Update NEWS for 1.6.6

Finalize the release notes for OpenAFS 1.6.6

Change-Id: I9e86a1675d79a828beb39932d4cbf4e0668e549e
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.openafs.org/10714
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Reviewed-by: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@your-file-system.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephan Wiesand <stephan.wiesand@desy.de>
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User-Visible OpenAFS Changes
OpenAFS 1.6.6 (in progress)
OpenAFS 1.6.6
All platforms
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Tarballs are still shipped with both compression formats, gzip and bzip2.
(10131)
* Documentation improvements (10136 10314)
* Documentation improvements (10136 10314 10601)
* Improved diagnostics and error messages (9412 10085 10274)
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* The fileserver now ignores any vice partitions with a NeverAttach flag
file present in the root directory. (RT #130561) (9470 9471)
* Enabled server side NAT pings. Since 1.6.0, client side NAT pings were
enabled to help keep up mappings for NATed clients. This change aims to
further improve on this by sending version packets from the server to its
clients as well. This may be backed out if there is no positive feedback
during prerelease testing. (9420)
* Restrict forcing CPS ("Current Protection Subdomain") recalculation in
the fileserver to administrators. Also fixed a bug that could cause this
operation to be incomplete. (9485 9487)
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* Fixed potentially undefined behaviour in ptserver when too many pts
ids are allocated. (10124)
* Note that the server side NAT pings feature present in the prereleases
was removed before the final release, since no positive feedback
was provided during prerelease testing. (9420 10135)
Linux servers
* Start bosserver with -nofork in the systemd unit file, to allow systemd
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an absolute path. Relative paths result in a client that basically
works but is not fully functional. (10253)
* Fixed a bug that could cause one of the afs threads to enter an infinite
* Fixed a bug that could cause one of the afsd threads to enter an infinite
loop (10431 .. 10436)
Linux clients
* Support Linux kernels up to 3.12 (10241)
* Support Linux kernels up to 3.13 (10241)
* Fixed a bug that made readv/writev calls in AFS space fail with Linux
kernels where generic_file_aio_read exists but those operations have
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created in sysfs, to avoid error messages during a subsequent start
and possible system instability later on (10454)
* Update Red Hat packaging to support Fedora >= 20, RHEL >= 7 and
ELrepo kernels (10597 10619 10622 10703 10704)
OS X Clients
* Support OS X 10.9 "Mavericks" (10519 10541 10542 10543 10548 10549)