Update NEWS for OpenAFS 1.9.0

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Change-Id: Ib1d5ce9f558279660abb2473ce8a9fac4fcefa8d
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.openafs.org/13673
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
Tested-by: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
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User-Visible OpenAFS Changes
OpenAFS 1.9.0
All platforms
Introduce the rxgk Rx security class, initially limited to server-to-server
traffic and local keys (gerrit topic: rxgk-phase1).
Add options to the vos and pts commands for server-to-server rxgk support.
Add support to add and delete rxgk keys with asetkey. Add support to
generate random keys with asetkey, which can be useful to create certain
types of rxgk keys.
Raise implementation-defined anti-DoS length limits for prdb-related XDR
array types, which were being reached at some sites (13838).
Bring "-setpag" functionality in klog to parity with aklog (14146).
Fix potential Rx hang when an incoming call must wait (14158).
Do not leave empty directories behind in the file server vice partition
when running the "vos zap -force" command (12879, 12839).
Make non-verbose "vos remsite" output output more readable (14127).
Display the usage of simple commands (commands without subcommands) when run
only with the -help option (10983).
Replace SOURCE-MAP with a README.md (14003).
Remove unused definition of LINUX_PKGREL from configure.ac (14117).
Improve logging and diagnostic messages:
* Add a warning message to vos when performing an incremental volume
restore over an existing volume which is newer than the dump
volume (13251)
* Log the binding address and port during startup in the cache manager and
all of the server processes (13272)
* Improve volume server logging to provide better information during
volume restore failures (13252)
* Improved cache manager syslog tracing (11858)
* Improved database server logging to log important messages at the
default logging level, log information during database synchronizations,
and log diagnostic messages during recovery aborts (12617, 13079, 12618)
* Set a thread name for rx listener threads (13600)
* Avoid truncating authentication information in vlserver log
messages (13466)
* Log when ubik recovery aborts a running remote transaction (13862).
Fix warnings issued by static code analyzers:
* Fix possible undefined variable in disconnected mode (13207)
* Remove redundant conditionals (13158, 13157)
* Exit if out of memory while attempting to format command help
messages (13335)
* Fix possible undefined variable when reading old vldb formats (13755)
Assorted memory-handling fixes (13461, 12293, 13355, 13395, 13396, 13161,
13659, 13714, 13715, 13760, 13716, 13761).
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).
Added unit tests for functions mapping vide partition to id (13176).
Fix issues resulting in parallel "make install" to fail (13786, 14137).
Updated libauth test program (13394).
General code cleanup; remove unused code or obsolete code, old comments,
or refactor for clarity
(12988, 13204, 13209, 13210, 13213, 13226, 13227, 13260, 13271, 13277,
13309, 13310, 13324, 13325, 13339, 13345, 13346, 13351, 13361, 13362, 13363,
13390, 13397, 13408, 13414, 13458, 13490, 13500, 13509, 13514, 13557, 13640,
13655, 13282, 13683).
Build system clean up and fixes
(12956, 12961, 12962, 12963, 12992, 12993, 12994, 13237, 13275, 13338,
13357, 13360, 13387, 13419, 13594, 13652).
All server platforms
Improve database server logging by logging messages when and why a server
is marked as down (12616).
Log a warning message when starting server processes with no encryption
keys available (13911).
Remove redundant lseek system calls and use positional I/O in the database
servers to improve performance (12271, 12272).
Fix an edge case where writes were errneously allowed on readonly
fileservers (13934).
Add an option to allow members of system:administrators to perform
write operations on otherwise readonly fileservers (13707).
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).
Do not overwrite the errno variable when logging certain database sendfile
errors (13263).
Code migration to POSIX Threads (pthreads) from LWP.
* Convert upserver and upclient to pthreads (12754)
* Convert xstat libraries and related utilities to pthreads (12745, 12746,
12747, 12753, 13454, 13455)
All client platforms
Attempt to detect and report some common types of cache corruption
(13436, 13747, 13969, 14002).
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).
Fix reading entries of historic vldb formats (13465).
Linux
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).
Avoid panics from procfs when the kernel module is loaded but afsd is
not running (14093).
Improve ppc64le support (13980, 14046).
MacOS
Simplify background-move return-code processing (13280).
Support macOS Catalina (13935, 13936, 13668..13671, 13928, 14062).
Solaris
Remove references to (unspported) SunOS 4 (13506).
Build system fixes for parallel make on Solaris.
Support function attributes when building with recent versions of Solaris
compilers.
Fix many (but not all) of the compiler warnings when building on the Solaris
platform.
Add autoconf support for Studio 12.6 tools (13867).
FreeBSD
General improvements to VFS compliance.
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).
Fix fcntl-style locks by adapting to quirky historical behavior (12579).
Support kernels that use VIMAGE support at runtime, not just at
build-time (12580).
Change LWP stack strategy to avoid SIGBUS errors (13691).
Skip SIGBUS test (for reasons unrelated to the previous) (14145).
OpenAFS 1.8.5
All platforms
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(These runtime options override the use of UID-based PAGs, which were
introduced to appease the CDE screensaver.)
OpenAFS 1.6.21
All platforms