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1 User-Visible OpenAFS Changes
2
3OpenAFS 1.8.5
4
5All platforms
6
7 * Fix OPENAFS-SA-2019-001: information leakage in failed RPC output
8 Generated RPC handler routines ran output variables through XDR encoding
9 even when the call had failed and would shortly be aborted (and for
10 which uninitialized output variables is common); any complete packets
11 assembled in the process would be sent to the peer, leaking the contents
12 of the uninitialized memory in question.
13
14 * Fix OPENAFS-SA-2019-002: information leakage from uninitialized scalars
15 Generated RPC handler routines did not initialize output variables of
16 scalar (fixed-length) type, since they did not require dedicated logic to
17 free. Such variables allocated on the stack could remain uninitialized
18 in some cases (including those affected by OPENAFS-SA-2019-001), and the
19 contents of uninitialized memory would be returned to the peer.
20
21All server platforms
22
23 * Fix OPENAFS-SA-2019-003: fix crash in database servers
24 The ubik debugging RPCs prioritize being fast and non-disruptive to
25 database operations over strict correctness, and do not adhere to the
26 usual locking protocol for data access. A data race could cause a NULL
27 dereference if the second memory load was not optimized out by the
28 compiler.
29
30OpenAFS 1.8.4
31
32 All platforms
33
34 Build system updates to remove obsolete autoconf macros and remove missing
35 script warning during builds (13480, 13481, 13482, 13483, 13484, 13486,
36 13789, 13790).
37
38 Build system update to fix a conditional check in the pthread.m4 autoconf
39 file (13595)
40
41 Build system update to create the man3 subdirectory, fixing a
42 reported build failure (13535).
43
44 Remove the last reference to src/mcas in the documentation (13558).
45
46 All server platforms
47
48 Fix fileserver's parsing of the options -vlruthresh, -vlruinterval,
49 -vlrumax and -novbc (13680).
50
51 Fixes to make ptserver's behaviour when run in restricted mode consistent
52 with the documentation: Non-members of the system:administrators group
53 are no longer allowed to issue the adduser, setfields and delete pts
54 commands, and all members of system:administrators are now allowed to
55 issue pts commands in this mode, not just the admin principal (13686..88).
56
57 All client platforms
58
59 Fix missing Rx call clean-up after failing to read dcaches from a file
60 server (13511).
61
62 Fix an Rx call leak for calls aborted by a connection abort after the call
63 was initialized but before use (13517).
64
65 Remove the obsolete afs_xosi lock to remove unnecessary serialization of
66 VOP_GETATTR calls. This can lead to improved performance under heavy
67 workloads (13529).
68
69 Increase the size of the Directory Name Lookup Cache (DNLC) to improve
70 cache performance (13559).
71
72 Fix getting tokens for cells with a three character name (13679).
73
74 Avoid a misleading message about the cell being used when aklog is run
75 with the -cell parameter but the AFSCELL environment variable is set to
76 a different cell (13676).
77
78 Build system update to honor the CFLAGS environment variable when building
79 libuafs (13544).
80
81 Linux
82
83 Support for mainline kernels up to 5.3 (13787, 13789).
84
85 More fixes for improper use of ENOENT fixes to avoid incorrect use of linux
86 negative dentry cache, which can lead to false ENOENT errors (13542, 13543,
87 13590, 13692) (RT #134904).
88
89 Return errors instead of returning incomplete directory listings when the
90 directory objects are incomplete in the cache (13591).
91
92 Add ppc64le_linux26 sysname for the ppc64le architecture (13636, 13637,
93 13589).
94
95 Fix configure check for a kernel time function in order to build on
96 Linux 5.0 (13523).
97
98 RPM packaging update for RHEL8 adding a build requirement to ensure the
99 kernel module can be built from the SRPM (13563) (RT #134900).
100
101 On systemd based RHEL/Fedora systems, start the client after dkms startup
102 is finished if the latter is installed and enabled, to avoid attempting
103 starts without the kernel module being available yet (13674) (RT #134974).
104
105 MacOS
106
107 Build system updates for MacOS (13584).
108
109 Solaris
110
111 Add CTF debugging records to userspace objects to improve debugging
112 of servers (13487).
113
114 Convert the cache manager vnodes to be non-embebbed on Solaris 11 in order
115 to make the cache manager more resilient across Solaris 11 changes (13524,
116 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528).
117
118
119OpenAFS 1.8.3
120
121 All platforms
122
123 * Improved diagnostics and error messages (13186 13411 13417)
124
125 * Avoid sending RX packets with random garbage in the userStatus field
126 (13332)
127
128 * Fixed detection of the RX initialization status (13416)
129
130 * Assorted fixes to avoid segmentation faults and other potential problems
131 by detecting internal errors rather than letting them go unnoticed
132 (13329 13372)
133
134 All server platforms
135
136 * Fixed a build problem accidentally introduced in release 1.8.2 (13328)
137
138 * Assorted efficiency improvements in the ubik implementation (13153 13218
139 13188 13353)
140
141 * Fixed locking around transaction list processing in volserver to avoid
142 segmentation faults and other potential problems (13336 13337)
143
144 * When the volserver attempts to remove a temporary volume after a
145 transaction, but the volume was already removed, e.g., by the salvager,
146 this is no longer treated as an error (13235)
147
148 All client platforms
149
150 * Update the CellServDB to the latest version from grand.central.org from
151 May 14th 2018 (13409)
152
153 * Avoid a panic during cache initialization when allocating the required
154 memory fails (13307)
155
156 * Add back the packet counters and timestamps to "vos status" output
157 which had been missing since release 1.8.0 (13421)
158
159 * Correctly handle errors encountered while reading data from the server
160 and writing it to the cache, e.g., due to a full cache partition (13443)
161
162 * Avoid a panic due to a recoverable error while flushing cache items
163 (13503)
164
165 Linux clients
166
167 * Support mainline kernels 4.20 and 5.0 and distribution kernels with
168 backports from those (13405 13406 13440 13441 13442)
169
170 * DKMS-related fixes in Red Hat packaging (13438 13479)
171
172 macOS
173
174 * Support building and packaging on macOS 10.14 "Mojave" (13412 13413)
175
176
177OpenAFS 1.8.2
178
179 All platforms
180
181 * Fix OPENAFS-SA-2018-002: information leakage in RPC output variables
182 Various RPC routines did not always initialize all output fields,
183 exposing memory contents to network attackers. The relevant RPCs include
184 an AFSCB_ RPC, so cache managers are affected as well as servers.
185
186 All server platforms
187
188 * Fix OPENAFS-SA-2018-003: denial of service due to excess resource consumption
189 Various RPCs were defined as allowing unbounded arrays as input, allowing
190 an unauthenticated attacker to cause excess memory allocation and tie up
191 network bandwidth by sending (or claiming to send) large input arrays.
192
193 * Fix OPENAFS-SA-2018-001: unauthenticated volume operations via butc
194 On systems using the in-tree backup system, the butc process was running
195 with administrative credentials, but accepted incoming RPCs over
196 unauthenticated connections; these incoming RPCs in turn triggered
197 outgoing RPCs using the administrative credentials. Unauthenticated
198 attackers could construct volue dumps containing arbitrary contents
199 and cause these dumps to be restored and overwrite arbitrary volume
200 contents; afterward, the backup database could be restored to its
201 initial state, hiding evidence of the unauthorized changes.
202
203 Running butc with -localauth now requires authenticated incoming
204 connections, and the backup utility makes authenticated connections to
205 the butc. Audit capabilities have been added to the butc RPC handlers.
206 Command-line arguments are provided to retain the (insecure) historical
207 behavior until all systems have been upgraded.
208
209OpenAFS 1.8.1.1
210
211 Linux Clients
212
213 * Support for mainline kernel 4.18 and distribution kernels with backports
214 from it (13268)
215
216OpenAFS 1.8.1
217
218 All Platforms
219
220 * Improve the usability and consistency of the public API: install missing
221 headers, and add additional symbols to the export list for shared libraries.
222
223 * Improved Rx abort generation: use the proper serial number for an existing
224 connection if possible, and 0 otherwise (to improve debugging).
225
226 * Assorted minor fixes in response to static analysis of the codebase.
227
228 * Fix memory-safety error in XDR decoding of enumerated types.
229
230 All Server Platforms
231
232 * Fix reference counting error that could cause an assertion failure
233 in some workloads.
234
235 * vldb_check -fix will no longer corrupt the vldb when multiple MH blocks are present.
236
237 * Assorted cleanups and efficiency improvements in the ubik implementation.
238
239 * Return a valid InlineBulkStatus response in error cases.
240
241 * The fileserver now rejects invalid partition names when attaching partitions.
242
243 All Client Platforms
244
245 * Fix volume callbacks (e.g., when running 'vos release').
246
247 * Treat failure to obtain a DSlot as a hard error for that cache partition,
248 avoiding a flood of "disk cache read error in CacheItems" log messages,
249 and reducing the chance of subsequent panic.
250
251 * Improve error messages for invalid values with -volume-ttl.
252
253 * Remove useless error message:
254 "find_preferred_connection: no connection and !create".
255
256 * Avoid passing NULL to a kernel memory deallocator, which is not guaranteed
257 to be safe on all systems.
258
259 Linux
260
261 * Add support for 64-bit ARM clients ("arm64").
262
263 * Fix panic when cache bypass is enabled.
264
265 * Improve cache manager behavior when unable to open cache files.
266
267 * Improvements to the RPM packaging.
268
269 * Detect out-of-memory when using kernel pages for writing.
270
271 Solaris
272
273 * Fix various issues in the build process for recent Solaris versions.
274
275 MacOS
276
277 * Fix clients on OS X 10.13.
278
279 FreeBSD / NetBSD / OpenBSD
280
281 * Fix panic triggered during periodic cleanup operations and shutdown.
282
283OpenAFS 1.8.0
284
285 All Platforms
286
287 * Substantial code quality improvements, largely spotted by Coverity and
288 clang's static analysis.
289 - Add new library for platform independent functions (opr).
290 - Remove arbitrary path name length limits.
291 - Convert to Heimdal's roken library for reliability.
292 - Avoid garbage in allocated buffers (calloc).
293 - Modernize signal handling in pthreaded server processes (softsig).
294 - Improve code comments and additional Doxygen style comments.
295 - Reduce compiler warnings, dead code, unused variables, and
296 undefined behavior.
297 - Fix bugs found by static code analyzer (clang-analyzer).
298 - Improved unit test coverage.
299 - Make VLDB flag definitions consistent.
300 - Improve use of run-time assertions and add static assertions.
301 - Add compiler attributes to assist static analyzers.
302 - Clean up include headers in the entire tree.
303 - Improve command-line handling library (libcmd).
304 - Replace hash functions with Jenkin's hash function for faster
305 and more evenly distributed lookups.
306 - Provide a red-black tree data structure to enable algorithmic speedups.
307 - Convert backup and salvage servers to the common logging API (libutil).
308 - Improve volume id data type consistency (VolumeId).
309 - Import APIs for kerberos-style profile configuration support.
310 - Add new APIs to support UserList identities.
311 - Add new APIs to support tabular output from command-line utilities.
312 - Convert vnode macros to inline-functions.
313
314 * Improved support for non-DES encryption types:
315 - Convert to Heimdal's hcrypto library to support RFC 3961.
316 - Add extended key file format replacing rxkad.keytab, and
317 new key management APIs.
318 - Add support for extended key types to asetkey.
319 - Add akeyconvert to assist in upgrading to OpenAFS 1.8.x by converting an
320 existing rxkad.keytab file to an extended key file.
321 - Do not install the kaserver and related utilities by default to
322 discourage the use of these DES-dependent components.
323 - Remove obsolete klogin and klogin.krb programs.
324 - Add new token APIs to support new rx security classes.
325
326 * Migrate from LWP to POSIX threads (pthreads):
327 - Convert the ptserver and vlserver from LWP to pthreads.
328 - Remove LWP version of the file server binary.
329 - Convert afsd, aklog, asetkey, klog.krb5, pts, udebug, and vos, from LWP
330 to pthreads.
331
332 * Improvements to Rx:
333 - Restructure the Rx API to privatize the implementation.
334 - Convert rx events to a red-black tree data structure to improve
335 performance.
336 - Convert from mutexes to atomic operations for counters to reduce lock
337 contention.
338 - Provide per-opcode Rx statistics.
339 - Add an rx_opaque data type to support non-DES encryption types
340 and general code cleanup.
341 - Wake up the application thread after 'twind' is updated to avoid 100ms
342 transmit delays when the receive window transitions from closed to
343 open.
344 - Fix for OPENAFS-SA-2017-001: sanity-check peer transport parmeters
345 received in ack trailers
346
347 * Libraries (both internal and installed) are built using libtool, including
348 libuafs. The resulting shared libraries for libafsrpc and libafsauthent
349 should be more usable than previously.
350
351 * Improvements to the build system:
352 - Convert to libtool to build shared libraries.
353 - Clean up and improve the build system.
354 - Support out of tree builds.
355 - Add a makefile target to generate Doxygen source code documentation.
356 - Link the Java API for OpenAFS with libuafs.a and remove the
357 libjuafs.a library.
358 - Always build the rxperf tool.
359 - Fix man-page generation by make after ./regen.sh -q
360 - Support the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable to improve build
361 reproducibility.
362 - Modernize language specific SWIG typemaps for libuafs Perl bindings.
363 - Refactor acinclude.m4 into a set of smaller m4 files (12876, 12877, 12878)
364
365 * Improvements to documentation:
366 - Document the new KeyFileExt file.
367 - Reorganized the README files.
368 - Improvements and fixes to documentation generation.
369 - Add experimental epub and mobi support
370 - Remove obsolete LWP information from the file server documentation.
371 - Update and reorganize the Quick Start Guide.
372 - Update the Admin Guide.
373 - Remove AIX, HP-UX, and IRIX information from the Quick Start Guide.
374 - Document the vldb and prdb (ubik) file formats.
375 - Add PtLog man page.
376 - Corrections and clarifications to man pages.
377 - Add ubik threading analysis doc.
378 - Normalize the location of text documents in the source tree.
379
380 * Improvements for troublshooting, debugging, and testing:
381 - Log more details on volume-server-to-fileserver communication errors
382 when possible.
383 - Set thread names in pthreaded servers on platforms which support
384 thread names.
385 - Add dynroot lock tracking to cmdebug
386 - Fix tracking of an fstrace call site in the cache manager background
387 process.
388 - Add the afsload tool to simulate multiple cache managers for file server
389 load testing.
390 - Add run-time checks for refcount imbalances in the cache manager.
391 - Fix missing newlines in afsd -debug output.
392
393 * Developer tool improvements:
394 - Improvements and fixes for rxgen (used to generate Rx RPC bindings).
395 - Add tool for man page verification of command options.
396 - Add tool to find Unix cache manager lock identification numbers.
397 - Add an option for pretty build output.
398
399 * RPM packaging updates:
400 - Update the spec file to keep up with accumulated changes.
401 - Move the klog.krb5 man page to the openafs-krb5 sub-package.
402 - Remove stray man pages. (12870, 12871)
403 - Prevent double-starting client on RHEL7
404 - Convert rpm spec file from deprecated 'make dest' to 'make install'.
405 - Fix rpmbuild command line option default handling.
406 - Support older versions of rpmbuild which do not support the
407 rpmbuild %exclude directive. (12873)
408 - Move the legacy kaserver and related programs to separate sub-packages,
409 which are only built when rpmbuild is given the '--with kauth' option
410 (12600, 12872)
411 - Package the libuafs perl bindings (12921)
412
413 * Add a new protection error code (PRNAMETOOLONG) instead of silently
414 truncating names which exceed the maximum name length (PR_MAXNAMELEN).
415
416 * Add an implementation limit (50000) on the number of names/ids which can
417 be transmitted by unauthenticated clients to the ptserver, avoiding
418 excessive resource consumption from unauthenticated requests.
419
420 * Add the -config option to vos, pts, and aklog to specify the path to the
421 cell configuration files.
422
423 * Add more details in vos release -verbose output.
424
425 * Add the cacheout -encrypt option to encrypt communication between the
426 cacheout client and the fileserver.
427
428 * Add the command line options to the afsio program to enable encryption of
429 traffic between afsio and the fileserver (-clear, -crypt).
430
431 * Add the vos release -force-reclone option to force recloning the volume to
432 be released without forcing a full volume dump being transmitted to all
433 remote sites.
434
435 * Fix vos to avoid writing loopback addresses into the VLDB in
436 certain cases.
437
438 * Print bos and pts error messages to standard error instead of
439 standard out.
440
441 * Improve formatting of the -help output of all commands.
442
443 * Change -n to -dryrun in all backup subcommands.
444
445 * Change the backup deletedump -port command line option to -portoffset.
446
447 * Add user and build host in the version string returned by
448 rxdebug -version.
449
450 * Support recent versions of gcc (7.2.1) (12897)
451
452 All Server Platforms
453
454 * Ubik servers using pthreads are now available and are used by default
455
456 * As part of improving Ubik reliability in certain edge cases, an extra
457 election cycle (about 60 seconds) may be needed before writes are
458 permitted. This is a conservative change that may be removed in
459 the future.
460
461 * Avoid continually retransmitting the ubik database to remote sites when
462 a write transaction occurs as remote sites are attempting to rejoin the
463 ubik cluster. (12896)
464
465 * Ensure the ubik database version number is updated on remote sites at the
466 point the database is transferred to remote sites instead of waiting for
467 the next ubik beacon. This avoids write transaction failures during the
468 window between the database transfer and the next ubik beacon (12885).
469
470 * Remove periodic background fsync by the fileserver (ihandle fsync thread).
471
472 * Fix potential file handle leak in the file server ihandle caching layer.
473
474 * Disable the so-called "hot threads" feature in the file server. The hot
475 threads feature was intended as an optimization for dispatching incoming
476 calls to the current listener thread, but has been reported to incur a
477 performance penalty on modern multi-core systems.
478
479 * Do not permit creation of users with id of ANONYMOUSID.
480
481 * Do not save/restore host states in the fsstate.dat file for hosts which
482 are in the process of retrieving CPS information from the ptserver when
483 the fileserver is being shutdown. This fixes a bug in which the fileserver
484 will incorrectly block all threads following a restart.
485
486 * Add the ptserver -restrict_anonymous option to inhibit exposure of user
487 names from the ptserver.
488
489 * Do not truncate server log files by default when server processes
490 are started. The -transarc-logs option provides backward compatibility
491 with IBM AFS log handling on server startup. Log messages may be lost
492 in back-to- back restarts when a server is running in this mode.
493
494 * Reopen server logs on SIGUSR1. This may be used by third-party log
495 rotation tools, such as logrotate, to reopen the log file handles after
496 log files have been renamed.
497
498 * Fix various bugs when logging with -mrafslogs enabled.
499
500 * Dynamically reload the kerberos realm to AFS cell mapping (krb.conf) and
501 exclusions for mapping kerberos principals to AFS identities (krb.excl)
502 configuration when the CellServDB cell configuration file is touched.
503 Previously, a restart of the file server was required after updating the
504 kerberos mapping configuration files.
505
506 * Add a command line option (-restricted_query) to the vlserver and
507 volserver to restrict information queries about volumes to a specific
508 group of users.
509
510 * Add a command line option to the server programs to specify an alternate
511 fully qualified log file name (-logfile).
512
513 * Add a command line option (-config) to the server programs to specify
514 an alternate path to the server configuration.
515
516 * Add a command line option to the ptserver and vlserver to specify an
517 alternate path to the database data files.
518
519 * Add a command line option to the volume server to enable encryption of
520 volume-server-to-volume-server-traffic (-s2scrypt).
521
522 * Increase the maximum number of LWP threads allowed for the ptserver and
523 vlserver from 16 to 64 (-lwp).
524
525 * Remove an unused file server command line option (-k).
526
527 * Fix an incorrect assertion in Demand Attach File Server which could cause
528 the file server process to abort in certain rare conditions.
529
530 * Deprecate the -bitmap-later configure option for non-Demand-Attach File
531 Servers (DAFS).
532
533 * Add -vhashsize support to non-Demand-Attach File Servers (DAFS).
534
535 * Add support for subnet ranges in the NetInfo and NetRestrict
536 configuration files.
537
538 * Add the GetXStats RPC to the audit log.
539
540 * Fix directory creation by bosserver when built for non-Transarc paths.
541
542 * Fix incomplete list of server addresses retreived by vos listaddr when the
543 vldb contains unreferenced multi-homed server entries.
544
545 * Remove obsolete bos blockscanner and unblockscanner commands that
546 were only needed for the removed MR-AFS functionality.
547
548 * Remove obsolete bos salvage options that were only used by the
549 removed MR-AFS functionality..
550
551 * Remove calls to the deprecated sbrk() function.
552
553 * Add an experimental feature to database servers to support ubik reads
554 while write transactions are in progress, enabled at build time with the
555 --enable-ubik-read-while-write configure option. This feature is not
556 considered ready for production usage at this time.
557
558 * Avoid filling the FileLog with "Volume x offline: not in service" when
559 a volume is administratively taken offline with vos offline.
560
561 * Print an error message when bosserver is started with an unknown
562 command line option.
563
564 * Modify the volume updateDate when the volume is changed by a salvage.
565
566 * Volume usage statistics are now preserved during reclone and restore
567 operations by default, the behavior previously enabled by
568 the -preserve-vol-stats flag to the volserver. The historical behavior
569 can be retained via the -clear-vol-stats argument.
570
571 All Client Platforms
572
573 * Use rxkad_crypt by default for connections to fileservers. This matches
574 the existing behavior of the Windows client and has been applied by
575 the distribution packaging on many platforms already.
576
577 * Add support for relative ACL changes with fs setacl. If a single plus (+)
578 or minus (-) character is appended to the rights' letters argument, the
579 new rights are computed relatively to the existing ones.
580
581 * Remove afsd -settime and afsd -nosettime support.
582
583 * Add the afsd -inumcalc option to specify the method used to calculate
584 inode numbers presented by AFS.
585
586 * Add the afsd -volume-ttl option to specify set the maximum amount of time
587 information retrieved from the vlserver will be cached, regardless of
588 callback expiry times.
589
590 * Return EIO on internal errors instead of the misleading ENOENT.
591
592 * Log ICMP errors received, if any, for unreachable servers.
593
594 * Improve performance of clients with multiple PAGs for different cells.
595
596 * Fix race condition between changing and using user tokens among cache
597 manager threads.
598
599 * Fix fs sysname for users with UID 2748 and 2750 when not running
600 in -rmtsys mode.
601
602 * Add Perl bindings for the user-space cache manager library (libuafs).
603
604 * Fixes to the bypasscache feature.
605
606 * Fix fs getcacheparms miscounts.
607
608 * Remove the obsolete Netscape plugin.
609
610 * Fix building gtx when ncurses is linked against libtinfo.
611
612 * Update to the GCO CellServDB update from 14 March 2017.
613
614 Linux
615
616 * Remove Linux 2.2 and 2.4 support.
617
618 * Changes to avoid EIO errors with multiple processes doing intensive mmap
619 writing. (Drop PageReclaim AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE.)
620
621 * Prevent fakestat data inconsistencies in certain cases (131855).
622
623 * Fix dentry leak which can cause a crash on shutdown.
624
625 * Fix improper use of ENOENT and avoid incorrect use of linux negative
626 dentry cache.
627
628 * Use a more correct (less aggressive) scheme to react to downward
629 pressure on cache usage, avoiding d_invalidate(), which can cause
630 getcwd() failures on RHEL 7.4.
631
632 * Apply a workaround to be compatible with RHEL 7.5's KABI preservation
633 strategy for reading directories.
634
635 * Improve error reporting when encountering corrupt directories.
636
637 * Improve rx error handling in the Linux cache manager.
638
639 * Rename kpasswd to kapasswd when packaging RPMs to avoid colliding with
640 Kerberos kpasswd.
641
642 * Do not use the obsolete --enable-largefile-fileservers configure option
643 when packaging RPMs.
644
645 * In Red Hat packaging, use a separate rpm for kmod debuginfo,
646 removing a needless tight version dependency on the userspace package.
647 (12822, 12875)
648
649 * Use the RemainAfterExit systemd feature to avoid premature exit
650 when -afsdb is not given, for RPM packages.
651
652 * Remove Debian packaging files from the OpenAFS source tree. Debian
653 packaging files are currently maintained in the downstream Debian
654 infrastructure.
655
656 * Add the sparc_linux26 sysname.
657
658 * Desupport 32-bit Linux kernels on s390/s390x.
659
660 * Fix Debian/Ubuntu build regression on kernel 3.16.39.
661
662 * Fix --enable-kernel-debug for linux 4.8+.
663
664 * Fix a hang encountered when accessing a previously removed
665 directory entry (12811).
666
667 * Support linux 4.10, 4.11, 4.12, 4.13, 4.14, 4.15
668
669 Solaris
670
671 * Remove support for all Solaris and SunOS platforms prior to Solaris 8.
672
673 * Build 64-bit binaries for Solaris x86 by default.
674
675 * Use one-group PAGs on Solaris 11, which is required for PAG support
676 on Solaris 11 since supplemental groups must be sorted starting with
677 Solaris 11.1.
678
679 * Update search paths for solaris cc for recent versions Solaris Studio.
680
681 * Modernize declaration of module dependences by converting from the
682 deprecated _depends_on symbol to ELF dependencies.
683
684 * Avoid BAD TRAP panic due to invalid opcodes on x86 with Studio 12.5.
685
686 * Add ctf debug records to Solaris kernel modules when debug builds
687 are enabled and the ctf tools are present (ctfconvert/ctfmerge).
688
689 * Save kernel module function arguments on x86 for debugging purposes.
690
691 MacOS
692
693 * Stop processing upcalls once rx shutdown starts.
694
695 * Enable atomics for the darwin kernel.
696
697 * Add a syscall to enable/disable bulkstat at run-time, which is
698 disabled by default.
699
700 * Fix path to binaries in the prefpane.
701
702 * Fix builds on MacOS 10.12 by building only the active architecture
703 by default.
704
705 * Support versions up through 10.13 (High Sierra) and APFS
706
707 FreeBSD
708
709 * Use the native kernel module build system instead of an ad hoc
710 replacement build system.
711
712 * Remove FreeBSD packaging files from the OpenAFS source tree. FreeBSD
713 packaging files are currently maintained in the downstream FreeBSD Ports
714 Collection.
715
716 * Stay up to date with new FreeBSD releases (through 10.3).
717
718 * Do not claim AFS_VM_RDWR_ENV
719
720 * Add sysnames and files for i386 and amd64 10.4, 11.1, and 12.0
721 (12-CURRENT, at present). (12887, 12888)
722
723 * Remove trailing semicolons to fix the build on FreeBSD (12899)
724
725 NetBSD
726
727 * Stay up to date with new NetBSD releases (through 7.x)
728
729 * Update to use cprng(9) as the randomness source on NetBSD 6.99/7.x.
730
731 * Build system updates for NetBDS 6.99.x
732
733 * Do not claim AFS_VM_RDWR_ENV
734
735 OpenBSD
736
737 * Stay up to date with new OpenBSD releases (through 4.7)
738
739 * Do not claim AFS_VM_RDWR_ENV
740
741 AIX
742
743 * Updates for AIX support.
744
745 * Fix build system for AIX exports.
746
747 * Add the uidpag and localuid runtime options to the aklog LAM plugin.
748 (These runtime options override the use of UID-based PAGs, which were
749 introduced to appease the CDE screensaver.)
750
751OpenAFS 1.6.21
752
753 All platforms
754
755 * Avoid a possible 100ms transmit delay in the RX protocol when a peer's
756 receive window transitions from closed to open (12627)
757
758 * Documentation improvements (12476 12477 12559[RT #133339])
759
760 All server platforms
761
762 * When bosserver is started with an unknown option, print an error message
763 and exit with a non-zero value rather than failing silently (12631)
764
765 All DB server platforms
766
767 * Hold the DB lock while checking for an aborted write transaction (12516)
768
769 All file server platforms
770
771 * On demand attach fileservers, don't save or restore a client's host
772 state if CPS ("Current Protection Subdomain") recalculation for it is
773 in progress, to avoid fileserver thread exhaustion (12568)
774
775 * On demand attach fileservers, avoid flooding the log with error messages,
776 which could happen when the fileserver was restarted while a volume was
777 offline (12569)
778
779 * Update a volume's "Last Update" time when its content is modified by
780 the salvager, to make the change visible in the output of "vos examine"
781 and to backup services (12633)
782
783 All client platforms
784
785 * Corrected the DCentries bucket counts for very large and zero length
786 files in the output of "fs getcacheparms -excessive" (12604 12605)
787
788 * Fixed a bug that prevented users with GID 2748 and 2750 from executing
789 the "fs sysname" command on clients running afsd with -rmtsys (12607)
790
791 * Provide a new -inumcalc switch for afsd to allow enabling the alternative
792 MD5 method of inode number calculation, which was previously only
793 possible on Linux and through the sysctl interface (12608 12632)
794
795 Linux clients
796
797 * Support for mainline kernel 4.12 and distribution kernels with backports
798 from it (12624 12626)
799
800 * Re-added the improved algorithm for freeing unused vcaches to reduce
801 memory consumption first introduced with the 1.6.18 release, together
802 with a fix for the issue leading to its removal in 1.6.18.2 (12448..12451)
803
804 macOS clients
805
806 * Fixed a crash while stopping the client on macOS 10.12 "Sierra" (12602)
807
808
809OpenAFS 1.6.20.2
810
811 All platforms
812
813 * Build fixes required by recent compilers or platforms (12514 12521 12534
814 12536 12538)
815
816 * Allow the bos server to start successfully in the presence of those, by
817 accepting a now checked return value indicating that the client ThisCell
818 and CellServDB already exist (12522)
819
820 Linux clients
821
822 * Support for mainline kernels 4.10 and - most likely - 4.11 and
823 distribution kernels with backports from them (12530 12588..12590 12598)
824
825 * Support for distribution kernels with partial backports from 4.9 (12535)
826 (RT #134158)
827
828 * In Red Hat packaging, moved the klog.krb5 manual page into the krb5
829 subpackage (12511)
830
831 * In Red Hat packaging, prevent systemd from double-starting the client
832 (12587)
833
834 * Allow aklog to function on current S390/S390x (12499)
835
836 Solaris clients
837
838 * Make process authentication groups work on Solaris 11, now using a single
839 group ID (12524..12527)
840
841 * Fix a BAD TRAP panic on Solaris 11 clients built with Studio 12.5 (12567)
842
843 macOS clients
844
845 * Fixed the preference pane for OS X 10.11 and later (12512)
846
847OpenAFS 1.6.20.1
848
849 All platforms
850
851 * Build fixes required by recent compilers (12482..12484)
852
853 Linux clients
854
855 * Support for mainline kernel 4.9 and distribution kernels with
856 backports from it (12478..12480)
857
858 * In Red Hat packaging, make systemd deal correctly with the client
859 when no userland processes remain after starting it (12481)
860 (RT #133482)
861
862 macOS
863
864 * Support for release 10.12 "Sierra" (12431 12432)
865
866 * Avoid a crash in the Mounts tab of the OpenAFS preference pane (12447)
867
868OpenAFS 1.6.20 (Security Release)
869
870 All platforms
871
872 * Fix for OPENAFS-SA-2016-003: file and directory names leak due to
873 reuse of directory objects without zeroing the contents
874 (12461 12462 12463 12464 12465)
875
876OpenAFS 1.6.19
877
878 All platforms
879
880 * Documentation improvements (12304)
881 * Fixes for test failures (12396 12415)
882
883 All DB server platforms
884
885 * Avoid potentially writing to an out of date volume location or protection
886 database, or losing a database write, which could happen in rare cases
887 under special conditions during database leader election
888 (12339 12389)
889
890 Solaris clients
891
892 * Allow the fsinfo::: DTrace provider to work with AFS files (12371)
893
894 Linux clients
895
896 * Don't commit more data to a file than was actually copied during writes,
897 which could happen on architectures with a page size > 4 KiB (12413)
898 * Fixed build on PPC64 with GCC 6.1 (12388) (RT #133407)
899 * Fixed build on x86_64 with recent GCC (12365 12366)
900
901
902OpenAFS 1.6.18.3
903
904 Linux clients
905
906 * Support for mainline kernel 4.7 and distribution kernels with
907 backports from it (12348)
908
909 Solaris clients
910
911 * Fixed memory mapped I/O on files >= 4 GiB (12349 12350)
912
913 Note that there is a suspicion that this might break the client
914 on very old Solaris releases (2.6). If it does, the breakage should
915 occur at build time.
916
917 OS X
918
919 * Added tooling to build a package for OS X 10.10 "Yosemite" and
920 10.11 "El Capitan" (12335 12351)
921
922
923OpenAFS 1.6.18.2
924
925 Linux clients
926
927 * Support for mainline kernel 4.6 and distribution kernels with
928 backports from it (12332)
929
930 * Switch back to the pre-1.6.18 algorithm for freeing unused vcaches.
931 While the new algorithm is still believed to be correct, it turned
932 out that at least on some kernels, including 4.5 and 4.6, the dentry
933 for the current working directory may be erroneously invalidated.
934 This could lead to errors like "Unable to read current working directory"
935 when a directory wasn't accessed for a few minutes. (12323)
936
937 * Use a secure URL to retrieve the CellServDB in the script to create
938 the Red Hat source package (12330)
939
940 FreeBSD
941
942 * Added sysname IDs for 10.2 and 10.3 to fix the build on those platforms
943 (12322)
944
945
946OpenAFS 1.6.18.1
947
948 Linux clients
949
950 * Support for mainline kernel 4.5 and distribution kernels with
951 backports from it (12300..12302)
952
953
954OpenAFS 1.6.18
955
956 All platforms
957
958 * Documentation improvements (12224 11675 11613 12197)
959
960 * Improved diagnostics and error messages (12129 12207 12185 12211 12113
961 12215 12216)
962
963 * Check that CellServDB entries are valid IPv4 addresses, to avoid
964 occasional hangs or potentially other erratic behaviour due to invalid
965 entries (12210) (RT #131794)
966
967 All client platforms
968
969 * Gracefully handle cases where a client shutdown sequence is initiated
970 while the client is already shutting down, rather than cause a panic
971 (12179)
972
973 * Fixed several bugs that could cause erratic behaviour when the write
974 offset into a file was more than 2 GiB beyond the file's current end
975 on the server (12213 12214)
976
977 All server platforms
978
979 * Avoid a possible volserver crash during volume dump or restore due
980 to invalid ACL entries (12127)
981
982 * Allow recovering from a DAFS fileserver operation which allocates a
983 new vnode but fails to update the vnode index, rather than crashing the
984 server (12209)
985
986 * Fixed a longstanding bug which could damage the volume location database
987 when "vos changeaddr" was run with "-oldaddr" and "-newaddr" and the
988 old address was present in a multi-homed entry (12089)
989
990 FreeBSD
991
992 * Added support for releases 10.2 and 10.3 (12232)
993
994 Linux clients
995
996 * Support for mainline kernel 4.4 and distribution kernels with
997 backports from it, alas at a performance penalty (12226 12227 12228)
998 (RT #132677 #132819)
999
1000 * Avoid using excessive amounts of kernel memory for dynamically
1001 allocated vcaches, by improving the algorithm to free unused ones
1002 (12256 12257)
1003
1004 * In Red Hat packaging, make the init script use "ip" if available, with
1005 "ifconfig" as a fallback (12193)
1006
1007 OS X
1008
1009 * Basic support for release 10.11 "El Capitan" (12212)
1010
1011 IRIX clients
1012
1013 * Fixed kernel module builds with optimization (12198) (RT #131261)
1014
1015
1016OpenAFS 1.6.17 (Security Release)
1017
1018 All server platforms
1019
1020 * Fix for OPENAFS-SA-2016-001: foreign users can create groups as
1021 if they were an administrator (RT #132822) (CVE-2016-2860)
1022
1023 All client platforms
1024
1025 * Fix for OPENAFS-SA-2016-002: information leakage from sending
1026 uninitialized memory over the network. Multiple call sites
1027 were vulnerable, with potential for leaking both kernel and
1028 userland stack data (RT #132847)
1029
1030 * Update to the GCO CellServDB update from 01 January 2016 (12188)
1031
1032 Linux clients
1033
1034 * Fix a crash when the root volume is not found and dynroot is not
1035 in use, a regression introduced in 1.6.14.1 (12166)
1036
1037 * Avoid introducing a dependency on the kernel-devel package corresponding
1038 to the currently running system while building the srpm (12195)
1039
1040 * Create systemd unit files with mode 0644 instead of 0755
1041 (12196) (RT #132662)
1042
1043OpenAFS 1.6.16
1044
1045 All platforms
1046
1047 * Documentation improvements (11932 12096 12100 12112 12120)
1048
1049 * Improved diagnostics and error messages (11586 11587)
1050
1051 * Distribute the contributor code of conduct with the stable release (12056)
1052
1053 All server platforms
1054
1055 * Create PID files in the right location when bosserver is started with
1056 the "-pidfiles" argument and transarc paths are not being used (12086)
1057
1058 * Several fixes regarding volume dump creation and restore (11433 11553
1059 11825 11826 12082)
1060
1061 * Avoid a reported bosserver crash, and potentially others, by replacing
1062 fixed size buffers with dynamically allocated ones in some user handling
1063 functions (11436) (RT #130719)
1064
1065 * Obey the "-toname" parameter in "vos clone" operations (11434)
1066
1067 * Avoid writing a loopback address into the server CellServDB - search
1068 for a non-loopback one, and fail if none is found (12083 12105)
1069
1070 * Rebuild the vldb free list with "vldb_check -fix" (12084)
1071
1072 * Fixed and improved the "check_sysid" utility (12090)
1073
1074 * Fixed and improved the "prdb_check" utility (12101..04)
1075
1076 All client platforms
1077
1078 * Avoid a potential denial of service issue, by fixing a bug in pioctl
1079 logic that allowed a local user to overrun a kernel buffer with a single
1080 NUL byte (commit 2ef86372) (RT #132256) (CVE-2015-8312)
1081
1082 * Refuse to change multi-homed server entries with "vos changeaddr",
1083 unless "-force" is given, to avoid corruption of those entries (12087)
1084
1085 * Provide a new vos subcommand "remaddrs" for removing server entries, to
1086 replace the slightly confusing "vos changeaddr -remove" (12092 12094)
1087
1088 * Make "fs flushall" actually invalidate all cached data (11894)
1089
1090 * Prevent spurious call aborts due to erroneous idle timeouts (11594)
1091
1092 * Provide a "--disable-gtx" configure switch to avoid building and
1093 installing libgtx and its header files as well as the depending
1094 "scout" and "afsmonitor" applications (12095)
1095
1096 * Fixed building the gtx applications against newer ncurses (12125)
1097
1098 * Allow pioctls to work in environments where the syscall emulation
1099 pseudo file is created in a read-only pseudo filesystem, like in
1100 containers under recent versions of docker (12124)
1101
1102 Linux clients
1103
1104 * In Red Hat packaging, avoid following a symbolic link when writing
1105 the client CellServDB, which could overwrite the server CellServDB,
1106 by removing an existing symlink before writing the file (12081)
1107
1108 * In Red Hat packaging, avoid a conflict of openafs-debuginfo with
1109 krb5-debuginfo by excluding our kpasswd executable from debuginfo
1110 processing (12128) (RT #131771)
1111
1112OpenAFS 1.6.15 (Security Release)
1113
1114 All client and server platforms
1115
1116 * Fix for OPENAFS-SA-2015-007 "Tattletale"
1117
1118 When constructing an Rx acknowledgment (ACK) packet, Andrew-derived
1119 Rx implementations do not initialize three octets of data that are
1120 padding in the C language structure and were inadvertently included
1121 in the wire protocol (CVE-2015-7762). Additionally, OpenAFS Rx in
1122 versions 1.5.75 through 1.5.78, 1.6.0 through 1.6.14, and 1.7.0
1123 through 1.7.32 include a variable-length padding at the end of the
1124 ACK packet, in an attempt to detect the path MTU, but only four octets
1125 of the additional padding are initialized (CVE-2015-7763).
1126
1127OpenAFS 1.6.14.1
1128
1129 Linux clients
1130
1131 * Support kernels up to 4.2
1132
1133 Due to changes to internal data structures with this kernel release,
1134 the OpenAFS client can no longer reset the link count during path
1135 lookups. Since volume root directories must behave like symlinks
1136 instead of normal directories in order to satisfy Linux kernel
1137 invariants, looking up paths containing more than 40 mount points
1138 will fail with ELOOP on such kernels.
1139
1140OpenAFS 1.6.14
1141
1142 All server platforms
1143
1144 * Prior to the OpenAFS security release 1.6.13, the Volume Location
1145 Server (vlserver) RPC VL_ListAttributesN2() supported wildcard volume
1146 name lookups via regular expression (regex) pattern matching. This
1147 support was completely disabled in 1.6.13 because it was judged to be
1148 a security risk due to buffer overruns in the implementation, as well
1149 as the possibility of denial of service attacks where certain regular
1150 expressions could cause excessive CPU usage in some regex
1151 implementations.
1152
1153 Unfortunately, after 1.6.13 was released, it was discovered that
1154 the native OpenAFS 'backup' system uses the VL_ListAttributesN2()
1155 regex support to evaluate configured volume sets. If you use the
1156 OpenAFS 'backup' system (or another backup system which relies on it,
1157 such as Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM, aka Tivoli ADSM)), and are using
1158 volume sets which require regular expressions for the volume name,
1159 then those volume sets cannot be resolved by OpenAFS 1.6.13. The next
1160 paragraph provides details on how to identify any affected volume sets.
1161
1162 OpenAFS backup volume sets may be described by fileserver, partition
1163 name, and volume name. The fileserver and partition specifications
1164 never require regular expression support. The volume name specification
1165 always requires regular expression support except for when specifying
1166 _all_ volumes via two special cases: the universal wildcard ".*", or "".
1167 For example, volume name "proj" or "*.backup" or "homevol.*" all
1168 require regex support - even if the specification contains no wildcard
1169 characters and/or exactly matches an existing volume name.
1170
1171 As a result of this issue, OpenAFS 1.6.14 replaces the 1.6.13 changes
1172 to VL_ListAttributesN2. 1.6.14 prevents the buffer overruns and
1173 reenables the regex support, but restricts it to OpenAFS super-users
1174 and -localauth only. This is sufficient to restore the OpenAFS 'backup'
1175 system's ability to work correctly with any previously supported volume
1176 set. The OpenAFS 'backup' commands are already documented to require
1177 super-user authorization, so this restriction is moot for the backup
1178 system.
1179
1180 There are no other direct consumers of the VL_ListAttributesN2() regex
1181 support in the OpenAFS tree. However, the VL_ListAttributesN2 RPC is
1182 publicly accessible and might be used by third party tools directly or
1183 indirectly via OpenAFS's libadmin. Any such tools that issue
1184 VL_ListAttributesN2 RPCs must now be executed using super-user or
1185 -localauth tokens.
1186
1187 None of the other security fixes in OpenAFS 1.6.13 are known to have
1188 any issues, and are still included unchanged in OpenAFS 1.6.14.
1189
1190 If there are any questions concerning the possible impact of OpenAFS
1191 1.6.13 or 1.6.14 at your site, please contact your OpenAFS support
1192 provider or the openafs-info@openafs.org mailing list for further
1193 assistance.
1194
1195OpenAFS 1.6.13
1196
1197 All server platforms
1198
1199 * Fix for CVE-2015-3282: vos leaks stack data onto the wire in the
1200 clear when creating vldb entries
1201
1202 * Workaround for CVE-2015-3283: bos commands can be spoofed, including
1203 some which alter server state
1204
1205 * Disabled searching the VLDB by volume name regular expression to avoid
1206 possible buffer overruns in the volume location server
1207
1208 All client platforms
1209
1210 * Fix for CVE-2015-3284: pioctls leak kernel memory
1211
1212 * Fix for CVE-2015-3285: kernel pioctl support for OSD command passing
1213 can trigger a panic
1214
1215 Solaris clients
1216
1217 * Fix for CVE-2015-3286: Solaris grouplist modifications for PAGs can
1218 panic or overwrite memory
1219
1220OpenAFS 1.6.12
1221
1222 All server platforms
1223
1224 * Avoid database corruption if a database server is shut down and then
1225 brought up again quickly with an altered database (11773 11774)
1226 (RT #131997)
1227
1228 All client platforms
1229
1230 * Fixed a potential buffer overflow in aklog (11808)
1231
1232 * Avoid a bogus warning regarding the checkserver daemon, which could be
1233 logged during startup when the cache initialization was very fast (11680)
1234
1235 * Added documentation of the inaccuracy of the 'partition' field in
1236 'fs listquota' output for partitions larger than 2 TiB (11626)
1237
1238 Linux clients
1239
1240 * Support kernels up to 4.1 (11872 11873)
1241
1242 * Avoid spurious EIO errors when writing large chunks of data to
1243 mmapped files (11877)
1244
1245 OS X
1246
1247 * Build fixes required at least on OS X 10.10 Yosemite with the latest
1248 XCode (11859 11876 11842..11845 11863 11878 11879)
1249
1250OpenAFS 1.6.11.1
1251
1252 Linux clients
1253
1254 * Support kernels up to 4.0 (11760 11761)
1255
1256 FreeBSD clients
1257
1258 * Fixed kernel module build on systems with an updated clang which no
1259 longer accepts the -mno-align-long-strings as a no-op (11809)
1260
1261OpenAFS 1.6.11
1262
1263 All platforms
1264
1265 * Allow aklog to succeed creating native K5 tokens even when mapping
1266 the K5 principal to a K4 one fails (11538)
1267
1268 * Build fixes (11435 11636)
1269
1270 All client platforms
1271
1272 * Avoid a potential kernel panic due to connection reference overcounts
1273 (11645) (RT #131885)
1274
1275 * Avoid potential corruption of files written using memory mapped I/O
1276 when the file is larger than the cache (11656) (RT #131976)
1277
1278 Linux clients
1279
1280 * Support kernels at least up to 3.19 (11549 11550 11569 11570 11595
1281 11658..11662 11694 11752)
1282
1283 Note: By default this excludes kernels 3.17 to 3.17.2, which will leak
1284 an inode reference when an error occurs in d_splice_alias(). The
1285 module will build and work, but leak kernel memory, leading to
1286 performance degradation and eventually system failure due to
1287 memory exhaustion. Since it's impossible to detect this condition
1288 automatically, the switch --enable-linux-d_splice_alias-extra-iput
1289 must be passed to configure when building the module for those
1290 kernels. The same would be necessary for any kernel with backports
1291 of commit 908790fa3b779d37365e6b28e3aa0f6e833020c3 or commit
1292 95ad5c291313b66a98a44dc92b57e0b37c1dd589 but not the fix in commit
1293 51486b900ee92856b977eacfc5bfbe6565028070 in the linux-stable repo
1294 (git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git) or
1295 the corresponding changes on other branches.
1296
1297 * Fixed a regression introduced in OpenAFS release 1.6.10 which could
1298 make the spurious "getcwd: cannot access parent directories" problem
1299 return (11558 11568) (RT #131780)
1300
1301 * Avoid leaking memory when scanning a corrupt directory (11707)
1302
1303 OS X clients
1304
1305 * Support OS X 10.10 "Yosemite" (11571 11572 11611) (RT #131946)
1306
1307 Solaris clients
1308
1309 * Avoid reading random data rather than correct cache content when using
1310 ZFS as the cache file system on Solaris >= 11, and fix potential similar
1311 problems on other platforms (11713 11714)
1312
1313 FreeBSD
1314
1315 * Build fix for releases >= 11.0 (11610)
1316
1317 OpenBSD
1318
1319 * Support release 5.4 (11700)
1320
1321
1322OpenAFS 1.6.10
1323
1324 All platforms
1325
1326 * Don't hide the "version" subcommand in help output (11214)
1327
1328 * Documentation improvements (11126 11216 11222 11223 11225 11226)
1329
1330 * Improved diagnostics and error messages (11154 11246 11247 11249 11181
1331 11182 11183)
1332
1333 * Build system improvements (11158 11221 11224 11225 11227..11241 11282
1334 11342 11350 11353 11242 11367 11392)
1335
1336 * Avoid potentially erratic behaviour under certain error conditions by
1337 either avoiding or at least not ignoring them, in various places (11008
1338 11010..11065 11112 11148 11196 11530)
1339
1340 FreeBSD
1341
1342 * Support releases 9.3 and 10.1 (11368 11369 11402 11403 11404)
1343
1344 * Makes a disk cache more likely to work on FreeBSD, though such
1345 configurations remain not very tested (11448)
1346
1347 All server platforms
1348
1349 * Added volscan(8) (11252..11280 11387 11388)
1350
1351 * Fixed a bug causing subgroups not to function correctly if their
1352 ptdb entry had more than one continuation entry (11352)
1353
1354 * Logging improvements (10946 11153)
1355
1356 * Allow log rotation via copy and truncate (11193)
1357
1358 * Avoid a server crash during startup only observed on a single platform
1359 and when using a 3rd party library under certain circumstances, which is
1360 a collateral effect of the security improvements introduced in OpenAFS
1361 release 1.6.5 (11075) (RT #131852)
1362
1363 All client platforms
1364
1365 * Raised the free space reported for /afs to the maximum possible value of
1366 just under 2 TiB - the old value was 9 GiB on most platforms (10984)
1367
1368 * Reduced the amount of stack space used (11162 11163 11203 11164..11167
1369 11338 11339 11364..11366 11381)
1370
1371 * Sped up a periodic client task which could be problematically slow
1372 on systems with a large number of PAGs and files in use (11307)
1373
1374 * Fixed failure of the up command with large ACLs (11111)
1375
1376 * Avoid a potential crash of aklog (11218)
1377
1378 * Avoid potential crashes of scout and xstat_fs_test (11155)
1379
1380 Linux clients
1381
1382 * Support kernels up to 3.16 (11308 11309)
1383
1384 * Fixed a regression introduced in OpenAFS release 1.6.6 that made
1385 checking for existing write locks incorrectly fail on readonly volumes
1386 (11361)
1387
1388 * Fixed a regression introduced in OpenAFS release 1.6.8 that could
1389 cause VFS cache inconsistencies when a previously-accessed directory
1390 entry was removed and recreated with the same name but pointing to a
1391 different file on another client (11358)
1392
1393 * Use the right path to depmod in Red Hat packaging to avoid dependency
1394 calculation incorrectly failing unless a link /sbin -> /usr/sbin is
1395 present on the system performing it (11171) (RT #131860)
1396
1397 * Do not ignore kernel module build errors (11205)
1398
1399OpenAFS 1.6.9
1400
1401 All server platforms
1402
1403 * Fix for OPENAFS-SA-2014-002
1404
1405OpenAFS 1.6.8
1406
1407 All platforms
1408
1409 * Documentation improvements (10751 10875 10931 10897 10883 10954 10955)
1410
1411 * Improved diagnostics and error messages (10756 10814 10949)
1412
1413 * Fixed a bug in RX that could make errors during packet reception go
1414 unnoticed. (10733)
1415
1416 * Fixed a bug that made "vos size -dump" display the wrong size for
1417 large volumes. (10933) (RT #131819)
1418
1419 All server platforms
1420
1421 * Change the default fileserver sync behavior from "delayed" to "onclose".
1422 This means that explicit syncing only happens when a volume is detached.
1423 (10809)
1424
1425 * Added the -offline-timeout and -offline-shutdown-timeout options to the
1426 fileserver, to implement interrupting clients accessing volumes we are
1427 trying to take offline. (6266 10799)
1428
1429 All client platforms
1430
1431 * When a client is shut down, it will give up its callbacks. The Windows
1432 client has been doing this since 2007. Note that older fileservers
1433 (1.3.50 to 1.4.5 and 1.5.0 to 1.5.27) had a bug in the implementation of
1434 the relevant RPC that could cause crashes or other undefined behavior
1435 when this happens. (6272 8840 10855)
1436
1437 * Restored the pre-1.6 behavior of "vos e" being an alias for "vos examine".
1438 (10886)
1439
1440 * Avoid flooding logs with warnings about byte-range locks, by throttling
1441 them per file. Also, make the messages more useful by including the
1442 FID. (10836..10839)
1443
1444 * Avoid a possible panic during shutdown while tracing. (10932)
1445
1446 Linux clients
1447
1448 * Fixed a bug that could cause the "getcwd: cannot access parent
1449 directories" problem (10804 10984)
1450
1451 * Avoid a delay when accessing uncached data in AFS in a confined
1452 context under SELinux. (10598)
1453
1454 * Red Hat packaging improvements (10600 10767 10807)
1455
1456OpenAFS 1.6.7
1457
1458 All server platforms
1459
1460 * Fix for OPENAFS-SA-2014-001
1461
1462 * Fix for a potential DOS attack against RX servers
1463
1464OpenAFS 1.6.6
1465
1466 All platforms
1467
1468 * As of this release, OpenAFS no longer ships uncompressed source tarballs.
1469 Tarballs are still shipped with both compression formats, gzip and bzip2.
1470 (10131)
1471
1472 * Documentation improvements (10136 10314 10601)
1473
1474 * Improved diagnostics and error messages (9412 10085 10274)
1475
1476 * Avoid redefining "assert" in our public header files, which could
1477 cause failures when building some applications using them. (10096)
1478
1479 * Fixes for parallel builds (10005 10309 10337)
1480
1481 * Added a -s switch to afscp (not installed by default) to help simulate
1482 a slow client. (9416 9417)
1483
1484 * Added a -probe switch to vlclient test program (not installed by default)
1485 to ping all vlservers in a cell in parallel. (9570)
1486
1487 All server platforms
1488 * The fileserver now ignores any vice partitions with a NeverAttach flag
1489 file present in the root directory. (RT #130561) (9470 9471)
1490
1491 * Restrict forcing CPS ("Current Protection Subdomain") recalculation in
1492 the fileserver to administrators. Also fixed a bug that could cause this
1493 operation to be incomplete. (9485 9487)
1494
1495 * Allow non-DAFS fileservers to attach unusable volumes, restoring pre-1.6
1496 behaviour. (RT #131505) (9499)
1497
1498 * Restored the pre-1.6 behaviour when running vos examine for a volume
1499 currently in a transaction, showing the volume as busy again rather than
1500 offline. (9685 9915 9916)
1501
1502 * Reduced the minimum time a bos salvage takes from 5 seconds to 1. (9476)
1503
1504 * Fixed buserver to not segfault when started with the -servers option.
1505 (RT #131706) (10166)
1506
1507 * Salvager fixes, addressing a wide variety of possible problems from
1508 unnecessary salvaging to aborts (9282 9283 9457 9458 9459 9461 9462 9480
1509 9481 10165 10167)
1510
1511 * Fixed a bug that could cause saved state information to be discarded
1512 when restarting a large or busy fileserver, which negatively impacted
1513 performance. (9683)
1514
1515 * Fixed a bug that could have caused undefined behaviour in the vlserver
1516 in rare cases when a fileserver registered its addresses in the VLDB.
1517 (9429)
1518
1519 * Added the -preserve-vol-stats switch to volserver, allowing it to keep
1520 the access statistics across volume restore and reclone operations
1521 instead of resetting them. (9477)
1522
1523 * Inserted an exponential delay between retries when bosserver attempts to
1524 restart a server process. (9571 10199)
1525
1526 * Improved vldb_check (not installed by default) to cope with broken
1527 vlentry names and volids, and provide more output to aid debugging.
1528 (10268)
1529
1530 * Releasing a volume after adding a new RO site no longer touches any of
1531 the existing RO sites, if the RW data hasn't changed since the last
1532 release. (10174)
1533
1534 * Make the copyDate field for RO clones have the same meaning as for
1535 remote RO volumes. Previously, the copyDate field for clones was updated
1536 every time we released. (9451)
1537
1538 * Fixed potentially undefined behaviour in ptserver when too many pts
1539 ids are allocated. (10124)
1540
1541 * Note that the server side NAT pings feature present in the prereleases
1542 was removed before the final release, since no positive feedback
1543 was provided during prerelease testing. (9420 10135)
1544
1545 Linux servers
1546
1547 * Start bosserver with -nofork in the systemd unit file, to allow systemd
1548 to track its state (10093)
1549
1550 All client platforms
1551
1552 * No longer track file locks on read-only volumes. Write locks can't
1553 succeed, read locks always will. Avoids log messages about this kind
1554 of lock. (8910)
1555
1556 * Added the "fs flushall" subcommand, which makes the client discard all
1557 cached data. This was previously available on Windows only. (9065 9388
1558 9389 9390)
1559
1560 * Fixed a bug that could make the client incorrectly believe its cache
1561 is up to date. This change could negatively impact AFS <-> DFS
1562 translators, should those still be running anywhere. (8898)
1563
1564 * Several changes to avoid panicing in certain error conditions.
1565 (9131 9287 10354 10355 10356 10357) (partially addressing RT #131747)
1566
1567 * Added the -rxmaxfrags switch to afsd, allowing to limit the number
1568 of UDP fragments sent or received per RX packet. (9430)
1569
1570 * Build fixes for aklog on several platforms (RT #131716) (9917 10107 10275)
1571
1572 * Require that the AFS mountpoint specified in the cacheinfo file is
1573 an absolute path. Relative paths result in a client that basically
1574 works but is not fully functional. (10253)
1575
1576 * Fixed a bug that could cause one of the afsd threads to enter an infinite
1577 loop (10431 .. 10436)
1578
1579 Linux clients
1580
1581 * Support Linux kernels up to 3.13 (10241)
1582
1583 * Fixed a bug that made readv/writev calls in AFS space fail with Linux
1584 kernels where generic_file_aio_read exists but those operations have
1585 not been switched to using aio_read/aio_write. This was a regression
1586 introduced with release 1.6.3 and affected at least RHEL 5.9 kernels.
1587 (10248)
1588
1589 * Fixed a similar bug making core dumps fail in AFS space, affecting
1590 a much wider range of kernels including the most recent ones.
1591 (RT #131729) (10254)
1592
1593 * Enhanced the keyring code to make PAGs work correctly on kernels with a
1594 distribution specific change to the Linux keyring code. This affected at
1595 least SLES 11 SP3 kernels. (10252)
1596
1597 * Fixed a bug that could make failures during PAG instantiation go
1598 unnoticed. (10255)
1599
1600 * Fixed a bug that made compilation fail for Linux kernels without
1601 keyring support. This affected at least the SLE 10 SDK and an
1602 OEM version of SLES 11 SP1. (10325)
1603
1604 * Fixed build for kernels with user namespace support enabled. Likely
1605 to be required for Ubuntu 14.04 and eventually other distributions.
1606 (10456 10457 10458 10518 10472)
1607
1608 * Support RHEL 6.5 kernels, and possibly others with changes backported
1609 from recent mainline kernels that touch getname/putname, by no longer
1610 using those functions. Previously, the client could cause a kernel
1611 panic when syscall auditing was enabled. (10578)
1612
1613 * Make tmpfs usable as the cache filesystem again. This had been broken
1614 since kernel 3.1 (9950 10193)
1615
1616 * When starting the client fails, clean up the backing device information
1617 created in sysfs, to avoid error messages during a subsequent start
1618 and possible system instability later on (10454)
1619
1620 * Update Red Hat packaging to support Fedora >= 20, RHEL >= 7 and
1621 ELrepo kernels (10597 10619 10622 10703 10704)
1622
1623 OS X Clients
1624
1625 * Support OS X 10.9 "Mavericks" (10519 10541 10542 10543 10548 10549)
1626
1627 AIX clients
1628
1629 * Fixed a bug that caused the 1.6 AIX client to never receive any RX
1630 packets in the kernel. (RT #131725)
1631
1632 FUSE client
1633
1634 * Support Solaris 11 (9454 9455)
1635
1636 * Allow other users to access filesystems mounted by root. (9452)
1637
1638 FreeBSD
1639
1640 * Build tvolser and dvolser on this platform (10122)
1641 * Several fixes to catch up with newer releases (10374 .. 10381)
1642
1643 NetBSD
1644
1645 * Build tsalvaged, tvolser and dvolser on this platform (10121)
1646 * Fixed build on NetBSD 5 and newer. (10138)
1647
1648OpenAFS 1.6.5
1649
1650All platforms
1651
1652 * Fixes for OpenAFS-SA-2013-0003 and OpenAFS-SA-2013-0004
1653
1654OpenAFS 1.6.4
1655
1656All platforms
1657
1658 * Obey the jumbo/nojumbo settings for ubik servers (the DB servers)
1659 too. In previous releases, those servers may have used jumbograms
1660 even if they were not configured to do so. This change corrects
1661 the actual behaviour, and will improve performance and reliability
1662 for sites where jumbograms are problematic. It could cause a decrease
1663 in performance for sites where jumbograms work, but those can turn
1664 them back on manually.
1665
1666 * Dozens of fixes for common coding problems like use after free,
1667 use of possibly uninitialised memory, reading or writing past the
1668 end of arrays and potential NULL pointer derefences. Spotted by
1669 code analysis tools or human inspection.
1670
1671 * Documentation improvements.
1672
1673 * Fixes and improvements to the diagnostic or log messages printed by
1674 vos, the fileserver and others.
1675
1676 * Build fixes, making parallel builds more reliable with certain
1677 configuration options and helping various platforms including
1678 recent releases of IRIX, Solaris and several flavours of Linux.
1679
1680 * Avoid sending a small amount of data over the wire unencrypted
1681 under certain conditions, and emit the correct error message in
1682 this case.
1683
1684All server platforms
1685
1686 * Avoid generating duplicate IDs for readonly and backup volumes,
1687 which could happen under certain conditions.
1688
1689 * Allow the fileserver to return volume data like quota or free space,
1690 which is available publicly elsewhere, without the additional access
1691 check for read permissions on a volume's root directory the fileserver
1692 performed before.
1693
1694 * The fileserver now emits a log message when it ran out of memory for
1695 callbacks.
1696
1697 * Avoid several potential fileserver problems, including memory
1698 corruption and segmentation faults, due to client bookkeeping.
1699
1700 * Avoid known cases of silent data corruption due to background syncs
1701 on the fileserver, especially during Copy on Write.
1702
1703 * Make the fileserver sync behaviour runtime configurable. Up to 1.4.5,
1704 we had synchronous syncs which were safe but really slow. Since 1.4.5,
1705 we've had asynchronous syncs which are much faster but believed to
1706 be the cause of rare data corruption issues, and while all known cases
1707 of these happening are believed to be fixed in the 1.6.3 release, doubts
1708 remain. This change allows choosing between those, and in addition allows
1709 to turn syncs by the fileserver off altogether, thus relying on the vice
1710 partition's backend filesystem and the operating system, or to just
1711 execute them when a volume is detached. The default behaviour is
1712 unchanged from releases since 1.4.5, but it's highly recommended to
1713 consider the additional options this change provides. Future OpenAFS
1714 releases will default to "-sync=none".
1715
1716 * For dbservers, avoid a situation where misinterpreting transient
1717 network errors causes long-term issues with achieving ubik quorum.
1718
1719All UNIX client platforms
1720
1721 * Improvements to the detection of an aklog-specific krb5 configuration
1722 file, for the purposes of turning on "weak crypto" for aklog.
1723
1724 * Fixed a regression introduced in release 1.6.2 which caused the
1725 supposedly persistent disk cache to be discarded upon client start.
1726 (RT #131655)
1727
1728Linux clients
1729
1730 * Support Linux kernels up to 3.10
1731
1732 * Fixed two bugs making it impossible to unmount a disk cache filesystem
1733 after it has been used by the client. (RT #131613)
1734
1735 * Fixed a bug that could cause an oops with kernels 3.6 and later
1736
1737OpenBSD
1738
1739 * Improved support for OpenBSD 4.9 to 5.3
1740
1741OpenAFS 1.6.3
1742
1743 This release number had to be skipped for technical reasons.
1744
1745OpenAFS 1.6.2.1
1746
1747 Linux clients
1748
1749 * Support Linux kernels up to 3.8.
1750
1751 * Make the init script cope with the output of ifconfig on recent Fedora.
1752
1753OpenAFS 1.6.2
1754
1755 All platforms
1756
1757 * Fix buffer overflows in fileserver and ptserver.
1758
1759 * Abort an rx connection when given an unknown service (Gerrit 7593).
1760
1761 * "idle dead" behavior improvements.
1762
1763 * Documentation updates.
1764
1765 All server platforms
1766
1767 * Fix rare file corruption during background sync (Gerrit 8796).
1768
1769 * Fix corrupting clients' metadata cache during certain errors (Gerrit
1770 6957).
1771
1772 * Avoid saying a volume doesn't exist when accessed as the volume is
1773 going offline (Gerrit 7488).
1774
1775 * Fix fileservers to properly report >2 TiB partitions.
1776
1777 * Fix stale volume info from vos examine on non-DAFS filservers.
1778
1779 * Fix possible volume corruption with vos convertROtoRW.
1780
1781 * Fix bosserver to preserve all command-line options over restart.
1782
1783 * Fix bosserver to properly kill hung processes during shutdown.
1784
1785 All UNIX client platforms
1786
1787 * Fixes for memcache, especially on Solaris.
1788
1789 * Increase the size of the DNS resolver answer buffer to allow sites
1790 with a long response list to use SRV and AFSDB records.
1791
1792 * Fix a crash when a server appears to run out of addresses (Gerrit
1793 7487).
1794
1795 * Fix cache corruption when reading from a file another client is
1796 simultaneously writing to (Gerrit 7994).
1797
1798 * Improve handling of disk cache disk errors.
1799
1800 Linux
1801
1802 * fix DKMS configuration for DKMS 2.2.
1803
1804 * Avoid generating inode number 0 with md5 inodes (Gerrit 7276).
1805
1806 * Fix a crash when reading /proc/fs/openafs/unixusers (Gerrit 7914).
1807
1808 * Make PAG-less access use the real UID of the calling process
1809 instead of the effective UID, when determining what credentials to
1810 use (Gerrit 7931).
1811
1812 * Fix possible abuse of fs mkmount.
1813 Prior to 1.6.2, users could crash a client by nesting volume mounts.
1814
1815 * Fix fileserver memory corruption on RHEL 6
1816 Prior to 1.6.2, fileservers on RHEL 6 may crash under heavy load.
1817
1818 * Fix client page cache corruption on Linux
1819 When multiple clients read and write to a file, the reading client
1820 may see first page (4096 bytes) of a file as nulls.
1821
1822 * Support Linux kernels up to 3.7.
1823
1824 * Support newer glibc versions.
1825
1826 * Improve client systemd unit file.
1827
1828 * Update Red Hat packaging.
1829
1830 OS X
1831
1832 * Fix crashes on shutdown.
1833
1834 * Prevent unloading the module before shutdown completes.
1835
1836 * Security improvement for the OpenAFS preference pane.
1837
1838 Solaris
1839
1840 * Support newer versions of the Sun Studio compiler software.
1841
1842 * Support compiling on newer versions of Solaris 11 and Solaris 10.
1843
1844
1845OpenAFS 1.6.0 (2011-08-15)
1846
1847 All platforms
1848
1849 * Substantial Rx updates to correct erroneous behavior.
1850
1851 * vos now properly deals with matching sites when servers are
1852 multihomed.
1853
1854 * Don't stop Rx keepalives after an ackall is received, avoiding
1855 spurious connection timeouts. (128848)
1856
1857 * Don't retry Rx calls on channels returning busy errors and improve
1858 Rx busy call channel error handling. (128671)
1859
1860 * Properly enable Rx connection hard timeouts.
1861
1862 * Rx NAT pings are not enabled until peer has answered.
1863
1864 * Initialize rx_multi lock before use.
1865
1866 * Avoid spurious crashes when initializing in "backup" client.
1867
1868 * Revert UUID support in vos.
1869
1870 * pt_util fixed to properly create new databases.
1871
1872 * MTU discovery now properly shut down on call reset.
1873
1874 * Avoid leaking references to hosts during callback break multi-Rx
1875 operations. (129376)
1876
1877 * xstat tools now cope with differing timeval structures between
1878 endpoints.
1879
1880 * Numerous fixes to command argument parsing.
1881
1882 * Documentation updates.
1883
1884 All server platforms
1885
1886 * A file descriptor leak which could result in corrupted files in the
1887 fileserver was fixed. An IMMEDIATE upgrade from previous 1.5 release
1888 fileservers is recommended.
1889
1890 * Fix ptserver supergroups support on 64 bit platforms.
1891
1892 * Demand attach salvaging doesn't use freed volume pointers.
1893
1894 * Properly hold host lock during host enumeration in fileserver.
1895
1896 * Attempt to recovery more quickly from timed out volume release
1897 transactions.
1898
1899 * Auditing now properly byte order swaps IP addresses when printing.
1900
1901 * vos split now has improved error handling.
1902
1903 * Many changes to again support Windows fileservers.
1904
1905 * During volume removal, data removal speed improved.
1906
1907 * Improve CPU utilization during volume attaching by DAFS.
1908
1909 * In salvager check-only mode, avoid potentially fixing a vnode.
1910
1911 * Fix support for large (greater than 2gb) volume special files.
1912
1913 * Salvager will not crash if multiple or bad volume link tables are
1914 encountered.
1915
1916 * Avoid erroneous full dump by remembering which sites were out of
1917 date at the start of the release.
1918
1919 * A deleted volume can now be recreated properly.
1920
1921 * Callbacks are again not broken during whole partition salvages.
1922
1923 * Positional vectored IO fixed for largefile (>2GB) capable systems.
1924
1925 * Fileserver per-client thread usage again properly enforced.
1926
1927 * Anonymous dropbox support improved and drawbacks documented.
1928
1929 * Demand attach: ensure vnodes are not reallocated while in use due to
1930 volume bitmap errors.
1931
1932 * Properly support large volume numbers (larger than 2147483647).
1933
1934 * Allow salvager to be run manually again when DAFS is being
1935 used. (129458)
1936
1937 * Avoid leaking references to hosts during callback break multi-Rx
1938 operations. (129376)
1939
1940 * Demand attach: unlink fileserver state file on standalone salvage.
1941
1942 * Salvager tries harder to detect linktable issues.
1943
1944 * Demand attach: don't attach volumes with special status set.
1945
1946 * Avoid crashing on host table exhaustion. Instead, defer clients.
1947
1948 Microsoft Windows
1949
1950 * afs_config will not longer set the Tray Icon State in the registry
1951 if the checkbox is not present in the dialog. (128591)
1952
1953 * AFS Explorer Shell Extension now works from folder backgrounds.
1954 Overlays for mount points and symlinks are present in the dll, but
1955 are not registered at present by the installers.
1956
1957 * Do not use RankServerInterval registry value as the value for
1958 PerformanceTuningInterval.
1959
1960 * When the data version of a mountpoint or symlink changes, the target
1961 string in the cm_scache_t object must be cleared.
1962
1963 * "fs checkservers" now includes vldb servers in the output and only
1964 lists multi-homed servers once. A multi-homed server that has at
1965 least one up interface is no longer considered to be down.
1966
1967 * When asynchronously storing dirty data buffers to the file server
1968 ensure that (a) the cm_scache_t object and the cm_buf_t object are
1969 for the same File ID so that locking and signalling work properly;
1970 and (b) if the FID no longer exists on the file server, do not
1971 panic, just discard the buffer.
1972
1973 * When processing VNOVOL, VMOVED and VOFFLINE errors perform server
1974 comparisons by UUID or address and not simply by cm_server_t
1975 pointer. Otherwise, server failover may not succeed.
1976
1977 * Do not preserve status information for cm_scache_t objects when the
1978 issuing server is multi-homed.
1979
1980 * Giving up all callbacks when shutting down or suspending the machine
1981 is now significantly faster due to the use of an rx_multi
1982 implementation. (This functionality is still off by default and
1983 must be activated by a registry value.)
1984
1985 * Race conditions were possible when updating the state of the
1986 cm_volume_t flags and when moving the volumes within the least
1987 recently used list.
1988
1989 * Ensure that the lanahelper library does not perform a NCBRESET of
1990 each lan adapter when enumerating the current network bindings.
1991 Correcting this permits OpenAFS to work on Windows 7 when the
1992 network adapter settings change.
1993
1994 * Fix creation of mount points and symlinks as \\AFS\xxxx
1995
1996 * Icon tray state now conditionally set. (128591)
1997
1998 * Properly create new cell mount points in freelance mode.
1999
2000 * Avoid recursive offline volume checks.
2001
2002 * Fix caching of non-existent volumes. The test to trigger an
2003 immediate CM_ERROR_NOSUCHVOLUME in cm_UpdateVolumeLocation() was
2004 backwards.
2005
2006 * Prevent the background daemon from checking the status of
2007 non-existent volumes. cm_CheckOfflineVolumes() should skip volume
2008 groups with the CM_VOLUMEFLAG_NOEXIST flag set.
2009
2010 * The afskfw library should return an error immediately if the
2011 krb5_32.dll library cannot be loaded. Affects afslogon.dll and
2012 afscreds.exe.
2013
2014 * No longer depend on leashw32.dll in afskfw library.
2015
2016 * NPLogonNotify must provide the user password in all calls to
2017 KFW_AFS_get_cred(). It cannot count on a credential cache being
2018 preserved between calls. Permits tokens to be acquired for all
2019 cells listed in the TheseCells registry value for a domain.
2020
2021 * Improve the trace logging from NPLogonNotify().
2022
2023 * Avoid a race when writing the cm_scache_t mountPointString
2024 when acquiring mount point or symlink target data via
2025 cm_GetData(). The race could result in bogus target
2026 data being cached.
2027
2028 * Permit the use of des-cbc-md5 and des-cbc-md4 enctypes
2029 as DES keys in asetkey.exe.
2030
2031 * aklog supports dotted Kerberos v5 principal names.
2032
2033 * afskfw library always attempts afs/cell@USER-REALM
2034
2035 * afskfw library must test return code from krb5_cc_start_seq_get() or
2036 will trigger a null pointer exception when using Heimdal.
2037
2038 * Lock protected fields must be 32-bit in order to avoid memory
2039 overwrite races.
2040
2041 * Add support for NTFS symlinks.
2042
2043 * Handle file search requests for virtual syscall ioctl file.
2044
2045 * Process SyncOps properly to enforce ordered operations.
2046
2047 * Avoid recursing during NewServer operations.
2048
2049 * Correct lock acquisition order during SMB locking.
2050
2051 * Add shutdown message to event log.
2052
2053 * Check offline volume status by policy rather than on each daemon
2054 thread run.
2055
2056 * Return error on directory object not found instead of crashing.
2057
2058 * Improve error message output.
2059
2060 * afslogin.dll can start afsd_service if it's not starting or started.
2061
2062 * Optimize away release lock RPCs for deleted files.
2063
2064 * Background Daemon will not perform operations on deleted files.
2065
2066 * Resort recently used directories to the top of the LRU if the
2067 directory is larger than the stat cache.
2068
2069 * Resort deleted objects to the bottom of the LRU.
2070
2071 * Use interlocked operations for state and queue fields to allow safe
2072 bit set and clear on multiprocessor systems.
2073
2074 All UNIX client platforms
2075
2076 * Servers now marked down when GetCapabilities returns error.
2077
2078 * In-use vcache count is now properly tracked.
2079
2080 * Check for /afs existance before starting, unless -nomount is
2081 specified.
2082
2083 * Avoid a potential panic when using /afs/.:mount syntax.
2084
2085 * Avoid a panic in memcache mode due to missing CellItems file.
2086
2087 * FUSE client support fixed for non-/afs mounts.
2088
2089 * Avoid a potential deadlock (which times out) when we need to
2090 allocate more callback returns and must flush some already in use.
2091
2092 * Deal with libcom_err conflicts with other packages using it
2093 (e.g. krb5) (128640)
2094
2095 * Fall back to afs3-vlserver SRV record values when afs3-ptserver SRV
2096 record is not available.
2097
2098 * Avoid holding unneeded locks when probing server capabilties.
2099
2100 * Do not attempt page flushes for directories.
2101
2102 * Rx connection reference counting is enabled.
2103
2104 * An Rx connection reference count leak is fixed in bulkstat.
2105
2106 * Handle unparsable directory objects.
2107
2108 * Handle Kerberos cred cache errors in aklog.
2109
2110 AIX
2111
2112 * Fix PAG usage to track by PAG identifier, not group list.
2113
2114 FreeBSD
2115
2116 * Fix socket termination on shutdown.
2117
2118 * Support for 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 and 8.2 included.
2119
2120 * References to vcaches are no longer leaked during root or reclaim.
2121
2122 * Remove support for "Giant" lock as we no longer need to use it.
2123
2124 * Don't sleep with AFS GLOCK.
2125
2126 * Properly enable 64 bit long long support.
2127
2128 * Restore support for FreeBSD 7 (128612)
2129
2130 * Fix locking issues at shutdown and avoid panic at shutdown due to
2131 vcache flushing.
2132
2133 * Support for virtual network stacks.
2134
2135 * New RC script, updated packaging.
2136
2137 IRIX
2138
2139 * Properly create new vnodes to avoid crashing in the client.
2140
2141 Linux
2142
2143 * Support through kernel 2.6.39. Treat Linux 3.0 as Linux 2.6 for
2144 sysname purposes.
2145
2146 * Use rx_Readv in cache bypass to improve performance.
2147
2148 * Properly handle 0-length replies during cache bypass operations.
2149
2150 * Properly handle non-contiguous readpage cache bypass operations.
2151
2152 * Do proper locking when transitioning to or from cache bypass.
2153
2154 * Avoid extra runs of vcache freeing routine. (128756)
2155
2156 * Perform vcache eviction via a fast path before visiting vcaches
2157 where sleep is needed.
2158
2159 * setpag() errors are now properly reported.
2160
2161 * Avoid attempting to free stat cache entries when we are below
2162 user-specified number of entries in use.
2163
2164 * Properly track user-specified number of stat cache entries to use as
2165 a desired usage target.
2166
2167 * Don't read pages beyond EOF in the cache. (128452)
2168
2169 * Various corrections and improvements to Red Hat packaging, including
2170 modifying the init script to allow deferring for a new binary
2171 restart and properly supporting RHEL6.
2172
2173 * Fix lockup in 2.6.38 due to erroneous kernel feature configure test.
2174
2175 * Improve RPM building tools.
2176
2177 * Attempt to properly handle SELinux in packaging.
2178
2179 * Init script properly returns status as exit code.
2180
2181 * RPM packaging fixes (executable libraries, no postinstall message)
2182
2183 * Kill i386 from RPM packaging.
2184
2185 MacOS
2186
2187 * MacOS 10.7 support.
2188
2189 * Properly handle setpag errors. PAGs are not supported.
2190
2191 * Check for unloaded kernel extensions when decoding AFS panics.
2192
2193 * Disable "get tokens at login" in prefs pane if AD authentication
2194 plugin is configured.
2195
2196 * aklog AuthorizationPlugin now provided.
2197
2198 * Preferences Pane behavior fixed for 1.6 series (version detection is
2199 used to select default behavior).
2200
2201 * A potential kernel panic during bulkstat operations is
2202 fixed. (128511)
2203
2204 * 64-bit MacOS kernel performance is greatly improved. (128934)
2205
2206 * Properly shut down AFS, closing the Rx socket in the upcall handler
2207 to avoid attempting to process data after we can no longer do so.
2208
2209 * Rework logic for bulk status operations to avoid a potential hang.
2210
2211 * Avoid panic when doing FSEvent synthesis.
2212
2213 * Fix bug when using non-dynroot.
2214
2215 * Update Kerberos support in PreferencesPane.
2216
2217 NetBSD
2218
2219 * Updates for platform support.
2220
2221 OpenBSD
2222
2223 * Bug fixes for issues introduced previously in 1.5 series.
2224
2225 * Support through OpenBSD 4.8.
2226
2227 Solaris
2228
2229 * Switch to ioctl() syscall replacement for Solaris 11 since syscall
2230 65 is not safe.
2231
2232 * Fix support for Solaris pre-10.
2233
2234 * Corrected Solaris 11 startup script.
2235
2236 * vcache mappings freed on shutdown to avoid panic.
2237
2238 * Properly report errors for AFS system call callers.
2239
2240 * Don't leave dangling function references if kernel extension fails
2241 to load.
2242
2243 * Try harder to avoid deadlocks on file-larger-than-cache operations.
2244
2245 * Avoid panic on shutdown when mount failed.
2246
2247
2248OpenAFS 1.6.0pre2
2249
2250 All systems: Minor bugfixes.
2251
2252 ADDITIONAL CHANGES IN 1.6.0PRE2
2253
2254 All platforms:
2255
2256 - Documentation updates.
2257
2258 - Don't stop Rx keepalives after an ackall is received, avoiding
2259 spurious connection timeouts. (128848)
2260
2261 - Don't retry Rx calls on channels returning busy errors. (128671)
2262
2263 - vos will not die with a double free error at command completion.
2264
2265 - Properly enable Rx connection hard timeouts.
2266
2267 - Initialize rx_multi lock before use.
2268
2269 - Avoid spurious crashes when initializing in "backup" client.
2270
2271 All unix platforms:
2272
2273 - Check for /afs existance before starting, unless -nomount is specified.
2274
2275 - Avoid a potential panic when using /afs/.:mount syntax.
2276
2277 - Avoid a panic in memcache mode due to missing CellItems file.
2278
2279 All server platforms:
2280
2281 - Attempt to recovery more quickly from timed out volume release
2282 transactions.
2283
2284 - Auditing now properly byte order swaps IP addresses when printing.
2285
2286 - vos split now has improved error handling.
2287
2288 - Many changes to again support Windows fileservers.
2289
2290 - During volume removal, data removal speed improved.
2291
2292 - Improve CPU utilization during volume attaching by DAFS.
2293
2294 - In salvager check-only mode, avoid potentially fixing a vnode.
2295
2296 - Fix support for large (greater than 2gb) volume special files.
2297
2298 - Salvager will not crash if multiple or bad volume link tables
2299 are encountered.
2300
2301 - Avoid erroneous full dump by remembering which sites were out of date
2302 at the start of the release.
2303
2304 FreeBSD:
2305
2306 - Remove support for "Giant" lock as we no longer need to use it.
2307
2308 - Don't sleep with AFS GLOCK.
2309
2310 - Properly enable 64 bit long long support.
2311
2312 - Restore support for FreeBSD 7 (128612)
2313
2314 - Fix locking issues at shutdown.
2315
2316 Linux:
2317
2318 - support through kernel 2.6.38.
2319
2320 - RedHat packaging now properly supports RHEL6.
2321
2322 - Use rx_Readv in cache bypass to improve performance.
2323
2324 - Properly handle 0-length replies during cache bypass operations.
2325
2326 - Properly handle non-contiguous readpage cache bypass operations.
2327
2328 - Do proper locking when transitioning to or from cache bypass.
2329
2330 - Avoid extra runs of vcache freeing routine. (128756)
2331
2332 MacOS:
2333
2334 - Check for unloaded kernel extensions when decoding AFS panics.
2335
2336 - Properly handle setpag errors. PAGs are not supported.
2337
2338 - Disable "get tokens at login" in prefs pane if AD authentication
2339 plugin is configured.
2340
2341 OpenBSD:
2342
2343 - support through OpenBSD 4.8.
2344
2345 Solaris:
2346
2347 - Fix support for Solaris pre-10.
2348
2349 Windows:
2350
2351 - afs_config will not longer set the Tray Icon State
2352 in the registry if the checkbox is not present in
2353 the dialog. (128591)
2354
2355 - AFS Explorer Shell Extension now works from folder
2356 backgrounds. Overlays for mount points and symlinks
2357 are present in the dll, but are not registered at present
2358 by the installers.
2359
2360 - Do not use RankServerInterval registry value as the value for
2361 PerformanceTuningInterval.
2362
2363 - When the data version of a mountpoint or symlink changes,
2364 the target string in the cm_scache_t object must be cleared.
2365
2366 - "fs checkservers" now includes vldb servers in the output
2367 and only lists multi-homed servers once. A multi-homed
2368 server that has at least one up interface is no longer
2369 considered to be down.
2370
2371 - When asynchronously storing dirty data buffers to the
2372 file server ensure that (a) the cm_scache_t object and
2373 the cm_buf_t object are for the same File ID so that
2374 locking and signalling work properly; and (b) if the
2375 FID no longer exists on the file server, do not panic,
2376 just discard the buffer.
2377
2378 - When processing VNOVOL, VMOVED and VOFFLINE errors perform
2379 server comparisons by UUID or address and not simply by
2380 cm_server_t pointer. Otherwise, server failover may not
2381 succeed.
2382
2383 - Do not preserve status information for cm_scache_t objects
2384 when the issuing server is multi-homed.
2385
2386 - Giving up all callbacks when shutting down or suspending
2387 the machine is now significantly faster due to the use
2388 of an rx_multi implementation. (This functionality is
2389 still off by default and must be activated by a registry
2390 value.)
2391
2392 - Race conditions were possible when updating the state
2393 of the cm_volume_t flags and when moving the volumes
2394 within the least recently used list.
2395
2396 - Ensure that the lanahelper library does not perform a
2397 NCBRESET of each lan adapter when enumerating the
2398 current network bindings. Correcting this permits OpenAFS
2399 to work on Windows 7 when the network adapter settings
2400 change.
2401
2402 - Fix creation of mount points and symlinks as \\AFS\xxxx
2403
2404 PREVIOUS CHANGES:
2405
2406 All platforms:
2407
2408 - vos now properly deals with matching sites when servers are multihomed.
2409
2410 All Unix platforms:
2411
2412 - Servers now marked down when GetCapabilities returns error.
2413
2414 - In-use vcache count is now properly tracked.
2415
2416 All server platforms:
2417
2418 - Fix ptserver supergroups support on 64 bit platforms.
2419
2420 - Demand attach salvaging doesn't use freed volume pointers.
2421
2422 - Properly hold host lock during host enumeration in fileserver.
2423
2424 FreeBSD:
2425
2426 - Fix socket termination on shutdown.
2427
2428 - Support for 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 and 8.2 included.
2429
2430 - References to vcaches are no longer leaked during root or reclaim.
2431
2432 Linux:
2433
2434 - Define llseek handler to avoid ESPIPE error in 2.6.37.
2435
2436 - Mount interface replaces get_sb (new for 2.6.37, not yet required).
2437
2438 - RedHat init script allows deferring for a new binary restart.
2439
2440 - DEFINE_MUTEX replaces DECLARE_MUTEX for 2.6.37.
2441
2442 MacOS:
2443
2444 - Correct return value from setpag syscall.
2445
2446 OpenBSD:
2447
2448 - Bug fixes for issues introduced previously in 1.5 series.
2449
2450 Solaris:
2451
2452 - Switch to ioctl() syscall replacement for Solaris 11 since syscall 65
2453 is not safe.
2454
2455
2456OpenAFS 1.5.78 (2010-11-04)
2457
2458 All platforms
2459
2460 * Revisions to Rx to fix performance issues.
2461
2462 * Make fs getfid behave consistently across all platforms. (128372)
2463
2464 * Properly check IDs handed to pts when creating users or groups so
2465 useful error messages can be provided. (128343)
2466
2467 * Correct byte order handling of port in afsconf_LookupServer for SRV
2468 records.
2469
2470 * Force a full dump when releasing to a site which was previously
2471 marked "don't use", in case the previous clone was out of date.
2472
2473 All server platforms
2474
2475 * Demand salvage of attached volumes now correctly track attachment
2476 state.
2477
2478 * Avoid a potential crash due to failure to hold a lock when attaching
2479 a volume fails.
2480
2481 Microsoft Windows
2482
2483 * Track SMB connections by SID rather than username.
2484
2485 * Error write attempts to known-readonly volumes earlier.
2486
2487 * Validate directory buffers to avoid potential crashes.
2488
2489 * Handle VIO errors from bulkstatus.
2490
2491 * Make PMTU discovery configurable and register error handlers for it.
2492
2493 All UNIX client platforms
2494
2495 * Use larger I/O sizes in memcache to improve performance.
2496
2497 * Avoid potential alignment issues doing I/O for pioctl calls.
2498
2499 FreeBSD
2500
2501 * Avoid panicing if the listener process is not findable.
2502
2503 * Avoid deadlock issues while performing lookups.
2504
2505 Linux
2506
2507 * Handle stale file handle errors for some cache partition types.
2508
2509 * Avoid blocking with xvcache lock when attempting to free in-use
2510 vcaches.
2511
2512 * Build fixes for older kernels.
2513
2514 * Properly configure LWP to use ucontext() on platforms where it
2515 should.
2516
2517 * Eliminate spurious errors from AFS system call returns. (126230)
2518
2519 MacOS
2520
2521 * Attempt to honor configured Kerberos defaults in Preferences Pane.
2522
2523
2524OpenAFS 1.5.77 (2010-09-08)
2525
2526 All platforms
2527
2528 * Rx path MTU detection will terminate detection in cases where the
2529 minimum required packet size cannot be transferred.
2530
2531 * vos dryrun mode now shows effects for syncvldb single volume case.
2532
2533 * vos dryrun mode now shows "status after" for syncvldb and syncserv.
2534
2535 All server platforms
2536
2537 * RXAFS_GetStatistics64 now returns statistics properly.
2538
2539 Microsoft Windows
2540
2541 * Attempt to properly identify the local system SMB connection for
2542 token tracking.
2543
2544 * Remap timeout and offline errors to proper NT RPC errors.
2545
2546 * Properly fail over to other replicas on bulkstat IO errors.
2547
2548 * Properly error delete-mode createfile if a file is set readonly.
2549
2550 * Validate directory entry buffers to avoid crashing the service.
2551
2552 * Log file modes properly.
2553
2554 * Log cell name when logging server information.
2555
2556 All UNIX client platforms
2557
2558 * cacheout program for discarding callbacks is now built.
2559
2560 * bulkstatus kernel locking is corrected to avoid a potential panic.
2561
2562 Dragonfly BSD
2563
2564 * userspace support update
2565
2566 FreeBSD
2567
2568 * Updated vnode locking for children returned via lookup().
2569
2570 * Avoid file open undercount with needed calls to
2571 FakeOpen/FakeClose().
2572
2573 * Use vnode_pager_setsize to properly track file size during kernel
2574 IO.
2575
2576 * Update system call installation.
2577
2578 * Fix shutdown of Rx kernel listener to avoid potential dereference
2579 after it's gone.
2580
2581 * Avoid closing vnodes during vnode recycle.
2582
2583 * Fix bogus call to FlushVS for vnode reclaims.
2584
2585 Linux
2586
2587 * Packaging updated for current configure options and built files.
2588
2589 * Cache bypass now holds reference on pages during readpage.
2590
2591 * s390x setgroups32 patching update.
2592
2593 MacOS
2594
2595 * DNS resolver is reinitialized on IP address change. (126440)
2596
2597
2598OpenAFS 1.5.76 (2010-08-16)
2599
2600 All platforms
2601
2602 * Updates to build-time configuration.
2603
2604 * Fix XDR support in Rx to match header definition.
2605
2606 * vos status now shows transaction creation, not action creation.
2607
2608 * Rx avoids reporting loopback adapters when listing interfaces.
2609
2610 All server platforms
2611
2612 * Demand-Attach Fileserver always built and installed (dafileserver,
2613 davolserver, dasalvager).
2614
2615 * Return VNOVOL from fileserver when a volume is deleted.
2616
2617 * Ignore duplicate tags during volume restore operation.
2618
2619 * Update inode array after salvage repairs volume.
2620
2621 * Zero a corrupted header in memory during salvage to avoid further
2622 corruption.
2623
2624 * Fix NAMEI backend to allow low-numbered volumes to work properly.
2625
2626 * ptserver does not include cell name as part of length check for
2627 names.
2628
2629 * Updated error messages for unblessed volumes.
2630
2631 * vlserver avoids buffer overflow with regex pattern
2632
2633 * Attach-time failures now note failures as the rest of the fileserver
2634 would.
2635
2636 * Server argument logging will no longer overflow stack.
2637
2638 * Provide fast-restart-like unsafe-nosalvage option for DAFS.
2639
2640 * Deal with host hash collisions in the fileserver.
2641
2642 Microsoft Windows
2643
2644 * Avoid crashing when interpreting a drive letter as potentially
2645 matching a cell name.
2646
2647 * Properly handle volume package errors.
2648
2649 * Allow page recycling from known-readonly content without ensuring
2650 they are not dirty.
2651
2652 * 32 bit tools installer should not override client configuration.
2653
2654 * Ensure root scache item has a valid callback when use is attempted.
2655
2656 * Freelance directory changes now properly invalidate and replace the
2657 old root object.
2658
2659 All UNIX client platforms
2660
2661 * Support disconnected reconnecting with specified UID for PAGless
2662 platforms.
2663
2664 * Proper disconnected vnode reference tracking.
2665
2666 * Update server site blacklisting to not return success if nothing was
2667 blacklisted.
2668
2669 * Avoid a panic during vcache contention due to CVInit vcache
2670 racing. (127645)
2671
2672 FreeBSD
2673
2674 * Update for network stack in 8.1/9.0.
2675
2676 HP-UX
2677
2678 * Bug fixes.
2679
2680 Linux
2681
2682 * 2.6.36 support
2683
2684 * Disable PMTU error packet handling.
2685
2686 * flock() fixes.
2687
2688 * Debian packaging updated.
2689
2690 * freezer interface updates.
2691
2692 MacOS
2693
2694 * Hold references to disconnected mode written vnodes properly.
2695
2696 Solaris
2697
2698 * Handle NFS translator module references for amd64.
2699
2700 * INODE fileserver backend support now exists for amd64.
2701
2702
2703OpenAFS 1.5.75 (2010-07-07)
2704
2705 All platforms
2706
2707 * Prevent rx_rpc_stats global lock from being a bottleneck.
2708
2709 * Path MTU discovery is now provided to allow traffic to pass networks
2710 with sub-1500 byte MTUs and poor fragment handling.
2711
2712 * Further reduce Rx NAT ping transmission when enabled.
2713
2714 * Update Kerberos 5-based token handling in rxkad from upstream
2715 Heimdal. (127554)
2716
2717 * Update version numbers emitted during build to reflect what is
2718 actually being built.
2719
2720 * Add "-human" switch for human-readable units in fs diskfree and
2721 listquota. (124529)
2722
2723 * vos provides reasons for locked volumes when known.
2724
2725 * Do not count retransmission and ping acks as non-idle for Rx
2726 connections.
2727
2728 * Rx: provide service-specific data getter and setter routines.
2729
2730 * Update build-time Kerberos detection.
2731
2732 * Updated userspace AFS client.
2733
2734 * Beginning of a modernized test suite.
2735
2736 * Additional documentation.
2737
2738 * Updated documentation, notably the Administrators Guide.
2739
2740 * Substantial code cleanup.
2741
2742 All server platforms
2743
2744 * Update handling of vnode allocation failures.
2745
2746 * DAFS: allow salvaging volumes not known to the fileserver, to allow
2747 cleanup of data not attached to a current volume.
2748
2749 * Properly handle volumes slated for destruction.
2750
2751 * Handle volumes with many files properly.
2752
2753 * Force core file generation in bosserver by overriding default
2754 resource limits when possible.
2755
2756 * Update vlclient and vldb_check.
2757
2758 * Avoid potentially corrupting a volume on creation if files are left
2759 from previous failed cleanup.
2760
2761 * Note volume changed during salvage as needed.
2762
2763 * DAFS: do not assume invalid addresses are in fileserver address hash
2764 table.
2765
2766 * Avoid tying up fileserver threads with volumes that are being taken
2767 offline.
2768
2769 * Do not set inUse on volumes for non-DAFS other than in fileserver.
2770
2771 * Break origin's callback on target of rename operation.
2772
2773 * Avoid unneeded parent directory link updates during some rename
2774 operations.
2775
2776 * Do not open /dev/console for writing in the fileserver.
2777
2778 * DAFS: avoid spurious restarts when binary restarts are configured.
2779
2780 * Avoid spurious and unneeded calls to sync(), which can slow down the
2781 fileserver.
2782
2783 Microsoft Windows
2784
2785 * Revised SMB QuerySecurityInfo to address issues caused by MS10-020
2786 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/980232)
2787
2788 * Prevent use of the AFSCache file contents if mapped to a new
2789 address.
2790
2791 * Make fs newcell include behavior compatible with the non-Windows
2792 version.
2793
2794 * Provide a registry option (FreelanceImportCellServDB) to pre-create
2795 mount points in the AFS root for all cells in CellServDB.
2796
2797 * Fix a memory leak in the cm_FreeServerList() routine.
2798
2799 * Reduce privilege when reading registry CellServDB.
2800
2801 * Add support for RPC Pipe Service NetWkstaGetInfo levels needed for
2802 Windows 7.
2803
2804 * Prevent overflow when computing quota percentage in Explorer Shell.
2805 (126846)
2806
2807 * Generate meaningful errors for ACL operations on freelance AFS root.
2808
2809 * Fix error handling on InlineBulkStatus RPCs.
2810
2811 * Show configuration pages for all types of MSI installations.
2812
2813 * Improve freemount AFS root directory handling and operations.
2814
2815 * Properly validate GetVolumeStatus pioctl responses.
2816
2817 * Commit file length changes and dirty buffers when flushing a file.
2818
2819 All UNIX client platforms
2820
2821 * Update version of files for disk cache.
2822
2823 * Do not call afs_FlushVCBs with xvcache lock held, to improve
2824 parallelization.
2825
2826 * Add mariner log messages for creating and removing files.
2827
2828 * Don't hold xvcache lock while creating symlinks, to improve
2829 parallelization.
2830
2831 * Provide -dynroot-sparse mode to not show all cells in CellServDB in
2832 dynroot mode.
2833
2834 * Avoid a potential crash in aklog in linked cell handling.
2835
2836 * Log MTU-caused packet retransmission.
2837
2838 * Prevent crashes caused be fs checkservers while cache is being set
2839 up.
2840
2841 * fs getserverprefs now has a buffer large enough for the default
2842 CellServDB.
2843
2844 * Report server address when logging warnings.
2845
2846 * Avoid panic in GetCapabilities when cell is not known.
2847
2848 * Lock process name and id for advisory lock warnings when possible.
2849
2850 * Handle need for allocating additional Rx packets.
2851
2852 * Properly handle errors from InlineBulkStatus operations.
2853
2854 * Fix errors returned from fcntl() on readonly files locked for write.
2855
2856 * Flush pending changes to the server on LOCK_EX unlock.
2857
2858 * Reflect length changes as a result of callbacks even when file is
2859 open for write.
2860
2861 * Avoid hanging due to error exit when attempting to store a large
2862 file to a non-largefile fileserver.
2863
2864 * Recover from afs_GetVolSlot errors.
2865
2866 FreeBSD
2867
2868 * Bugfixes for kernel VFS and network routines.
2869
2870 IRIX
2871
2872 * Provide makesname().
2873
2874 Linux
2875
2876 * Avoid syscall probes when keyrings are present, by default. (125215)
2877
2878 * Remove "Big Kernel Lock" from VFS operations.
2879
2880 * Use filehandles for all Linux 2.6 versions to avoid need for matched
2881 afsd. (127530)
2882
2883 * Updated RPM packaging.
2884
2885 * Fix dkms configuration provided with RPMs.
2886
2887 * Hold reference on pages during background I/O for cache bypass.
2888
2889 * Fix cache bypass handling of non-largefile fileservers.
2890
2891 * Protect truncate_inode_pages mappings with mutex or semaphore as
2892 needed.
2893
2894 * Fix pagevec use in cache bypass. (127505)
2895
2896 * Updates for 2.6.35
2897
2898 MacOS
2899
2900 * Improve launchd configuration.
2901
2902 * Avoid hanging on recursive cache file lock acquisition when user
2903 notification is enabled.
2904
2905 * Fix and re-enable bulkstat mode.
2906
2907 OpenBSD
2908
2909 * Build updates.
2910
2911 Solaris
2912
2913 * Precluding unmount while AFS is busy.
2914
2915 * Avoid deadlocking when releasing the VFS object.
2916
2917 * Stop network interface poller in kernel on AFS shutdown.
2918
2919 * Avoid issues with lookups on empty directory names. (127356)
2920
2921
2922OpenAFS 1.5.74 (2010-04-22)
2923
2924 All platforms
2925
2926 * Add "vos setaddrs" command.
2927
2928 * Rx library lock contention avoidance between rx_NewCall and
2929 rx_EndCall.
2930
2931 * Rx library races due to inconsistent use of rx_connection
2932 conn_data_lock to protect the flags field.
2933
2934 * Rx library inconsistent use of RX_CALL_TQ_WAIT which could result in
2935 deadlocks.
2936
2937 * Rx library must signal transmit queue waiters when flushing.
2938
2939 * afsmonitor shows busy counts now.
2940
2941 * afsmonitor displays xstat callback statistics.
2942
2943 * Provide expandgroups for pts mem on a supergroups server.
2944
2945 * Provide supergroup option to liste nested groups during pts mem.
2946
2947 All server platforms
2948
2949 * Avoid volume lock contention during DAFS startup.
2950
2951 Microsoft Windows
2952
2953 * Avoid a race when updating cell vldb server lists that can result in
2954 a crash.
2955
2956 * Avoid a deadlock when managing CM_SCACHESYNC_STOREDATA state
2957 operations for directory objects.
2958
2959 * Add new Windows Application Event log messages for VBUSY,
2960 VRESTARTING, ALL_BUSY, ALL_OFFLINE, and ALL_DOWN.
2961
2962 * Reduce lock contention by waiting for cm_buf_t I/O operations.
2963
2964 * Split the cm_buf_t flags field to separate the flags that are
2965 protected by the cm_buf_t mutex from those protected by the
2966 buf_globalLock.
2967
2968 * In cm_UpdateVolumeLocation, avoid searching for a ".readonly" volume
2969 on a numeric volume name.
2970
2971 * File buffer allocations whose offsets are beyond server EOF should
2972 be locally allocated and zero filled. The file server should not be
2973 issued a FetchData rpc which is guaranteed to fail.
2974
2975 * Enable integrated logon to work with Windows 7/2008 when user logons
2976 are performed with a non-Domain Kerberos principal.
2977
2978 * Add Protection Error messages to aklog output.
2979
2980 All UNIX client platforms
2981
2982 * Provide a FUSE-interfacing userspace afs client.
2983
2984 * Updates to libuafs userspace cache manager.
2985
2986 * Probe servers using GetCapabilities instead of GetTime, thus
2987 requiring fewer RPCs.
2988
2989 * Fix DNS SRV record handling for cell lookup.
2990
2991 FreeBSD
2992
2993 * Fix sleep/wakeup routines.
2994
2995 * Update for 8.0 release.
2996
2997 Linux
2998
2999 * Handle high memory addresses correctly.
3000
3001 MacOS
3002
3003 * Make 32 bit AFS syscalls work again.
3004
3005 * Work around finder "Duplicate" failure (caused by setting modes on
3006 symlinks).
3007
3008 * Disable bulkstat again (will be re-enabled at or before .75).
3009
3010 * Provide symlink type hints during readdir.
3011
3012
3013OpenAFS 1.5.73 (2010-03-24)
3014
3015 All systems: Minor bugfixes. New features.
3016
3017 * New functionality:
3018
3019 All systems:
3020
3021 - NAT keepalive support at Rx level.
3022
3023 * Bugfixes:
3024
3025 All systems:
3026
3027 - Corrected server IP address output in vos syncvldb verbose mode.
3028
3029 - Corrected server IP address output for last "yes" host in udebug.
3030
3031 - Corrected SRV record support for canonicalizing cell names.
3032
3033 All UNIX clients:
3034
3035 - Fixed a potential race in Disconnected AFS "remove" support.
3036
3037 - Fix a potential blocking condition in fakestat mode.
3038
3039 - Avoid some errors and stack overflow reports when vos is interrupted.
3040 (33360,125535)
3041
3042 - Clean up several minor memory leaks.
3043
3044 - If a large file is stored to a non-largefile fileserver, avoid
3045 a potential deadlock.
3046
3047 - Increase maximum number of sysnames to 32.
3048
3049 - Readd fs mariner "storing" message, missing since AFS 3.3.
3050
3051 - Attempt timeouts on AFSDB lookups in userspace.
3052
3053 - Avoid interrupting writes due to an idle deadtime timeout.
3054
3055 All server platforms:
3056
3057 - Properly notify only affected hosts for volume callbacks. (126497)
3058
3059 - Allow volumes with trashed root directory to be recovered. (94658)
3060
3061 - Hold lock in file and volservers when traversing partition list.
3062
3063 - Use finer-grained locking in DAFS: volume, instead of partition locks.
3064
3065 - Schedule all DAFS salvages via FSSYNC.
3066
3067 - Avoid stale ptserver credential caching issue on keyfile update.
3068
3069 - Improve callback table overflow handling. (126451)
3070
3071 - Preclude deadlocks on when attempting to save DAFS state.
3072
3073 - Avoid races deleting hosts. (126454)
3074
3075 - Improve salvage speed for DAFS (124488)
3076
3077 - The bosserver now handles SIGTERM.
3078
3079 Microsoft Windows
3080
3081 - Prevent the Explorer Shell extension from crashing if symlink
3082 creation failed. (126406)
3083
3084 - A Rx level NAT ping has been implemented. A registry value enables.
3085
3086 - Adds krb5 error message translation to aklog, afscreds,
3087 afslogon.dll, the network identity manager afs provider and
3088 translate_et.
3089
3090 - Default mode bit settings for file and directory creation are now
3091 provided, and can be configured.
3092
3093 - An SMB request trace facility is provided and can be enabled for
3094 debugging.
3095
3096 AIX:
3097
3098 - Clean up properly on mount failure.
3099
3100 - Add entry to /etc/vfs to allow umount to work.
3101
3102 FreeBSD:
3103
3104 - Additional work to support FreeBSD 8-current.
3105
3106 IRIX:
3107
3108 - Fix build issues with library order.
3109
3110 Linux:
3111
3112 - Fix s390 support conflict with executable stack patches.
3113
3114 - Don't count root's AFS session keyrings against quota.
3115
3116 - Correct dkms support in RPM config file.
3117
3118 - Keyring destructor now properly cleans up all tokens.
3119
3120 - Build again on old 2.6 kernels.
3121
3122 - Avoid GLOCK leak when updating CellServDB in-core.
3123
3124 - Fix byte-range lock handling.
3125
3126 - Attempt to deal with bdi issues. (126514)
3127
3128 MacOS:
3129
3130 - Some FSEvents hinting for authentication events now done. (23781)
3131
3132 - Update uninstaller. (125634)
3133
3134 - Rewrite afssettings and fstab code to avoid licensing issue with APSL.
3135
3136 - Growl client for user monitoring of AFS events included.
3137
3138 - Properly support insert-only dropboxes.
3139
3140 - Add bulkstat support.
3141
3142 - Include support for moving in Finder across mount points.
3143
3144 - Preferences Pane includes support for Kerberos 5 ticket renewal.
3145
3146 OpenBSD:
3147
3148 - Some support for OpenBSD 4.7.
3149
3150
3151OpenAFS 1.5.72 (2010-02-15)
3152
3153 All platforms
3154
3155 * Provide internationalization support in com_err.
3156
3157 * Fix array length checking to avoid crashes when checking for a
3158 volume type based on name in vos.
3159
3160 All server platforms
3161
3162 * Provide backward compatible "-f" flag to salvager for force mode.
3163
3164 Microsoft Windows
3165
3166 * Restore use of DNS AFSDB and SRV records by kaserver clients.
3167
3168 All UNIX client platforms
3169
3170 * Fix client cache file truncation to not lose chunks when truncating
3171 a large file.
3172
3173 * Ensure a cache writeback hook is installed in the client (bug from
3174 1.5.71).
3175
3176 * Avoid spurious free memory warnings during clean shutdown.
3177
3178 * Fakestat mode avoids AFSDB lookups.
3179
3180 * "fs storebehind" now correctly reports errors on readonly volumes.
3181
3182 * Additional documentation for "fs getcacheparms"
3183
3184 * Forced new uuid generation with "fs uuid -generate" now works
3185 enforced permission correctly.
3186
3187 MacOS
3188
3189 * Add optimized Rx event handler in kernel.
3190
3191 * Installer now allows installing an older version.
3192
3193 * Panic decoder can now deal with MacOS 10.5 again.
3194
3195 * MacOS ._ files are now correctly not looked up as cellnames.
3196
3197 Linux
3198
3199 * To deal with SELinux file labeling, try cache accesses with current
3200 credentials in event of failure.
3201
3202 * Rx XDR encoding bug on i386 Linux is fixed (bug introduced in
3203 1.5.71).
3204
3205 IRIX
3206
3207 * Code compilation fixes.
3208
3209 OpenBSD
3210
3211 * Update for OpenBSD 4.6.
3212
3213
3214OpenAFS 1.5.69 (2010-01-19)
3215
3216 All platforms
3217
3218 * Configuration of BOSserver no longer defaults to weekly restarts
3219 enabled.
3220
3221 * Provide BOS restricted mode by default.
3222
3223 * Add support for "vos endtrans" command.
3224
3225 * Default to providing full output from vos listvol.
3226
3227 * Correct additional-address tracking in the fileserver.
3228
3229 * Improve Rx performance by not unnecessarily dropping and reacquiring
3230 call locks in read and write processes.
3231
3232 * Avoid crashes when monitoring volserver transactions across
3233 potential transaction garbage collection.
3234
3235 * Numerous warning fixes.
3236
3237 All server platforms
3238
3239 * Avoid saving fileserver state in demand attach fileserver when
3240 panicing.
3241
3242 * Demand attach fileserver allows other callers to schedule salvages.
3243
3244 * Demand attach "bos salvage" now works correctly with restricted
3245 mode.
3246
3247 Microsoft Windows:
3248
3249 * Numerous changes to the client-internal btree directory handling to
3250 prevent errors.
3251
3252 * fs examine reports owner and group ids as signed values (PTS groups
3253 are negative).
3254
3255 * Preclude corruption due to races writing to smb buffers.
3256
3257 * Allow MTU settings in registry to be used.
3258
3259 * Apply MTU to both send and receive sizes.
3260
3261 All UNIX client platforms
3262
3263 * Avoid double-freeing Rx call structure if reading a response from
3264 the file server results in a short read.
3265
3266 * Handle negative lengths in FetchStatus results correctly.
3267
3268 * Properly clean up allocated memory at shutdown.
3269
3270 * Default to AFSDB compiled into the cache manager.
3271
3272 * Avoid inadvertant disclosure of stat() information to clients not so
3273 entitled.
3274
3275 * Correct a bug with AFSDB lookups introduced with SRV record support.
3276
3277 MacOS
3278
3279 * Install kernel panic processing tool in /Library/OpenAFS/Tools.
3280
3281 * Include debugging symbols for kernel extension in additional package.
3282
3283 * Support "Application Firewall" users.
3284
3285 * Avoid ._cellname AFSDB lookups.
3286
3287 * Compile preferences pane as a universal binary.
3288
3289 Linux
3290
3291 * Use splice to speed up storing files.
3292
3293 * When using memcache, avoid duplicating work in readpages.
3294
3295 * Use dget_parent to safely find an inode's parent.
3296
3297 * Disable access time updates in our superblock.
3298
3299 * Avoid crashing doing writeback if no credentials were stashed at
3300 file open.
3301
3302 * Simplify keyring support.
3303
3304 * Properly clean up vcache in event of failed mount.
3305
3306 FreeBSD
3307
3308 * Update for current FreeBSD 8.
3309
3310 Solaris
3311
3312 * Abstractly manipulate groups as now required.
3313
3314 * Abstractly access time instead of using lbolt directly.
3315
3316
3317OpenAFS 1.5.68 (2009-12-08)
3318
3319 All platforms
3320
3321 * aklog now attempts to convert non-AFS errors to human-readable
3322 strings.
3323
3324 * Make stack not executable when compiling assembler source with GCC.
3325
3326 * Numerous source warning cleanups and code reorganization.
3327
3328 All server platforms
3329
3330 * Compute midnight for volume statistics calculation from local time.
3331
3332 * Salvager now orphans duplicate special inodes when running to allow
3333 recovery in event of a problem, instead of simply ignoring the
3334 issue.
3335
3336 * Support to ensure a server panic attempt leaves a core and thus
3337 restarts in a timely manner, rather than potentially hanging. Use
3338 panic to attempt cleanup before leaving a core when possible.
3339
3340 * Volume sync data reported during bulkstatus is now set correctly.
3341
3342 * Provide better tuning for fileserver file descriptor caching.
3343
3344 * Allow more than 128 threads in fileserver by modifying host
3345 structure in-use tracking.
3346
3347 * Avoid crashes getting volume server status during transaction
3348 cleanup.
3349
3350 * Improved logging of offline volume conditions.
3351
3352 * Correct volume statistics when cloning a volume.
3353
3354 * Avoid referencing host structures in the fileserver which are marked
3355 for deletion.
3356
3357 * Demand attach fileserver corrections to avoid coring during an
3358 aborted startup.
3359
3360 * host array bounds checking corrections to avoid buffer overflow.
3361
3362 * Handle special inodes correctly when promoting an inode fileserver
3363 readonly volume to read-write.
3364
3365 Microsoft Windows
3366
3367 * Set the DOS Readonly attribute on a file/directory whenever the unix
3368 mode combined with the mask 0200 is true. Previously there was a
3369 discrepency between the mask used for testing for readonly behavior
3370 and that used for setting the attribute.
3371
3372 * Disable AFSVolSync based .readonly "whole-volume callback" support
3373 because the all file servers prior to 1.5.67 (and perhaps 1.4.12) do
3374 not properly assign a value to the AFSVolSync structure in bulk
3375 status RPC responses.
3376
3377 * Improve the error output from aklog to output the value from krb5
3378 error_message() if the afs_com_err output indicates an unknown
3379 value.
3380
3381 * Convert VBUSY and VRESTARTING to CM_ERROR_ALLBUSY and do not permit
3382 them to be exposed to the smb redirector.
3383
3384 * Convert STATUS_TIMEOUT responses to STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT to avoid
3385 confusion within the smb redirector.
3386
3387 * Fix the byte order assigned to port numbers associated with AFSDB
3388 record lookups. They must be network byte order not host byte
3389 order.
3390
3391 * Add dynamic server ranking based on RPC round trip time
3392 measurements.
3393
3394 All UNIX client platforms
3395
3396 * Additional shutdown-time memory leaks removed.
3397
3398 * Improved logging of resource contention.
3399
3400 * Provide dumping for Rx debug packet tracking support in source.
3401
3402 * Update afscp test client to build, and provide an unlock client.
3403
3404 * Client buffers for directory parsing can now be allocated beyond the
3405 fixed set formerly provided.
3406
3407 * Work around race condition when manipulating read-only volume
3408 callbacks.
3409
3410 * Bugfixes to get PAG value pioctl.
3411
3412 * Bugfixes to SRV record support.
3413
3414 Linux
3415
3416 * Path MTU tracking code cleanup.
3417
3418 * Avoid an oops due to racing with vcache recycling thread.
3419
3420 * Changes to keyring PAG handling: for sufficiently new kernels, use
3421 only keyring-based PAGs, and disable group PAGs entirely.
3422
3423 * Updates to the kernel page cache interface: writing pages will now
3424 not spuriously leak page locks, and will avoid requiring duplicate
3425 work.
3426
3427 * Credential references are now tracked using native atomic counters.
3428
3429 * Kernel mutex/semaphore lock ordering fix to avoid deadlocks.
3430
3431 * Manipulate disk cache with credentials used to initialize it, to
3432 avoid security issues.
3433
3434 MacOS
3435
3436 * Fix fstrace message catalog location.
3437
3438 * Fix kernel fstrace logging.
3439
3440
3441OpenAFS 1.5.66 (2009-10-25)
3442
3443 All platforms
3444
3445 * Avoid calling exit() in library code.
3446
3447 * Add rx window size and peer timeout tuning APIs.
3448
3449 * Correct rx peer timeout handling to disallow 0ms timeouts.
3450
3451 * Correct calculation of rx RTT by disregarding retransmitted packets.
3452
3453 * vos manpages updated to reflect changes in recent versions.
3454
3455 * GNU-style long options (e.g. --cell) are now supported in all
3456 commands.
3457
3458 * fs listacl can now print a command to recreate the current ACL.
3459
3460 All server platforms
3461
3462 * Fix a race on transaction objects in the volserver which can cause a
3463 crash.
3464
3465 * Avoid destroying and setting to NULL the callback connection when it
3466 could still be being used.
3467
3468 * Correct unlink handling in salvager.
3469
3470 * Improve error messages due to I/O errors in the volserver.
3471
3472 * Correct an issue which caused converted RO to RW volumes on namei
3473 fileservers to not come online immediately.
3474
3475 Microsoft Windows
3476
3477 * Official support for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2.
3478
3479 * Prevent a file server bug (FetchData returning an invalid length
3480 instead of zero) from causing an "unexpected network error" when
3481 writing to files.
3482
3483 * Promote DNS SRV records as superior to DNS AFSDB records. Support
3484 arbitrary port numbers for vldb servers.
3485
3486 * Add AFSVolSync based .readonly "whole-volume callback" support.
3487 With this functionality, multiple objects from a .readonly volume
3488 can have their status validated by issuing a single
3489 RXAFS_FetchStatus RPC.
3490
3491 * Remove drive mapping functionality and service start/stop from
3492 afscreds.exe.
3493
3494 * Remove drive mapping functionality from afs_config.exe.
3495
3496 * Use {HKLM,HKCU}\SOFTWARE\OpenAFS\Client DWORD "ShowMountTab" to
3497 restore access to drive mapping functionality in afscreds.exe and
3498 afs_config.exe.
3499
3500 * Adjust SMB error return codes to avoid returning STATUS_TIMEOUT
3501 which results in the SMB redirector disconnecting.
3502
3503 * Network Identity Manager OpenAFS Provider now provides its own "AFS
3504 lock" notification icon to report the status of "have tokens, have
3505 no tokens, service not started, service started but inaccessible".
3506 Hovering over the icon lists the cells for which tokens exist (if
3507 any) and the OpenAFS version number. Double-clicking executes the
3508 Network Identity Manager default action.
3509
3510 * Prevent pioctl calls from retrying indefinitely when a sharing
3511 violation error occurs.
3512
3513 All UNIX client platforms
3514
3515 * Correct a condition which could discard the error from initializing
3516 a fetch request.
3517
3518 * Avoid using invalid references to afs_Conn connection structures,
3519 and thus potentially producing invalid data when a retry is needed.
3520
3521 * SRV records are now supported for discovering AFS servers.
3522
3523 Linux
3524
3525 * Correct writepage behavior.
3526
3527 * Fix error code handling in the writepage code.
3528
3529 * Avoid leaking page locks, which could potentially hang a machine.
3530
3531 MacOS X
3532
3533 * Preferences Pane improvements.
3534
3535 HP-UX
3536
3537 * Avoiding attempting to handle critical signals in servers, so that
3538 core file handling works correctly.
3539
3540
3541OpenAFS 1.5.65 (2009-10-06)
3542
3543 All platforms
3544
3545 * Code compilation warning fixes, to enable better finding and
3546 tracking bugs.
3547
3548 * Provide configure-time switch to enable code warning compilation.
3549
3550 All server platforms
3551
3552 * Demand-attach fileserver now makes volume LRU list operations
3553 exclusive operations to avoid races during adding to the list.
3554
3555 * Fileservers now avoid potential "negative length" fetches.
3556
3557 * A leak in host tracking objects in the fileserver has been fixed.
3558
3559 * Salvager now unlinks all files by full path, to deal with the change
3560 to not chdir for core file tracking.
3561
3562 * Salvager avoids asserting if the volume header is unreadable.
3563
3564 * Demand-attach fileserver puts back volume references from fssync
3565 handlers when done.
3566
3567 Microsoft Windows
3568
3569 * Improved service response to suspend and shutdown event
3570 notifications.
3571
3572 * Avoid a bug in the file server that can result in an invalid length
3573 being returned as part of a fetch data response if the client
3574 attempts to read beyond the length of the file.
3575
3576 * Do not publish a default stream object for directories and mount
3577 point objects. This was impacting the ability of some Windows XP
3578 systems to save roaming profiles.
3579
3580 All UNIX client platforms
3581
3582 * A bug which could cause erroneous handling of lengths on data reads
3583 has been fixed.
3584
3585 * A bug where erroneous length returns from the fileserver could
3586 result in a false error has been fixed.
3587
3588 Linux
3589
3590 * Background page copies are now supported for enhanced disk cache
3591 read performance.
3592
3593 * Blocking readahead is supported in readpages() to reduce overhead.
3594
3595 * Use readpage() instead of read() to access cache data to avail disk
3596 cache users of the kernel backing cache for improved performance.
3597
3598 * Minimize credential handling for improved performance.
3599
3600 MacOS X
3601
3602 * Preferences Pane cleanup.
3603
3604 Solaris
3605
3606 * Provide a fs_pathconf method with sensible defaults.
3607
3608 * Provide a _PC_FILESIZEBITS method to fix some NFS translator
3609 consumers.
3610
3611
3612OpenAFS 1.5.64 (2009-09-22)
3613
3614 All server platforms
3615
3616 * The demand attach fileserver now puts back volume references gotten
3617 via the fssync interface.
3618
3619 * The demand attach fileserver had a structure reference error, which
3620 has been correected.
3621
3622 Microsoft Windows
3623
3624 * Restores Windows 2000 compatibility.
3625
3626 * Fixes a data consistency error between the output of NetWkstaGetInfo
3627 and NetServerGetInfo RPCs, specify the Lan workstation group name
3628 "AFS", and report server name as "AFS" instead of "\\AFS" when the
3629 caller asks for "\\AFS".
3630
3631 * Enables executables to be run from \\AFS on Windows 7. Returns
3632 "Name not found" instead of "File not found" when a directory or
3633 file name cannot be found. This avoids loader errors when system
3634 dlls cannot be located in the executable directory.
3635
3636 * Prevents cache manager from marking the file server "down" when the
3637 data returned in response to either RXAFS_FetchData64 or
3638 RXAFS_StoreData64 is invalid.
3639
3640 * Adds pioctl data validation to the AFS Explorer Shell extension.
3641
3642 All UNIX client platforms
3643
3644 * A bug which could cause a kernel panic in 1.5.63 has been corrected.
3645 This would manifest as a GetDCache panic or oops.
3646
3647 Linux
3648
3649 * aklog -setpag works again with recent kernels when keyring is in
3650 use.
3651
3652 MacOS
3653
3654 * When Fast User Switch is in use, AFS login is now handled correctly
3655 by the integration tool included with the preferences pane.
3656
3657 * Several packaging bugs have been corrected.
3658
3659
3660OpenAFS 1.5.63 (2009-09-11)
3661
3662 All platforms
3663
3664 * The restorevol command is now documented and installed as a user
3665 command.
3666
3667 * The uss command now properly translates vldb entries to its expected
3668 format when handling them in all cases.
3669
3670 * Documentation now refers to Kerberos instead of kaserver.
3671
3672 All server platforms
3673
3674 * bosserver now handles BosConfig.new when restarting, allowing
3675 configuration to be replaced at restart time rather than with bos
3676 delete and bos create. Documentation is updated to reflect this.
3677
3678 * The demand attach fileservice not longer potentially hangs trying to
3679 terminate demand-salvages which have already exited.
3680
3681 * The demand attach fileservice has been modified to avoid spurious
3682 'SYNC_putRes: write failed' warnings when some protocol messages
3683 cannot be acknowledged due to the sender terminating the connection.
3684
3685 * In the event of failure to contact the vlserver or ptserver, the
3686 fileserver will not exit and trigger a forced salvage. It will
3687 continue to try in the background to contact the needed services.
3688
3689 * The salvager can now repair certain cases of a damamged vnode index.
3690
3691 * The accessDate metadata for a volume is now updated correctly.
3692
3693 Microsoft Windows
3694
3695 * CRITICAL: Some applications for example those based on Cygwin were
3696 unable to access data stored in the AFS name space. Explorer Shell
3697 also experienced inconsistent behavior. This is fixed.
3698
3699 * CRITICAL: Multiple AFS pioctl requests issued nearly simultaneously
3700 by applications could result in pioctl responses being received by
3701 the wrong requester. This in turn could result in application
3702 crashes. symlink.exe, fs.exe, afslogon.dll, afscreds.exe, and the
3703 netidmgr afscred.dll plugin were all affected.
3704
3705 * Some XP machines running 1.5.62 had trouble saving roaming profile
3706 data. This is fixed.
3707
3708 * Integrated Logon (afslogon.dll) did not function with domain
3709 specific configurations.
3710
3711 * Ensure that access denied and over quota errors experienced while
3712 storing data to the file server do not result in on-going retry
3713 attempts.
3714
3715 All UNIX client platforms
3716
3717 * Except on Solaris and AIX, the compiler may now be overriden at
3718 configure time by setting the CC environment variable.
3719
3720 * afsd now properly deals with large cache partitions.
3721
3722 FreeBSD
3723
3724 * Build shared libafsauthent and libafsrpc.
3725
3726 Linux
3727
3728 * Kernel module DKMS support now installs an unstripped module to
3729 allow debugging information to be collected.
3730
3731 MacOS
3732
3733 * Preferences pane properly updates token information.
3734
3735 MacOS 10.6
3736
3737 * klog will now properly handle passwords of 8 or fewer characters
3738 with an AFS string to key on hosts able to run 64 bit binaries.
3739
3740 * A panic at AFS shutdown due to "NO PCB" on a udp_lock has been
3741 addressed.
3742
3743 * The panic decoder script included in the source now properly handles
3744 32 and 64 bit panics.
3745
3746 NetBSD
3747
3748 * Avoid defining AFS_KERBEROS_ENV globally as it creates a circular
3749 dependency.
3750
3751 * Build shared libafsauthent and libafsrpc.
3752
3753 OpenBSD
3754
3755 * Build shared libafsauthent and libafsrpc.
3756
3757
3758OpenAFS 1.5.62 (2009-08-28)
3759
3760 All platforms
3761
3762 * Numerous invisible changes to improve code maintainability,
3763 portability and enhanceability.
3764
3765 Microsoft Windows
3766
3767 * CRITICAL: Fixes two errors that can result in data loss when storing
3768 data to the file server.
3769 1. Failure to Store Portions of Unaligned Writes
3770 2. Failure to Store Data to File Servers Lacking Large File Support
3771 Read the announcement for more details:
3772 http://www.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-announce/2009/000305.html
3773
3774 * CRITICAL: The cache manager daemon thread could terminate when the
3775 machine enters suspend mode. This daemon thread performs the
3776 background check of down servers, offline volumes, callback
3777 expirations, etc.
3778
3779 * CRITICAL: Integrated Logon (afslogon.dll) was terminating
3780 unexpectedly. Error checking has been improved and NULL pointer
3781 dereferences after Lsa API calls fail have been eliminated.
3782
3783 * For the first time, the OpenAFS SMB Server supports the DCE RPC
3784 services SRVSVC and WKSSVC. Browsing \\AFS with the Explorer Shell
3785 or NET VIEW will now be faster and provide additional functionality.
3786 No longer will cell names longer than 12 characters be truncated.
3787
3788 * Improvements to DFS Referral request processing have been
3789 implemented.
3790
3791 * Unnecessary DNS lookups of share names are avoided improving
3792 performance.
3793
3794 All UNIX client platforms
3795
3796 * Non-Kerberos PAM modules work correctly again.
3797
3798 MacOS X
3799
3800 * MacOS 10.6 (Snowleopard) is now supported, both 32 and 64 bit mode.
3801
3802 * Updates to the AFSCommander preferences pane.
3803
3804 * Installer now permits cell names with dashes.
3805
3806
3807OpenAFS 1.5.61 (2009-08-06)
3808
3809 All platforms
3810
3811 * Correct another race condition in the Rx library that could result
3812 in an unexpected panic while freeing the Rx call iovq.
3813
3814 * rx packet resend and data packets sent counts were incorrect.
3815
3816 * fs setquota, fs setcachesize, vos setfields, and vos create now
3817 accept human readable orders of magnitude. (K, M, G)
3818
3819 * fs listquota fixed to permit large quota sizes to be displayed.
3820
3821 * Correct documentation of bosserver permissions requirements.
3822
3823 * Modify vlserver to avoid potentially corrupting the database through
3824 volume id reuse.
3825
3826 * Generalized support for fast Rx timeout due to network
3827 down/unreachable.
3828
3829 All server platforms
3830
3831 * Allow audit logs to be sent via sys5 IPC message queues instead of
3832 logged directly.
3833
3834 Microsoft Windows
3835
3836 * If a file server becomes inaccessible while the cache manager has
3837 dirty buffers to write, the afsd_service buf_IncrSync thread can
3838 attempt to use 100% of the cpu.
3839
3840 * Fix "fs newcell" which was broken in 1.5.60.
3841
3842 * Do not attempt to synchronize dirty buffers if the associated volume
3843 is known to be unavailable.
3844
3845 * Modify behavior of a Freelance mountpoint target that does not
3846 specify a cell. Instead of assuming the target volume is in the
3847 Freelance.Local cell, use the workstation "Cell" specified in the
3848 registry. A mountpoint target of "#root.cell." will now mean the
3849 root.cell volume in the workstation cell for the current session.
3850 If the workstation cell changes from "athena.mit.edu" to
3851 "andrew.cmu.edu", the referenced volume will also change without
3852 requiring that the mount point targets be altered.
3853
3854 * Add cm_FindServerByUuid(). Re-implement RXAFS_InitCallBackState3()
3855 to permit the server Uuid to be used to lookup the server object and
3856 from that determine the cell. This permits callbacks that are
3857 received from alternate addresses to be processed with a known
3858 server object. Previously a request from an unknown server would
3859 clear all callbacks from all cells.
3860
3861 * Fix a bug that prevented optimal performance when using a non-zero
3862 value for 'daemonCheckVolCBInterval'. As a reminder, when
3863 "daemonCheckVolCBInterval" is set to a non-zero value, all .readonly
3864 volume callbacks are automatically renewed 90 minutes before their
3865 expiration.
3866
3867 * Fix automatic ranking of vldb servers whose values are obtained from
3868 the CellServDB file.
3869
3870 * Add failover for RX CALL TIMEOUT errors when the volume is readonly
3871 or the call is to a vldb server.
3872
3873 * Add registry based cell search functionality to NetIdMgr,
3874 afs_config.exe, and klog.exe.
3875
3876 * afsconf_GetCellInfo() has been modified to perform gethostbyname()
3877 lookups on the host names in the CellServDB instead of using the
3878 specified IP addresses. This provides aklog, pts, vos, etc. the
3879 same CellServDB behavior that the Windows Cache Manager uses.
3880
3881 * When updating the stat cache entry callback of a .readonly object
3882 from the volume group object, update the file server reference to
3883 ensure it matches the most update to date callback.
3884
3885 * Add proper support for processing callbacks from multi-homed file
3886 servers. Instead of comparing servers by cm_server_t pointer,
3887 compare them by UUID when the UUID is known.
3888
3889 * During a shutdown short circuit the offline volume check daemon
3890 functionality.
3891
3892 * Return the error code of RXAFS_FetchData / RXAFS_StoreData in
3893 preference to an error code reported by rx_EndCall.
3894
3895 * Add "PerFileAccessCheck" registry value to permit testing against
3896 experimental file servers that include per-file acl support. This
3897 value is intentionally undocumented. It is not to be used by
3898 production environment deployments.
3899
3900 * Fix a bug introduced in 1.5.60 that prevents the afs netidmgr
3901 provider from obtaining tokens when referrals are in play.
3902
3903 * Add "fs chown" and "fs chgrp" commands to permit the owner and group
3904 of objects stored in AFS to be set from Windows.
3905
3906 * Avoid performing background daemon operations when the machine is
3907 going into suspend mode.
3908
3909 * Perform offline volume checks in most recently used order.
3910
3911 * Prevent crash when a data version for a cache object goes backwards.
3912
3913 * Multi-thread safe library versions are now being generated and used.
3914 mtafsubik.lib, mtafsutil.lib, mtafsvldb.lib, mtafsvol.lib.
3915
3916 * Microsoft SMB Redirector (mrxsmb.sys) support for
3917 ExtendedSessTimeout values are now available on XP through Windows
3918 7. Add functionality to autodetect if such support is present on
3919 the machine. If so, configure it if necessary and dynamically
3920 adjust the AFS Rx timeout values accordingly.
3921
3922 All UNIX client platforms
3923
3924 * Fix out-of-tree source builds.
3925
3926 MacOS
3927
3928 * GUI installer now asks for local cell information.
3929
3930 * AFS Commander preferences pane is now installed by default.
3931
3932 Solaris
3933
3934 * Avoid kernel panics due to null pointer dereferences in the network
3935 interface poller kernel thread.
3936
3937
3938OpenAFS 1.5.60 (2009-05-31)
3939
3940 All platforms
3941
3942 * Retry volserver transaction creation on failure.
3943
3944 * Allow building HTML and PDF documentation from included XML copies
3945 of User Guide, Admin Guide and Quick Start Guide for Unix.
3946
3947 * Documentation updates and additional documentation.
3948
3949 * Add -encrypt support to pts client.
3950
3951 * Convert MR-AFS fs commands to OSD commands.
3952
3953 All server platforms
3954
3955 * Updated background sync process in fileserver to avoid a race which
3956 could result in a volume being taken offline.
3957
3958 Microsoft Windows
3959
3960 * On April 9th Microsoft released a Hot Fix for Windows Server 2003
3961 SP2 that corrects a deadlock in the smb redirector and also adds new
3962 functionality that permits the AFS SMB server to be given a longer
3963 timeout than is normally the case. New functionality has been added
3964 to configure these additional LanmanWorkstation\Parameter values.
3965 (This functionality has been backported to XP SP3 and is scheduled
3966 to be released on June 5th.)
3967
3968 * Fix RT#124787, a race condition between "fs flush <dir>", "fs
3969 flushvolume", or "fs flushall" and on-going directory operations
3970 that can result in afsd_service.exe crashing.
3971
3972 * Release Notes, User and Administrator guides are now shipped as
3973 indexed Windows HtmlHelp Files. (.chm). Shortcuts are provided from
3974 the Start Menu.
3975
3976 * A method of specifying Client CellServDB information within the
3977 registry has been added that can be used to either override the
3978 CellServDB file or force the use of DNS lookups for a given cell.
3979 See the release notes for details.
3980
3981 * The pioctl interface now properly handles drive letter substitution
3982 to UNC paths. (SUBST <d:> <\\afs\cell\path>)
3983
3984 * The BackConnectionHostNames registry value configuration was broken
3985 when dynamic re-establishment of Netbios Name registrations was
3986 added. This release restores the functionality.
3987
3988 * All hidden vos.exe commands are now revealed.
3989
3990 * Attempts to store the same dirty file chunk from multiple threads
3991 are now prevented.
3992
3993 * The IsPathInAfs test in Explorer Shell Extension and fs.exe now
3994 permits broken symlinks to be treated as being in AFS.
3995
3996 * vos.exe commands that output 64-bit integer values once again do so.
3997 This was broken in 1.5.59.
3998
3999 * Cygwin Import Libraries are provided in the SDK for all OpenAFS
4000 DLLs. This permits building cygwin applications against OpenAFS
4001 libraries.
4002
4003 * NSIS installer does a much better job of cleaning up files left over
4004 from previous installs.
4005
4006 * libafsconf.dll moved from Client\Program to Common directory as is
4007 is now used by all modules for CellServDB processing.
4008
4009 All UNIX client platforms
4010
4011 * Write back changes on last store for memcache to avoid discarding
4012 changes.
4013
4014 * Abstract disk cache support to allow for path, fh, inode based
4015 caches with no need for messy ifdef structures each time a new type
4016 is added.
4017
4018 DragonflyBSD
4019
4020 * Support as a userland port.
4021
4022 FreeBSD
4023
4024 * Corrected structure definition for userspace cache manager to allow
4025 builds to complete.
4026
4027 Linux
4028
4029 * Corrected client locking support.
4030
4031 * Updated patch to stop deadlocking in the kernel during mmap.
4032
4033 * Avoid oops when setting up groups for PAGs to match keyrings.
4034
4035 * Use Linux fh-based cache in cases where possible by default.
4036
4037 MacOS 10.3:
4038
4039 * Corrected structure definition for userspace cache manager to allow
4040 builds to complete.
4041
4042 OpenBSD
4043
4044 * Support for OpenBSD 4.5.
4045
4046 Solaris
4047
4048 * Corrected support for server-side vos split interface.
4049
4050
4051OpenAFS 1.5.59 (2009-04-06)
4052
4053 Microsoft Windows
4054
4055 * Increased service priority class to "High" to match the priority of
4056 system components that are dependent upon the a timely response.
4057
4058 * SMB error responses avoid returning errors that could confuse the
4059 Microsoft SMB redirector into disconnecting the connection to \\AFS.
4060
4061 All UNIX client platforms (except MacOS X 10.4 and 10.5)
4062
4063 * OpenAFS 1.5.59 contains fixes for the client issues addressed by the
4064 security advisories OPENAFS-SA-2009-001 and OPENAFS-SA-2009-002.
4065
4066 Linux platforms
4067
4068 * Support for prerelease Linux 2.6.30 kernels.
4069
4070
4071OpenAFS 1.5.58 (2009-03-30)
4072
4073 All platforms
4074
4075 * Code cleanup and prototyping.
4076
4077 * Avoid unnecessary blocking in Rx periodic cleanup code.
4078
4079 All server platforms
4080
4081 * Fileserver CopyOnWrite routine optimized for performance.
4082
4083 * Make fileserver callback dumps 64 bit safe.
4084
4085 * Fix byte order issues with fileserver host hashing.
4086
4087 * Fix buffer size issues with butc.
4088
4089 * Fix several Ubik recovery issues.
4090
4091 * Avoid leaking file references in the fileserver.
4092
4093 * Fix a race in DAFS while closing vnodes, and another offlining
4094 volumes.
4095
4096 * volserver interfaces for volume splitting client.
4097
4098 Microsoft Windows
4099
4100 * [RT 124293] A race condition exists which can result in a crash.
4101
4102 * [RT 124276] If the vldb is out of sync with the contents of the file
4103 servers, afsd_service will retry too many times when a file server
4104 reports a volume as not being present. Now if the list reported by
4105 the vldb is the same as the previously seen list, then the retry is
4106 aborted.
4107
4108 * [RT 124276] Read-only volume failover was broken in 1.5.53 whenever
4109 accessing a volume results in VNOVOL or VMOVED.
4110
4111 * [RT 124276] Prior to 1.3.70 the volume server reference list was not
4112 reference counted and would be prematurely freed while in use. When
4113 reference counting was added in 1.3.70 a bug was introduced that
4114 could result in service reference list corruption.
4115
4116 * Add Windows Application Event Log warning messages for "Client SMB
4117 MPX value too large" and "Client SMB Buffer Size too small".
4118
4119 * Renaming of files across directory boundaries would result in an
4120 invalid handle error when attempting to access the files after the
4121 move.
4122
4123 * Fix the handling of Tran2 Set Path Info RPCs. Do not fail when a
4124 smb file descriptor cannot be found. The whole point of using a
4125 Path Info function is because an smb file descriptor wasn't
4126 allocated.
4127
4128 * More edge cases in which dynamic addition of Freelance root.afs
4129 entries would get the wrong FID or where the root.afs directory
4130 would not be refreshed.
4131
4132 * Buffer overflow could occur if the workstation cell name was longer
4133 than 64 characters. Crashes could occur in afscreds.exe,
4134 afslogon.dll, and afsd_service.exe.
4135
4136 * VNOSERVICE and VOFFLINE errors were leaking and were exposed to the
4137 smb client.
4138
4139 * Log file server uuid values as part of the cm_server object when
4140 available. Dump the cm_server object list in response to "fs
4141 memdump".
4142
4143 * Optimize the performance of resetting access control lists when
4144 tokens are set or removed.
4145
4146 * Remove symlink recursion tests and increase max symlink count to 64
4147 from 16.
4148
4149 * Windows specific Rx performance improvements.
4150
4151 * Support for Network Identity Manager 2.0
4152
4153 All UNIX client platforms
4154
4155 * Avoid issues with freeing resources at shutdown.
4156
4157 * Numerous fixes to disconnected AFS.
4158
4159 * Disconnected AFS fixes for replaying changes without double-freeing.
4160
4161 * Attempt to use krb524 principal conversion in aklog if available.
4162
4163 AIX
4164
4165 * Kerberos configuration at build time corrected.
4166
4167 Linux
4168
4169 * Default to dynamic allocation of AFS kernel cache entries to allow
4170 growth for inotify()-pinned entries. (beagle, famd, etc)
4171
4172 * Change client truncation routines to avoid locking issues.
4173
4174 * IA64 port clients fixed on Linux 2.6.
4175
4176 * RPMs now install fstrace message catalog.
4177
4178 * Support through kernel 2.6.29 tested.
4179
4180 * Fix locking issues on CellServDB file in /proc.
4181
4182 OpenBSD
4183
4184 * Support OpenBSD 4.4
4185
4186
4187OpenAFS 1.5.57 (2009-01-23)
4188
4189 All platforms
4190
4191 * Conditional compilation of rxdebug support is now possible.
4192
4193 * Documentation updates.
4194
4195 * Further race connditions in Rx have been corrected.
4196
4197 All server platforms
4198
4199 * Salvager no longer attempts to recreate headers in the wrong
4200 partition.
4201
4202 * Volumes are properly marked in use on creation and subsequently on
4203 examination with vos.
4204
4205 Microsoft Windows
4206
4207 * Undo the "UAC manifest fix" applied to afs_config.exe.
4208
4209 * Ensure that Freelance allocation of vnodes follow the AFS convention
4210 of odd vnodes are directories and everything else is an even vnode.
4211
4212 * Add Freelance logic to mount point and symlink evaluation functions.
4213
4214 * Enhance smb_ParseASCIIBlock() so that it can handle all of the
4215 STRING formats defined by the CIFS Technical Report 1.0.
4216
4217 * Validate the output of smb_ParseASCIIBlock() in all callers. Return
4218 CM_ERROR_BADSMB if the STRING field cannot be parsed.
4219 CM_ERROR_BADSMB will cause the contents of the packet to be logged.
4220
4221 * If multiple SMB Raw Write operations were taking place at the same
4222 time, there could be data corruption because unique event objects
4223 were not generated for each Netbios receive operation.
4224
4225 All UNIX client platforms
4226
4227 * Userspace AFS library can now deal with large files when supported
4228 by the platform.
4229
4230 * Numerous updates to disconnected AFS support, including changes to
4231 allow reconnection to work in more circumstances.
4232
4233 FreeBSD
4234
4235 * FreeBSD unstrategy code has been updated.
4236
4237 Linux
4238
4239 * A race during file truncation has been corrected.
4240
4241 * System call probing routines have been updated.
4242
4243 * 2.6.29 is now supported.
4244
4245 MacOS
4246
4247 * 10.3 support has been corrected.
4248
4249 OpenBSD
4250
4251 * Initial OpenBSD 4.4 support.
4252
4253 Solaris
4254
4255 * Updates to allow compiling on newer OpenSolaris are now included.
4256
4257
4258OpenAFS 1.5.56 (2008-12-30)
4259
4260 All platforms
4261
4262 * libuafs (userspace cache manager) updated to correct several errors.
4263
4264 * Additional rx debugging support is available as a conditional
4265 compile.
4266
4267 * A race condition in Rx leading to a panic has been corrected.
4268
4269 * Rx idle time tracking has been corrected.
4270
4271 * ubik clone server support has been corrected.
4272
4273 All server platforms
4274
4275 * Salvager no longer leaves cores in vice partitions.
4276
4277 * The vol-dump tool now supports dumps larger than 2gb where possible.
4278
4279 * Operations on multiple files now report all FIDs in the audit log.
4280
4281 * butc XBSA support now works correctly on amd64.
4282
4283 Microsoft Windows
4284
4285 * The NetIDMgr AFS Provider automated configuration logic was broken
4286 by the introduction of Kerberos referrals. If the realm of the
4287 identity cannot be determined, the workstation cell is now assumed
4288 to belong to the newly created identity.
4289
4290 * Avoid a reference count under flow during rename operations.
4291
4292 * Avoid a crash caused by treating an arbitrary length directory
4293 search mask as an 8.3 mask.
4294
4295 * Prevent rename operations if a case insensitive match for the target
4296 name already exists and does not refer to the object being renamed.
4297
4298 * Increase the maximum number of background daemons to 64.
4299
4300 * Fix the UAC manifest applied to afs_config.exe
4301
4302 All UNIX client platforms
4303
4304 * Updates to disconnected AFS support.
4305
4306 FreeBSD
4307
4308 * FreeBSD 7.1 is now supported.
4309
4310 * amd64 FreeBSD is now supported.
4311
4312 Linux
4313
4314 * Generic fh (exportfs API) cache type is now available.
4315
4316 * Avoid some oopses due to backing_dev_info inode fields not being
4317 filled.
4318
4319 * 2.6.28 is now supported.
4320
4321 MacOS
4322
4323 * 10.3 support has been corrected.
4324
4325 Solaris
4326
4327 * Large partition support has been corrected.
4328
4329 * Filesystem-agnostic cache is now available on Solaris 10 and 11.
4330
4331
4332OpenAFS 1.5.55 (2009-11-10)
4333
4334 All platforms
4335
4336 * Salvager avoids leaving core files in vice partitions.
4337
4338 * NFS translator fixes.
4339
4340 * Unresponsive server handling fixes.
4341
4342 * A volserver race which could result in duplicate transactions is
4343 fixed.
4344
4345 Microsoft Windows
4346
4347 * Fixes a panic caused by corruption of the SMB virtual circuit list.
4348 (race condition)
4349
4350 * Fixes a panic caused by receipt of a UTF-16 string that cannot be
4351 converted to UTF-8.
4352
4353 * Implements a more aggressive recovery algorithm for Netbios errors
4354 that result in loss of communication to the AFS SMB server.
4355
4356 * Improve pioctl response time when testing whether or not a PATH is
4357 in AFS.
4358
4359 * Adds support for linked cells.
4360
4361 * Increases the length of the cell and realm names that can be input
4362 into the Network Identity Manage AFS provider configuration dialog.
4363
4364 All UNIX client platforms
4365
4366 * Disconnected AFS avoids infinite recursion during rmdir.
4367
4368 Linux
4369
4370 * Support for 2.6.28 (not complete for NFS translator modules).
4371
4372 * Support for using exportfs API for filesystem-agnostic cache.
4373
4374 * Disable backing store readahead.
4375
4376 * Avoid deadlocks when writing back mmapped files larger than the
4377 cache.
4378
4379 * Avoid Oops when doing PAG garbage collection.
4380
4381
4382OpenAFS 1.5.54 (2008-10-08)
4383
4384 All platforms
4385
4386 * Updates for new Tivoli X/Open API finding.
4387
4388 * A double-free is corrected in Rx.
4389
4390 All server platforms
4391
4392 * Ubik cleans up file descriptor cache correctly when doing recovery.
4393
4394 * Enhanced vldb error checker included.
4395
4396 Microsoft Windows
4397
4398 * Prevent a crash that could occur when multiple file / directory
4399 change notifications are processed simultaneously.
4400
4401 MacOS
4402
4403 * AFS claims more free space so Finder will attempt file copies.
4404
4405 Linux
4406
4407 * Avoid spurious ENOENT when calling gwtcwd() on a volume root.
4408
4409 * Avoid spurious ENOTDIR during fakestat.
4410
4411
4412OpenAFS 1.5.53 (2008-09-26)
4413
4414 All platforms
4415
4416 * rx avoids many packet leaks.
4417
4418 * rx jumbogram disabling now works (and is the default).
4419
4420 All server platforms
4421
4422 * Demand Attach fileserver tries to avoid issues tracking offline
4423 status of volumes.
4424
4425 Microsoft Windows
4426
4427 * Many potential deadlock conditions due to out of order lock
4428 acquisitions have been corrected.
4429
4430 * A race condition resulting in an undercount on the cm_scache_t
4431 reference counts has been corrected.
4432
4433 * An empty string when sent as an ioctl path is now properly
4434 interpreted as meaning the current directory. This affects "fs
4435 lsm", "symlink list", etc.
4436
4437 * Fix smb string parsing differences where the smb protocol
4438 documentation does not match the actual Windows implementation.
4439
4440 * Random access denied errors fixed.
4441
4442 * A file server lock synchronization issue was corrected in SMB
4443 NTCreateX and NTTranCreate operations. This bug prevented properly
4444 operation when loading roaming profiles.
4445
4446 * Fix a heap overwrite error during server probe operations if a new
4447 server is added while a probe operation is in progress.
4448
4449 * Fix an LSA memory leak that was the result of an LSA error.
4450
4451 * Do not leak cm_cell_t objects if the VLDB server lookup fails.
4452
4453 * Only initialize rx mutex/lock objects once.
4454
4455 * Do not nul terminate the AFS volume name when reported to Windows.
4456
4457 * Improve VNOVOL error handling. Prevent updated vl information from
4458 being destroyed immediately after it was acquired. This bug
4459 prevented proper fail over when volumes are moved or removed from a
4460 server.
4461
4462 * Remove volume id from the server volume list in response to VMOVED
4463 and VNOVOL errors.
4464
4465 * "fs flushXXX" commands now destroy locally built B+ directory trees.
4466
4467 * Prevent mixture of locally modified directory pages and file server
4468 directory pages.
4469
4470 * Fail over to alternate vl servers if a ubik error is returned.
4471
4472 All UNIX client platforms
4473
4474 * Disconnected AFS now supports read-write mode.
4475
4476 * volserver now builds correctly.
4477
4478 AIX
4479
4480 * AIX 6 is now supported.
4481
4482 FreeBSD
4483
4484 * FreeBSD 7 is now supported.
4485
4486 Linux
4487
4488 * cache bypass is now supported.
4489
4490 * 2.6.x kmod compilation now uses kernel compile options always.
4491
4492 * Support through 2.6.27.
4493
4494 MacOS
4495
4496 * Show more space free so Finder doesn't get confused.
4497
4498 Solaris 10
4499
4500 * Default to namei rather than inode.
4501
4502
4503OpenAFS 1.5.52 (2008-08-18)
4504
4505 All platforms
4506
4507 * Initialize volume updateDate at volume creation.
4508
4509 * Avoid potential corruption of directories during salvage.
4510
4511 * Check for out of memory condition during allocation of additional Rx
4512 packets.
4513
4514 Microsoft Windows
4515
4516 * Restore support for Windows 2000 (broken in 1.5.50).
4517
4518 * Perform additional validation on volume names in mount points during
4519 creation and evaluation.
4520
4521 * Fix several deadlocks, races, and reference count issues.
4522
4523 * Further optimize SMB Directory Search processing and minimize the
4524 number of InlineBulkStatus RPCs sent to the file server.
4525
4526 * Enable "bos restricted" operations.
4527
4528 * Fix the create of submounts used by the AFSCreds and afs_config
4529 drive mapping tabs.
4530
4531 * Fix a short name truncation bug. (1.5.50)
4532
4533 * Fix the error code reported when attempting to delete a file on a
4534 readonly volume or one that is marked with the readonly DOS
4535 attribute.
4536
4537 * Fix a heap corruption error when reading the CellServDB file
4538 location.
4539
4540 * Add the "RxUdpBufSize" registry value. The new default is 256KB.
4541
4542 * Do not include trailing NULs in the directory search output.
4543 (1.5.50)
4544
4545 * Pre-allocate 64 Rx Packet buffers per thread in order to improve
4546 performance.
4547
4548 * For debugging: add smb lock requests and stat cache lock allocations
4549 to the output from "fs memdump".
4550
4551 NetBSD
4552
4553 * Workaround broken sigwait() to allow fileserver to shut down
4554 correctly pre NetBSD 5.0.
4555
4556 Solaris 10
4557
4558 * Default to namei fileserver; Allow inode fileserver at configure
4559 time by override.
4560
4561 NFS translator
4562
4563 * Try harder to avoid kernel panics for malformed requests.
4564
4565
4566OpenAFS 1.5.51 (2008-07-29)
4567
4568 All platforms
4569
4570 * salvager tries harder to arrange for clients to get VBUSY while
4571 salvaging single volumes.
4572
4573 * salvager avoids certain corruption when salvaging directories.
4574
4575 * Rx connection clones disabled.
4576
4577 Microsoft Windows
4578
4579 * The 32-bit EXE 1.5.50 installer failed to properly install the C
4580 Runtime library. When used as an upgrade OpenAFS would continue to
4581 work but when used as a new installation, OpenAFS binaries would
4582 fail to load.
4583
4584 * Fixes the "fs" and "symlink" commands to properly parse Unicode path
4585 prefixes during the pioctl remote procedure call. This bug would
4586 result in file not found errors for files and directories that
4587 clearly exist. (Bug introduced in 1.5.50)
4588
4589 * Large File support is disabled. (Bug introduced in 1.5.50)
4590
4591 * Removes the possibility of a deadlock during volume location update
4592 operation if all of the reported file servers are unreachable at the
4593 time of the update.
4594
4595 * Ensures that reference counts are properly incremented/decremented
4596 on Rx connection objects used for volume location RPCs.
4597
4598 * Over Quota errors during cm_FSync() calls would lead to an infinite
4599 loop as the error was never propagated to the caller.
4600
4601 All UNIX client platforms
4602
4603 * Bugfixes to disconnected AFS support in the cache manager.
4604
4605
4606OpenAFS 1.5.50 (2008-07-16)
4607
4608 All platforms
4609
4610 * volserver puts recloned volumes back online before returning the
4611 volume to the fileserver, avoiding spurious VNOVOL errors.
4612
4613 * Updated TSM X/Open API support available.
4614
4615 * Demand Attach fileserver will not crash due to accesses during
4616 volume cloning.
4617
4618 * Substantial documentation updates.
4619
4620 * Demand Attach fileserver state tracking and analyzer tool
4621 improvements.
4622
4623 * UAFS userspace cachemanager updates.
4624
4625 * Corrected support for anti-meltdown protection in the client.
4626
4627 Microsoft Windows
4628
4629 * UNICODE Character Set Support.
4630
4631 * Pioctl interfaces to the cache manager have been refactored to
4632 provide layering between the SMB specific code and the general
4633 purpose ioctl operation.
4634
4635 * Garbage collect dead SMB virtual circuits as soon as they are no
4636 longer being referenced. This avoids problems with outstanding
4637 locks not being dropped when the virtual circuit becomes invalid.
4638
4639 * Remove the IBM Administration Reference documentation and replace it
4640 with the OpenAFS Command Reference Manual.
4641
4642 * Avoid calling rx_SetDeadTime and rx_SetHardDeadTime functions each
4643 time a connection is about to be used. Do not hold a lock on the rx
4644 connection object while it is being selected. This avoids a race
4645 between threads attempting to set the timeout values and removes a
4646 bottleneck that was hampering performance.
4647
4648 * Ensure that the smb directory attribute is set for all directory
4649 objects.
4650
4651 * Replace the VC Runtime EXE installer with the MSI installer in the
4652 NSIS installer scripts.
4653
4654 Solaris
4655
4656 * Support for updates to OpenSolaris.
4657
4658 Linux
4659
4660 * Correct dentry revalidation for cross-directory renames.
4661
4662 * Updated rpm packaging materials for 1.5 release series and 2.4
4663 kernels.
4664
4665 * Corrected syscall table probing.
4666
4667 * NFS translator updates for current kernels.
4668
4669
4670OpenAFS 1.5.39 (2008-06-24)
4671
4672 All platforms
4673
4674 * Updates for Demand Attach fileserver.
4675
4676 Microsoft Windows
4677
4678 * Fix two memory leaks.
4679
4680 * Fix one missing lock.
4681
4682 * Handle access denied errors when writing dirty buffers.
4683
4684 * Fix two errors that would cause the *experimental* AFS Servers
4685 to crash.
4686
4687
4688OpenAFS 1.5.38 (2008-05-24)
4689
4690 All platforms
4691
4692 * Add read-only disconnected support.
4693
4694
4695OpenAFS 1.5.37 (2008-05-21)
4696
4697 All platforms
4698
4699 * Includes a number of optimizations for testing.
4700
4701
4702OpenAFS 1.5.36 (2008-05-09)
4703
4704 All platforms
4705
4706 * Rx optimizations now attempt to deal with high latency WANs.
4707
4708 * Client will not wait infinitely for a server which is not providing
4709 data. Additional servers will be polled without marking the server
4710 which is not providing data down.
4711
4712 * vos move will not erroneously unlock locked vldb entries on failure.
4713
4714 All server platforms
4715
4716 * Fileserver avoids a potential infinite loop when a client
4717 relinquishes an address.
4718
4719 * Fileserver large setting now configures more threads.
4720
4721 * Fileserver properly registers uuids of new clients.
4722
4723 * Ubik servers do not improperly hide updates from clients.
4724
4725 * Fileservers reserve enough file descriptors such that each thread
4726 can cache one to avoid spurious errors.
4727
4728 Microsoft Windows
4729
4730 * Fix a cm_buf_t reference count leak when attempts to write dirty
4731 buffers to the file server from within cm_IncrSyncer() fail.
4732
4733 * Prevent udebug from crashing.
4734
4735 * Another VNOVNODE issue fixed. When writing a dirty buffer to the
4736 file server, if VNOVNODE is received, mark all buffers as invalid
4737 without further attempts to contact the file server.
4738
4739
4740OpenAFS 1.4.12
4741
4742 All client systems: Major bugfixes.
4743 File servers: Major bugfixes.
4744
4745 * New functionality:
4746
4747 All systems:
4748
4749 - Provide portable (pioctl) method for discovering what PAG a user is
4750 in. Required to support userspace PAG information collection on AIX
4751 5.1, and knowing whether Linux uses one group, two group, or only
4752 keyring based PAGs. (124709)
4753
4754 * Bugfixes:
4755
4756 All systems:
4757
4758 - Fixes to avoid issues cleaning up deleted hosts in the fileserver (126454)
4759
4760 - Fixes to avoid dropping writes due to server idle timeouts.
4761
4762 - Don't miss cache chunks of large files while truncating.
4763
4764 - Avoid null pointer dereference for unexpected volume names in volume
4765 utilities.
4766
4767 - Don't mark connections waiting for additional packet window availability
4768 idle.
4769
4770 - Kerberos 5 utilities (klog.krb5, aklog) enable weak encryption support.
4771
4772 - Avoid a double-free of an Rx call structure during a client fetch error.
4773
4774 - Avoid losing hosts during address changes. (125215)
4775
4776 - Clients shouldn't trust Fetchdata replies for the size of returned data.
4777
4778 - fileserver will not hang when attempting to cleanup and dump core.
4779
4780 - salvager will not leave core files in random directories.
4781
4782 - avoid letting retransmit timer get to 0 seconds.
4783
4784 - in event of dbserver contact failure, shut fileserver down cleanly.
4785
4786 - handle large partitions during check for needed disk space at
4787 client start.
4788
4789 - time out Rx connections if network unreachable error received.
4790
4791 - avoid dereferencing NULL pointer freeing Rx packets in receive. (125110)
4792
4793 - mark stack not executable in LWP. (125491)
4794
4795 - return a correct VolumeSync structure from Bulkstat RPCs in fileserver.
4796
4797 - client attempts to better free memory at shutdown.
4798
4799 - clear rx call queue safely. (125110)
4800
4801 - retry VLserver registration on failure in fileserver.
4802
4803 - update accessdate for volumes on access in fileserver.
4804
4805 - additional safety checks on vlserver operations to avoid
4806 database corruption.
4807
4808 - make ktc_curpag available on all builds. (125155)
4809
4810 FreeBSD:
4811
4812 - Build fixes.
4813
4814 Linux:
4815
4816 - Handle kernel changes through 2.6.33.
4817
4818 - Fix oops in clear_inode due to missed locking. (125589)
4819
4820 - Better handle /afs mount failures.
4821
4822 - Clean up after failures creating our kernel kmem cache.
4823
4824 - Work around memory management issues with some kernels when configuring
4825 the buffer cache/bdi (126514)
4826
4827 - Rename compile_et to afs_compile_et to avoid RPM conflicts.
4828
4829 - Handle whole-file locks properly. (126561)
4830
4831 - Deal with kernel autoconf header renaming.
4832
4833 - Handle SELinux cache backing file labels better to avoid potential oops.
4834 (92944,125544)
4835
4836 MacOS:
4837
4838 - klog now works correctly on 64 bit machines.
4839
4840 - launchd now used to launch AFS at boot.
4841
4842 - Preferences pane included for 10.4 and later.
4843
4844 - Older versions can now be installed from packages.
4845
4846 - Finder does not trigger bogus AFSDB lookups in /afs in dynroot mode.
4847
4848 - Include package with debug kernel module symbols.
4849
4850 OpenBSD:
4851
4852 - Build fixes.
4853
4854 - Support for x86_64.
4855
4856 Solaris:
4857
4858 - Handle ZFS caches usefully. (125365)
4859
4860 - Implement additional pathconf support.
4861
4862OpenAFS 1.4.11
4863
4864 Linux client systems: Major bugfixes.
4865 All client systems: Minor bugfixes.
4866 File servers: Major bugfixes.
4867
4868 * New functionality:
4869
4870 All systems:
4871
4872 - Provide portable (pioctl) method for discovering what PAG a user is
4873 in. Required to support userspace PAG information collection on AIX
4874 5.1, and knowing whether Linux uses one group, two group, or only
4875 keyring based PAGs. (124709)
4876
4877 * Bugfixes:
4878
4879 All systems:
4880
4881 - Fix bosserver to invoke salvager with "-force" instead of ambiguous
4882 "-f". (124916)
4883
4884 - Cleanup for ptserver argument parsing to allow debug mode to work. (124893)
4885
4886 - Sanity checking for ptserver log levels. (124894)
4887
4888 - Fix for uninitialized memory dereference in klog.krb5.
4889
4890 - Fix an overflow in the cellconfig code used by client and server. (124891)
4891
4892 - Fix an erroneous vos verbose mode format string.
4893
4894 - Avoid losing writes on mmap()ed files when cache is memcache. (124671)
4895
4896 - Provide an afsd switch to allow override of the maximum MTU. (124880)
4897
4898 - Provide support for encrypt mode in pts.
4899
4900 - Fix race in background sync code which could cause volumes to go offline.
4901 (124359)
4902
4903 - Fix fileserver to avoid a null pointer dereference in client identity
4904 lookup routines. (125020)
4905
4906 - Improve handling of moves of volumes from 1.5 series fileservers. (18349)
4907
4908 FreeBSD:
4909
4910 - UKERNEL build fix. (124681)
4911
4912 Linux:
4913
4914 - Allow syscall probing to be disabled by switch to configure at build time.
4915
4916 - Fix bug in anti-recursion protection for mmap clients. (124627)
4917
4918 - Avoid a panic caused by changing credentials during VFS operations. (124737)
4919
4920 - Avoid need for rcu subsystem when unavailable. (124986)
4921
4922 - Improve keyring PAG setup code. (125001)
4923
4924 - Avoid possible ext3 cache truncation issues. (124942)
4925
4926 MacOS:
4927
4928 - MacOS 10.3 UKERNEL build fix. (124681)
4929
4930 OpenBSD:
4931
4932 - Update support for 4.5 (124719)
4933
4934 OpenSolaris:
4935
4936 - Updates for newer OpenSolaris kernels. (124116, 124924)
4937
4938OpenAFS 1.4.10
4939
4940 All client systems: Security fixes.
4941 File servers: Major bugfixes.
4942 All systems: Minor bugfixes.
4943
4944 * Security fixes:
4945
4946 All client systems:
4947
4948 - Avoid a potential kernel memory overrun if more items than requested are
4949 returned from an InlineBulk or BulkStatus message. (124579)
4950
4951 Linux client systems:
4952
4953 - Avoid converting negative errors into invalid kernel memory pointers. (124580)
4954
4955 * Bugfixes:
4956
4957 AIX:
4958
4959 - Don't build aklog NAS module when krb5 is not available. (124522)
4960
4961 FreeBSD:
4962
4963 - Additional fixes and support. (124107, 123917)
4964
4965 Linux:
4966
4967 - Support 2.6.28. (123580)
4968
4969 - Support 2.6.29. (124115)
4970
4971 - Attempt to support 2.6.30 (124560)
4972
4973 - Avoid race during truncation. (124094)
4974
4975 - Dynamic vcache allocation support, to deal with inotify vcache pinning. (124334)
4976
4977 - Correct use of truncate_inode_pages to vmtruncate for locking issues. (124128)
4978
4979 - Update RPM configuration. (123650, 102673, 124272)
4980
4981 - Update kernel feature detection. (124507, 123604)
4982
4983 - Do appropriate locking for CellServDB in /proc. (124407)
4984
4985 MacOS:
4986
4987 - Fix MacOS 10.3 support.
4988
4989 - Add candidate Darwin 10 support.
4990
4991 NetBSD:
4992
4993 - Corrected NetBSD version tests. (123647)
4994
4995 OpenBSD:
4996
4997 - Update support for 4.4 (124541)
4998
4999 Solaris:
5000
5001 - Support cache filesystems which do not allow open by inode number, enabled by
5002 default on Solaris 9 and later. (123677)
5003
5004 - Improve error code return quality. (124426)
5005
5006 - Allow large partitions on Solaris servers.
5007
5008 All client systems:
5009
5010 - Avoid improper error messages about key version when krb5 is in use. (124220)
5011
5012 - Avoid attempting to free kernel memory which was already freed. (124531)
5013
5014 - Properly count offline volumes in vos client. (124333)
5015
5016 All server systems:
5017
5018 - Avoid 64 bit time issues in callback dump files. (124451)
5019
5020 - Support more than one local Kerberos realm; Usernames are assumed to be the
5021 same across realms.
5022
5023 - Ubik recovery is corrected to avoid spurious errors. (123723)
5024
5025 - Do proper host address hashing for little endian machines in fileserver. (124447)
5026
5027 - Update backup utility to properly compute header needs in the backup buffer.
5028 (124425)
5029
5030 - Avoid blocking during Rx unused connection reaping.
5031
5032 - Avoid leaking file handles in the fileserver when closing a volume. (124359)
5033
5034 - Fix bosserver corefile naming to be y2k-safe. (124340)
5035
5036 - Avoid potential infinite loop in deleted host handling in the fileserver.
5037
5038 - Support large volume dumps in vol-dump. (123984)
5039
5040 - Build butc XBSA support on 64 bit systems.
5041
5042 All systems:
5043
5044 - Properly track Rx connection idleness for timeouts.
5045
5046 - Additional documentation. (124472)
5047
5048 - Avoid a race which may result in an in-use Rx packet being freed. (123799)
5049
5050OpenAFS 1.4.9
5051
5052 All client systems: Security fixes.
5053
5054 * Security fixes:
5055
5056 All client systems:
5057
5058 - Avoid a potential kernel memory overrun if more items than requested are
5059 returned from an InlineBulk or BulkStatus message. (124579)
5060
5061 Linux client systems:
5062
5063 - Avoid converting negative errors into invalid kernel memory pointers. (124580)
5064
5065OpenAFS 1.4.8
5066
5067 File servers: Major bugfixes.
5068 All systems: Minor bugfixes.
5069
5070 * Bugfixes:
5071
5072 AIX:
5073
5074 - AIX 6.1 is now supported.
5075
5076 - Unpin kernel memory references after free. (99456)
5077
5078 FreeBSD:
5079
5080 - FreeBSD 7 is now supported.
5081
5082 Linux:
5083
5084 - Avoid deadlock when writing back pages in an mmap()ed file larger than
5085 the cache. (120491)
5086
5087 - Update process tree walking for PAG garbage collection to avoid oopses.
5088 (116603)
5089
5090 - fakestat mode now correctly avoids spurious ENOTDIR errors.
5091
5092 - Use kernel build system for all platforms.
5093
5094 - Remove openafs directory from proc in correct order. (112910)
5095
5096 - Handle renames across directories correctly in the linux dcache. (74672)
5097
5098 - Probe syscall table when possible. (105457)
5099
5100 - Mount point parsing is now updated to handle only well-formed mount
5101 points rather than similarly-formed symlinks. (113558, 100836)
5102
5103 - ucontext-style LWP is now anbled for glibc versions newer than 2.3.
5104
5105 MacOS:
5106
5107 - Update available space shown. (112910)
5108
5109 NetBSD:
5110
5111 - Work around broken SIGWAIT. (111404)
5112
5113 Solaris:
5114
5115 - Solaris 10 now defaults to namei fileservers.
5116
5117 - NFS translator issues fixed.
5118
5119 - Changes to address Solaris updates. (105495)
5120
5121 All client systems:
5122
5123 - udebug correctly displays the last "yes" host.
5124
5125 - Allow more vldb lookups to be cached in the client.
5126
5127 - Fix aklog to not be excessively verbose when not requested.
5128
5129 - Add support for timing out accesses which are not completing in a timely
5130 manner.
5131
5132 - Properly flag backup volumes being added to the vldb by vos syncvldb.
5133
5134 All server systems:
5135
5136 - fileserver "large" setting now implies 128 threads instead of 12.
5137
5138 - fileserver check for duplicate uuids is now applied correctly.
5139
5140 - Newer xbsa APIs are supported for TSM integration in butc.
5141
5142 - salvager avoids corrupting length of directory objects. (111585, 107767)
5143
5144 - volserver avoids a race during volume release so a volume will not
5145 appear to be offline. (107258)
5146
5147 - Add support for returning errors when accesses are not completing
5148 in a timely manner.
5149
5150 - Avoid potential race in the volserver when creating transactions. (121263)
5151
5152 - Return sensible error when a release or restore exhausts server
5153 resources. (121040)
5154
5155 - volserver now returns EXDEV if a new replica would duplicate one which
5156 already existed elsewhere on the server.
5157
5158 - Disable jumbograms by default.
5159
5160 - volserver updates a volume's updateDate on volume creation. (110943)
5161
5162 - Partitions over 2tb are now supported. (88811)
5163
5164 All systems:
5165
5166 - Re-enable Rx client keepalives. (20727)
5167
5168 - Support autoconf 2.62. (118058)
5169
5170 - Update Rx to avoid leaking packets.
5171
5172 - vos supports the -noresolve options to avoid issues with 127.0.0.1 being
5173 named in /etc/hosts.
5174
5175 - Additional documentation. (104110)
5176
5177OpenAFS 1.4.7
5178
5179 File servers: Major bugfixes.
5180 All systems: Minor bugfixes.
5181
5182 * Bugfixes:
5183
5184 AIX:
5185
5186 - Kerberos as included in AIX has missing symbols. AFS krb5 tools now
5187 deal correctly.
5188
5189 - AIX LAM aklog plugin can now be used CDE screenlocker.
5190
5191 - Add support for getting the current PAG in pagsh and PAM.
5192
5193 - Avoid sending a terminal hangup to STREAMS in aklog.
5194
5195 - Fix afsdb support in the client.
5196
5197 Linux:
5198
5199 - Kernels through 2.6.25 are now supported. (77370,88000,83716,83890,80463)
5200
5201 - Client now only hashes dirty inodes. (78544)
5202
5203 - Fix to avoid returning invalid mount point data when -fakestat-all is in use.
5204 (93898)
5205
5206 - RPM build system updates. (93616)
5207
5208 - Restored write-on-close-or-fsync semantics when possible. (17509)
5209
5210 - Enabled support for flock() on files in AFS. (53457)
5211
5212 - ARM Linux now supported.
5213
5214 - Kernel keyring support updated.
5215
5216 - Fix client-displayed timestamp ordering by zeroing nanosecond field.
5217
5218 MacOS:
5219
5220 - Boot time init script now uses afs.conf to store config options. (81825)
5221
5222 - Avoid kernel panic due to excessive lock tracking when removing files.
5223
5224 - Avoid leaking kernel memory when trying to read() a directory.
5225
5226 Solaris:
5227
5228 - Avoid potential kernel panic if the root vnode of AFS changes.
5229
5230 - Avoid potential kernel panic when shutting down if contracts are in use.
5231
5232 - Avoid potential delays when creating new PAGs if the system clock
5233 has gone backwards.
5234
5235 All client systems:
5236
5237 - At client shutdown, try harder to clean up in-use resources. (74479)
5238
5239 - When fakestat is in use, enable optimization for Gnome Nautilus lookups.
5240
5241 - Properly hold lock when updating disk cache metadata to avoid
5242 kernel panic. (59136)
5243
5244 - Avoid wrapping to the start of a file when attempting to write a large file
5245 to a pre-largefile fileserver. (73720)
5246
5247 All server systems:
5248
5249 - Fixed to avoid truncating ubik databases during recovery. (77183)
5250
5251 - fileserver issue with internal file cache filling has been fixed. (87977)
5252
5253 - fileserver thread quota enforcement now done in all cases. (87416)
5254
5255 - fileserver avoids potential network-related deadlock when breaking
5256 callbacks.
5257
5258 - fileserver avoids crash due to race of resource creation and user requests
5259 at startup.
5260
5261 - fileserver avoids crash when reinitializing Ubik connections.
5262
5263 - volserver fixed to avoid leaving orphaned files during restore. (46937)
5264
5265 - volserver now supports convertROtoRW for inode fileservers.
5266
5267 - Support disabling kerberos 4 style username protection in servers. (75101)
5268
5269 All systems:
5270
5271 - Fix to butc to avoid crash due to threaded library variant.
5272
5273 - Fix to avoid network retransmission issues if the system clock goes
5274 backwards.
5275
5276 - vos syncvldb and syncserver now support a dryrun (do nothing) mode.
5277
5278 - vos addsite now supports adding a site where a replica is already
5279 available.
5280
5281 - vos clone now supports creating properly-named readonly and backup clones.
5282
5283 - vos restore now allows an older copy of a volume at an alternate site to
5284 not be removed.
5285
5286 - cmdebug now supports dumping a client's CellServDB.
5287
5288 - cmdebug now supports showing human-readable expiration times.
5289
5290 - aklog now handles Kerberos referrals.
5291
5292 - Additional documentation now included. (89288,89289,86677)
5293
5294OpenAFS 1.4.6
5295
5296 All systems: Major bugfixes.
5297
5298 * Bugfixes:
5299
5300 All systems:
5301
5302 - fileserver host tracking code had a missing lock on a host structure;
5303 that lock has been added.
5304
5305 - fileserver handling for clients which are giving up callbacks did not
5306 hold a lock, making it unsafe and allowing clients to potentially
5307 crash the server by racing.
5308
5309 - fileserver will now leave a corefile when it is doing a shutdown due
5310 to error conditions.
5311
5312 - fileserver again allows ufs as a valid filesystem type (regression in 1.4.5).
5313
5314 - cbd handler for fileserver status data has an interpretation error which
5315 could cause crashes corrected.
5316
5317 - fileserver accurately tracks number of callbacks on a given file.
5318
5319OpenAFS 1.4.5
5320
5321 All systems: Minor bugfixes.
5322 New systems: MacOS 10.5.
5323
5324 All systems:
5325
5326 - fileserver address tracking is improved to avoid potentially merging
5327 unrelated hosts.
5328
5329 - Documentation updates.
5330
5331 - namei fileserver now does fsync()s in background batches for performance
5332 improvements.
5333
5334 - Kerberos ticket support corrected in bundled Kerberos 4 utilities on 64
5335 bit platforms.
5336
5337 - fileserver includes limited per-host thread quota support to avoid
5338 resource starvation.
5339
5340 - fileserver deals with more damaged volumes without asserting.
5341
5342 - vos validates dumpfiles before attempting restores.
5343
5344 - vos clone will no longer potentially delete the parent volume.
5345
5346 - Client no longer permits empty UUID to be created.
5347
5348 - fs uuid command for checking, regenerating UUID added.
5349
5350 - Updates for gcc 4.2.
5351
5352 - fileserver treats w (write) permission as granting read lock permission
5353 in addition to write.
5354
5355 AIX:
5356
5357 - Bundled NAS Kerberos is now supported. (5.x)
5358
5359 - LAM aklog module is provided. (5.x)
5360
5361 - Associate cache files with correct filesystem to avoid snapshots when
5362 performing maintenance on local filesystems.
5363
5364 Irix:
5365
5366 - Makefile updates.
5367
5368 Linux:
5369
5370 - Kernels throigh 2.6.23 are known to work.
5371
5372 - Updates to syscall table probing.
5373
5374 - Bug fix in keyring PAG support to avoid oops.
5375
5376 - updated sample RPM configuration.
5377
5378 - sparc32 lwp support updated.
5379
5380 - Avoid potential oops in symlink support in certain older kernels.
5381
5382 - Avoid potential deadlock during vmalloc.
5383
5384 - Corrected locking while interacting with kernel task list.
5385
5386 MacOS:
5387
5388 - Several panics fixed, including remove_fsref. (10.4 and later)
5389
5390 - IP address changes now tracked.
5391
5392 - Corrected support for dropboxes (li access without r) with cp and Finder.
5393
5394 - fstrace and ancillary files now included.
5395
5396 - man pages are now installed in the default MANPATH.
5397
5398 - Servers will be timed out quickly if there is no route available.
5399
5400 - Temporary files from remove-while-busy now cleaned up correctly.
5401
5402 Solaris:
5403
5404 - Updates to accomodate kernel interface changes. (10u4 and later)
5405
5406 - knfs and NFS translator support updated.
5407
5408 - Changes to accomodate version 5.4 xbsa library.
5409
5410 - Updates for new SunStudio defaults.
5411
5412OpenAFS 1.4.2
5413
5414 All systems: Major bugfixes.
5415
5416 * Bugfixes:
5417
5418 All systems:
5419
5420 * A bug in the namei volserver which could erroneously make a replicated or
5421 moved volume go offline has been fixed.
5422
5423 * Volume package users (fileserver, volserver, salvager) avoid using lockf to
5424 avoid leaking byte range locks on volume internal files.
5425
5426 MacOS 10.4:
5427
5428 * A bug where the client kernel module could free stack memory (which caused
5429 issues with 64 bit Intel most commonly) has been fixed.
5430
5431 Linux:
5432
5433 * A missing kernel feature test has been fixed.
5434
5435 * group based PAG support is still enabled when possible.
5436
5437 * ia32 syscall table support for amd64 has build fixes for modern kernels.
5438
5439 Solaris:
5440
5441 * fopen() is not safe for use with more than 255 file descriptors open;
5442 Emulate it in the afsconf package so afsconf can be used in the fileserver.
5443
5444 Windows:
5445
5446 * DNS registration is disabled for the loopback adapter, and we make sure
5447 Netbios is turned on.
5448
5449 Since 1.4.1:
5450
5451 All platforms:
5452 * Remove use of ubik_Call in the source code so prototypes are used.
5453
5454 * Avoid synchrony in call from the fileserver to the ptserver.
5455
5456 * Fix a bug in the backup suite when restoring.
5457
5458 * fileserver and volserver now log for error conditions which may cause
5459 exiting.
5460
5461 * rx avoids a stack overrun when more packets are needed.
5462
5463 * volserver avoids holding a lock too long when purging volumes.
5464
5465 * volserver lock initialization fixes
5466
5467 * volserver volume nuke fixes to avoid leaving files behind
5468
5469 * fileserver avoids error when authenticating ptserver requests
5470
5471 * fileserver no longer crashes when GetCPS fails
5472
5473 * salvager enhancements to deal better with corrupt volumes for namei
5474
5475 Unix:
5476
5477 * aklog deals with KDCs which give "generic" replies to principals not
5478 existing.
5479
5480 * Fix bug in cache parameter autotuning
5481
5482 RedHat:
5483
5484 * packaging fixes
5485
5486 Linux:
5487
5488 * amd64 pthread library family updates.
5489
5490 * autoconf fixes for kernel feature testing
5491
5492 * keyring PAG support now only enabled if needed features are present
5493 and other updates
5494
5495 * inline a version of BUG() so we get better oopses
5496
5497 AIX:
5498
5499 * tsm is updated to work with the new AIX 5 interface.
5500
5501 MacOS:
5502
5503 * Cross compile fixes
5504
5505 * Packaging improvements
5506
5507 * Large file support fixed (Thanks to Chaskiel Grundman)
5508
5509 * Fixes for Leopard seed.
5510
5511 * Installer image updates
5512
5513 Windows:
5514
5515 * Removes race conditions and a deadlock introduced in 1.4.1
5516
5517 * Fixes ANSI filename option.
5518
5519 * Establishes new connections to file servers when
5520 IP address configuration changes are detected.
5521
5522 * Improved CIFS compatibility
5523
5524 * Cache Manager optimizations
5525
5526 * Fixes vlserver failover when mounting 'root.afs'
5527 (Freelance mode disabled)
5528
5529 * Installs help files in the correct location for use by afscreds.exe
5530 and afs control panel.
5531
5532 * Improve reporting of "over quota" and "disk full" errors.
5533
5534 * Prevent crash when evaluating mount points to volumes that do
5535 not exist
5536
5537 * Removes auto-registration of AFS ID in foreign ptservers from
5538 Integrated Logon DLL. This prevents crashes if the DLL is loaded
5539 and unloaded prior to termination of the process.
5540
5541 * SDK moved to \Program Files\OpenAFS\SDK
5542
5543 * NSIS and WiX Installer Frameworks update to the latest versions
5544
5545 * Improvements to the Kerberos Logon Integration
5546
5547 * Prevents exception in Integrated Logon DLL during SysPrep
5548
5549 * Prevents displays of MessageBox dialogs in response to Network Adapter
5550 errors
5551
5552 * Hard Dead and Connection Timeout values restricted to the CIFS Session
5553 Timeout value.
5554
5555 * Correct writing of BackConnectionsHostNames registry value.
5556
5557 * Properly recycles Volume entries
5558
5559 * The AFS Explorer Shell Extension always finds its resource library.
5560
5561 * The export list for AFSAUTHENT.DLL has been corrected. (The AFS
5562 plugin for NetIDMgr will no longer use 100% of CPU.)
5563
5564 * Renaming files on Microsoft Vista Build 5536 works.
5565
5566 * Better handling of "." directory in fs commands
5567
5568 * Add OpenAFS License text to installers
5569
5570 * fs setquota and fs mkmount commands behave the same as the UNIX
5571 version
5572
5573OpenAFS 1.4.2
5574
5575 All systems: Major bugfixes.
5576
5577 * Bugfixes:
5578
5579 All systems:
5580
5581 - Volume dump parsing code in the volserver has better error checking.
5582
5583 - salvager has improved damaged volume handling on namei fileservers.
5584
5585 - fileserver has size validity checks for when large file support is disabled.
5586
5587 - fileserver avoids potentially multiply adding a host to its hash table.
5588
5589 - rxkad client private data storage is allocated dynamically on ticket size.
5590
5591 - Handle universal error code translation for file locking.
5592
5593 - fileserver needs to swap callback connections on a client IP change.
5594
5595 - fileserver host package revised to reduce lock contention.
5596
5597 - Rx has been fixed to count hard acks, thus opening the congestion window.
5598
5599 - All servers support bound Rx sockets (on one interface).
5600
5601 - namei fileserver no longer use lockf() to avoid range locking issues.
5602
5603 - most binaries now support the -version switch.
5604
5605 - backup suite fixes for 64 bit platforms.
5606
5607 - volserver avoids holding holds during volume purges.
5608
5609 - volserver avoids losing files on namei during vos zap.
5610
5611 AIX:
5612
5613 - fileserver now properly supports large files.
5614
5615 - TSM updates for AIX 5
5616
5617 - Kernel module avoids leaking Rx packets.
5618
5619 - Avoid use of global ubik client structure in fileserver.
5620
5621 - Update ubik call client interface to allow for prototyping.
5622
5623 - audit logging fixes when stdarg does not provide integral va_list type.
5624
5625 MacOS 10.4:
5626
5627 - A bug where the client kernel module could free stack memory (which
5628 caused issues with 64 bit Intel most commonly) has been fixed.
5629
5630 - Packaging fixes and updates.
5631
5632 - Uninstaller added.
5633
5634 - Fix large file support.
5635
5636 Linux:
5637
5638 - autoconf kernel feature testing has been restructured.
5639
5640 - PAG garbage collection is enabled by default.
5641
5642 - Kerberos updates for RHEL3.
5643
5644 - Fix POSIX lock enrollment for older Linux kernels.
5645
5646 - Updates for new 2.6 kernels.
5647
5648 - Avoid deadlocks in put_inode handler.
5649
5650 - Keyring-based PAG support.
5651
5652 - Fixes to avoid getting better oops info in the kernel.
5653
5654 Solaris:
5655
5656 - Remove some kernel symbol bindings for symbols we don't use.
5657
5658 - Cleanup for loopback mount of AFS on Solaris 10.
5659
5660 - Avoid issues with stdio not supporting file descriptors above 255 on
5661 Solaris 8 and lower in the fileserver.
5662
5663OpenAFS 1.4.1
5664
5665 All systems: Major bugfixes.
5666 New systems: MacOS 10.4 (PowerPC and Intel)
5667
5668 * Bugfixes:
5669
5670 All systems:
5671
5672 - Several race conditions in the host tracking and handling in the fileserver
5673 which could cause inconsistent behavior and crashes have been fixed.
5674
5675 - A fileserver bug where a reference to a volume could be leaked and later
5676 cause a deadlock as a result of a bulk status call
5677
5678 - Reference counting of fileserver objects in unsigned 32 bit integers
5679 instead of signed 16 bit integers.
5680
5681 - Avoid type mismatches when handling time values (betweemn 32 bit and 64 bit
5682 variables).
5683
5684 - Fix a memory leak during multilevel packet queue handling.
5685
5686 - Audit log output had been updated to include FIDs for newly created files.
5687
5688 HP-UX 11i:
5689
5690 - 64 bit (large file) inodes are supported.
5691
5692 - Salvager will now handle large (>4gb) partitions.
5693
5694 * New features:
5695
5696 All systems:
5697
5698 - asetkey is now included to ease Kerberos 5 integration for server
5699 administrators.
5700
5701 - A new fileserver statistics collection including callback statistics was
5702 added.
5703
5704 - man pages are now generated.
5705
5706 Microsoft Windows:
5707
5708 - Fixes error message problems experienced by fs.exe and the AFS Explorer
5709 Shell Extensions related to the use of Universal Error Codes by the
5710 AFS File Server
5711
5712 - Adds full SMB/CIFS support for byte range locking. In this implementation
5713 all locks are allocated locally and the AFS lock privilege is ignored.
5714 While this will not prevent two processes on different machines from
5715 simultaneously writing to the same file, it will prevent two processes
5716 on the same machine from doing so.
5717
5718 - The UP server check period has been reduced to once every ten minutes to
5719 match the period used by the UNIX clients. The shorter period will
5720 assist clients maintain RX connections through NATs.
5721
5722 - Fixes the DOWN server check logic to ensure that any server that responds
5723 to a check is marked UP unless it is in the process of restarting.
5724
5725 - Add logic to better handle objects that no longer exist on the file server.
5726 (VNOVNODE errors.)
5727
5728 - Prevent the removal of existing drive mappings by "afscreds.exe -M"
5729
5730 - Fixes the procmgmt library so that it doesn't cause applications that
5731 unload it to crash.
5732
5733 - Improves the warnings written to the afsd_init.log file when the
5734 Windows RPC Protocol drivers are improperly configured.
5735
5736 - Fixes "fs setserverprefs -vlserver". Multiple calls with the same
5737 server parameter could result in a crash of afsd_service.exe.
5738
5739 - The SMB/CIFS layer was audited for reference miscounts and memory leaks.
5740 All SMB objects are now properly counted, locked, and released when
5741 their work is done.
5742
5743 - Prevent file truncation of the user does not have the appropriate access.
5744
5745 - Token management was re-written to allow user tokens to be preserved
5746 during integrated login and freed after logoff is complete.
5747
5748 - Added a mechanism by which abandoned SMB virtual circuits can be
5749 detected and the associated resources cleaned up.
5750
5751 - Prevent the allocation of SMB file handles with a value of 0 or 0xFFFF
5752 which would be considered invalid by Windows applications.
5753
5754 - Fixed the processing of cell names to ensure that they are always
5755 treated as case insensitive strings.
5756
5757 - Fixed the network provider code to avoid querying the profile location
5758 if integrated login is disabled.
5759
5760 - If a mount point string is empty, return Path Not Found to the application.
5761
5762 - Windows returns WSAECONNRESET when an ICMP packet is received in response
5763 to a transmitted UDP packet that cannot be delivered. Do not mark the
5764 connection as bad but instead retry the request.
5765
5766 - Fix the data written to the registry as part of the BackConnectionHostnames
5767 values.
5768
5769 - Fixed the rx-lwp implementation to always generate unique rx call
5770 identitiers.
5771
5772 - The default "fs minidump" type now includes data segments.
5773
5774
5775OpenAFS 1.3
5776
5777 * -nosettime is now the default for afsd. Use "-settime" to get the
5778 old behavior.
5779
5780 * OpenBSD is now supported.
5781
5782 * Mountpoint directory information is now only faked for cross-cell
5783 mountpoints when using the -fakestat flag (e.g. for the directories
5784 under /afs, but not for most other volumes mounted inside the cell).
5785 The -fakestat-all switch can be used to fake information for all
5786 mountpoints.
5787
5788 * When fakestat is enabled on MacOSX, the Finder can be used to browse
5789 a fully-populated /afs directory. However, this precludes reliable
5790 use of entire volumes as MacOS bundles (i.e. containing a Contents
5791 directory in the root of the volume).
5792
5793 * Mountpoint directory information can be faked by the cache manager,
5794 making operations such as stat'ing all cells under /afs much faster.
5795 This is enabled by passing -fakestat to afsd, but might not be stable
5796 on all platforms.
5797
5798
5799OpenAFS 1.2.9
5800
5801 * The kaserver now defaults to not allowing interrealm authentication,
5802 due to security vulnerabilities in the krb4 protocol. The new
5803 "-crossrealm" flag to the kaserver is provided to reenable interrealm
5804 authentication if desired.
5805
5806 * RedHat Linux 9.0 is now supported.
5807
5808 * Solaris 9 12/02 is now supported. Solaris 7 and 8 x86 should now
5809 work again.
5810
5811 * On Linux machines using 2.2 series kernels, 2.2.19 or higher is now
5812 required.
5813
5814 * An OpenAFS 1.2.9 afsd will not work with kernel modules built from
5815 an earlier OpenAFS release. In general, using a mismatched afsd and
5816 kernel modules set is unsupported; it is not recommended that you use
5817 such a configuration on a regular basis.
5818
5819
5820OpenAFS 1.2.8
5821
5822 * Mountpoint directory information is now only faked for cross-cell
5823 mountpoits when using the -fakestat flag (e.g. for the directories
5824 under /afs, but not for most other volumes mounted inside the cell).
5825 The -fakestat-all switch can be used to fake information for all
5826 mountpoints.
5827
5828 * HPUX 11.0 is now supported.
5829
5830 * It is now possible for AFS to use Kerberos 5 directly, via rxkad 2b.
5831 See the OpenAFS 1.2.8 Release Notes for more information on using this
5832 capability.
5833
5834 * An NFS translator kernel module is now included and compiled by
5835 default for Solaris only.
5836
5837
5838OpenAFS 1.2.7
5839
5840 * MacOS X 10.2 is now supported. FreeBSD 4.3 and later support is
5841 included in this release, but is still under active development and
5842 should only be used by those doing active development on the OpenAFS
5843 FreeBSD client.
5844
5845 * When fakestat is enabled on MacOSX, the Finder can be used to browse a
5846 fully-populated /afs directory. However, this precludes reliable use
5847 of entire volumes as MacOS bundles (i.e. containing a Contents
5848 directory in the root of the volume).
5849
5850 * The fileserver will now use Rx pings to determine if clients are
5851 reachable prior to allocating resources to them, to prevent asymmetric
5852 clients from consuming all fileserver resources.
5853
5854
5855OpenAFS 1.2.6
5856
5857 * Mountpoint directory information can be faked by the cache manager,
5858 making operations such as stat'ing all cells under /afs much faster.
5859 This is enabled by passing -fakestat to afsd.
5860
5861 * Solaris 9 FCS and Solaris 7 and 8 x86 are now supported.
5862
5863
5864OpenAFS 1.2.5
5865
5866 * A remote denial of service attack in the AIX and IRIX clients has been
5867 fixed. Users of those platforms are strongly encouraged to upgrade.
5868
5869 * Fixed race conditions in fileserver that could result in crash.
5870
5871
5872OpenAFS 1.2.4
5873
5874 * Server logfiles now more consistant about format in which hosts are
5875 referred to.
5876
5877 * vfsck on Solaris will now allow force runs (using -y flag) even if old
5878 inodes exist.
5879
5880
5881OpenAFS 1.2.3
5882
5883 * Cell aliases for dynroot can be specified in the CellAlias file in
5884 /usr/vice/etc or /usr/local/etc/openafs, in format "realname alias",
5885 one per line. They can also be managed at runtime with "fs newalias"
5886 and "fs listaliases".
5887
5888
5889OpenAFS 1.2.2
5890
5891 * Solaris 9 and Linux PA-RISC are now supported.
5892
5893 * fileserver will not erroneously delay legitimate errors for 3 seconds
5894 after 10 errors are returned (e.g. stat() on a directory you can't
5895 read).
5896
5897 * Rx MTU calculation now works for Irix, Solaris and Linux
5898
5899 * If afsd is started with the -dynroot flag, /afs will be locally
5900 generated from the CellServDB. AFSDB cells will be mounted
5901 automatically upon access.
5902
5903 * The namei fileserver allows vice "partitions" to be directories
5904 instead of partitions and will attach and display accordingly.
5905 Creating the file "AlwaysAttach" in the /vicepX directory is used as
5906 the trigger to attach it.
5907
5908 * TSM support for butc no longer requires editing a Makefile, simply
5909 specify the --enable-tivoli-tsm configure option.
5910
5911 * Linux builds no longer require source changes every time the kernel
5912 inode structure changes; the OpenAFS sources will now configure itself
5913 to the actual inode structure as defined in the kernel sources.
5914
5915
5916OpenAFS 1.2.1
5917
5918 * vfsck on Digital UNIX and Solaris will now refuse to fsck mounted
5919 mounted partitions.
5920
5921
5922OpenAFS 1.2.0
5923
5924 * AFS now supports --prefix and the other directory options of
5925 configure. By default AFS builds assuming it will be installed in
5926 /usr/local. In order to get traditional AFS directory paths (/usr/afs
5927 and /usr/vice/etc) use the --enable-transarc-paths option to
5928 configure. More details on the new directory layout are found in
5929 README.
5930
5931
5932OpenAFS 1.1.1a
5933
5934 * Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 - Consistent versioning: Installation, AFS
5935 Control Center, Client dialog boxes and properties pages for
5936 executables display a consistent OpenAFS version number. Installation
5937 detects previous installation and prompts the user for upgrade
5938 options.
5939
5940 * Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 - Installation features: During installation
5941 the user can select the source of the CellservDB file, AFS home cell,
5942 and drive mappings. During installation a drive path mapping can
5943 include a variable that will be substituted with the current UserName
5944 that is logged in.
5945
5946 * Windows 2000/NT - Integrated logon: The Integrated Logon feature
5947 works now.
5948
5949 * Windows 95/98/ME - Logon script features: The Windows 95/98/ME client
5950 now offers a command-line option for starting up the AFS client
5951 without authenication. It is now possilbe to start the AFS client
5952 first and obtain tokens, and map drives all through Windows scripts.
5953 This helps using Windows 95/98/ME client in Kerberos 5 environment.
5954
5955 * Windows 2000/NT - LANA numbers: AFS client now scans the LANA numbers
5956 to establish the correct NETBIOS connection. NetBEUI is no longer
5957 needed. The user no longer needs to find the correct LANA number.
5958
5959 * Windows 2000/NT - OpenAFS naming consistancy: Further progress has
5960 been made to remove references to "Transarc AFS" and replace with
5961 "OpenAFS".
5962
5963
5964OpenAFS 1.0
5965
5966 * AFS now builds with configure. The README for building has been
5967 updated and includes full details.
5968
5969 * A client system can now have multiple sysname values for @sys. They
5970 will be searched in order when looking up files in AFS. The
5971 -newsysname argument to fs sysname can be repeated to set multiple
5972 sysnames.
5973
5974 * A new system group is created for new cells (system:ptsviewers with id
5975 -203). If this group exists, members of this group can examine and
5976 read the entire protection database. They can examine all users and
5977 groups and can get the membership of any group.
5978
5979 * A new program, pt_util has been added to the distribution. This
5980 program allows users to print the contents of the protection database
5981 or to edit the protection database without running a ptserver. It can
5982 be used to set up a new cell without ever running in noauth mode. Run
5983 pt_util -h for help.
5984
5985 * The fs setcrypt and fs getcrypt commands have been added. These
5986 commands allow the system administrator to require that the client
5987 encrypt all authenticated traffic between the client workstation and
5988 AFS. The encryption used is weak, but is likely better than sending
5989 unencrypted traffic in most environments. Some functions, such as
5990 looking for a volume may not be encrypted, but data transfer certainly
5991 is. By default data is not encrypted. At this time no significant
5992 experimentation with server performance has been conducted.
5993
5994 * By default AFS is compiled with AFS_AFSDB_ENV, enabling the -afsdb
5995 option to be given to afsd on startup. If this option is used, then
5996 new cells will be looked up using AFSDB records stored in DNS if they
5997 are not found in CellServDB. This means that users can create
5998 cross-cell mountpoints in directories they control to access cells not
5999 in root.afs, and that cells in root.afs need not be in the client's
6000 CellServDB.
6001
6002 * AFS database servers can be marked as read-only clones. Surround the
6003 hostname in square brackets on the bos addhost command and the
6004 database server will never be elected sync site. This is useful for
6005 cells distributed over a wide region.
6006
6007 * The AFS servers now support the -syslog flag. This flag causes them
6008 to log to syslog rather than to files. This flag is not supported on
6009 NT. For all servers besides the salvager, the flag can also be
6010 specified as -syslog=facility, where facility is an integer facility
6011 code from syslog.h. A -syslogfacility option is provided for the
6012 salvager to accomplish the same goal.
6013
6014 * If the --enable-fast-restart flag is given when configuring AFS, then
6015 the salvager supports the -dontsalvage flag which causes it to exit
6016 without salvaging any volumes. If this is configured into the third
6017 command of a fs process, then the fileserver will start without
6018 salvaging. It will fail to attach volumes that need salvaging and
6019 they can be salvaged manually. This provides significantly better
6020 server startup performance at the cost of administrative complexity.
6021
6022 * If the --enable-bitmap-later flag is given when configuring AFS, then
6023 the fileserver creates bitmaps for free vnodes on demand, allowing
6024 faster starts.
6025
6026 * If bosserver finds a BosConfig.new file at startup, it reads this file
6027 and renames it to BosConfig. This allows bosserver to be reconfigured
6028 at next restart.
6029
6030 * The bosserver can be placed in a restricted mode in which AFS
6031 superusers are only granted limited access to the server host. The
6032 following functionality is disabled when restricted mode is in use:
6033
6034 bos exec
6035 bos getlog (except for files with no '/'s in their name)*
6036 bos create *
6037 bos delete
6038 bos install
6039 bos uninstall
6040
6041 specific exceptions are made for functionality that "bos salvage"
6042 uses:
6043
6044 A cron bnode who's name is "salvage-tmp", time is now, and command
6045 begins with "/usr/afs/bin/salvager" may be created. This bnode deletes
6046 itself when complete, so no special "delete" support is needed. This
6047 functionality may be removed in the future if a "Salvage" RPC is
6048 implimented.
6049
6050 The file with the exact path /usr/afs/logs/SalvageLog may be fetched,
6051 since that is how bos salvage [...] -showlog is implimented.
6052
6053 Restricted mode is enabled using a new bos command (bos setrestricted)
6054 or bossever command line switch (bosserver -restricted). Restricted
6055 mode can be disabled by a) sending the bosserver process a SIGFPE
6056 (which will then allow restricted operations until the next restart or
6057 setrestricted command) or b) editing /usr/afs/local/BosConfig (or
6058 BosConfig.new), and restarting the bosserver.
6059
6060 * The bos UserList of trusted administrators can now contain cross-realm
6061 Kerberos principals.
6062
6063 * udebug now takes --server not --servers.
6064
6065 * Several error messages have been improved to include volume numbers.
6066
6067 * Several new ports have been included for UNIX platforms: Darwin
6068 (ppc_darwin_12 and ppc_darwin_13), Linux 2.4 (i386_linux24), Linux on
6069 the Powerpc (ppc_linux22 and ppc_linux24), Linux on the Sparc
6070 (sparc_linux22, sparc64_linux22 and sparc64_linux24).
6071
6072 * Incomplete FreeBSD and Alpha Linux ports are included. The FreeBSD
6073 port has a working server and the Alpha Linux port has a partially
6074 working client.
6075
6076 * A native client for Windows 95/98/ME has been added to the
6077 distribution. With this program, a gateway machine is no longer
6078 required for Windows 9x to access AFS files. One drive letter will be
6079 created on your machine by default - Z:. The Z: drive will be the
6080 root of the AFS tree, allowing you to browse all sites that have AFS
6081 servers available. Additional drive letters can be defined for other
6082 AFS directories. A Windows Explorer shell extension is included that
6083 allows you to right click on items within an AFS tree to bring up an
6084 "AFS" menu item and perform various operations on a file or directory.
6085 The most useful item is "Access Control Lists", which allows you to
6086 view and edit the permissions of a particular directory. Command line
6087 tools are also available in the install directory. These commands
6088 include klog, unlog, tokens, kpasswd, symlink, fs and pts. The
6089 installable includes a readme file that contains more information on
6090 how to use the client program and known issues.
6091
6092 * Support for large caches in afsd. Cachefiles are stored in
6093 subdirectories. The default is 2048 files per subdirectory, which
6094 should work fine in most situations. You can use the new afsd option
6095 -files_per_subdir to change this number. Note that the first time you
6096 run afsd with this patch, your cachefiles will get moved into
6097 subdirectories. If you subsequently run an older version of afsd, you
6098 will lose all your cached files.