User-Visible OpenAFS Changes
-OpenAFS 1.6.0 (in progress)
+OpenAFS 1.9.1
All platforms
- * vos now properly deals with matching sites when servers are
- multihomed.
+ * Fix initial Rx Connection ID (CID) generation.
+ Remove stale initialization and overflow detection logic that resulted
+ in connection failures due to all CIDs being set to 0x80000002.
+ (14491, 14492, 14496)
- All server platforms
+ * Fix RPC hangs if a server is restarted while a client is sending
+ data (13875 13758 13876).
- * Fix ptserver supergroups support on 64 bit platforms.
+ * Fix xstat_cm_test/xstat_fs_test -period option bug introduced
+ by pthreaded xstats. (14366)
- * Demand attach salvaging doesn't use freed volume pointers.
+ * Fix remote_is_server field in Rx RPC statistics. Before this fix, the
+ rxstat_get_process and rxstat_get_peer programs reported all RPC stats
+ as "accessed as a client" (14374).
- * Properly hold host lock during host enumeration in fileserver.
+ * Fix an incorrect server type reported by rxstat_get_process and
+ rxstat_get_peer programs (14375).
- All UNIX client platforms
+ * Fix the clock square calculation for stats reported by xstat_fs_test,
+ xstat_cm_test, rxstat_get_process, and rxstat_get_peer (14376)
- * Servers now marked down when GetCapabilities returns error.
+ * Avoid packet resend delays when ICMP socket errors are
+ encountered (14424).
- * In-use vcache count is now properly tracked.
+ * Report RxRPC packet statistics for version packets, that had previously
+ been ignored (14519).
- FreeBSD
+ * Fix various issues detected by static-analyzer tools (13155, 13156,
+ 13163, 13206, 13333, 14501).
- * Fix socket termination on shutdown.
+ All server platforms
- * Support for 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 and 8.2 included.
+ * Add support for multiple audit log interfaces and options (13774).
- * References to vcaches are no longer leaked during root or reclaim.
+ * Fix a directory handle leak in the convertROtoRWvolume procedure
+ when a new transaction cannot be created (14342).
- Linux
+ * Fix out of range memory access when orphaned vnodes are encountered
+ during salvages (14385).
- * Define llseek handler to avoid ESPIPE error in 2.6.37.
+ * Add KeyFileExt and rxkey.keytab access rights checks to the
+ bosserver and log all access check failures instead of stopping
+ on the first failure (14239, 14330).
- * Mount interface replaces get_sb (new for 2.6.37, not yet required).
+ * Fix creation of the bosserver audit log file when the bosserver
+ is started with the -auditlog option (14381)
- * RedHat init script allows deferring for a new binary restart.
+ * Fix 'bos salvage -forceDAFS' when the DAFS fileserver is stopped (14382).
- * DEFINE_MUTEX replaces DECLARE_MUTEX for 2.6.37.
+ * Add VL_DBBAD ("Database is inconsistent") error code to indicate vlserver
+ database inconsistencies, and report VL_DBBAD when unable to remove
+ deleted vlentries from the database hash chains (13382, 13383)
- MacOS
+ * Fix possible memory leaks when under memory pressure (13156 13313).
- * Correct return value from setpag syscall.
+ * Fix possible double release of volume locks in vos release
+ and vos convertROtoRW (14426).
- OpenBSD
+ * Fix -partition option requires a -server option checks in vos (14005).
- * Bug fixes for issues introduced previously in 1.5 series.
+ * Take the target read/write volume offline during the conversion
+ to a read-only volume by vos convertRWtoRO (14340).
- Solaris
+ * Check for volume lock inconsistencies in vldb_check (14307).
- * Switch to ioctl() syscall replacement for Solaris 11 since syscall
- 65 is not safe.
+ * Document vos restore -readonly option (14348).
+ * Consolidate implementation of, and more reliably use, logged warnings
+ for single-DES or missing keys (10831).
-OpenAFS 1.5.78 (2010-11-04)
+ All client platforms
- All platforms
+ * Avoid panic when failing to allocate a new vnode or
+ failing to write a dcache (13701, 13804).
- * Revisions to Rx to fix performance issues.
+ * Fix double release of afs_xvcb lock (14411).
- * Make fs getfid behave consistently across all platforms. (128372)
+ * Log process name and PID on disk cache read errors (14416).
- * Properly check IDs handed to pts when creating users or groups so
- useful error messages can be provided. (128343)
+ * Add cache-too-full and wait-for-drain cache manager stats (13168).
- * Correct byte order handling of port in afsconf_LookupServer for SRV
- records.
+ * Add afsio readdir and afsio fidreaddir commands to dump
+ AFS3 directories (12381).
- * 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.
+ * Fix diagnostic messages from "vos partinfo" to correctly refer to
+ itself (14489).
- All server platforms
+ Linux
- * Demand salvage of attached volumes now correctly track attachment
- state.
+ * Fix file leak in background thread regression introduced by
+ 13284 (LINUX: Turn on AFS_NEW_BKG). (13984)
- * Avoid a potential crash due to failure to hold a lock when attaching
- a volume fails.
+ * Avoid getcwd() and bind-mount call errors by returning
+ errors from the d_revalidate callback (14417).
- Microsoft Windows
+ * Fix 64/32bit compatibility mode checks for Linux 5.11
+ support (14499, 14500).
- * Track SMB connections by SID rather than username.
+ * Support Linux 5.12-RC2 (14548, 14549).
- * Error write attempts to known-readonly volumes earlier.
+ Solaris
- * Validate directory buffers to avoid potential crashes.
+ * Add the OpenAFS provider for the Solaris kstat framework (13170).
- * Handle VIO errors from bulkstatus.
+ FreeBSD
- * Make PMTU discovery configurable and register error handlers for it.
+ * Import the start of a series of locking and stability fixes developed by
+ Tim Creech and Andrew Deason that will culminate in a client that
+ supports FreeBSD 12.2 (13854, 13856, 13858..13860, 13998..14000, 14162,
+ 14373, 14550,
- All UNIX client platforms
- * Use larger I/O sizes in memcache to improve performance.
+OpenAFS 1.9.0
- * Avoid potential alignment issues doing I/O for pioctl calls.
+ All platforms
- FreeBSD
+ Introduce the rxgk Rx security class, initially limited to server-to-server
+ traffic and local keys (gerrit topic: rxgk-phase1).
- * Avoid panicing if the listener process is not findable.
+ Add options to the vos and pts commands for server-to-server rxgk support.
- * Avoid deadlock issues while performing lookups.
+ 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.
- Linux
+ Raise implementation-defined anti-DoS length limits for prdb-related XDR
+ array types, which were being reached at some sites (13838).
- * Handle stale file handle errors for some cache partition types.
+ Bring "-setpag" functionality in klog to parity with aklog (14146).
- * Avoid blocking with xvcache lock when attempting to free in-use
- vcaches.
+ Fix potential Rx hang when an incoming call must wait (14158).
- * Build fixes for older kernels.
+ Fix latent bug preventing RX_CONN_NAT_PING from working (13041).
- * Properly configure LWP to use ucontext() on platforms where it
- should.
+ Fix potential rx_connection leak in pthreaded programs (13042).
- * Eliminate spurious errors from AFS system call returns. (126230)
+ Avoid NatPing storm with many connections to the same server (14312).
- MacOS
+ Do not leave empty directories behind in the file server vice partition
+ when running the "vos zap -force" command (12879, 12839).
- * Attempt to honor configured Kerberos defaults in Preferences Pane.
+ Make non-verbose "vos remsite" output output more readable (14127).
+ Display the usage of simple commands (commands without subcommands) when run
+ only with the -help option (10983).
-OpenAFS 1.5.77 (2010-09-08)
+ Replace SOURCE-MAP with a README.md (14003).
- All platforms
+ Improve documentation of minimum required dependency versions (14305).
- * Rx path MTU detection will terminate detection in cases where the
- minimum required packet size cannot be transferred.
+ Remove unused definition of LINUX_PKGREL from configure.ac (14117).
- * vos dryrun mode now shows effects for syncvldb single volume case.
+ 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).
- * vos dryrun mode now shows "status after" for syncvldb and syncserv.
+ 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)
- All server platforms
+ Assorted memory-handling fixes (13461, 12293, 13355, 13395, 13396, 13161,
+ 13659, 13714, 13715, 13760, 13716, 13761).
- * RXAFS_GetStatistics64 now returns statistics properly.
+ 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).
- Microsoft Windows
+ Added unit tests for functions mapping vice partition to id (13176).
- * Attempt to properly identify the local system SMB connection for
- token tracking.
+ Fix issues resulting in parallel "make install" to fail (13786, 14137).
- * Remap timeout and offline errors to proper NT RPC errors.
+ Updated libauth test program (13394).
- * Properly fail over to other replicas on bulkstat IO errors.
+ 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).
- * Properly error delete-mode createfile if a file is set readonly.
+ 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).
- * Validate directory entry buffers to avoid crashing the service.
+ All server platforms
- * Log file modes properly.
+ Improve database server logging by logging messages when and why a server
+ is marked as down (12616).
- * Log cell name when logging server information.
+ Log a warning message when starting server processes with no encryption
+ keys available (13911).
- All UNIX client platforms
+ Fix use of triple-DES cell-wide keys for rxkad.krb5 (14203).
- * cacheout program for discarding callbacks is now built.
+ Remove redundant lseek system calls and use positional I/O in the database
+ servers to improve performance (12271, 12272).
- * bulkstatus kernel locking is corrected to avoid a potential panic.
+ Fix option parsing to enable parallel salvageserver operation (14201).
- Dragonfly BSD
+ Fix an edge case where writes were errneously allowed on readonly
+ fileservers (13934).
- * userspace support update
+ Add an option to allow members of system:administrators to perform
+ write operations on otherwise readonly fileservers (13707).
- FreeBSD
+ Allow "vos rename" to be re-run to finish a previously interrupted
+ volume rename operation (13720).
- * Updated vnode locking for children returned via lookup().
+ Return errors for short reads during volume dumps instead of silently
+ padding with NUL bytes (14255).
- * Avoid file open undercount with needed calls to
- FakeOpen/FakeClose().
+ Work around potential deadlocks when the salvageserver spawns a child
+ at the same time another thread is writing to the log (14239).
- * Use vnode_pager_setsize to properly track file size during kernel
- IO.
+ Do not overwrite the errno variable when logging certain database sendfile
+ errors (13263).
- * Update system call installation.
+ Avoid confusing log message ("Unable to create the volume") when
+ restoring over an existing volume (14208).
- * Fix shutdown of Rx kernel listener to avoid potential dereference
- after it's gone.
+ Fix vldb listing of created-but-not-released RO replicas (14154).
- * Avoid closing vnodes during vnode recycle.
+ Avoid confusing "half-locked" state for interrupted volume renames (14157).
- * Fix bogus call to FlushVS for vnode reclaims.
+ Prevent attempts to grow the VLDB past the maximum 2GB size (14180).
- Linux
+ Fix a bug that prevented logging of discarded callbacks (14256).
- * Packaging updated for current configure options and built files.
+ 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)
- * Cache bypass now holds reference on pages during readpage.
+ All client platforms
- * s390x setgroups32 patching update.
+ Attempt to detect and report some common types of cache corruption
+ (13436, 13747, 13969, 14002).
- MacOS
+ Log a warning when the cache is "stressed" (almost full) to suggest
+ possible re-tuning (13255).
- * DNS resolver is reinitialized on IP address change. (126440)
+ Require opt-in to use the historical/deprecated single-DES krb5
+ encryption types, which are being removed from krb5 distributions (13689).
+ Fix incorrect informational messages when the AFSCELL environment
+ variable is set (13371).
-OpenAFS 1.5.76 (2010-08-16)
+ Assorted cleanup and microoptimizations (12655, 13254, 12656, 13253, 14241,
+ 13256, 14254).
- All platforms
+ Tidy up the shutdown sequence, closing some memory leaks and not
+ generatin Rx traffic while Rx datastructures are being deconstructed
+ (13718, 13719).
- * Updates to build-time configuration.
+ Fix reading entries of historic vldb formats (13465).
- * Fix XDR support in Rx to match header definition.
+ Suppress warning about running unauthenticated for `bos -noauth` (14306).
- * vos status now shows transaction creation, not action creation.
+ Linux
- * Rx avoids reporting loopback adapters when listing interfaces.
+ Support upstream kernels through Linux 5.9.
- All server 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).
- * Demand-Attach Fileserver always built and installed (dafileserver,
- davolserver, dasalvager).
+ Avoid panics from procfs when the kernel module is loaded but afsd is
+ not running (14093).
- * Return VNOVOL from fileserver when a volume is deleted.
+ Improve ppc64le support (13980, 14046).
- * Ignore duplicate tags during volume restore operation.
+ Improve RPM packaging (14114, 14116, 14266)
- * Update inode array after salvage repairs volume.
+ MacOS
- * Zero a corrupted header in memory during salvage to avoid further
- corruption.
+ Simplify background-move return-code processing (13280).
- * Fix NAMEI backend to allow low-numbered volumes to work properly.
+ Support macOS Catalina (13935, 13936, 13668..13671, 13928, 14062, 14222).
- * ptserver does not include cell name as part of length check for
- names.
+ Add OpenAFS.pkg to the list of files to be codesigned (14221).
- * Updated error messages for unblessed volumes.
+ Solaris
- * vlserver avoids buffer overflow with regex pattern
+ Remove references to (unspported) SunOS 4 (13506).
- * Attach-time failures now note failures as the rest of the fileserver
- would.
+ Build system fixes for parallel make on Solaris.
- * Server argument logging will no longer overflow stack.
+ Support function attributes when building with recent versions of Solaris
+ compilers.
- * Provide fast-restart-like unsafe-nosalvage option for DAFS.
+ Fix many (but not all) of the compiler warnings when building on the Solaris
+ platform.
- * Deal with host hash collisions in the fileserver.
+ Add autoconf support for Studio 12.6 tools (13867).
- Microsoft Windows
+ FreeBSD
- * Avoid crashing when interpreting a drive letter as potentially
- matching a cell name.
+ General improvements to VFS compliance.
- * Properly handle volume package errors.
+ Create destination kernel module directory when installing on
+ FreeBSD (13653, 13690)).
- * Allow page recycling from known-readonly content without ensuring
- they are not dirty.
+ Add param.h files and sysnames for FreeBSD 11.2 (13534), 11.3 (13792),
+ and 12.1 (13982).
- * 32 bit tools installer should not override client configuration.
+ Fix fcntl-style locks by adapting to quirky historical behavior (12579).
- * Ensure root scache item has a valid callback when use is attempted.
+ Support kernels that use VIMAGE support at runtime, not just at
+ build-time (12580).
- * Freelance directory changes now properly invalidate and replace the
- old root object.
+ Change LWP stack strategy to avoid SIGBUS errors (13691).
- All UNIX client platforms
+ Skip SIGBUS test (for reasons unrelated to the previous) (14145).
- * Support disconnected reconnecting with specified UID for PAGless
- platforms.
- * Proper disconnected vnode reference tracking.
+OpenAFS 1.8.6
- * Update server site blacklisting to not return success if nothing was
- blacklisted.
+ All platforms
- * Avoid a panic during vcache contention due to CVInit vcache
- racing. (127645)
+ * Address warnings and errors encountered when building OpenAFS with
+ modern compilers like gcc9 or recent clang (13727..45 13749..50 13756
+ 13846 13879)
- FreeBSD
+ * Avoid some rare cases of Rx calls getting stuck in the incoming queue
+ (13892)
- * Update for network stack in 8.1/9.0.
+ * Display the usage of simple commands (commands without subcommands) when
+ run only with the -help option (13894)
- HP-UX
+ * Fix a memory leak in the cache manager and the fileserver while
+ processing "fs uuid" or "fs setcbaddr" (13899)
- * Bug fixes.
+ * Fix a memory leak when reopening krb local realms configuration (13900)
- Linux
+ * Avoid possible crashes when freeing kerberos contexts (13902)
- * 2.6.36 support
+ All server platforms
- * Disable PMTU error packet handling.
+ * Do not leave empty directories behind in the file server vice partition
+ when running the "vos zap -force" command (13897)
- * flock() fixes.
+ * 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)
- * Debian packaging updated.
+ * 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)
- * freezer interface updates.
+ * Improved diagnostics and error messages (13898 13906..8 13938)
- MacOS
+ * 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)
- * Hold references to disconnected mode written vnodes properly.
+ All client platforms
- Solaris
+ * Require the -insecure_des switch to be passed to aklog and klog.krb5
+ to make them work with single-DES encryption types (13791)
- * Handle NFS translator module references for amd64.
+ * Avoid a panic due to a retryable error - retry in a background request
+ instead (13847)
- * INODE fileserver backend support now exists for amd64.
+ * Avoid blocking other functions on the completion of some potentially
+ long-running RPCs issued by the server (13893)
+ * Fix a potential memory leak in "fs getserverprefs" when the pioctl fails
+ with E2BIG (13895)
-OpenAFS 1.5.75 (2010-07-07)
+ * 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)
- All platforms
+ * 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)
- * Prevent rx_rpc_stats global lock from being a bottleneck.
+ * 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)
- * Path MTU discovery is now provided to allow traffic to pass networks
- with sub-1500 byte MTUs and poor fragment handling.
+ * Allow processes which are sleeping due to PAG throttling to be killable
+ (13974).
- * Further reduce Rx NAT ping transmission when enabled.
+ * Fix set PAG failures due to signals (13975).
- * Update Kerberos 5-based token handling in rxkad from upstream
- Heimdal. (127554)
+ Linux clients
- * Update version numbers emitted during build to reflect what is
- actually being built.
+ * Support mainline kernels up to and including 5.7 (14069 14094 14095
+ 14209 14210)
- * Add "-human" switch for human-readable units in fs diskfree and
- listquota. (124529)
+ * Make builds succeed with --enable-checking for mainline kernels
+ 5.3-rc2 and later (13910)
- * vos provides reasons for locked volumes when known.
+ * Avoid possible deadlocks (13748 13765)
- * Do not count retransmission and ping acks as non-idle for Rx
- connections.
+ * Fix build of libuafs on ppc64le (14104)
- * Rx: provide service-specific data getter and setter routines.
+ * Fix build on certain recent 32-bit distributions (14234) (RT #135084)
- * Update build-time Kerberos detection.
+ macOS
- * Updated userspace AFS client.
+ * Support building, packaging and notarization on macOS 10.15 "Catalina"
+ (14031..7 14068)
- * Beginning of a modernized test suite.
+ Microsoft Windows
- * Additional documentation.
+ * Build fixes (13848..52)
- * Updated documentation, notably the Administrators Guide.
+OpenAFS 1.8.5
- * Substantial code cleanup.
+All platforms
- All server platforms
+ * 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.
- * Update handling of vnode allocation failures.
+ * 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.
- * DAFS: allow salvaging volumes not known to the fileserver, to allow
- cleanup of data not attached to a current volume.
+All server platforms
- * Properly handle volumes slated for destruction.
+ * 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.
- * Handle volumes with many files properly.
+OpenAFS 1.8.4
- * Force core file generation in bosserver by overriding default
- resource limits when possible.
+ All platforms
- * Update vlclient and vldb_check.
+ Build system updates to remove obsolete autoconf macros and remove missing
+ script warning during builds (13480, 13481, 13482, 13483, 13484, 13486,
+ 13789, 13790).
- * Avoid potentially corrupting a volume on creation if files are left
- from previous failed cleanup.
+ Build system update to fix a conditional check in the pthread.m4 autoconf
+ file (13595)
- * Note volume changed during salvage as needed.
+ Build system update to create the man3 subdirectory, fixing a
+ reported build failure (13535).
- * DAFS: do not assume invalid addresses are in fileserver address hash
- table.
+ Remove the last reference to src/mcas in the documentation (13558).
- * Avoid tying up fileserver threads with volumes that are being taken
- offline.
+ All server platforms
- * Do not set inUse on volumes for non-DAFS other than in fileserver.
+ Fix fileserver's parsing of the options -vlruthresh, -vlruinterval,
+ -vlrumax and -novbc (13680).
- * Break origin's callback on target of rename operation.
+ 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).
- * Avoid unneeded parent directory link updates during some rename
- operations.
+ All client platforms
- * Do not open /dev/console for writing in the fileserver.
+ Fix missing Rx call clean-up after failing to read dcaches from a file
+ server (13511).
- * DAFS: avoid spurious restarts when binary restarts are configured.
+ Fix an Rx call leak for calls aborted by a connection abort after the call
+ was initialized but before use (13517).
- * Avoid spurious and unneeded calls to sync(), which can slow down the
- fileserver.
+ Remove the obsolete afs_xosi lock to remove unnecessary serialization of
+ VOP_GETATTR calls. This can lead to improved performance under heavy
+ workloads (13529).
- Microsoft Windows
+ Increase the size of the Directory Name Lookup Cache (DNLC) to improve
+ cache performance (13559).
- * Revised SMB QuerySecurityInfo to address issues caused by MS10-020
- (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/980232)
+ Fix getting tokens for cells with a three character name (13679).
- * Prevent use of the AFSCache file contents if mapped to a new
- address.
+ 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).
- * Make fs newcell include behavior compatible with the non-Windows
- version.
+ Build system update to honor the CFLAGS environment variable when building
+ libuafs (13544).
- * Provide a registry option (FreelanceImportCellServDB) to pre-create
- mount points in the AFS root for all cells in CellServDB.
+ Linux
- * Fix a memory leak in the cm_FreeServerList() routine.
+ Support for mainline kernels up to 5.3 (13787, 13789).
- * Reduce privilege when reading registry CellServDB.
+ 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).
- * Add support for RPC Pipe Service NetWkstaGetInfo levels needed for
- Windows 7.
+ Return errors instead of returning incomplete directory listings when the
+ directory objects are incomplete in the cache (13591).
- * Prevent overflow when computing quota percentage in Explorer Shell.
- (126846)
+ Add ppc64le_linux26 sysname for the ppc64le architecture (13636, 13637,
+ 13589).
- * Generate meaningful errors for ACL operations on freelance AFS root.
+ Fix configure check for a kernel time function in order to build on
+ Linux 5.0 (13523).
- * Fix error handling on InlineBulkStatus RPCs.
+ RPM packaging update for RHEL8 adding a build requirement to ensure the
+ kernel module can be built from the SRPM (13563) (RT #134900).
- * Show configuration pages for all types of MSI installations.
+ 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).
- * Improve freemount AFS root directory handling and operations.
+ MacOS
- * Properly validate GetVolumeStatus pioctl responses.
+ Build system updates for MacOS (13584).
- * Commit file length changes and dirty buffers when flushing a file.
+ Solaris
- All UNIX client platforms
+ Add CTF debugging records to userspace objects to improve debugging
+ of servers (13487).
- * Update version of files for disk cache.
+ 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).
- * Do not call afs_FlushVCBs with xvcache lock held, to improve
- parallelization.
- * Add mariner log messages for creating and removing files.
+OpenAFS 1.8.3
- * Don't hold xvcache lock while creating symlinks, to improve
- parallelization.
+ All platforms
- * Provide -dynroot-sparse mode to not show all cells in CellServDB in
- dynroot mode.
+ * Improved diagnostics and error messages (13186 13411 13417)
- * Avoid a potential crash in aklog in linked cell handling.
+ * Avoid sending RX packets with random garbage in the userStatus field
+ (13332)
- * Log MTU-caused packet retransmission.
+ * Fixed detection of the RX initialization status (13416)
- * Prevent crashes caused be fs checkservers while cache is being set
- up.
+ * Assorted fixes to avoid segmentation faults and other potential problems
+ by detecting internal errors rather than letting them go unnoticed
+ (13329 13372)
- * fs getserverprefs now has a buffer large enough for the default
- CellServDB.
+ All server platforms
- * Report server address when logging warnings.
+ * Fixed a build problem accidentally introduced in release 1.8.2 (13328)
- * Avoid panic in GetCapabilities when cell is not known.
+ * Assorted efficiency improvements in the ubik implementation (13153 13218
+ 13188 13353)
- * Lock process name and id for advisory lock warnings when possible.
+ * Fixed locking around transaction list processing in volserver to avoid
+ segmentation faults and other potential problems (13336 13337)
- * Handle need for allocating additional Rx packets.
+ * 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)
- * Properly handle errors from InlineBulkStatus operations.
+ All client platforms
- * Fix errors returned from fcntl() on readonly files locked for write.
+ * Update the CellServDB to the latest version from grand.central.org from
+ May 14th 2018 (13409)
- * Flush pending changes to the server on LOCK_EX unlock.
+ * Avoid a panic during cache initialization when allocating the required
+ memory fails (13307)
- * Reflect length changes as a result of callbacks even when file is
- open for write.
+ * Add back the packet counters and timestamps to "vos status" output
+ which had been missing since release 1.8.0 (13421)
- * Avoid hanging due to error exit when attempting to store a large
- file to a non-largefile fileserver.
+ * 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)
- * Recover from afs_GetVolSlot errors.
+ * Avoid a panic due to a recoverable error while flushing cache items
+ (13503)
- FreeBSD
+ Linux clients
- * Bugfixes for kernel VFS and network routines.
+ * Support mainline kernels 4.20 and 5.0 and distribution kernels with
+ backports from those (13405 13406 13440 13441 13442)
- IRIX
+ * DKMS-related fixes in Red Hat packaging (13438 13479)
- * Provide makesname().
+ macOS
- Linux
+ * Support building and packaging on macOS 10.14 "Mojave" (13412 13413)
- * Avoid syscall probes when keyrings are present, by default. (125215)
- * Remove "Big Kernel Lock" from VFS operations.
+OpenAFS 1.8.2
- * Use filehandles for all Linux 2.6 versions to avoid need for matched
- afsd. (127530)
+ All platforms
- * Updated RPM packaging.
+ * 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.
- * Fix dkms configuration provided with RPMs.
+ All server platforms
- * Hold reference on pages during background I/O for cache bypass.
+ * 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.
- * Fix cache bypass handling of non-largefile fileservers.
+ * 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.
- * Protect truncate_inode_pages mappings with mutex or semaphore as
- needed.
+ 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.
- * Fix pagevec use in cache bypass. (127505)
+OpenAFS 1.8.1.1
- * Updates for 2.6.35
+ Linux Clients
- MacOS
+ * Support for mainline kernel 4.18 and distribution kernels with backports
+ from it (13268)
- * Improve launchd configuration.
+OpenAFS 1.8.1
- * Avoid hanging on recursive cache file lock acquisition when user
- notification is enabled.
+ All Platforms
- * Fix and re-enable bulkstat mode.
+ * Improve the usability and consistency of the public API: install missing
+ headers, and add additional symbols to the export list for shared libraries.
- OpenBSD
+ * Improved Rx abort generation: use the proper serial number for an existing
+ connection if possible, and 0 otherwise (to improve debugging).
- * Build updates.
+ * Assorted minor fixes in response to static analysis of the codebase.
- Solaris
+ * Fix memory-safety error in XDR decoding of enumerated types.
- * Precluding unmount while AFS is busy.
+ All Server Platforms
- * Avoid deadlocking when releasing the VFS object.
+ * Fix reference counting error that could cause an assertion failure
+ in some workloads.
- * Stop network interface poller in kernel on AFS shutdown.
+ * vldb_check -fix will no longer corrupt the vldb when multiple MH blocks are present.
- * Avoid issues with lookups on empty directory names. (127356)
+ * Assorted cleanups and efficiency improvements in the ubik implementation.
+ * Return a valid InlineBulkStatus response in error cases.
-OpenAFS 1.5.74 (2010-04-22)
+ * The fileserver now rejects invalid partition names when attaching partitions.
- All platforms
+ All Client Platforms
- * Add "vos setaddrs" command.
+ * Fix volume callbacks (e.g., when running 'vos release').
- * Rx library lock contention avoidance between rx_NewCall and
- rx_EndCall.
+ * 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.
- * Rx library races due to inconsistent use of rx_connection
- conn_data_lock to protect the flags field.
+ * Improve error messages for invalid values with -volume-ttl.
- * Rx library inconsistent use of RX_CALL_TQ_WAIT which could result in
- deadlocks.
+ * Remove useless error message:
+ "find_preferred_connection: no connection and !create".
- * Rx library must signal transmit queue waiters when flushing.
+ * Avoid passing NULL to a kernel memory deallocator, which is not guaranteed
+ to be safe on all systems.
- * afsmonitor shows busy counts now.
+ Linux
- * afsmonitor displays xstat callback statistics.
+ * Add support for 64-bit ARM clients ("arm64").
- * Provide expandgroups for pts mem on a supergroups server.
+ * Fix panic when cache bypass is enabled.
- * Provide supergroup option to liste nested groups during pts mem.
+ * Improve cache manager behavior when unable to open cache files.
- All server platforms
+ * Improvements to the RPM packaging.
- * Avoid volume lock contention during DAFS startup.
+ * Detect out-of-memory when using kernel pages for writing.
- Microsoft Windows
+ Solaris
- * Avoid a race when updating cell vldb server lists that can result in
- a crash.
+ * Fix various issues in the build process for recent Solaris versions.
- * Avoid a deadlock when managing CM_SCACHESYNC_STOREDATA state
- operations for directory objects.
+ MacOS
- * Add new Windows Application Event log messages for VBUSY,
- VRESTARTING, ALL_BUSY, ALL_OFFLINE, and ALL_DOWN.
+ * 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.
- * Reduce lock contention by waiting for cm_buf_t I/O operations.
+ * Change the backup deletedump -port command line option to -portoffset.
- * 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.
+ * Add user and build host in the version string returned by
+ rxdebug -version.
- * In cm_UpdateVolumeLocation, avoid searching for a ".readonly" volume
- on a numeric volume name.
+ * Support recent versions of gcc (7.2.1) (12897)
- * 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.
+ All Server Platforms
- * Enable integrated logon to work with Windows 7/2008 when user logons
- are performed with a non-Domain Kerberos principal.
+ * Ubik servers using pthreads are now available and are used by default
- * Add Protection Error messages to aklog output.
+ * 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.
- All UNIX client platforms
+ * 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)
- * Provide a FUSE-interfacing userspace afs client.
+ * 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).
- * Updates to libuafs userspace cache manager.
+ * Remove periodic background fsync by the fileserver (ihandle fsync thread).
- * Probe servers using GetCapabilities instead of GetTime, thus
- requiring fewer RPCs.
+ * Fix potential file handle leak in the file server ihandle caching layer.
- * Fix DNS SRV record handling for cell lookup.
+ * 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.
- FreeBSD
+ * Do not permit creation of users with id of ANONYMOUSID.
- * Fix sleep/wakeup routines.
+ * 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.
- * Update for 8.0 release.
+ * Add the ptserver -restrict_anonymous option to inhibit exposure of user
+ names from the ptserver.
- Linux
+ * 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.
- * Handle high memory addresses correctly.
+ * 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.
- MacOS
+ * Fix various bugs when logging with -mrafslogs enabled.
- * Make 32 bit AFS syscalls work again.
+ * 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.
- * Work around finder "Duplicate" failure (caused by setting modes on
- symlinks).
+ * Add a command line option (-restricted_query) to the vlserver and
+ volserver to restrict information queries about volumes to a specific
+ group of users.
- * Disable bulkstat again (will be re-enabled at or before .75).
+ * Add a command line option to the server programs to specify an alternate
+ fully qualified log file name (-logfile).
- * Provide symlink type hints during readdir.
+ * Add a command line option (-config) to the server programs to specify
+ an alternate path to the server configuration.
+ * Add a command line option to the ptserver and vlserver to specify an
+ alternate path to the database data files.
-OpenAFS 1.5.73 (2010-03-24)
+ * Add a command line option to the volume server to enable encryption of
+ volume-server-to-volume-server-traffic (-s2scrypt).
- All platforms
+ * Increase the maximum number of LWP threads allowed for the ptserver and
+ vlserver from 16 to 64 (-lwp).
- * NAT keepalive support at Rx level.
+ * Remove an unused file server command line option (-k).
- * Corrected SRV record support for cell name canonicalization.
+ * Fix an incorrect assertion in Demand Attach File Server which could cause
+ the file server process to abort in certain rare conditions.
- All server platforms
+ * Deprecate the -bitmap-later configure option for non-Demand-Attach File
+ Servers (DAFS).
- * Fix volume callback notification to not notify unaffected clients.
- (126497)
+ * Add -vhashsize support to non-Demand-Attach File Servers (DAFS).
- * Allow root directory recreation by salvager. (94658)
+ * Add support for subnet ranges in the NetInfo and NetRestrict
+ configuration files.
- * Numerous DAFS fixes.
+ * Add the GetXStats RPC to the audit log.
- * Improvements to callback table overflow handling. (126451)
+ * Fix directory creation by bosserver when built for non-Transarc paths.
- * bosserver now shuts down cleanly on SIGTERM.
+ * Fix incomplete list of server addresses retreived by vos listaddr when the
+ vldb contains unreferenced multi-homed server entries.
- Microsoft Windows
+ * Remove obsolete bos blockscanner and unblockscanner commands that
+ were only needed for the removed MR-AFS functionality.
- * Prevent the Explorer Shell extension from crashing if symlink
- creation failed. (126406)
+ * Remove obsolete bos salvage options that were only used by the
+ removed MR-AFS functionality..
- * A Rx level NAT ping has been implemented. A registry value enables.
+ * Remove calls to the deprecated sbrk() function.
- * Adds krb5 error message translation to aklog, afscreds,
- afslogon.dll, the network identity manager afs provider and
- translate_et.
+ * 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.
- * Default mode bit settings for file and directory creation are now
- provided, and can be configured.
+ * Avoid filling the FileLog with "Volume x offline: not in service" when
+ a volume is administratively taken offline with vos offline.
- * An SMB request trace facility is provided and can be enabled for
- debugging.
+ * Print an error message when bosserver is started with an unknown
+ command line option.
- All UNIX client platforms
+ * Modify the volume updateDate when the volume is changed by a salvage.
- * Rx idle deadtime does not stop file writes.
+ * 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.
- * Disconnected AFS no longer has a race condition during remove ops.
+ All Client Platforms
- * Fakestat avoids a condition which could cause it to block on network
- activity.
+ * 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.
- * Several fixes to handle interruptions in vos operations. (33360,
- 125535)
+ * 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.
- * Allow more sysnames in a sysname list.
+ * Remove afsd -settime and afsd -nosettime support.
- * Attempt to enforce timeouts on AFSDB lookups.
+ * Add the afsd -inumcalc option to specify the method used to calculate
+ inode numbers presented by AFS.
- AIX
+ * 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.
- * Clean up properly on mount failure.
+ * Return EIO on internal errors instead of the misleading ENOENT.
- * Add entry to /etc/vfs to allow umount to work.
+ * Log ICMP errors received, if any, for unreachable servers.
- Linux
+ * Improve performance of clients with multiple PAGs for different cells.
- * Several issues to deal with older kernels.
+ * Fix race condition between changing and using user tokens among cache
+ manager threads.
- * Avoid leaking the global lock in the /proc cellservdb code.
+ * Fix fs sysname for users with UID 2748 and 2750 when not running
+ in -rmtsys mode.
- * Keyring destruction now cleans up all tokens.
+ * Add Perl bindings for the user-space cache manager library (libuafs).
- * Keyring quotas are not enforced against root.
+ * Fixes to the bypasscache feature.
- MacOS
+ * Fix fs getcacheparms miscounts.
- * Some FSEvents hinting for authentication events now done. (23781)
+ * Remove the obsolete Netscape plugin.
- * Update uninstaller. (125634)
+ * Fix building gtx when ncurses is linked against libtinfo.
- * Rewrite afssettings and fstab code to avoid licensing issue with
- APSL.
+ * Update to the GCO CellServDB update from 14 March 2017.
- * Growl client for user monitoring of AFS events included.
+ Linux
- * Properly support insert-only dropboxes.
+ * Remove Linux 2.2 and 2.4 support.
- * Add bulkstat support.
+ * Changes to avoid EIO errors with multiple processes doing intensive mmap
+ writing. (Drop PageReclaim AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE.)
- * Include support for moving in Finder across mount points.
+ * Prevent fakestat data inconsistencies in certain cases (131855).
- * Preferences Pane includes support for Kerberos 5 ticket renewal.
+ * Fix dentry leak which can cause a crash on shutdown.
+ * Fix improper use of ENOENT and avoid incorrect use of linux negative
+ dentry cache.
-OpenAFS 1.5.72 (2010-02-15)
+ * 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.
- All platforms
+ * Apply a workaround to be compatible with RHEL 7.5's KABI preservation
+ strategy for reading directories.
- * Provide internationalization support in com_err.
+ * Improve error reporting when encountering corrupt directories.
- * Fix array length checking to avoid crashes when checking for a
- volume type based on name in vos.
+ * Improve rx error handling in the Linux cache manager.
- All server platforms
+ * Rename kpasswd to kapasswd when packaging RPMs to avoid colliding with
+ Kerberos kpasswd.
- * Provide backward compatible "-f" flag to salvager for force mode.
+ * Do not use the obsolete --enable-largefile-fileservers configure option
+ when packaging RPMs.
- Microsoft Windows
+ * In Red Hat packaging, use a separate rpm for kmod debuginfo,
+ removing a needless tight version dependency on the userspace package.
+ (12822, 12875)
- * Restore use of DNS AFSDB and SRV records by kaserver clients.
+ * Use the RemainAfterExit systemd feature to avoid premature exit
+ when -afsdb is not given, for RPM packages.
- All UNIX client platforms
+ * Remove Debian packaging files from the OpenAFS source tree. Debian
+ packaging files are currently maintained in the downstream Debian
+ infrastructure.
- * Fix client cache file truncation to not lose chunks when truncating
- a large file.
+ * Add the sparc_linux26 sysname.
- * Ensure a cache writeback hook is installed in the client (bug from
- 1.5.71).
+ * Desupport 32-bit Linux kernels on s390/s390x.
- * Avoid spurious free memory warnings during clean shutdown.
+ * Fix Debian/Ubuntu build regression on kernel 3.16.39.
- * Fakestat mode avoids AFSDB lookups.
+ * Fix --enable-kernel-debug for linux 4.8+.
- * "fs storebehind" now correctly reports errors on readonly volumes.
+ * Fix a hang encountered when accessing a previously removed
+ directory entry (12811).
- * Additional documentation for "fs getcacheparms"
+ * Support linux 4.10, 4.11, 4.12, 4.13, 4.14, 4.15
- * Forced new uuid generation with "fs uuid -generate" now works
- enforced permission correctly.
+ Solaris
- MacOS
+ * Remove support for all Solaris and SunOS platforms prior to Solaris 8.
- * Add optimized Rx event handler in kernel.
+ * Build 64-bit binaries for Solaris x86 by default.
- * Installer now allows installing an older version.
+ * 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.
- * Panic decoder can now deal with MacOS 10.5 again.
+ * Update search paths for solaris cc for recent versions Solaris Studio.
- * MacOS ._ files are now correctly not looked up as cellnames.
+ * Modernize declaration of module dependences by converting from the
+ deprecated _depends_on symbol to ELF dependencies.
- Linux
+ * Avoid BAD TRAP panic due to invalid opcodes on x86 with Studio 12.5.
- * To deal with SELinux file labeling, try cache accesses with current
- credentials in event of failure.
+ * Add ctf debug records to Solaris kernel modules when debug builds
+ are enabled and the ctf tools are present (ctfconvert/ctfmerge).
- * Rx XDR encoding bug on i386 Linux is fixed (bug introduced in
- 1.5.71).
+ * Save kernel module function arguments on x86 for debugging purposes.
- IRIX
+ MacOS
- * Code compilation fixes.
+ * Stop processing upcalls once rx shutdown starts.
- OpenBSD
+ * Enable atomics for the darwin kernel.
- * Update for OpenBSD 4.6.
+ * Add a syscall to enable/disable bulkstat at run-time, which is
+ disabled by default.
+ * Fix path to binaries in the prefpane.
-OpenAFS 1.5.69 (2010-01-19)
+ * Fix builds on MacOS 10.12 by building only the active architecture
+ by default.
- All platforms
+ * Support versions up through 10.13 (High Sierra) and APFS
- * Configuration of BOSserver no longer defaults to weekly restarts
- enabled.
+ FreeBSD
- * Provide BOS restricted mode by default.
+ * Use the native kernel module build system instead of an ad hoc
+ replacement build system.
- * Add support for "vos endtrans" command.
+ * Remove FreeBSD packaging files from the OpenAFS source tree. FreeBSD
+ packaging files are currently maintained in the downstream FreeBSD Ports
+ Collection.
- * Default to providing full output from vos listvol.
+ * Stay up to date with new FreeBSD releases (through 10.3).
- * Correct additional-address tracking in the fileserver.
+ * Do not claim AFS_VM_RDWR_ENV
- * Improve Rx performance by not unnecessarily dropping and reacquiring
- call locks in read and write processes.
+ * Add sysnames and files for i386 and amd64 10.4, 11.1, and 12.0
+ (12-CURRENT, at present). (12887, 12888)
- * Avoid crashes when monitoring volserver transactions across
- potential transaction garbage collection.
+ * Remove trailing semicolons to fix the build on FreeBSD (12899)
- * Numerous warning fixes.
+ NetBSD
- All server platforms
+ * Stay up to date with new NetBSD releases (through 7.x)
- * Avoid saving fileserver state in demand attach fileserver when
- panicing.
+ * Update to use cprng(9) as the randomness source on NetBSD 6.99/7.x.
- * Demand attach fileserver allows other callers to schedule salvages.
+ * Build system updates for NetBDS 6.99.x
- * Demand attach "bos salvage" now works correctly with restricted
- mode.
+ * Do not claim AFS_VM_RDWR_ENV
- Microsoft Windows:
+ OpenBSD
- * Numerous changes to the client-internal btree directory handling to
- prevent errors.
+ * Stay up to date with new OpenBSD releases (through 4.7)
- * fs examine reports owner and group ids as signed values (PTS groups
- are negative).
+ * Do not claim AFS_VM_RDWR_ENV
- * Preclude corruption due to races writing to smb buffers.
+ AIX
- * Allow MTU settings in registry to be used.
+ * Updates for AIX support.
- * Apply MTU to both send and receive sizes.
+ * Fix build system for AIX exports.
- All UNIX client platforms
+ * 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.)
- * 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.
+OpenAFS 1.6.21
- * Properly clean up allocated memory at shutdown.
+ All platforms
- * Default to AFSDB compiled into the cache manager.
+ * Avoid a possible 100ms transmit delay in the RX protocol when a peer's
+ receive window transitions from closed to open (12627)
- * Avoid inadvertant disclosure of stat() information to clients not so
- entitled.
+ * Documentation improvements (12476 12477 12559[RT #133339])
- * Correct a bug with AFSDB lookups introduced with SRV record support.
+ All server platforms
- MacOS
+ * When bosserver is started with an unknown option, print an error message
+ and exit with a non-zero value rather than failing silently (12631)
- * Install kernel panic processing tool in /Library/OpenAFS/Tools.
+ All DB server platforms
- * Include debugging symbols for kernel extension in additional package.
+ * Hold the DB lock while checking for an aborted write transaction (12516)
- * Support "Application Firewall" users.
+ All file server platforms
- * Avoid ._cellname AFSDB lookups.
+ * 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)
- * Compile preferences pane as a universal binary.
+ * 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)
- Linux
+ * 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)
- * Use splice to speed up storing files.
+ All client platforms
- * When using memcache, avoid duplicating work in readpages.
+ * Corrected the DCentries bucket counts for very large and zero length
+ files in the output of "fs getcacheparms -excessive" (12604 12605)
- * Use dget_parent to safely find an inode's parent.
+ * Fixed a bug that prevented users with GID 2748 and 2750 from executing
+ the "fs sysname" command on clients running afsd with -rmtsys (12607)
- * Disable access time updates in our superblock.
+ * 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)
- * Avoid crashing doing writeback if no credentials were stashed at
- file open.
+ Linux clients
- * Simplify keyring support.
+ * Support for mainline kernel 4.12 and distribution kernels with backports
+ from it (12624 12626)
- * Properly clean up vcache in event of failed mount.
+ * 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)
- FreeBSD
+ macOS clients
- * Update for current FreeBSD 8.
+ * Fixed a crash while stopping the client on macOS 10.12 "Sierra" (12602)
- Solaris
- * Abstractly manipulate groups as now required.
+OpenAFS 1.6.20.2
- * Abstractly access time instead of using lbolt directly.
+ All platforms
+ * Build fixes required by recent compilers or platforms (12514 12521 12534
+ 12536 12538)
-OpenAFS 1.5.68 (2009-12-08)
+ * 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)
- All platforms
+ Linux clients
- * aklog now attempts to convert non-AFS errors to human-readable
- strings.
+ * Support for mainline kernels 4.10 and - most likely - 4.11 and
+ distribution kernels with backports from them (12530 12588..12590 12598)
- * Make stack not executable when compiling assembler source with GCC.
+ * Support for distribution kernels with partial backports from 4.9 (12535)
+ (RT #134158)
- * Numerous source warning cleanups and code reorganization.
+ * In Red Hat packaging, moved the klog.krb5 manual page into the krb5
+ subpackage (12511)
- All server platforms
+ * In Red Hat packaging, prevent systemd from double-starting the client
+ (12587)
- * Compute midnight for volume statistics calculation from local time.
+ * Allow aklog to function on current S390/S390x (12499)
- * Salvager now orphans duplicate special inodes when running to allow
- recovery in event of a problem, instead of simply ignoring the
- issue.
+ Solaris clients
- * 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.
+ * Make process authentication groups work on Solaris 11, now using a single
+ group ID (12524..12527)
- * Volume sync data reported during bulkstatus is now set correctly.
+ * Fix a BAD TRAP panic on Solaris 11 clients built with Studio 12.5 (12567)
- * Provide better tuning for fileserver file descriptor caching.
+ macOS clients
- * Allow more than 128 threads in fileserver by modifying host
- structure in-use tracking.
+ * Fixed the preference pane for OS X 10.11 and later (12512)
- * Avoid crashes getting volume server status during transaction
- cleanup.
+OpenAFS 1.6.20.1
- * Improved logging of offline volume conditions.
+ All platforms
- * Correct volume statistics when cloning a volume.
+ * Build fixes required by recent compilers (12482..12484)
- * Avoid referencing host structures in the fileserver which are marked
- for deletion.
+ Linux clients
- * Demand attach fileserver corrections to avoid coring during an
- aborted startup.
+ * Support for mainline kernel 4.9 and distribution kernels with
+ backports from it (12478..12480)
- * host array bounds checking corrections to avoid buffer overflow.
+ * In Red Hat packaging, make systemd deal correctly with the client
+ when no userland processes remain after starting it (12481)
+ (RT #133482)
- * Handle special inodes correctly when promoting an inode fileserver
- readonly volume to read-write.
+ macOS
- Microsoft Windows
+ * Support for release 10.12 "Sierra" (12431 12432)
- * 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.
+ * Avoid a crash in the Mounts tab of the OpenAFS preference pane (12447)
- * 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.
+OpenAFS 1.6.20 (Security Release)
- * Improve the error output from aklog to output the value from krb5
- error_message() if the afs_com_err output indicates an unknown
- value.
+ All platforms
- * Convert VBUSY and VRESTARTING to CM_ERROR_ALLBUSY and do not permit
- them to be exposed to the smb redirector.
+ * 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)
- * Convert STATUS_TIMEOUT responses to STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT to avoid
- confusion within the smb redirector.
+OpenAFS 1.6.19
- * Fix the byte order assigned to port numbers associated with AFSDB
- record lookups. They must be network byte order not host byte
- order.
+ All platforms
- * Add dynamic server ranking based on RPC round trip time
- measurements.
+ * Documentation improvements (12304)
+ * Fixes for test failures (12396 12415)
- All UNIX client platforms
+ All DB server platforms
- * Additional shutdown-time memory leaks removed.
+ * 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)
- * Improved logging of resource contention.
+ Solaris clients
- * Provide dumping for Rx debug packet tracking support in source.
+ * Allow the fsinfo::: DTrace provider to work with AFS files (12371)
- * Update afscp test client to build, and provide an unlock client.
+ Linux clients
- * Client buffers for directory parsing can now be allocated beyond the
- fixed set formerly provided.
+ * 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)
- * Work around race condition when manipulating read-only volume
- callbacks.
- * Bugfixes to get PAG value pioctl.
+OpenAFS 1.6.18.3
- * Bugfixes to SRV record support.
+ Linux clients
- Linux
+ * Support for mainline kernel 4.7 and distribution kernels with
+ backports from it (12348)
- * Path MTU tracking code cleanup.
+ Solaris clients
- * Avoid an oops due to racing with vcache recycling thread.
+ * Fixed memory mapped I/O on files >= 4 GiB (12349 12350)
- * Changes to keyring PAG handling: for sufficiently new kernels, use
- only keyring-based PAGs, and disable group PAGs entirely.
+ 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.
- * Updates to the kernel page cache interface: writing pages will now
- not spuriously leak page locks, and will avoid requiring duplicate
- work.
+ OS X
- * Credential references are now tracked using native atomic counters.
+ * Added tooling to build a package for OS X 10.10 "Yosemite" and
+ 10.11 "El Capitan" (12335 12351)
- * Kernel mutex/semaphore lock ordering fix to avoid deadlocks.
- * Manipulate disk cache with credentials used to initialize it, to
- avoid security issues.
+OpenAFS 1.6.18.2
- MacOS
+ Linux clients
- * Fix fstrace message catalog location.
+ * Support for mainline kernel 4.6 and distribution kernels with
+ backports from it (12332)
- * Fix kernel fstrace logging.
+ * 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)
-OpenAFS 1.5.66 (2009-10-25)
+ FreeBSD
- All platforms
+ * Added sysname IDs for 10.2 and 10.3 to fix the build on those platforms
+ (12322)
- * Avoid calling exit() in library code.
- * Add rx window size and peer timeout tuning APIs.
+OpenAFS 1.6.18.1
- * Correct rx peer timeout handling to disallow 0ms timeouts.
+ Linux clients
- * Correct calculation of rx RTT by disregarding retransmitted packets.
+ * Support for mainline kernel 4.5 and distribution kernels with
+ backports from it (12300..12302)
- * vos manpages updated to reflect changes in recent versions.
- * GNU-style long options (e.g. --cell) are now supported in all
- commands.
+OpenAFS 1.6.18
- * fs listacl can now print a command to recreate the current ACL.
+ All platforms
- All server platforms
+ * Documentation improvements (12224 11675 11613 12197)
- * Fix a race on transaction objects in the volserver which can cause a
- crash.
+ * Improved diagnostics and error messages (12129 12207 12185 12211 12113
+ 12215 12216)
- * Avoid destroying and setting to NULL the callback connection when it
- could still be being used.
+ * Check that CellServDB entries are valid IPv4 addresses, to avoid
+ occasional hangs or potentially other erratic behaviour due to invalid
+ entries (12210) (RT #131794)
- * Correct unlink handling in salvager.
+ All client platforms
- * Improve error messages due to I/O errors in the volserver.
+ * Gracefully handle cases where a client shutdown sequence is initiated
+ while the client is already shutting down, rather than cause a panic
+ (12179)
- * Correct an issue which caused converted RO to RW volumes on namei
- fileservers to not come online immediately.
+ * 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)
- Microsoft Windows
+ All server platforms
- * Official support for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2.
+ * Avoid a possible volserver crash during volume dump or restore due
+ to invalid ACL entries (12127)
- * Prevent a file server bug (FetchData returning an invalid length
- instead of zero) from causing an "unexpected network error" when
- writing to files.
+ * 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)
- * Promote DNS SRV records as superior to DNS AFSDB records. Support
- arbitrary port numbers for vldb servers.
+ * 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)
- * 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.
+ FreeBSD
- * Remove drive mapping functionality and service start/stop from
- afscreds.exe.
+ * Added support for releases 10.2 and 10.3 (12232)
- * Remove drive mapping functionality from afs_config.exe.
+ Linux clients
- * Use {HKLM,HKCU}\SOFTWARE\OpenAFS\Client DWORD "ShowMountTab" to
- restore access to drive mapping functionality in afscreds.exe and
- afs_config.exe.
+ * Support for mainline kernel 4.4 and distribution kernels with
+ backports from it, alas at a performance penalty (12226 12227 12228)
+ (RT #132677 #132819)
- * Adjust SMB error return codes to avoid returning STATUS_TIMEOUT
- which results in the SMB redirector disconnecting.
+ * Avoid using excessive amounts of kernel memory for dynamically
+ allocated vcaches, by improving the algorithm to free unused ones
+ (12256 12257)
- * 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.
+ * In Red Hat packaging, make the init script use "ip" if available, with
+ "ifconfig" as a fallback (12193)
- * Prevent pioctl calls from retrying indefinitely when a sharing
- violation error occurs.
+ OS X
- All UNIX client platforms
+ * Basic support for release 10.11 "El Capitan" (12212)
- * Correct a condition which could discard the error from initializing
- a fetch request.
+ IRIX clients
- * Avoid using invalid references to afs_Conn connection structures,
- and thus potentially producing invalid data when a retry is needed.
+ * Fixed kernel module builds with optimization (12198) (RT #131261)
- * SRV records are now supported for discovering AFS servers.
- Linux
+OpenAFS 1.6.17 (Security Release)
- * Correct writepage behavior.
+ All server platforms
- * Fix error code handling in the writepage code.
+ * Fix for OPENAFS-SA-2016-001: foreign users can create groups as
+ if they were an administrator (RT #132822) (CVE-2016-2860)
- * Avoid leaking page locks, which could potentially hang a machine.
+ All client platforms
- MacOS X
+ * 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)
- * Preferences Pane improvements.
+ * Update to the GCO CellServDB update from 01 January 2016 (12188)
- HP-UX
+ Linux clients
- * Avoiding attempting to handle critical signals in servers, so that
- core file handling works correctly.
+ * 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)
-OpenAFS 1.5.65 (2009-10-06)
+ * Create systemd unit files with mode 0644 instead of 0755
+ (12196) (RT #132662)
+
+OpenAFS 1.6.16
All platforms
- * Code compilation warning fixes, to enable better finding and
- tracking bugs.
+ * Documentation improvements (11932 12096 12100 12112 12120)
- * Provide configure-time switch to enable code warning compilation.
+ * Improved diagnostics and error messages (11586 11587)
- All server platforms
+ * Distribute the contributor code of conduct with the stable release (12056)
- * Demand-attach fileserver now makes volume LRU list operations
- exclusive operations to avoid races during adding to the list.
+ All server platforms
- * Fileservers now avoid potential "negative length" fetches.
+ * Create PID files in the right location when bosserver is started with
+ the "-pidfiles" argument and transarc paths are not being used (12086)
- * A leak in host tracking objects in the fileserver has been fixed.
+ * Several fixes regarding volume dump creation and restore (11433 11553
+ 11825 11826 12082)
- * Salvager now unlinks all files by full path, to deal with the change
- to not chdir for core file tracking.
+ * 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)
- * Salvager avoids asserting if the volume header is unreadable.
+ * Obey the "-toname" parameter in "vos clone" operations (11434)
- * Demand-attach fileserver puts back volume references from fssync
- handlers when done.
+ * Avoid writing a loopback address into the server CellServDB - search
+ for a non-loopback one, and fail if none is found (12083 12105)
- Microsoft Windows
+ * Rebuild the vldb free list with "vldb_check -fix" (12084)
- * Improved service response to suspend and shutdown event
- notifications.
+ * Fixed and improved the "check_sysid" utility (12090)
- * 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.
+ * Fixed and improved the "prdb_check" utility (12101..04)
- * 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 client platforms
- All UNIX 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)
- * A bug which could cause erroneous handling of lengths on data reads
- has been fixed.
+ * Refuse to change multi-homed server entries with "vos changeaddr",
+ unless "-force" is given, to avoid corruption of those entries (12087)
- * A bug where erroneous length returns from the fileserver could
- result in a false error has been fixed.
+ * Provide a new vos subcommand "remaddrs" for removing server entries, to
+ replace the slightly confusing "vos changeaddr -remove" (12092 12094)
- Linux
+ * Make "fs flushall" actually invalidate all cached data (11894)
- * Background page copies are now supported for enhanced disk cache
- read performance.
+ * Prevent spurious call aborts due to erroneous idle timeouts (11594)
- * Blocking readahead is supported in readpages() to reduce overhead.
+ * 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)
- * Use readpage() instead of read() to access cache data to avail disk
- cache users of the kernel backing cache for improved performance.
+ * Fixed building the gtx applications against newer ncurses (12125)
- * Minimize credential handling for improved performance.
+ * 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)
- MacOS X
+ Linux clients
- * Preferences Pane cleanup.
+ * 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)
- Solaris
+ * In Red Hat packaging, avoid a conflict of openafs-debuginfo with
+ krb5-debuginfo by excluding our kpasswd executable from debuginfo
+ processing (12128) (RT #131771)
- * Provide a fs_pathconf method with sensible defaults.
+OpenAFS 1.6.15 (Security Release)
- * Provide a _PC_FILESIZEBITS method to fix some NFS translator
- consumers.
+ All client and server platforms
+ * Fix for OPENAFS-SA-2015-007 "Tattletale"
-OpenAFS 1.5.64 (2009-09-22)
+ 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).
- All server platforms
+OpenAFS 1.6.14.1
- * The demand attach fileserver now puts back volume references gotten
- via the fssync interface.
+ Linux clients
- * The demand attach fileserver had a structure reference error, which
- has been correected.
+ * Support kernels up to 4.2
- Microsoft Windows
+ 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.
- * Restores Windows 2000 compatibility.
+OpenAFS 1.6.14
- * 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".
+ All server platforms
- * 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.
+ * 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
- * Prevents cache manager from marking the file server "down" when the
- data returned in response to either RXAFS_FetchData64 or
- RXAFS_StoreData64 is invalid.
+ All server platforms
- * Adds pioctl data validation to the AFS Explorer Shell extension.
+ * Fix for CVE-2015-3282: vos leaks stack data onto the wire in the
+ clear when creating vldb entries
- All UNIX client platforms
+ * Workaround for CVE-2015-3283: bos commands can be spoofed, including
+ some which alter server state
- * A bug which could cause a kernel panic in 1.5.63 has been corrected.
- This would manifest as a GetDCache panic or oops.
+ * Disabled searching the VLDB by volume name regular expression to avoid
+ possible buffer overruns in the volume location server
- Linux
+ All client platforms
- * aklog -setpag works again with recent kernels when keyring is in
- use.
+ * Fix for CVE-2015-3284: pioctls leak kernel memory
- MacOS
+ * Fix for CVE-2015-3285: kernel pioctl support for OSD command passing
+ can trigger a panic
- * When Fast User Switch is in use, AFS login is now handled correctly
- by the integration tool included with the preferences pane.
+ Solaris clients
- * Several packaging bugs have been corrected.
+ * Fix for CVE-2015-3286: Solaris grouplist modifications for PAGs can
+ panic or overwrite memory
+OpenAFS 1.6.12
-OpenAFS 1.5.63 (2009-09-11)
+ All server platforms
- All 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)
- * The restorevol command is now documented and installed as a user
- command.
+ All client platforms
- * The uss command now properly translates vldb entries to its expected
- format when handling them in all cases.
+ * Fixed a potential buffer overflow in aklog (11808)
- * Documentation now refers to Kerberos instead of kaserver.
+ * Avoid a bogus warning regarding the checkserver daemon, which could be
+ logged during startup when the cache initialization was very fast (11680)
- All server platforms
+ * Added documentation of the inaccuracy of the 'partition' field in
+ 'fs listquota' output for partitions larger than 2 TiB (11626)
- * 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.
+ Linux clients
- * The demand attach fileservice not longer potentially hangs trying to
- terminate demand-salvages which have already exited.
+ * Support kernels up to 4.1 (11872 11873)
- * 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.
+ * Avoid spurious EIO errors when writing large chunks of data to
+ mmapped files (11877)
- * 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.
+ OS X
- * The salvager can now repair certain cases of a damamged vnode index.
+ * Build fixes required at least on OS X 10.10 Yosemite with the latest
+ XCode (11859 11876 11842..11845 11863 11878 11879)
- * The accessDate metadata for a volume is now updated correctly.
+OpenAFS 1.6.11.1
- Microsoft Windows
+ Linux clients
- * 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.
+ * Support kernels up to 4.0 (11760 11761)
- * 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.
+ FreeBSD clients
- * Some XP machines running 1.5.62 had trouble saving roaming profile
- data. This is fixed.
+ * Fixed kernel module build on systems with an updated clang which no
+ longer accepts the -mno-align-long-strings as a no-op (11809)
- * Integrated Logon (afslogon.dll) did not function with domain
- specific configurations.
+OpenAFS 1.6.11
- * 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 platforms
- All UNIX client platforms
+ * Allow aklog to succeed creating native K5 tokens even when mapping
+ the K5 principal to a K4 one fails (11538)
- * Except on Solaris and AIX, the compiler may now be overriden at
- configure time by setting the CC environment variable.
+ * Build fixes (11435 11636)
- * afsd now properly deals with large cache partitions.
+ All client platforms
- FreeBSD
+ * Avoid a potential kernel panic due to connection reference overcounts
+ (11645) (RT #131885)
- * Build shared libafsauthent and libafsrpc.
+ * Avoid potential corruption of files written using memory mapped I/O
+ when the file is larger than the cache (11656) (RT #131976)
- Linux
+ Linux clients
- * Kernel module DKMS support now installs an unstripped module to
- allow debugging information to be collected.
+ * Support kernels at least up to 3.19 (11549 11550 11569 11570 11595
+ 11658..11662 11694 11752)
- MacOS
+ 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.
- * Preferences pane properly updates token information.
+ * 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)
- MacOS 10.6
+ * Avoid leaking memory when scanning a corrupt directory (11707)
- * 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.
+ OS X clients
- * A panic at AFS shutdown due to "NO PCB" on a udp_lock has been
- addressed.
+ * Support OS X 10.10 "Yosemite" (11571 11572 11611) (RT #131946)
- * The panic decoder script included in the source now properly handles
- 32 and 64 bit panics.
+ Solaris clients
- NetBSD
+ * 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)
- * Avoid defining AFS_KERBEROS_ENV globally as it creates a circular
- dependency.
+ FreeBSD
- * Build shared libafsauthent and libafsrpc.
+ * Build fix for releases >= 11.0 (11610)
OpenBSD
- * Build shared libafsauthent and libafsrpc.
+ * Support release 5.4 (11700)
-OpenAFS 1.5.62 (2009-08-28)
+OpenAFS 1.6.10
All platforms
- * Numerous invisible changes to improve code maintainability,
- portability and enhanceability.
+ * Don't hide the "version" subcommand in help output (11214)
- Microsoft Windows
+ * Documentation improvements (11126 11216 11222 11223 11225 11226)
- * 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
+ * Improved diagnostics and error messages (11154 11246 11247 11249 11181
+ 11182 11183)
- * 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.
+ * Build system improvements (11158 11221 11224 11225 11227..11241 11282
+ 11342 11350 11353 11242 11367 11392)
- * 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.
+ * 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)
- * For the first time, the OpenAFS SMB Server supports the DCE RPC
- services SRVSVC and WKSSVC. Browsing \\AFS with the Explorer Shell
+ 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.
+ * Improvements to DFS Referral request processing have been
+ implemented.
+
+ * Unnecessary DNS lookups of share names are avoided improving
+ performance.
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * Non-Kerberos PAM modules work correctly again.
+
+ MacOS X
+
+ * MacOS 10.6 (Snowleopard) is now supported, both 32 and 64 bit mode.
+
+ * Updates to the AFSCommander preferences pane.
+
+ * Installer now permits cell names with dashes.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.61 (2009-08-06)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Correct another race condition in the Rx library that could result
+ in an unexpected panic while freeing the Rx call iovq.
+
+ * rx packet resend and data packets sent counts were incorrect.
+
+ * fs setquota, fs setcachesize, vos setfields, and vos create now
+ accept human readable orders of magnitude. (K, M, G)
+
+ * fs listquota fixed to permit large quota sizes to be displayed.
+
+ * Correct documentation of bosserver permissions requirements.
+
+ * Modify vlserver to avoid potentially corrupting the database through
+ volume id reuse.
+
+ * Generalized support for fast Rx timeout due to network
+ down/unreachable.
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Allow audit logs to be sent via sys5 IPC message queues instead of
+ logged directly.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * If a file server becomes inaccessible while the cache manager has
+ dirty buffers to write, the afsd_service buf_IncrSync thread can
+ attempt to use 100% of the cpu.
+
+ * Fix "fs newcell" which was broken in 1.5.60.
+
+ * Do not attempt to synchronize dirty buffers if the associated volume
+ is known to be unavailable.
+
+ * Modify behavior of a Freelance mountpoint target that does not
+ specify a cell. Instead of assuming the target volume is in the
+ Freelance.Local cell, use the workstation "Cell" specified in the
+ registry. A mountpoint target of "#root.cell." will now mean the
+ root.cell volume in the workstation cell for the current session.
+ If the workstation cell changes from "athena.mit.edu" to
+ "andrew.cmu.edu", the referenced volume will also change without
+ requiring that the mount point targets be altered.
+
+ * Add cm_FindServerByUuid(). Re-implement RXAFS_InitCallBackState3()
+ to permit the server Uuid to be used to lookup the server object and
+ from that determine the cell. This permits callbacks that are
+ received from alternate addresses to be processed with a known
+ server object. Previously a request from an unknown server would
+ clear all callbacks from all cells.
+
+ * Fix a bug that prevented optimal performance when using a non-zero
+ value for 'daemonCheckVolCBInterval'. As a reminder, when
+ "daemonCheckVolCBInterval" is set to a non-zero value, all .readonly
+ volume callbacks are automatically renewed 90 minutes before their
+ expiration.
+
+ * Fix automatic ranking of vldb servers whose values are obtained from
+ the CellServDB file.
+
+ * Add failover for RX CALL TIMEOUT errors when the volume is readonly
+ or the call is to a vldb server.
+
+ * Add registry based cell search functionality to NetIdMgr,
+ afs_config.exe, and klog.exe.
+
+ * afsconf_GetCellInfo() has been modified to perform gethostbyname()
+ lookups on the host names in the CellServDB instead of using the
+ specified IP addresses. This provides aklog, pts, vos, etc. the
+ same CellServDB behavior that the Windows Cache Manager uses.
+
+ * When updating the stat cache entry callback of a .readonly object
+ from the volume group object, update the file server reference to
+ ensure it matches the most update to date callback.
+
+ * Add proper support for processing callbacks from multi-homed file
+ servers. Instead of comparing servers by cm_server_t pointer,
+ compare them by UUID when the UUID is known.
+
+ * During a shutdown short circuit the offline volume check daemon
+ functionality.
+
+ * Return the error code of RXAFS_FetchData / RXAFS_StoreData in
+ preference to an error code reported by rx_EndCall.
+
+ * Add "PerFileAccessCheck" registry value to permit testing against
+ experimental file servers that include per-file acl support. This
+ value is intentionally undocumented. It is not to be used by
+ production environment deployments.
+
+ * Fix a bug introduced in 1.5.60 that prevents the afs netidmgr
+ provider from obtaining tokens when referrals are in play.
+
+ * Add "fs chown" and "fs chgrp" commands to permit the owner and group
+ of objects stored in AFS to be set from Windows.
+
+ * Avoid performing background daemon operations when the machine is
+ going into suspend mode.
+
+ * Perform offline volume checks in most recently used order.
+
+ * Prevent crash when a data version for a cache object goes backwards.
+
+ * Multi-thread safe library versions are now being generated and used.
+ mtafsubik.lib, mtafsutil.lib, mtafsvldb.lib, mtafsvol.lib.
+
+ * Microsoft SMB Redirector (mrxsmb.sys) support for
+ ExtendedSessTimeout values are now available on XP through Windows
+ 7. Add functionality to autodetect if such support is present on
+ the machine. If so, configure it if necessary and dynamically
+ adjust the AFS Rx timeout values accordingly.
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * Fix out-of-tree source builds.
+
+ MacOS
+
+ * GUI installer now asks for local cell information.
+
+ * AFS Commander preferences pane is now installed by default.
+
+ Solaris
+
+ * Avoid kernel panics due to null pointer dereferences in the network
+ interface poller kernel thread.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.60 (2009-05-31)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Retry volserver transaction creation on failure.
+
+ * Allow building HTML and PDF documentation from included XML copies
+ of User Guide, Admin Guide and Quick Start Guide for Unix.
+
+ * Documentation updates and additional documentation.
+
+ * Add -encrypt support to pts client.
+
+ * Convert MR-AFS fs commands to OSD commands.
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Updated background sync process in fileserver to avoid a race which
+ could result in a volume being taken offline.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * On April 9th Microsoft released a Hot Fix for Windows Server 2003
+ SP2 that corrects a deadlock in the smb redirector and also adds new
+ functionality that permits the AFS SMB server to be given a longer
+ timeout than is normally the case. New functionality has been added
+ to configure these additional LanmanWorkstation\Parameter values.
+ (This functionality has been backported to XP SP3 and is scheduled
+ to be released on June 5th.)
+
+ * Fix RT#124787, a race condition between "fs flush <dir>", "fs
+ flushvolume", or "fs flushall" and on-going directory operations
+ that can result in afsd_service.exe crashing.
+
+ * Release Notes, User and Administrator guides are now shipped as
+ indexed Windows HtmlHelp Files. (.chm). Shortcuts are provided from
+ the Start Menu.
+
+ * A method of specifying Client CellServDB information within the
+ registry has been added that can be used to either override the
+ CellServDB file or force the use of DNS lookups for a given cell.
+ See the release notes for details.
+
+ * The pioctl interface now properly handles drive letter substitution
+ to UNC paths. (SUBST <d:> <\\afs\cell\path>)
+
+ * The BackConnectionHostNames registry value configuration was broken
+ when dynamic re-establishment of Netbios Name registrations was
+ added. This release restores the functionality.
+
+ * All hidden vos.exe commands are now revealed.
+
+ * Attempts to store the same dirty file chunk from multiple threads
+ are now prevented.
+
+ * The IsPathInAfs test in Explorer Shell Extension and fs.exe now
+ permits broken symlinks to be treated as being in AFS.
+
+ * vos.exe commands that output 64-bit integer values once again do so.
+ This was broken in 1.5.59.
+
+ * Cygwin Import Libraries are provided in the SDK for all OpenAFS
+ DLLs. This permits building cygwin applications against OpenAFS
+ libraries.
+
+ * NSIS installer does a much better job of cleaning up files left over
+ from previous installs.
+
+ * libafsconf.dll moved from Client\Program to Common directory as is
+ is now used by all modules for CellServDB processing.
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * Write back changes on last store for memcache to avoid discarding
+ changes.
+
+ * Abstract disk cache support to allow for path, fh, inode based
+ caches with no need for messy ifdef structures each time a new type
+ is added.
+
+ DragonflyBSD
+
+ * Support as a userland port.
+
+ FreeBSD
+
+ * Corrected structure definition for userspace cache manager to allow
+ builds to complete.
+
+ Linux
+
+ * Corrected client locking support.
+
+ * Updated patch to stop deadlocking in the kernel during mmap.
+
+ * Avoid oops when setting up groups for PAGs to match keyrings.
+
+ * Use Linux fh-based cache in cases where possible by default.
+
+ MacOS 10.3:
+
+ * Corrected structure definition for userspace cache manager to allow
+ builds to complete.
+
+ OpenBSD
+
+ * Support for OpenBSD 4.5.
+
+ Solaris
+
+ * Corrected support for server-side vos split interface.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.59 (2009-04-06)
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * Increased service priority class to "High" to match the priority of
+ system components that are dependent upon the a timely response.
+
+ * SMB error responses avoid returning errors that could confuse the
+ Microsoft SMB redirector into disconnecting the connection to \\AFS.
+
+ All UNIX client platforms (except MacOS X 10.4 and 10.5)
+
+ * OpenAFS 1.5.59 contains fixes for the client issues addressed by the
+ security advisories OPENAFS-SA-2009-001 and OPENAFS-SA-2009-002.
+
+ Linux platforms
+
+ * Support for prerelease Linux 2.6.30 kernels.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.58 (2009-03-30)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Code cleanup and prototyping.
+
+ * Avoid unnecessary blocking in Rx periodic cleanup code.
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Fileserver CopyOnWrite routine optimized for performance.
+
+ * Make fileserver callback dumps 64 bit safe.
+
+ * Fix byte order issues with fileserver host hashing.
+
+ * Fix buffer size issues with butc.
+
+ * Fix several Ubik recovery issues.
+
+ * Avoid leaking file references in the fileserver.
+
+ * Fix a race in DAFS while closing vnodes, and another offlining
+ volumes.
+
+ * volserver interfaces for volume splitting client.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * [RT 124293] A race condition exists which can result in a crash.
+
+ * [RT 124276] If the vldb is out of sync with the contents of the file
+ servers, afsd_service will retry too many times when a file server
+ reports a volume as not being present. Now if the list reported by
+ the vldb is the same as the previously seen list, then the retry is
+ aborted.
+
+ * [RT 124276] Read-only volume failover was broken in 1.5.53 whenever
+ accessing a volume results in VNOVOL or VMOVED.
+
+ * [RT 124276] Prior to 1.3.70 the volume server reference list was not
+ reference counted and would be prematurely freed while in use. When
+ reference counting was added in 1.3.70 a bug was introduced that
+ could result in service reference list corruption.
+
+ * Add Windows Application Event Log warning messages for "Client SMB
+ MPX value too large" and "Client SMB Buffer Size too small".
+
+ * Renaming of files across directory boundaries would result in an
+ invalid handle error when attempting to access the files after the
+ move.
+
+ * Fix the handling of Tran2 Set Path Info RPCs. Do not fail when a
+ smb file descriptor cannot be found. The whole point of using a
+ Path Info function is because an smb file descriptor wasn't
+ allocated.
+
+ * More edge cases in which dynamic addition of Freelance root.afs
+ entries would get the wrong FID or where the root.afs directory
+ would not be refreshed.
+
+ * Buffer overflow could occur if the workstation cell name was longer
+ than 64 characters. Crashes could occur in afscreds.exe,
+ afslogon.dll, and afsd_service.exe.
+
+ * VNOSERVICE and VOFFLINE errors were leaking and were exposed to the
+ smb client.
+
+ * Log file server uuid values as part of the cm_server object when
+ available. Dump the cm_server object list in response to "fs
+ memdump".
+
+ * Optimize the performance of resetting access control lists when
+ tokens are set or removed.
+
+ * Remove symlink recursion tests and increase max symlink count to 64
+ from 16.
+
+ * Windows specific Rx performance improvements.
+
+ * Support for Network Identity Manager 2.0
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * Avoid issues with freeing resources at shutdown.
+
+ * Numerous fixes to disconnected AFS.
+
+ * Disconnected AFS fixes for replaying changes without double-freeing.
+
+ * Attempt to use krb524 principal conversion in aklog if available.
+
+ AIX
+
+ * Kerberos configuration at build time corrected.
+
+ Linux
+
+ * Default to dynamic allocation of AFS kernel cache entries to allow
+ growth for inotify()-pinned entries. (beagle, famd, etc)
+
+ * Change client truncation routines to avoid locking issues.
+
+ * IA64 port clients fixed on Linux 2.6.
+
+ * RPMs now install fstrace message catalog.
+
+ * Support through kernel 2.6.29 tested.
+
+ * Fix locking issues on CellServDB file in /proc.
+
+ OpenBSD
+
+ * Support OpenBSD 4.4
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.57 (2009-01-23)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Conditional compilation of rxdebug support is now possible.
+
+ * Documentation updates.
+
+ * Further race connditions in Rx have been corrected.
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Salvager no longer attempts to recreate headers in the wrong
+ partition.
+
+ * Volumes are properly marked in use on creation and subsequently on
+ examination with vos.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * Undo the "UAC manifest fix" applied to afs_config.exe.
+
+ * Ensure that Freelance allocation of vnodes follow the AFS convention
+ of odd vnodes are directories and everything else is an even vnode.
+
+ * Add Freelance logic to mount point and symlink evaluation functions.
+
+ * Enhance smb_ParseASCIIBlock() so that it can handle all of the
+ STRING formats defined by the CIFS Technical Report 1.0.
+
+ * Validate the output of smb_ParseASCIIBlock() in all callers. Return
+ CM_ERROR_BADSMB if the STRING field cannot be parsed.
+ CM_ERROR_BADSMB will cause the contents of the packet to be logged.
+
+ * If multiple SMB Raw Write operations were taking place at the same
+ time, there could be data corruption because unique event objects
+ were not generated for each Netbios receive operation.
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * Userspace AFS library can now deal with large files when supported
+ by the platform.
+
+ * Numerous updates to disconnected AFS support, including changes to
+ allow reconnection to work in more circumstances.
+
+ FreeBSD
+
+ * FreeBSD unstrategy code has been updated.
+
+ Linux
+
+ * A race during file truncation has been corrected.
+
+ * System call probing routines have been updated.
+
+ * 2.6.29 is now supported.
+
+ MacOS
+
+ * 10.3 support has been corrected.
+
+ OpenBSD
+
+ * Initial OpenBSD 4.4 support.
+
+ Solaris
+
+ * Updates to allow compiling on newer OpenSolaris are now included.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.56 (2008-12-30)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * libuafs (userspace cache manager) updated to correct several errors.
+
+ * Additional rx debugging support is available as a conditional
+ compile.
+
+ * A race condition in Rx leading to a panic has been corrected.
+
+ * Rx idle time tracking has been corrected.
+
+ * ubik clone server support has been corrected.
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Salvager no longer leaves cores in vice partitions.
+
+ * The vol-dump tool now supports dumps larger than 2gb where possible.
+
+ * Operations on multiple files now report all FIDs in the audit log.
+
+ * butc XBSA support now works correctly on amd64.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * The NetIDMgr AFS Provider automated configuration logic was broken
+ by the introduction of Kerberos referrals. If the realm of the
+ identity cannot be determined, the workstation cell is now assumed
+ to belong to the newly created identity.
+
+ * Avoid a reference count under flow during rename operations.
+
+ * Avoid a crash caused by treating an arbitrary length directory
+ search mask as an 8.3 mask.
+
+ * Prevent rename operations if a case insensitive match for the target
+ name already exists and does not refer to the object being renamed.
+
+ * Increase the maximum number of background daemons to 64.
+
+ * Fix the UAC manifest applied to afs_config.exe
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * Updates to disconnected AFS support.
+
+ FreeBSD
+
+ * FreeBSD 7.1 is now supported.
+
+ * amd64 FreeBSD is now supported.
+
+ Linux
+
+ * Generic fh (exportfs API) cache type is now available.
+
+ * Avoid some oopses due to backing_dev_info inode fields not being
+ filled.
+
+ * 2.6.28 is now supported.
+
+ MacOS
+
+ * 10.3 support has been corrected.
+
+ Solaris
+
+ * Large partition support has been corrected.
+
+ * Filesystem-agnostic cache is now available on Solaris 10 and 11.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.55 (2009-11-10)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Salvager avoids leaving core files in vice partitions.
+
+ * NFS translator fixes.
+
+ * Unresponsive server handling fixes.
+
+ * A volserver race which could result in duplicate transactions is
+ fixed.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * Fixes a panic caused by corruption of the SMB virtual circuit list.
+ (race condition)
+
+ * Fixes a panic caused by receipt of a UTF-16 string that cannot be
+ converted to UTF-8.
+
+ * Implements a more aggressive recovery algorithm for Netbios errors
+ that result in loss of communication to the AFS SMB server.
+
+ * Improve pioctl response time when testing whether or not a PATH is
+ in AFS.
+
+ * Adds support for linked cells.
+
+ * Increases the length of the cell and realm names that can be input
+ into the Network Identity Manage AFS provider configuration dialog.
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * Disconnected AFS avoids infinite recursion during rmdir.
+
+ Linux
+
+ * Support for 2.6.28 (not complete for NFS translator modules).
+
+ * Support for using exportfs API for filesystem-agnostic cache.
+
+ * Disable backing store readahead.
+
+ * Avoid deadlocks when writing back mmapped files larger than the
+ cache.
+
+ * Avoid Oops when doing PAG garbage collection.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.54 (2008-10-08)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Updates for new Tivoli X/Open API finding.
+
+ * A double-free is corrected in Rx.
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Ubik cleans up file descriptor cache correctly when doing recovery.
+
+ * Enhanced vldb error checker included.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * Prevent a crash that could occur when multiple file / directory
+ change notifications are processed simultaneously.
+
+ MacOS
+
+ * AFS claims more free space so Finder will attempt file copies.
+
+ Linux
+
+ * Avoid spurious ENOENT when calling gwtcwd() on a volume root.
+
+ * Avoid spurious ENOTDIR during fakestat.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.53 (2008-09-26)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * rx avoids many packet leaks.
+
+ * rx jumbogram disabling now works (and is the default).
+
+ All server platforms
+
+ * Demand Attach fileserver tries to avoid issues tracking offline
+ status of volumes.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * Many potential deadlock conditions due to out of order lock
+ acquisitions have been corrected.
+
+ * A race condition resulting in an undercount on the cm_scache_t
+ reference counts has been corrected.
+
+ * An empty string when sent as an ioctl path is now properly
+ interpreted as meaning the current directory. This affects "fs
+ lsm", "symlink list", etc.
+
+ * Fix smb string parsing differences where the smb protocol
+ documentation does not match the actual Windows implementation.
+
+ * Random access denied errors fixed.
+
+ * A file server lock synchronization issue was corrected in SMB
+ NTCreateX and NTTranCreate operations. This bug prevented properly
+ operation when loading roaming profiles.
+
+ * Fix a heap overwrite error during server probe operations if a new
+ server is added while a probe operation is in progress.
+
+ * Fix an LSA memory leak that was the result of an LSA error.
+
+ * Do not leak cm_cell_t objects if the VLDB server lookup fails.
+
+ * Only initialize rx mutex/lock objects once.
+
+ * Do not nul terminate the AFS volume name when reported to Windows.
+
+ * Improve VNOVOL error handling. Prevent updated vl information from
+ being destroyed immediately after it was acquired. This bug
+ prevented proper fail over when volumes are moved or removed from a
+ server.
+
+ * Remove volume id from the server volume list in response to VMOVED
+ and VNOVOL errors.
+
+ * "fs flushXXX" commands now destroy locally built B+ directory trees.
+
+ * Prevent mixture of locally modified directory pages and file server
+ directory pages.
+
+ * Fail over to alternate vl servers if a ubik error is returned.
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * Disconnected AFS now supports read-write mode.
+
+ * volserver now builds correctly.
+
+ AIX
+
+ * AIX 6 is now supported.
+
+ FreeBSD
+
+ * FreeBSD 7 is now supported.
+
+ Linux
+
+ * cache bypass is now supported.
+
+ * 2.6.x kmod compilation now uses kernel compile options always.
+
+ * Support through 2.6.27.
+
+ MacOS
+
+ * Show more space free so Finder doesn't get confused.
+
+ Solaris 10
+
+ * Default to namei rather than inode.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.52 (2008-08-18)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * Initialize volume updateDate at volume creation.
+
+ * Avoid potential corruption of directories during salvage.
+
+ * Check for out of memory condition during allocation of additional Rx
+ packets.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * Restore support for Windows 2000 (broken in 1.5.50).
+
+ * Perform additional validation on volume names in mount points during
+ creation and evaluation.
+
+ * Fix several deadlocks, races, and reference count issues.
+
+ * Further optimize SMB Directory Search processing and minimize the
+ number of InlineBulkStatus RPCs sent to the file server.
+
+ * Enable "bos restricted" operations.
+
+ * Fix the create of submounts used by the AFSCreds and afs_config
+ drive mapping tabs.
+
+ * Fix a short name truncation bug. (1.5.50)
+
+ * Fix the error code reported when attempting to delete a file on a
+ readonly volume or one that is marked with the readonly DOS
+ attribute.
+
+ * Fix a heap corruption error when reading the CellServDB file
+ location.
+
+ * Add the "RxUdpBufSize" registry value. The new default is 256KB.
+
+ * Do not include trailing NULs in the directory search output.
+ (1.5.50)
+
+ * Pre-allocate 64 Rx Packet buffers per thread in order to improve
+ performance.
+
+ * For debugging: add smb lock requests and stat cache lock allocations
+ to the output from "fs memdump".
+
+ NetBSD
+
+ * Workaround broken sigwait() to allow fileserver to shut down
+ correctly pre NetBSD 5.0.
+
+ Solaris 10
+
+ * Default to namei fileserver; Allow inode fileserver at configure
+ time by override.
+
+ NFS translator
+
+ * Try harder to avoid kernel panics for malformed requests.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.51 (2008-07-29)
+
+ All platforms
+
+ * salvager tries harder to arrange for clients to get VBUSY while
+ salvaging single volumes.
+
+ * salvager avoids certain corruption when salvaging directories.
+
+ * Rx connection clones disabled.
+
+ Microsoft Windows
+
+ * The 32-bit EXE 1.5.50 installer failed to properly install the C
+ Runtime library. When used as an upgrade OpenAFS would continue to
+ work but when used as a new installation, OpenAFS binaries would
+ fail to load.
+
+ * Fixes the "fs" and "symlink" commands to properly parse Unicode path
+ prefixes during the pioctl remote procedure call. This bug would
+ result in file not found errors for files and directories that
+ clearly exist. (Bug introduced in 1.5.50)
+
+ * Large File support is disabled. (Bug introduced in 1.5.50)
+
+ * Removes the possibility of a deadlock during volume location update
+ operation if all of the reported file servers are unreachable at the
+ time of the update.
+
+ * Ensures that reference counts are properly incremented/decremented
+ on Rx connection objects used for volume location RPCs.
+
+ * Over Quota errors during cm_FSync() calls would lead to an infinite
+ loop as the error was never propagated to the caller.
+
+ All UNIX client platforms
+
+ * Bugfixes to disconnected AFS support in the cache manager.
+
+
+OpenAFS 1.5.50 (2008-07-16)
- * Unnecessary DNS lookups of share names are avoided improving
- performance.
+ All platforms
- All UNIX client platforms
+ * volserver puts recloned volumes back online before returning the
+ volume to the fileserver, avoiding spurious VNOVOL errors.
- * Non-Kerberos PAM modules work correctly again.
+ * Updated TSM X/Open API support available.
- MacOS X
+ * Demand Attach fileserver will not crash due to accesses during
+ volume cloning.
- * MacOS 10.6 (Snowleopard) is now supported, both 32 and 64 bit mode.
+ * Substantial documentation updates.
- * Updates to the AFSCommander preferences pane.
+ * Demand Attach fileserver state tracking and analyzer tool
+ improvements.
- * Installer now permits cell names with dashes.
+ * UAFS userspace cachemanager updates.
+ * Corrected support for anti-meltdown protection in the client.
-OpenAFS 1.5.61 (2009-08-06)
+ 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
- * Correct another race condition in the Rx library that could result
- in an unexpected panic while freeing the Rx call iovq.
+ * Updates for Demand Attach fileserver.
- * rx packet resend and data packets sent counts were incorrect.
+ Microsoft Windows
- * fs setquota, fs setcachesize, vos setfields, and vos create now
- accept human readable orders of magnitude. (K, M, G)
+ * Fix two memory leaks.
- * fs listquota fixed to permit large quota sizes to be displayed.
+ * Fix one missing lock.
- * Correct documentation of bosserver permissions requirements.
+ * Handle access denied errors when writing dirty buffers.
- * Modify vlserver to avoid potentially corrupting the database through
- volume id reuse.
+ * Fix two errors that would cause the *experimental* AFS Servers
+ to crash.
- * Generalized support for fast Rx timeout due to network
- down/unreachable.
+
+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
- * Allow audit logs to be sent via sys5 IPC message queues instead of
- logged directly.
+ * 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
- * 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 a cm_buf_t reference count leak when attempts to write dirty
+ buffers to the file server from within cm_IncrSyncer() fail.
- * Fix "fs newcell" which was broken in 1.5.60.
+ * Prevent udebug from crashing.
- * Do not attempt to synchronize dirty buffers if the associated volume
- is known to be unavailable.
+ * 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.
- * 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.
+OpenAFS 1.4.12
- * 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 client systems: Major bugfixes.
+ File servers: Major bugfixes.
- * Fix automatic ranking of vldb servers whose values are obtained from
- the CellServDB file.
+ * New functionality:
- * Add failover for RX CALL TIMEOUT errors when the volume is readonly
- or the call is to a vldb server.
+ 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:
- * Add registry based cell search functionality to NetIdMgr,
- afs_config.exe, and klog.exe.
+ - Additional fixes and support. (124107, 123917)
- * 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.
+ Linux:
- * 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 2.6.28. (123580)
- * 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.
+ - Support 2.6.29. (124115)
- * During a shutdown short circuit the offline volume check daemon
- functionality.
+ - Attempt to support 2.6.30 (124560)
- * Return the error code of RXAFS_FetchData / RXAFS_StoreData in
- preference to an error code reported by rx_EndCall.
+ - Avoid race during truncation. (124094)
- * 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.
+ - Dynamic vcache allocation support, to deal with inotify vcache pinning. (124334)
- * Fix a bug introduced in 1.5.60 that prevents the afs netidmgr
- provider from obtaining tokens when referrals are in play.
+ - Correct use of truncate_inode_pages to vmtruncate for locking issues. (124128)
- * Add "fs chown" and "fs chgrp" commands to permit the owner and group
- of objects stored in AFS to be set from Windows.
+ - Update RPM configuration. (123650, 102673, 124272)
- * Avoid performing background daemon operations when the machine is
- going into suspend mode.
+ - Update kernel feature detection. (124507, 123604)
- * Perform offline volume checks in most recently used order.
+ - Do appropriate locking for CellServDB in /proc. (124407)
- * Prevent crash when a data version for a cache object goes backwards.
+ MacOS:
- * Multi-thread safe library versions are now being generated and used.
- mtafsubik.lib, mtafsutil.lib, mtafsvldb.lib, mtafsvol.lib.
+ - Fix MacOS 10.3 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.
+ - Add candidate Darwin 10 support.
- All UNIX client platforms
+ NetBSD:
- * Fix out-of-tree source builds.
+ - Corrected NetBSD version tests. (123647)
- MacOS
+ OpenBSD:
- * GUI installer now asks for local cell information.
+ - Update support for 4.4 (124541)
- * AFS Commander preferences pane is now installed by default.
+ Solaris:
- Solaris
+ - Support cache filesystems which do not allow open by inode number, enabled by
+ default on Solaris 9 and later. (123677)
- * Avoid kernel panics due to null pointer dereferences in the network
- interface poller kernel thread.
+ - Improve error code return quality. (124426)
+ - Allow large partitions on Solaris servers.
-OpenAFS 1.5.60 (2009-05-31)
+ All client systems:
- All platforms
+ - Avoid improper error messages about key version when krb5 is in use. (124220)
- * Retry volserver transaction creation on failure.
+ - Avoid attempting to free kernel memory which was already freed. (124531)
- * Allow building HTML and PDF documentation from included XML copies
- of User Guide, Admin Guide and Quick Start Guide for Unix.
+ - Properly count offline volumes in vos client. (124333)
- * Documentation updates and additional documentation.
+ All server systems:
- * Add -encrypt support to pts client.
+ - Avoid 64 bit time issues in callback dump files. (124451)
- * Convert MR-AFS fs commands to OSD commands.
+ - Support more than one local Kerberos realm; Usernames are assumed to be the
+ same across realms.
- All server platforms
+ - Ubik recovery is corrected to avoid spurious errors. (123723)
- * Updated background sync process in fileserver to avoid a race which
- could result in a volume being taken offline.
+ - Do proper host address hashing for little endian machines in fileserver. (124447)
- Microsoft Windows
+ - Update backup utility to properly compute header needs in the backup buffer.
+ (124425)
- * 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 blocking during Rx unused connection reaping.
- * 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.
+ - Avoid leaking file handles in the fileserver when closing a volume. (124359)
- * Release Notes, User and Administrator guides are now shipped as
- indexed Windows HtmlHelp Files. (.chm). Shortcuts are provided from
- the Start Menu.
+ - Fix bosserver corefile naming to be y2k-safe. (124340)
- * 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.
+ - Avoid potential infinite loop in deleted host handling in the fileserver.
- * The pioctl interface now properly handles drive letter substitution
- to UNC paths. (SUBST <d:> <\\afs\cell\path>)
+ - Support large volume dumps in vol-dump. (123984)
- * The BackConnectionHostNames registry value configuration was broken
- when dynamic re-establishment of Netbios Name registrations was
- added. This release restores the functionality.
+ - Build butc XBSA support on 64 bit systems.
- * All hidden vos.exe commands are now revealed.
+ All systems:
- * Attempts to store the same dirty file chunk from multiple threads
- are now prevented.
+ - Properly track Rx connection idleness for timeouts.
- * The IsPathInAfs test in Explorer Shell Extension and fs.exe now
- permits broken symlinks to be treated as being in AFS.
+ - Additional documentation. (124472)
- * vos.exe commands that output 64-bit integer values once again do so.
- This was broken in 1.5.59.
+ - Avoid a race which may result in an in-use Rx packet being freed. (123799)
- * Cygwin Import Libraries are provided in the SDK for all OpenAFS
- DLLs. This permits building cygwin applications against OpenAFS
- libraries.
+OpenAFS 1.4.9
- * NSIS installer does a much better job of cleaning up files left over
- from previous installs.
+ All client systems: Security fixes.
- * libafsconf.dll moved from Client\Program to Common directory as is
- is now used by all modules for CellServDB processing.
+ * Security fixes:
- All UNIX client platforms
+ All client systems:
- * Write back changes on last store for memcache to avoid discarding
- changes.
+ - Avoid a potential kernel memory overrun if more items than requested are
+ returned from an InlineBulk or BulkStatus message. (124579)
- * 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.
+ Linux client systems:
- DragonflyBSD
+ - Avoid converting negative errors into invalid kernel memory pointers. (124580)
- * Support as a userland port.
+OpenAFS 1.4.8
- FreeBSD
+ File servers: Major bugfixes.
+ All systems: Minor bugfixes.
- * Corrected structure definition for userspace cache manager to allow
- builds to complete.
+ * Bugfixes:
- Linux
+ AIX:
- * Corrected client locking support.
+ - AIX 6.1 is now supported.
- * Updated patch to stop deadlocking in the kernel during mmap.
+ - Unpin kernel memory references after free. (99456)
- * Avoid oops when setting up groups for PAGs to match keyrings.
+ FreeBSD:
- * Use Linux fh-based cache in cases where possible by default.
+ - FreeBSD 7 is now supported.
- MacOS 10.3:
+ Linux:
- * Corrected structure definition for userspace cache manager to allow
- builds to complete.
+ - Avoid deadlock when writing back pages in an mmap()ed file larger than
+ the cache. (120491)
- OpenBSD
+ - Update process tree walking for PAG garbage collection to avoid oopses.
+ (116603)
- * Support for OpenBSD 4.5.
+ - fakestat mode now correctly avoids spurious ENOTDIR errors.
- Solaris
+ - Use kernel build system for all platforms.
- * Corrected support for server-side vos split interface.
+ - Remove openafs directory from proc in correct order. (112910)
+ - Handle renames across directories correctly in the linux dcache. (74672)
-OpenAFS 1.5.59 (2009-04-06)
+ - Probe syscall table when possible. (105457)
- Microsoft Windows
+ - Mount point parsing is now updated to handle only well-formed mount
+ points rather than similarly-formed symlinks. (113558, 100836)
- * Increased service priority class to "High" to match the priority of
- system components that are dependent upon the a timely response.
+ - ucontext-style LWP is now anbled for glibc versions newer than 2.3.
- * SMB error responses avoid returning errors that could confuse the
- Microsoft SMB redirector into disconnecting the connection to \\AFS.
+ MacOS:
- All UNIX client platforms (except MacOS X 10.4 and 10.5)
+ - Update available space shown. (112910)
- * OpenAFS 1.5.59 contains fixes for the client issues addressed by the
- security advisories OPENAFS-SA-2009-001 and OPENAFS-SA-2009-002.
+ NetBSD:
- Linux platforms
+ - Work around broken SIGWAIT. (111404)
- * Support for prerelease Linux 2.6.30 kernels.
+ Solaris:
+ - Solaris 10 now defaults to namei fileservers.
-OpenAFS 1.5.58 (2009-03-30)
+ - NFS translator issues fixed.
- All platforms
+ - Changes to address Solaris updates. (105495)
- * Code cleanup and prototyping.
+ All client systems:
- * Avoid unnecessary blocking in Rx periodic cleanup code.
+ - udebug correctly displays the last "yes" host.
- All server platforms
+ - Allow more vldb lookups to be cached in the client.
- * Fileserver CopyOnWrite routine optimized for performance.
+ - Fix aklog to not be excessively verbose when not requested.
- * Make fileserver callback dumps 64 bit safe.
+ - Add support for timing out accesses which are not completing in a timely
+ manner.
- * Fix byte order issues with fileserver host hashing.
+ - Properly flag backup volumes being added to the vldb by vos syncvldb.
- * Fix buffer size issues with butc.
+ All server systems:
- * Fix several Ubik recovery issues.
+ - fileserver "large" setting now implies 128 threads instead of 12.
- * Avoid leaking file references in the fileserver.
+ - fileserver check for duplicate uuids is now applied correctly.
- * Fix a race in DAFS while closing vnodes, and another offlining
- volumes.
+ - Newer xbsa APIs are supported for TSM integration in butc.
- * volserver interfaces for volume splitting client.
+ - salvager avoids corrupting length of directory objects. (111585, 107767)
- Microsoft Windows
+ - volserver avoids a race during volume release so a volume will not
+ appear to be offline. (107258)
- * [RT 124293] A race condition exists which can result in a crash.
+ - Add support for returning errors when accesses are not completing
+ in a timely manner.
- * [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.
+ - Avoid potential race in the volserver when creating transactions. (121263)
- * [RT 124276] Read-only volume failover was broken in 1.5.53 whenever
- accessing a volume results in VNOVOL or VMOVED.
+ - Return sensible error when a release or restore exhausts server
+ resources. (121040)
- * [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.
+ - volserver now returns EXDEV if a new replica would duplicate one which
+ already existed elsewhere on the server.
- * Add Windows Application Event Log warning messages for "Client SMB
- MPX value too large" and "Client SMB Buffer Size too small".
+ - Disable jumbograms by default.
- * Renaming of files across directory boundaries would result in an
- invalid handle error when attempting to access the files after the
- move.
+ - volserver updates a volume's updateDate on volume creation. (110943)
- * 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.
+ - Partitions over 2tb are now supported. (88811)
- * 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.
+ All systems:
- * 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.
+ - Re-enable Rx client keepalives. (20727)
- * VNOSERVICE and VOFFLINE errors were leaking and were exposed to the
- smb client.
+ - Support autoconf 2.62. (118058)
- * 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".
+ - Update Rx to avoid leaking packets.
- * Optimize the performance of resetting access control lists when
- tokens are set or removed.
+ - vos supports the -noresolve options to avoid issues with 127.0.0.1 being
+ named in /etc/hosts.
- * Remove symlink recursion tests and increase max symlink count to 64
- from 16.
+ - Additional documentation. (104110)
- * Windows specific Rx performance improvements.
+OpenAFS 1.4.7
- * Support for Network Identity Manager 2.0
+ File servers: Major bugfixes.
+ All systems: Minor bugfixes.
- All UNIX client platforms
+ * Bugfixes:
- * Avoid issues with freeing resources at shutdown.
+ AIX:
- * Numerous fixes to disconnected AFS.
+ - Kerberos as included in AIX has missing symbols. AFS krb5 tools now
+ deal correctly.
- * Disconnected AFS fixes for replaying changes without double-freeing.
+ - AIX LAM aklog plugin can now be used CDE screenlocker.
- * Attempt to use krb524 principal conversion in aklog if available.
+ - Add support for getting the current PAG in pagsh and PAM.
- AIX
+ - Avoid sending a terminal hangup to STREAMS in aklog.
- * Kerberos configuration at build time corrected.
+ - Fix afsdb support in the client.
- Linux
+ Linux:
- * Default to dynamic allocation of AFS kernel cache entries to allow
- growth for inotify()-pinned entries. (beagle, famd, etc)
+ - Kernels through 2.6.25 are now supported. (77370,88000,83716,83890,80463)
- * Change client truncation routines to avoid locking issues.
+ - Client now only hashes dirty inodes. (78544)
- * IA64 port clients fixed on Linux 2.6.
+ - Fix to avoid returning invalid mount point data when -fakestat-all is in use.
+ (93898)
- * RPMs now install fstrace message catalog.
+ - RPM build system updates. (93616)
- * Support through kernel 2.6.29 tested.
+ - Restored write-on-close-or-fsync semantics when possible. (17509)
- * Fix locking issues on CellServDB file in /proc.
+ - Enabled support for flock() on files in AFS. (53457)
- OpenBSD
+ - ARM Linux now supported.
- * Support OpenBSD 4.4
+ - Kernel keyring support updated.
+ - Fix client-displayed timestamp ordering by zeroing nanosecond field.
-OpenAFS 1.5.57 (2009-01-23)
+ MacOS:
- All platforms
+ - Boot time init script now uses afs.conf to store config options. (81825)
- * Conditional compilation of rxdebug support is now possible.
+ - Avoid kernel panic due to excessive lock tracking when removing files.
- * Documentation updates.
+ - Avoid leaking kernel memory when trying to read() a directory.
- * Further race connditions in Rx have been corrected.
+ Solaris:
- All server platforms
+ - Avoid potential kernel panic if the root vnode of AFS changes.
- * Salvager no longer attempts to recreate headers in the wrong
- partition.
+ - Avoid potential kernel panic when shutting down if contracts are in use.
- * Volumes are properly marked in use on creation and subsequently on
- examination with vos.
+ - Avoid potential delays when creating new PAGs if the system clock
+ has gone backwards.
- Microsoft Windows
+ All client systems:
- * Undo the "UAC manifest fix" applied to afs_config.exe.
+ - At client shutdown, try harder to clean up in-use resources. (74479)
- * Ensure that Freelance allocation of vnodes follow the AFS convention
- of odd vnodes are directories and everything else is an even vnode.
+ - When fakestat is in use, enable optimization for Gnome Nautilus lookups.
- * Add Freelance logic to mount point and symlink evaluation functions.
+ - Properly hold lock when updating disk cache metadata to avoid
+ kernel panic. (59136)
- * Enhance smb_ParseASCIIBlock() so that it can handle all of the
- STRING formats defined by the CIFS Technical Report 1.0.
+ - Avoid wrapping to the start of a file when attempting to write a large file
+ to a pre-largefile fileserver. (73720)
- * 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.
+ All server systems:
- * 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.
+ - Fixed to avoid truncating ubik databases during recovery. (77183)
- All UNIX client platforms
+ - fileserver issue with internal file cache filling has been fixed. (87977)
- * Userspace AFS library can now deal with large files when supported
- by the platform.
+ - fileserver thread quota enforcement now done in all cases. (87416)
- * Numerous updates to disconnected AFS support, including changes to
- allow reconnection to work in more circumstances.
+ - fileserver avoids potential network-related deadlock when breaking
+ callbacks.
- FreeBSD
+ - fileserver avoids crash due to race of resource creation and user requests
+ at startup.
- * FreeBSD unstrategy code has been updated.
+ - fileserver avoids crash when reinitializing Ubik connections.
- Linux
+ - volserver fixed to avoid leaving orphaned files during restore. (46937)
- * A race during file truncation has been corrected.
+ - volserver now supports convertROtoRW for inode fileservers.
- * System call probing routines have been updated.
+ - Support disabling kerberos 4 style username protection in servers. (75101)
- * 2.6.29 is now supported.
+ All systems:
- MacOS
+ - Fix to butc to avoid crash due to threaded library variant.
- * 10.3 support has been corrected.
+ - Fix to avoid network retransmission issues if the system clock goes
+ backwards.
- OpenBSD
+ - vos syncvldb and syncserver now support a dryrun (do nothing) mode.
- * Initial OpenBSD 4.4 support.
+ - vos addsite now supports adding a site where a replica is already
+ available.
- Solaris
+ - vos clone now supports creating properly-named readonly and backup clones.
- * Updates to allow compiling on newer OpenSolaris are now included.
+ - vos restore now allows an older copy of a volume at an alternate site to
+ not be removed.
+ - cmdebug now supports dumping a client's CellServDB.
-OpenAFS 1.5.56 (2008-12-30)
+ - cmdebug now supports showing human-readable expiration times.
- All platforms
+ - aklog now handles Kerberos referrals.
- * libuafs (userspace cache manager) updated to correct several errors.
+ - Additional documentation now included. (89288,89289,86677)
- * Additional rx debugging support is available as a conditional
- compile.
+OpenAFS 1.4.6
- * A race condition in Rx leading to a panic has been corrected.
+ All systems: Major bugfixes.
- * Rx idle time tracking has been corrected.
+ * Bugfixes:
- * ubik clone server support has been corrected.
+ All systems:
- All server platforms
+ - fileserver host tracking code had a missing lock on a host structure;
+ that lock has been added.
- * Salvager no longer leaves cores in vice partitions.
+ - 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.
- * The vol-dump tool now supports dumps larger than 2gb where possible.
+ - fileserver will now leave a corefile when it is doing a shutdown due
+ to error conditions.
- * Operations on multiple files now report all FIDs in the audit log.
+ - fileserver again allows ufs as a valid filesystem type (regression in 1.4.5).
- * butc XBSA support now works correctly on amd64.
+ - cbd handler for fileserver status data has an interpretation error which
+ could cause crashes corrected.
- Microsoft Windows
+ - fileserver accurately tracks number of callbacks on a given file.
- * 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.
+OpenAFS 1.4.5
- * Avoid a reference count under flow during rename operations.
+ All systems: Minor bugfixes.
+ New systems: MacOS 10.5.
+
+ All systems:
- * Avoid a crash caused by treating an arbitrary length directory
- search mask as an 8.3 mask.
+ - fileserver address tracking is improved to avoid potentially merging
+ unrelated hosts.
- * Prevent rename operations if a case insensitive match for the target
- name already exists and does not refer to the object being renamed.
+ - Documentation updates.
- * Increase the maximum number of background daemons to 64.
+ - namei fileserver now does fsync()s in background batches for performance
+ improvements.
- * Fix the UAC manifest applied to afs_config.exe
+ - Kerberos ticket support corrected in bundled Kerberos 4 utilities on 64
+ bit platforms.
- All UNIX client platforms
+ - fileserver includes limited per-host thread quota support to avoid
+ resource starvation.
- * Updates to disconnected AFS support.
+ - fileserver deals with more damaged volumes without asserting.
- FreeBSD
+ - vos validates dumpfiles before attempting restores.
- * FreeBSD 7.1 is now supported.
+ - vos clone will no longer potentially delete the parent volume.
- * amd64 FreeBSD is now supported.
+ - Client no longer permits empty UUID to be created.
- Linux
+ - fs uuid command for checking, regenerating UUID added.
- * Generic fh (exportfs API) cache type is now available.
+ - Updates for gcc 4.2.
- * Avoid some oopses due to backing_dev_info inode fields not being
- filled.
+ - fileserver treats w (write) permission as granting read lock permission
+ in addition to write.
- * 2.6.28 is now supported.
+ AIX:
- MacOS
+ - Bundled NAS Kerberos is now supported. (5.x)
- * 10.3 support has been corrected.
+ - LAM aklog module is provided. (5.x)
- Solaris
+ - Associate cache files with correct filesystem to avoid snapshots when
+ performing maintenance on local filesystems.
- * Large partition support has been corrected.
+ Irix:
- * Filesystem-agnostic cache is now available on Solaris 10 and 11.
+ - Makefile updates.
+ Linux:
-OpenAFS 1.5.55 (2009-11-10)
+ - Kernels throigh 2.6.23 are known to work.
- All platforms
+ - Updates to syscall table probing.
- * Salvager avoids leaving core files in vice partitions.
+ - Bug fix in keyring PAG support to avoid oops.
- * NFS translator fixes.
+ - updated sample RPM configuration.
- * Unresponsive server handling fixes.
+ - sparc32 lwp support updated.
- * A volserver race which could result in duplicate transactions is
- fixed.
+ - Avoid potential oops in symlink support in certain older kernels.
- Microsoft Windows
+ - Avoid potential deadlock during vmalloc.
- * Fixes a panic caused by corruption of the SMB virtual circuit list.
- (race condition)
+ - Corrected locking while interacting with kernel task list.
- * Fixes a panic caused by receipt of a UTF-16 string that cannot be
- converted to UTF-8.
+ MacOS:
- * Implements a more aggressive recovery algorithm for Netbios errors
- that result in loss of communication to the AFS SMB server.
+ - Several panics fixed, including remove_fsref. (10.4 and later)
- * Improve pioctl response time when testing whether or not a PATH is
- in AFS.
+ - IP address changes now tracked.
- * Adds support for linked cells.
+ - Corrected support for dropboxes (li access without r) with cp and Finder.
- * Increases the length of the cell and realm names that can be input
- into the Network Identity Manage AFS provider configuration dialog.
+ - fstrace and ancillary files now included.
- All UNIX client platforms
+ - man pages are now installed in the default MANPATH.
- * Disconnected AFS avoids infinite recursion during rmdir.
+ - Servers will be timed out quickly if there is no route available.
- Linux
+ - Temporary files from remove-while-busy now cleaned up correctly.
- * Support for 2.6.28 (not complete for NFS translator modules).
+ Solaris:
- * Support for using exportfs API for filesystem-agnostic cache.
+ - Updates to accomodate kernel interface changes. (10u4 and later)
- * Disable backing store readahead.
+ - knfs and NFS translator support updated.
- * Avoid deadlocks when writing back mmapped files larger than the
- cache.
+ - Changes to accomodate version 5.4 xbsa library.
- * Avoid Oops when doing PAG garbage collection.
+ - Updates for new SunStudio defaults.
+OpenAFS 1.4.2
-OpenAFS 1.5.54 (2008-10-08)
+ All systems: Major bugfixes.
- All platforms
+ * Bugfixes:
- * Updates for new Tivoli X/Open API finding.
+ All systems:
- * A double-free is corrected in Rx.
+ * A bug in the namei volserver which could erroneously make a replicated or
+ moved volume go offline has been fixed.
- All server platforms
+ * Volume package users (fileserver, volserver, salvager) avoid using lockf to
+ avoid leaking byte range locks on volume internal files.
- * Ubik cleans up file descriptor cache correctly when doing recovery.
+ MacOS 10.4:
- * Enhanced vldb error checker included.
+ * A bug where the client kernel module could free stack memory (which caused
+ issues with 64 bit Intel most commonly) has been fixed.
- Microsoft Windows
+ Linux:
- * Prevent a crash that could occur when multiple file / directory
- change notifications are processed simultaneously.
+ * A missing kernel feature test has been fixed.
- MacOS
+ * group based PAG support is still enabled when possible.
- * AFS claims more free space so Finder will attempt file copies.
+ * ia32 syscall table support for amd64 has build fixes for modern kernels.
- Linux
+ Solaris:
- * Avoid spurious ENOENT when calling gwtcwd() on a volume root.
+ * 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 ENOTDIR during fakestat.
+ Windows:
+ * DNS registration is disabled for the loopback adapter, and we make sure
+ Netbios is turned on.
-OpenAFS 1.5.53 (2008-09-26)
+ Since 1.4.1:
- All platforms
+ All platforms:
+ * Remove use of ubik_Call in the source code so prototypes are used.
- * rx avoids many packet leaks.
+ * Avoid synchrony in call from the fileserver to the ptserver.
- * rx jumbogram disabling now works (and is the default).
+ * Fix a bug in the backup suite when restoring.
- All server platforms
+ * fileserver and volserver now log for error conditions which may cause
+ exiting.
- * Demand Attach fileserver tries to avoid issues tracking offline
- status of volumes.
+ * rx avoids a stack overrun when more packets are needed.
- Microsoft Windows
+ * volserver avoids holding a lock too long when purging volumes.
- * Many potential deadlock conditions due to out of order lock
- acquisitions have been corrected.
+ * volserver lock initialization fixes
- * A race condition resulting in an undercount on the cm_scache_t
- reference counts has been corrected.
+ * volserver volume nuke fixes to avoid leaving files behind
- * 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 avoids error when authenticating ptserver requests
- * Fix smb string parsing differences where the smb protocol
- documentation does not match the actual Windows implementation.
+ * fileserver no longer crashes when GetCPS fails
- * Random access denied errors fixed.
+ * salvager enhancements to deal better with corrupt volumes for namei
- * A file server lock synchronization issue was corrected in SMB
- NTCreateX and NTTranCreate operations. This bug prevented properly
- operation when loading roaming profiles.
+ Unix:
- * Fix a heap overwrite error during server probe operations if a new
- server is added while a probe operation is in progress.
+ * aklog deals with KDCs which give "generic" replies to principals not
+ existing.
- * Fix an LSA memory leak that was the result of an LSA error.
+ * Fix bug in cache parameter autotuning
- * Do not leak cm_cell_t objects if the VLDB server lookup fails.
+ RedHat:
- * Only initialize rx mutex/lock objects once.
+ * packaging fixes
- * Do not nul terminate the AFS volume name when reported to Windows.
+ Linux:
- * 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.
+ * amd64 pthread library family updates.
- * Remove volume id from the server volume list in response to VMOVED
- and VNOVOL errors.
+ * autoconf fixes for kernel feature testing
- * "fs flushXXX" commands now destroy locally built B+ directory trees.
+ * keyring PAG support now only enabled if needed features are present
+ and other updates
- * Prevent mixture of locally modified directory pages and file server
- directory pages.
+ * inline a version of BUG() so we get better oopses
- * Fail over to alternate vl servers if a ubik error is returned.
+ AIX:
- All UNIX client platforms
+ * tsm is updated to work with the new AIX 5 interface.
- * Disconnected AFS now supports read-write mode.
+ MacOS:
- * volserver now builds correctly.
+ * Cross compile fixes
- AIX
+ * Packaging improvements
- * AIX 6 is now supported.
+ * Large file support fixed (Thanks to Chaskiel Grundman)
- FreeBSD
+ * Fixes for Leopard seed.
- * FreeBSD 7 is now supported.
+ * Installer image updates
- Linux
+ Windows:
- * cache bypass is now supported.
+ * Removes race conditions and a deadlock introduced in 1.4.1
- * 2.6.x kmod compilation now uses kernel compile options always.
+ * Fixes ANSI filename option.
- * Support through 2.6.27.
+ * Establishes new connections to file servers when
+ IP address configuration changes are detected.
- MacOS
+ * Improved CIFS compatibility
- * Show more space free so Finder doesn't get confused.
+ * Cache Manager optimizations
- Solaris 10
+ * Fixes vlserver failover when mounting 'root.afs'
+ (Freelance mode disabled)
- * Default to namei rather than inode.
+ * Installs help files in the correct location for use by afscreds.exe
+ and afs control panel.
+ * Improve reporting of "over quota" and "disk full" errors.
-OpenAFS 1.5.52 (2008-08-18)
+ * Prevent crash when evaluating mount points to volumes that do
+ not exist
- All platforms
+ * 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.
- * Initialize volume updateDate at volume creation.
+ * SDK moved to \Program Files\OpenAFS\SDK
- * Avoid potential corruption of directories during salvage.
+ * NSIS and WiX Installer Frameworks update to the latest versions
- * Check for out of memory condition during allocation of additional Rx
- packets.
+ * Improvements to the Kerberos Logon Integration
- Microsoft Windows
+ * Prevents exception in Integrated Logon DLL during SysPrep
- * Restore support for Windows 2000 (broken in 1.5.50).
+ * Prevents displays of MessageBox dialogs in response to Network Adapter
+ errors
- * Perform additional validation on volume names in mount points during
- creation and evaluation.
+ * Hard Dead and Connection Timeout values restricted to the CIFS Session
+ Timeout value.
- * Fix several deadlocks, races, and reference count issues.
+ * Correct writing of BackConnectionsHostNames registry value.
- * Further optimize SMB Directory Search processing and minimize the
- number of InlineBulkStatus RPCs sent to the file server.
+ * Properly recycles Volume entries
- * Enable "bos restricted" operations.
+ * The AFS Explorer Shell Extension always finds its resource library.
- * Fix the create of submounts used by the AFSCreds and afs_config
- drive mapping tabs.
+ * The export list for AFSAUTHENT.DLL has been corrected. (The AFS
+ plugin for NetIDMgr will no longer use 100% of CPU.)
- * Fix a short name truncation bug. (1.5.50)
+ * Renaming files on Microsoft Vista Build 5536 works.
- * 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.
+ * Better handling of "." directory in fs commands
- * Fix a heap corruption error when reading the CellServDB file
- location.
+ * Add OpenAFS License text to installers
- * Add the "RxUdpBufSize" registry value. The new default is 256KB.
+ * fs setquota and fs mkmount commands behave the same as the UNIX
+ version
- * Do not include trailing NULs in the directory search output.
- (1.5.50)
+OpenAFS 1.4.2
- * Pre-allocate 64 Rx Packet buffers per thread in order to improve
- performance.
+ All systems: Major bugfixes.
- * For debugging: add smb lock requests and stat cache lock allocations
- to the output from "fs memdump".
+ * Bugfixes:
- NetBSD
+ All systems:
- * Workaround broken sigwait() to allow fileserver to shut down
- correctly pre NetBSD 5.0.
+ - Volume dump parsing code in the volserver has better error checking.
- Solaris 10
+ - salvager has improved damaged volume handling on namei fileservers.
- * Default to namei fileserver; Allow inode fileserver at configure
- time by override.
+ - fileserver has size validity checks for when large file support is disabled.
- NFS translator
+ - fileserver avoids potentially multiply adding a host to its hash table.
- * Try harder to avoid kernel panics for malformed requests.
+ - rxkad client private data storage is allocated dynamically on ticket size.
+ - Handle universal error code translation for file locking.
-OpenAFS 1.5.51 (2008-07-29)
+ - fileserver needs to swap callback connections on a client IP change.
- All platforms
+ - fileserver host package revised to reduce lock contention.
- * salvager tries harder to arrange for clients to get VBUSY while
- salvaging single volumes.
+ - Rx has been fixed to count hard acks, thus opening the congestion window.
- * salvager avoids certain corruption when salvaging directories.
+ - All servers support bound Rx sockets (on one interface).
- * Rx connection clones disabled.
+ - namei fileserver no longer use lockf() to avoid range locking issues.
- Microsoft Windows
+ - most binaries now support the -version switch.
- * 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.
+ - backup suite fixes for 64 bit platforms.
- * 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 holding holds during volume purges.
- * Large File support is disabled. (Bug introduced in 1.5.50)
+ - volserver avoids losing files on namei during vos zap.
- * 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.
+ AIX:
- * Ensures that reference counts are properly incremented/decremented
- on Rx connection objects used for volume location RPCs.
+ - fileserver now properly supports large files.
- * Over Quota errors during cm_FSync() calls would lead to an infinite
- loop as the error was never propagated to the caller.
+ - TSM updates for AIX 5
- All UNIX client platforms
+ - Kernel module avoids leaking Rx packets.
- * Bugfixes to disconnected AFS support in the cache manager.
+ - Avoid use of global ubik client structure in fileserver.
+ - Update ubik call client interface to allow for prototyping.
-OpenAFS 1.5.50 (2008-07-16)
+ - audit logging fixes when stdarg does not provide integral va_list type.
- All platforms
+ MacOS 10.4:
- * volserver puts recloned volumes back online before returning the
- volume to the fileserver, avoiding spurious VNOVOL errors.
+ - A bug where the client kernel module could free stack memory (which
+ caused issues with 64 bit Intel most commonly) has been fixed.
- * Updated TSM X/Open API support available.
+ - Packaging fixes and updates.
- * Demand Attach fileserver will not crash due to accesses during
- volume cloning.
+ - Uninstaller added.
- * Substantial documentation updates.
+ - Fix large file support.
- * Demand Attach fileserver state tracking and analyzer tool
- improvements.
+ Linux:
- * UAFS userspace cachemanager updates.
+ - autoconf kernel feature testing has been restructured.
- * Corrected support for anti-meltdown protection in the client.
+ - PAG garbage collection is enabled by default.
- Microsoft Windows
+ - Kerberos updates for RHEL3.
- * UNICODE Character Set Support.
+ - Fix POSIX lock enrollment for older Linux kernels.
- * Pioctl interfaces to the cache manager have been refactored to
- provide layering between the SMB specific code and the general
- purpose ioctl operation.
+ - Updates for new 2.6 kernels.
- * 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.
+ - Avoid deadlocks in put_inode handler.
- * Remove the IBM Administration Reference documentation and replace it
- with the OpenAFS Command Reference Manual.
+ - Keyring-based PAG support.
- * 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.
+ - Fixes to avoid getting better oops info in the kernel.
- * Ensure that the smb directory attribute is set for all directory
- objects.
+ Solaris:
- * Replace the VC Runtime EXE installer with the MSI installer in the
- NSIS installer scripts.
+ - Remove some kernel symbol bindings for symbols we don't use.
- Solaris
+ - Cleanup for loopback mount of AFS on Solaris 10.
- * Support for updates to OpenSolaris.
+ - Avoid issues with stdio not supporting file descriptors above 255 on
+ Solaris 8 and lower in the fileserver.
- Linux
+OpenAFS 1.4.1
- * Correct dentry revalidation for cross-directory renames.
+ All systems: Major bugfixes.
+ New systems: MacOS 10.4 (PowerPC and Intel)
- * Updated rpm packaging materials for 1.5 release series and 2.4
- kernels.
+ * Bugfixes:
- * Corrected syscall table probing.
+ All systems:
- * NFS translator updates for current kernels.
+ - Several race conditions in the host tracking and handling in the fileserver
+ which could cause inconsistent behavior and crashes have been fixed.
+ - 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
-OpenAFS 1.5.39 (2008-06-24)
+ - Reference counting of fileserver objects in unsigned 32 bit integers
+ instead of signed 16 bit integers.
- All platforms
+ - Avoid type mismatches when handling time values (betweemn 32 bit and 64 bit
+ variables).
- * Updates for Demand Attach fileserver.
+ - Fix a memory leak during multilevel packet queue handling.
- Microsoft Windows
+ - Audit log output had been updated to include FIDs for newly created files.
- * Fix two memory leaks.
+ HP-UX 11i:
- * Fix one missing lock.
+ - 64 bit (large file) inodes are supported.
- * Handle access denied errors when writing dirty buffers.
+ - Salvager will now handle large (>4gb) partitions.
- * Fix two errors that would cause the *experimental* AFS Servers
- to crash.
+ * New features:
+ All systems:
-OpenAFS 1.5.38 (2008-05-24)
+ - asetkey is now included to ease Kerberos 5 integration for server
+ administrators.
- All platforms
+ - A new fileserver statistics collection including callback statistics was
+ added.
- * Add read-only disconnected support.
+ - man pages are now generated.
+ Microsoft Windows:
-OpenAFS 1.5.37 (2008-05-21)
+ - 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
- All platforms
+ - 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.
- * Includes a number of optimizations for testing.
+ - 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.
+ - 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.
-OpenAFS 1.5.36 (2008-05-09)
+ - Add logic to better handle objects that no longer exist on the file server.
+ (VNOVNODE errors.)
- All platforms
+ - Prevent the removal of existing drive mappings by "afscreds.exe -M"
- * Rx optimizations now attempt to deal with high latency WANs.
+ - Fixes the procmgmt library so that it doesn't cause applications that
+ unload it to crash.
- * 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.
+ - Improves the warnings written to the afsd_init.log file when the
+ Windows RPC Protocol drivers are improperly configured.
- * vos move will not erroneously unlock locked vldb entries on failure.
+ - Fixes "fs setserverprefs -vlserver". Multiple calls with the same
+ server parameter could result in a crash of afsd_service.exe.
- All server platforms
+ - 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.
- * Fileserver avoids a potential infinite loop when a client
- relinquishes an address.
+ - Prevent file truncation of the user does not have the appropriate access.
- * Fileserver large setting now configures more threads.
+ - Token management was re-written to allow user tokens to be preserved
+ during integrated login and freed after logoff is complete.
- * Fileserver properly registers uuids of new clients.
+ - Added a mechanism by which abandoned SMB virtual circuits can be
+ detected and the associated resources cleaned up.
- * Ubik servers do not improperly hide updates from clients.
+ - Prevent the allocation of SMB file handles with a value of 0 or 0xFFFF
+ which would be considered invalid by Windows applications.
- * Fileservers reserve enough file descriptors such that each thread
- can cache one to avoid spurious errors.
+ - Fixed the processing of cell names to ensure that they are always
+ treated as case insensitive strings.
- Microsoft Windows
+ - Fixed the network provider code to avoid querying the profile location
+ if integrated login is disabled.
- * Fix a cm_buf_t reference count leak when attempts to write dirty
- buffers to the file server from within cm_IncrSyncer() fail.
+ - If a mount point string is empty, return Path Not Found to the application.
- * Prevent udebug from crashing.
+ - 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.
- * 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.
+ - Fix the data written to the registry as part of the BackConnectionHostnames
+ values.
+ - Fixed the rx-lwp implementation to always generate unique rx call
+ identitiers.
-=======> Changes back to 1.3 have not yet been incorporated here <=======
+ - The default "fs minidump" type now includes data segments.
OpenAFS 1.3
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