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Change-Id: I74820ee5a07c3fb539f233b2bd0c30aab262ba74
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.openafs.org/14343
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Reviewed-by: Michael Meffie <mmeffie@sinenomine.net>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
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@ -20,6 +20,12 @@ OpenAFS 1.9.0
Fix potential Rx hang when an incoming call must wait (14158).
Fix latent bug preventing RX_CONN_NAT_PING from working (13041).
Fix potential rx_connection leak in pthreaded programs (13042).
Avoid NatPing storm with many connections to the same server (14312).
Do not leave empty directories behind in the file server vice partition
when running the "vos zap -force" command (12879, 12839).
@ -30,6 +36,8 @@ OpenAFS 1.9.0
Replace SOURCE-MAP with a README.md (14003).
Improve documentation of minimum required dependency versions (14305).
Remove unused definition of LINUX_PKGREL from configure.ac (14117).
Improve logging and diagnostic messages:
@ -62,9 +70,9 @@ OpenAFS 1.9.0
Fix many (but not all) of the new warnings issued by recent versions of
gcc and clang (12987..12989, 13010, 13287, 13462..13464, 13467..13468,
13470..13476, 13494, 13660..13664, 13684, 13726, 13754, 14049, 14092,
14106).
14106, 14207, 14273, 14277, 14274, 14275, 14279, 14292, 14125).
Added unit tests for functions mapping vide partition to id (13176).
Added unit tests for functions mapping vice partition to id (13176).
Fix issues resulting in parallel "make install" to fail (13786, 14137).
@ -75,11 +83,12 @@ OpenAFS 1.9.0
(12988, 13204, 13209, 13210, 13213, 13226, 13227, 13260, 13271, 13277,
13309, 13310, 13324, 13325, 13339, 13345, 13346, 13351, 13361, 13362, 13363,
13390, 13397, 13408, 13414, 13458, 13490, 13500, 13509, 13514, 13557, 13640,
13655, 13282, 13683).
13655, 13282, 13683, 13995, 14218, 14219, 14236, 14246, 14322, 14338).
Build system clean up and fixes
(12956, 12961, 12962, 12963, 12992, 12993, 12994, 13237, 13275, 13338,
13357, 13360, 13387, 13419, 13594, 13652).
13357, 13360, 13387, 13419, 13594, 13652, 14115, 14148..14150, 14132,
14133, 14135, 14153).
All server platforms
@ -89,9 +98,13 @@ OpenAFS 1.9.0
Log a warning message when starting server processes with no encryption
keys available (13911).
Fix use of triple-DES cell-wide keys for rxkad.krb5 (14203).
Remove redundant lseek system calls and use positional I/O in the database
servers to improve performance (12271, 12272).
Fix option parsing to enable parallel salvageserver operation (14201).
Fix an edge case where writes were errneously allowed on readonly
fileservers (13934).
@ -101,12 +114,26 @@ OpenAFS 1.9.0
Allow "vos rename" to be re-run to finish a previously interrupted
volume rename operation (13720).
Take volumes offline during convertROtoRW operations, since volume access
during the conversion can leave it in an inconsistent state (14066).
Return errors for short reads during volume dumps instead of silently
padding with NUL bytes (14255).
Work around potential deadlocks when the salvageserver spawns a child
at the same time another thread is writing to the log (14239).
Do not overwrite the errno variable when logging certain database sendfile
errors (13263).
Avoid confusing log message ("Unable to create the volume") when
restoring over an existing volume (14208).
Fix vldb listing of created-but-not-released RO replicas (14154).
Avoid confusing "half-locked" state for interrupted volume renames (14157).
Prevent attempts to grow the VLDB past the maximum 2GB size (14180).
Fix a bug that prevented logging of discarded callbacks (14256).
Code migration to POSIX Threads (pthreads) from LWP.
* Convert upserver and upclient to pthreads (12754)
* Convert xstat libraries and related utilities to pthreads (12745, 12746,
@ -117,16 +144,30 @@ OpenAFS 1.9.0
Attempt to detect and report some common types of cache corruption
(13436, 13747, 13969, 14002).
Log a warning when the cache is "stressed" (almost full) to suggest
possible re-tuning (13255).
Require opt-in to use the historical/deprecated single-DES krb5
encryption types, which are being removed from krb5 distributions (13689).
Fix incorrect informational messages when the AFSCELL environment
variable is set (13371).
Assorted cleanup and microoptimizations (12655, 13254, 12656, 13253, 14241,
13256, 14254).
Tidy up the shutdown sequence, closing some memory leaks and not
generatin Rx traffic while Rx datastructures are being deconstructed
(13718, 13719).
Fix reading entries of historic vldb formats (13465).
Suppress warning about running unauthenticated for `bos -noauth` (14306).
Linux
Support upstream kernels through Linux 5.9.
Be more careful about overriding the current credentials for operations
on cache files, preventing spurious permission errors when systems like
AppArmor and SELinux are in use (13751, 14098).
@ -136,11 +177,15 @@ OpenAFS 1.9.0
Improve ppc64le support (13980, 14046).
Improve RPM packaging (14114, 14116, 14266)
MacOS
Simplify background-move return-code processing (13280).
Support macOS Catalina (13935, 13936, 13668..13671, 13928, 14062).
Support macOS Catalina (13935, 13936, 13668..13671, 13928, 14062, 14222).
Add OpenAFS.pkg to the list of files to be codesigned (14221).
Solaris
@ -163,7 +208,8 @@ OpenAFS 1.9.0
Create destination kernel module directory when installing on
FreeBSD (13653, 13690)).
Add param.h files and sysnames for FreeBSD 11.2 (13534) and 11.3 (13792).
Add param.h files and sysnames for FreeBSD 11.2 (13534), 11.3 (13792),
and 12.1 (13982).
Fix fcntl-style locks by adapting to quirky historical behavior (12579).