask as an 8.3 mask.
+ - Documentation updates.
- * Prevent rename operations if a case insensitive match for the target
- name already exists and does not refer to the object being renamed.
+ - namei fileserver now does fsync()s in background batches for performance
+ improvements.
- * Increase the maximum number of background daemons to 64.
+ - Kerberos ticket support corrected in bundled Kerberos 4 utilities on 64
+ bit platforms.
- * Fix the UAC manifest applied to afs_config.exe
+ - fileserver includes limited per-host thread quota support to avoid
+ resource starvation.
- All UNIX client platforms
+ - fileserver deals with more damaged volumes without asserting.
- * Updates to disconnected AFS support.
+ - vos validates dumpfiles before attempting restores.
- FreeBSD
+ - vos clone will no longer potentially delete the parent volume.
- * FreeBSD 7.1 is now supported.
+ - Client no longer permits empty UUID to be created.
- * amd64 FreeBSD is now supported.
+ - fs uuid command for checking, regenerating UUID added.
- Linux
+ - Updates for gcc 4.2.
- * Generic fh (exportfs API) cache type is now available.
+ - fileserver treats w (write) permission as granting read lock permission
+ in addition to write.
- * Avoid some oopses due to backing_dev_info inode fields not being
- filled.
+ AIX:
- * 2.6.28 is now supported.
+ - Bundled NAS Kerberos is now supported. (5.x)
- MacOS
+ - LAM aklog module is provided. (5.x)
- * 10.3 support has been corrected.
+ - Associate cache files with correct filesystem to avoid snapshots when
+ performing maintenance on local filesystems.
- Solaris
+ Irix:
- * Large partition support has been corrected.
+ - Makefile updates.
- * Filesystem-agnostic cache is now available on Solaris 10 and 11.
+ Linux:
+ - Kernels throigh 2.6.23 are known to work.
-OpenAFS 1.5.55 (2009-11-10)
+ - Updates to syscall table probing.
- All platforms
+ - Bug fix in keyring PAG support to avoid oops.
- * Salvager avoids leaving core files in vice partitions.
+ - updated sample RPM configuration.
- * NFS translator fixes.
+ - sparc32 lwp support updated.
- * Unresponsive server handling fixes.
+ - Avoid potential oops in symlink support in certain older kernels.
- * A volserver race which could result in duplicate transactions is
- fixed.
+ - Avoid potential deadlock during vmalloc.
- Microsoft Windows
+ - Corrected locking while interacting with kernel task list.
- * Fixes a panic caused by corruption of the SMB virtual circuit list.
- (race condition)
+ MacOS:
- * Fixes a panic caused by receipt of a UTF-16 string that cannot be
- converted to UTF-8.
+ - Several panics fixed, including remove_fsref. (10.4 and later)
- * Implements a more aggressive recovery algorithm for Netbios errors
- that result in loss of communication to the AFS SMB server.
+ - IP address changes now tracked.
- * Improve pioctl response time when testing whether or not a PATH is
- in AFS.
+ - Corrected support for dropboxes (li access without r) with cp and Finder.
- * Adds support for linked cells.
+ - fstrace and ancillary files now included.
- * Increases the length of the cell and realm names that can be input
- into the Network Identity Manage AFS provider configuration dialog.
+ - man pages are now installed in the default MANPATH.
- All UNIX client platforms
+ - Servers will be timed out quickly if there is no route available.
- * Disconnected AFS avoids infinite recursion during rmdir.
+ - Temporary files from remove-while-busy now cleaned up correctly.
- Linux
+ Solaris:
- * Support for 2.6.28 (not complete for NFS translator modules).
+ - Updates to accomodate kernel interface changes. (10u4 and later)
- * Support for using exportfs API for filesystem-agnostic cache.
+ - knfs and NFS translator support updated.
- * Disable backing store readahead.
+ - Changes to accomodate version 5.4 xbsa library.
- * Avoid deadlocks when writing back mmapped files larger than the
- cache.
+ - Updates for new SunStudio defaults.
- * Avoid Oops when doing PAG garbage collection.
+OpenAFS 1.4.2
+ All systems: Major bugfixes.
-OpenAFS 1.5.54 (2008-10-08)
+ * Bugfixes:
- All platforms
+ All systems:
- * Updates for new Tivoli X/Open API finding.
+ * A bug in the namei volserver which could erroneously make a replicated or
+ moved volume go offline has been fixed.
- * A double-free is corrected in Rx.
+ * Volume package users (fileserver, volserver, salvager) avoid using lockf to
+ avoid leaking byte range locks on volume internal files.
- All server platforms
+ MacOS 10.4:
- * Ubik cleans up file descriptor cache correctly when doing recovery.
+ * A bug where the client kernel module could free stack memory (which caused
+ issues with 64 bit Intel most commonly) has been fixed.
- * Enhanced vldb error checker included.
+ Linux:
- Microsoft Windows
+ * A missing kernel feature test has been fixed.
- * Prevent a crash that could occur when multiple file / directory
- change notifications are processed simultaneously.
+ * group based PAG support is still enabled when possible.
- MacOS
+ * ia32 syscall table support for amd64 has build fixes for modern kernels.
- * AFS claims more free space so Finder will attempt file copies.
+ Solaris:
- Linux
+ * fopen() is not safe for use with more than 255 file descriptors open;
+ Emulate it in the afsconf package so afsconf can be used in the fileserver.
- * Avoid spurious ENOENT when calling gwtcwd() on a volume root.
+ Windows:
- * Avoid spurious ENOTDIR during fakestat.
+ * DNS registration is disabled for the loopback adapter, and we make sure
+ Netbios is turned on.
+ Since 1.4.1:
-OpenAFS 1.5.53 (2008-09-26)
+ All platforms:
+ * Remove use of ubik_Call in the source code so prototypes are used.
- All platforms
+ * Avoid synchrony in call from the fileserver to the ptserver.
- * rx avoids many packet leaks.
+ * Fix a bug in the backup suite when restoring.
- * rx jumbogram disabling now works (and is the default).
+ * fileserver and volserver now log for error conditions which may cause
+ exiting.
- All server platforms
+ * rx avoids a stack overrun when more packets are needed.
- * Demand Attach fileserver tries to avoid issues tracking offline
- status of volumes.
+ * volserver avoids holding a lock too long when purging volumes.
- Microsoft Windows
+ * volserver lock initialization fixes
- * Many potential deadlock conditions due to out of order lock
- acquisitions have been corrected.
+ * volserver volume nuke fixes to avoid leaving files behind
- * A race condition resulting in an undercount on the cm_scache_t
- reference counts has been corrected.
+ * fileserver avoids error when authenticating ptserver requests
- * 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.
+ * fileserver no longer crashes when GetCPS fails
- * Fix smb string parsing differences where the smb protocol
- documentation does not match the actual Windows implementation.
+ * salvager enhancements to deal better with corrupt volumes for namei
- * Random access denied errors fixed.
+ Unix:
- * A file server lock synchronization issue was corrected in SMB
- NTCreateX and NTTranCreate operations. This bug prevented properly
- operation when loading roaming profiles.
+ * aklog deals with KDCs which give "generic" replies to principals not
+ existing.
- * Fix a heap overwrite error during server probe operations if a new
- server is added while a probe operation is in progress.
+ * Fix bug in cache parameter autotuning
- * Fix an LSA memory leak that was the result of an LSA error.
+ RedHat:
- * Do not leak cm_cell_t objects if the VLDB server lookup fails.
+ * packaging fixes
- * Only initialize rx mutex/lock objects once.
+ Linux:
- * Do not nul terminate the AFS volume name when reported to Windows.
+ * amd64 pthread library family updates.
- * 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.
+ * autoconf fixes for kernel feature testing
- * Remove volume id from the server volume list in response to VMOVED
- and VNOVOL errors.
+ * keyring PAG support now only enabled if needed features are present
+ and other updates
- * "fs flushXXX" commands now destroy locally built B+ directory trees.
+ * inline a version of BUG() so we get better oopses
- * Prevent mixture of locally modified directory pages and file server
- directory pages.
+ AIX:
- * Fail over to alternate vl servers if a ubik error is returned.
+ * tsm is updated to work with the new AIX 5 interface.
- All UNIX client platforms
+ MacOS:
- * Disconnected AFS now supports read-write mode.
+ * Cross compile fixes
- * volserver now builds correctly.
+ * Packaging improvements
- AIX
+ * Large file support fixed (Thanks to Chaskiel Grundman)
- * AIX 6 is now supported.
+ * Fixes for Leopard seed.
- FreeBSD
+ * Installer image updates
- * FreeBSD 7 is now supported.
+ Windows:
- Linux
+ * Removes race conditions and a deadlock introduced in 1.4.1
- * cache bypass is now supported.
+ * Fixes ANSI filename option.
- * 2.6.x kmod compilation now uses kernel compile options always.
+ * Establishes new connections to file servers when
+ IP address configuration changes are detected.
- * Support through 2.6.27.
+ * Improved CIFS compatibility
- MacOS
+ * Cache Manager optimizations
- * Show more space free so Finder doesn't get confused.
+ * Fixes vlserver failover when mounting 'root.afs'
+ (Freelance mode disabled)
- Solaris 10
+ * Installs help files in the correct location for use by afscreds.exe
+ and afs control panel.
- * Default to namei rather than inode.
+ * Improve reporting of "over quota" and "disk full" errors.
+ * Prevent crash when evaluating mount points to volumes that do
+ not exist
-OpenAFS 1.5.52 (2008-08-18)
+ * Removes auto-registration of AFS ID in foreign ptservers from
+ Integrated Logon DLL. This prevents crashes if the DLL is loaded
+ and unloaded prior to termination of the process.
- All platforms
+ * SDK moved to \Program Files\OpenAFS\SDK
- * Initialize volume updateDate at volume creation.
+ * NSIS and WiX Installer Frameworks update to the latest versions
- * Avoid potential corruption of directories during salvage.
+ * Improvements to the Kerberos Logon Integration
- * Check for out of memory condition during allocation of additional Rx
- packets.
+ * Prevents exception in Integrated Logon DLL during SysPrep
- Microsoft Windows
+ * Prevents displays of MessageBox dialogs in response to Network Adapter
+ errors
- * Restore support for Windows 2000 (broken in 1.5.50).
+ * Hard Dead and Connection Timeout values restricted to the CIFS Session
+ Timeout value.
- * Perform additional validation on volume names in mount points during
- creation and evaluation.
+ * Correct writing of BackConnectionsHostNames registry value.
- * Fix several deadlocks, races, and reference count issues.
+ * Properly recycles Volume entries
- * Further optimize SMB Directory Search processing and minimize the
- number of InlineBulkStatus RPCs sent to the file server.
+ * The AFS Explorer Shell Extension always finds its resource library.
- * Enable "bos restricted" operations.
+ * The export list for AFSAUTHENT.DLL has been corrected. (The AFS
+ plugin for NetIDMgr will no longer use 100% of CPU.)
- * Fix the create of submounts used by the AFSCreds and afs_config
- drive mapping tabs.
+ * Renaming files on Microsoft Vista Build 5536 works.
- * Fix a short name truncation bug. (1.5.50)
+ * Better handling of "." directory in fs commands
- * 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.
+ * Add OpenAFS License text to installers
- * Fix a heap corruption error when reading the CellServDB file
- location.
+ * fs setquota and fs mkmount commands behave the same as the UNIX
+ version
- * Add the "RxUdpBufSize" registry value. The new default is 256KB.
+OpenAFS 1.4.2
- * Do not include trailing NULs in the directory search output.
- (1.5.50)
+ All systems: Major bugfixes.
- * Pre-allocate 64 Rx Packet buffers per thread in order to improve
- performance.
+ * Bugfixes:
- * For debugging: add smb lock requests and stat cache lock allocations
- to the output from "fs memdump".
+ All systems:
- NetBSD
+ - Volume dump parsing code in the volserver has better error checking.
- * Workaround broken sigwait() to allow fileserver to shut down
- correctly pre NetBSD 5.0.
+ - salvager has improved damaged volume handling on namei fileservers.
- Solaris 10
+ - fileserver has size validity checks for when large file support is disabled.
- * Default to namei fileserver; Allow inode fileserver at configure
- time by override.
+ - fileserver avoids potentially multiply adding a host to its hash table.
- NFS translator
+ - rxkad client private data storage is allocated dynamically on ticket size.
- * Try harder to avoid kernel panics for malformed requests.
+ - Handle universal error code translation for file locking.
+ - fileserver needs to swap callback connections on a client IP change.
-OpenAFS 1.5.51 (2008-07-29)
+ - fileserver host package revised to reduce lock contention.
- All platforms
+ - Rx has been fixed to count hard acks, thus opening the congestion window.
- * salvager tries harder to arrange for clients to get VBUSY while
- salvaging single volumes.
+ - All servers support bound Rx sockets (on one interface).
- * salvager avoids certain corruption when salvaging directories.
+ - namei fileserver no longer use lockf() to avoid range locking issues.
- * Rx connection clones disabled.
+ - most binaries now support the -version switch.
- Microsoft Windows
+ - backup suite fixes for 64 bit platforms.
- * 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.
+ - volserver avoids holding holds during volume purges.
- * 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)
+ - volserver avoids losing files on namei during vos zap.
- * Large File support is disabled. (Bug introduced in 1.5.50)
+ AIX:
- * 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.
+ - fileserver now properly supports large files.
- * Ensures that reference counts are properly incremented/decremented
- on Rx connection objects used for volume location RPCs.
+ - TSM updates for AIX 5
- * Over Quota errors during cm_FSync() calls would lead to an infinite
- loop as the error was never propagated to the caller.
+ - Kernel module avoids leaking Rx packets.
- All UNIX client platforms
+ - Avoid use of global ubik client structure in fileserver.
- * Bugfixes to disconnected AFS support in the cache manager.
+ - Update ubik call client interface to allow for prototyping.
+ - audit logging fixes when stdarg does not provide integral va_list type.
-OpenAFS 1.5.50 (2008-07-16)
+ MacOS 10.4:
- All platforms
+ - A bug where the client kernel module could free stack memory (which
+ caused issues with 64 bit Intel most commonly) has been fixed.
- * volserver puts recloned volumes back online before returning the
- volume to the fileserver, avoiding spurious VNOVOL errors.
+ - Packaging fixes and updates.
- * Updated TSM X/Open API support available.
+ - Uninstaller added.
- * Demand Attach fileserver will not crash due to accesses during
- volume cloning.
+ - Fix large file support.
- * Substantial documentation updates.
+ Linux:
- * Demand Attach fileserver state tracking and analyzer tool
- improvements.
+ - autoconf kernel feature testing has been restructured.
- * UAFS userspace cachemanager updates.
+ - PAG garbage collection is enabled by default.
- * Corrected support for anti-meltdown protection in the client.
+ - Kerberos updates for RHEL3.
- Microsoft Windows
+ - Fix POSIX lock enrollment for older Linux kernels.
- * UNICODE Character Set Support.
+ - Updates for new 2.6 kernels.
- * Pioctl interfaces to the cache manager have been refactored to
- provide layering between the SMB specific code and the general
- purpose ioctl operation.
+ - Avoid deadlocks in put_inode handler.
- * 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.
+ - Keyring-based PAG support.
- * Remove the IBM Administration Reference documentation and replace it
- with the OpenAFS Command Reference Manual.
+ - Fixes to avoid getting better oops info in the kernel.
- * 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.
+ Solaris:
- * Ensure that the smb directory attribute is set for all directory
- objects.
+ - Remove some kernel symbol bindings for symbols we don't use.
- * Replace the VC Runtime EXE installer with the MSI installer in the
- NSIS installer scripts.
+ - Cleanup for loopback mount of AFS on Solaris 10.
- Solaris
+ - Avoid issues with stdio not supporting file descriptors above 255 on
+ Solaris 8 and lower in the fileserver.
- * Support for updates to OpenSolaris.
+OpenAFS 1.4.1
- Linux
+ All systems: Major bugfixes.
+ New systems: MacOS 10.4 (PowerPC and Intel)
- * Correct dentry revalidation for cross-directory renames.
+ * Bugfixes:
- * Updated rpm packaging materials for 1.5 release series and 2.4
- kernels.
+ All systems:
- * Corrected syscall table probing.
+ - Several race conditions in the host tracking and handling in the fileserver
+ which could cause inconsistent behavior and crashes have been fixed.
- * NFS translator updates for current kernels.
+ - A fileserver bug where a reference to a volume could be leaked and later
+ cause a deadlock as a result of a bulk status call
+ - Reference counting of fileserver objects in unsigned 32 bit integers
+ instead of signed 16 bit integers.
-OpenAFS 1.5.39 (2008-06-24)
+ - Avoid type mismatches when handling time values (betweemn 32 bit and 64 bit
+ variables).
- All platforms
+ - Fix a memory leak during multilevel packet queue handling.
- * Updates for Demand Attach fileserver.
+ - Audit log output had been updated to include FIDs for newly created files.
- Microsoft Windows
+ HP-UX 11i:
- * Fix two memory leaks.
+ - 64 bit (large file) inodes are supported.
- * Fix one missing lock.
+ - Salvager will now handle large (>4gb) partitions.
- * Handle access denied errors when writing dirty buffers.
+ * New features:
- * Fix two errors that would cause the *experimental* AFS Servers
- to crash.
+ All systems:
+ - asetkey is now included to ease Kerberos 5 integration for server
+ administrators.
-OpenAFS 1.5.38 (2008-05-24)
+ - A new fileserver statistics collection including callback statistics was
+ added.
- All platforms
+ - man pages are now generated.
- * Add read-only disconnected support.
+ Microsoft Windows:
+ - Fixes error message problems experienced by fs.exe and the AFS Explorer
+ Shell Extensions related to the use of Universal Error Codes by the
+ AFS File Server
-OpenAFS 1.5.37 (2008-05-21)
+ - Adds full SMB/CIFS support for byte range locking. In this implementation
+ all locks are allocated locally and the AFS lock privilege is ignored.
+ While this will not prevent two processes on different machines from
+ simultaneously writing to the same file, it will prevent two processes
+ on the same machine from doing so.
- All platforms
+ - The UP server check period has been reduced to once every ten minutes to
+ match the period used by the UNIX clients. The shorter period will
+ assist clients maintain RX connections through NATs.
- * Includes a number of optimizations for testing.
+ - Fixes the DOWN server check logic to ensure that any server that responds
+ to a check is marked UP unless it is in the process of restarting.
+ - Add logic to better handle objects that no longer exist on the file server.
+ (VNOVNODE errors.)
-OpenAFS 1.5.36 (2008-05-09)
+ - Prevent the removal of existing drive mappings by "afscreds.exe -M"
- All platforms
+ - Fixes the procmgmt library so that it doesn't cause applications that
+ unload it to crash.
- * Rx optimizations now attempt to deal with high latency WANs.
+ - Improves the warnings written to the afsd_init.log file when the
+ Windows RPC Protocol drivers are improperly configured.
- * 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.
+ - Fixes "fs setserverprefs -vlserver". Multiple calls with the same
+ server parameter could result in a crash of afsd_service.exe.
- * vos move will not erroneously unlock locked vldb entries on failure.
+ - The SMB/CIFS layer was audited for reference miscounts and memory leaks.
+ All SMB objects are now properly counted, locked, and released when
+ their work is done.
- All server platforms
+ - Prevent file truncation of the user does not have the appropriate access.
- * Fileserver avoids a potential infinite loop when a client
- relinquishes an address.
+ - Token management was re-written to allow user tokens to be preserved
+ during integrated login and freed after logoff is complete.
- * Fileserver large setting now configures more threads.
+ - Added a mechanism by which abandoned SMB virtual circuits can be
+ detected and the associated resources cleaned up.
- * Fileserver properly registers uuids of new clients.
+ - Prevent the allocation of SMB file handles with a value of 0 or 0xFFFF
+ which would be considered invalid by Windows applications.
- * Ubik servers do not improperly hide updates from clients.
+ - Fixed the processing of cell names to ensure that they are always
+ treated as case insensitive strings.
- * Fileservers reserve enough file descriptors such that each thread
- can cache one to avoid spurious errors.
+ - Fixed the network provider code to avoid querying the profile location
+ if integrated login is disabled.
- Microsoft Windows
+ - If a mount point string is empty, return Path Not Found to the application.
- * Fix a cm_buf_t reference count leak when attempts to write dirty
- buffers to the file server from within cm_IncrSyncer() fail.
+ - Windows returns WSAECONNRESET when an ICMP packet is received in response
+ to a transmitted UDP packet that cannot be delivered. Do not mark the
+ connection as bad but instead retry the request.
- * Prevent udebug from crashing.
+ - Fix the data written to the registry as part of the BackConnectionHostnames
+ values.
- * 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.
+ - Fixed the rx-lwp implementation to always generate unique rx call
+ identitiers.
-
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+ - The default "fs minidump" type now includes data segments.
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