Add NEWS entries for the 1.6.0 final release

The date will be slightly off from when it will be officially announced,
but it should be close enough.

Change-Id: Icb678bd2da148f59546f5e3d5cfda0251e76bdca
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.openafs.org/5287
Reviewed-by: Derrick Brashear <shadow@dementix.org>
Tested-by: Derrick Brashear <shadow@dementix.org>
This commit is contained in:
Russ Allbery 2011-08-15 20:20:31 -07:00 committed by Derrick Brashear
parent bec9c12859
commit 361cf11db3

57
NEWS
View File

@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
User-Visible OpenAFS Changes
OpenAFS 1.6.0 (in progress)
OpenAFS 1.6.0 (2011-08-15)
All platforms
@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ OpenAFS 1.6.0 (in progress)
* Properly enable Rx connection hard timeouts.
* Rx NAT pings are not enabled until peer has answered.
* Initialize rx_multi lock before use.
* Avoid spurious crashes when initializing in "backup" client.
@ -33,13 +35,15 @@ OpenAFS 1.6.0 (in progress)
* xstat tools now cope with differing timeval structures between
endpoints.
* Numerous fixes to command argument parsing.
* Documentation updates.
All server platforms
* A file descriptor leak which could result in corrupted files in the
fileserver was fixed. An IMMEDIATE upgrade from previous 1.6 release
candidates as well as 1.5 release fileserver is recommended.
fileserver was fixed. An IMMEDIATE upgrade from previous 1.5 release
fileservers is recommended.
* Fix ptserver supergroups support on 64 bit platforms.
@ -97,6 +101,8 @@ OpenAFS 1.6.0 (in progress)
* Demand attach: don't attach volumes with special status set.
* Avoid crashing on host table exhaustion. Instead, defer clients.
Microsoft Windows
* afs_config will not longer set the Tray Icon State in the registry
@ -200,6 +206,29 @@ OpenAFS 1.6.0 (in progress)
* Correct lock acquisition order during SMB locking.
* Add shutdown message to event log.
* Check offline volume status by policy rather than on each daemon
thread run.
* Return error on directory object not found instead of crashing.
* Improve error message output.
* afslogin.dll can start afsd_service if it's not starting or started.
* Optimize away release lock RPCs for deleted files.
* Background Daemon will not perform operations on deleted files.
* Resort recently used directories to the top of the LRU if the
directory is larger than the stat cache.
* Resort deleted objects to the bottom of the LRU.
* Use interlocked operations for state and queue fields to allow safe
bit set and clear on multiprocessor systems.
All UNIX client platforms
* Servers now marked down when GetCapabilities returns error.
@ -228,6 +257,14 @@ OpenAFS 1.6.0 (in progress)
* Do not attempt page flushes for directories.
* Rx connection reference counting is enabled.
* An Rx connection reference count leak is fixed in bulkstat.
* Handle unparsable directory objects.
* Handle Kerberos cred cache errors in aklog.
AIX
* Fix PAG usage to track by PAG identifier, not group list.
@ -297,6 +334,12 @@ OpenAFS 1.6.0 (in progress)
* Attempt to properly handle SELinux in packaging.
* Init script properly returns status as exit code.
* RPM packaging fixes (executable libraries, no postinstall message)
* Kill i386 from RPM packaging.
MacOS
* MacOS 10.7 support.
@ -323,6 +366,12 @@ OpenAFS 1.6.0 (in progress)
* Rework logic for bulk status operations to avoid a potential hang.
* Avoid panic when doing FSEvent synthesis.
* Fix bug when using non-dynroot.
* Update Kerberos support in PreferencesPane.
NetBSD
* Updates for platform support.
@ -351,6 +400,8 @@ OpenAFS 1.6.0 (in progress)
* Try harder to avoid deadlocks on file-larger-than-cache operations.
* Avoid panic on shutdown when mount failed.
OpenAFS 1.5.78 (2010-11-04)