User-Visible OpenAFS Changes OpenAFS 1.6.0 (in progress) All platforms * vos now properly deals with matching sites when servers are multihomed. * Don't stop Rx keepalives after an ackall is received, avoiding spurious connection timeouts. (128848) * Don't retry Rx calls on channels returning busy errors and improve Rx busy call channel error handling. (128671) * Properly enable Rx connection hard timeouts. * Initialize rx_multi lock before use. * Avoid spurious crashes when initializing in "backup" client. * Revert UUID support in vos. * pt_util fixed to properly create new databases. * MTU discovery now properly shut down on call reset. * 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. * Fix ptserver supergroups support on 64 bit platforms. * Demand attach salvaging doesn't use freed volume pointers. * Properly hold host lock during host enumeration in fileserver. * Attempt to recovery more quickly from timed out volume release transactions. * Auditing now properly byte order swaps IP addresses when printing. * vos split now has improved error handling. * Many changes to again support Windows fileservers. * During volume removal, data removal speed improved. * Improve CPU utilization during volume attaching by DAFS. * In salvager check-only mode, avoid potentially fixing a vnode. * Fix support for large (greater than 2gb) volume special files. * Salvager will not crash if multiple or bad volume link tables are encountered. * Avoid erroneous full dump by remembering which sites were out of date at the start of the release. * A deleted volume can now be recreated properly. * Callbacks are again not broken during whole partition salvages. * Positional vectored IO fixed for largefile (>2GB) capable systems. * Fileserver per-client thread usage again properly enforced. * Anonymous dropbox support improved and drawbacks documented. * Demand attach: ensure vnodes are not reallocated while in use due to volume bitmap errors. * Properly support large volume numbers (larger than 2147483647). * Allow salvager to be run manually again when DAFS is being used. (129458) Microsoft Windows: * afs_config will not longer set the Tray Icon State in the registry if the checkbox is not present in the dialog. (128591) * AFS Explorer Shell Extension now works from folder backgrounds. Overlays for mount points and symlinks are present in the dll, but are not registered at present by the installers. * Do not use RankServerInterval registry value as the value for PerformanceTuningInterval. * When the data version of a mountpoint or symlink changes, the target string in the cm_scache_t object must be cleared. * "fs checkservers" now includes vldb servers in the output and only lists multi-homed servers once. A multi-homed server that has at least one up interface is no longer considered to be down. * When asynchronously storing dirty data buffers to the file server ensure that (a) the cm_scache_t object and the cm_buf_t object are for the same File ID so that locking and signalling work properly; and (b) if the FID no longer exists on the file server, do not panic, just discard the buffer. * When processing VNOVOL, VMOVED and VOFFLINE errors perform server comparisons by UUID or address and not simply by cm_server_t pointer. Otherwise, server failover may not succeed. * Do not preserve status information for cm_scache_t objects when the issuing server is multi-homed. * Giving up all callbacks when shutting down or suspending the machine is now significantly faster due to the use of an rx_multi implementation. (This functionality is still off by default and must be activated by a registry value.) * Race conditions were possible when updating the state of the cm_volume_t flags and when moving the volumes within the least recently used list. * Ensure that the lanahelper library does not perform a NCBRESET of each lan adapter when enumerating the current network bindings. Correcting this permits OpenAFS to work on Windows 7 when the network adapter settings change. * Fix creation of mount points and symlinks as \\AFS\xxxx * Icon tray state now conditionally set. (128591) * Properly create new cell mount points in freelance mode. * Avoid recursive offline volume checks. All UNIX client platforms * Servers now marked down when GetCapabilities returns error. * In-use vcache count is now properly tracked. * Check for /afs existance before starting, unless -nomount is specified. * Avoid a potential panic when using /afs/.:mount syntax. * Avoid a panic in memcache mode due to missing CellItems file. * FUSE client support fixed for non-/afs mounts. FreeBSD * Fix socket termination on shutdown. * Support for 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 and 8.2 included. * References to vcaches are no longer leaked during root or reclaim. * Remove support for "Giant" lock as we no longer need to use it. * Don't sleep with AFS GLOCK. * Properly enable 64 bit long long support. * Restore support for FreeBSD 7 (128612) * Fix locking issues at shutdown. * New RC script, updated packaging. Linux * Support through kernel 2.6.38. * Red Hat init script allows deferring for a new binary restart. * Red Hat packaging now properly supports RHEL6. * Use rx_Readv in cache bypass to improve performance. * Properly handle 0-length replies during cache bypass operations. * Properly handle non-contiguous readpage cache bypass operations. * Do proper locking when transitioning to or from cache bypass. * Avoid extra runs of vcache freeing routine. (128756) * Perform vcache eviction via a fast path before visiting vcaches where sleep is needed. * Improve RPM building tools. * setpag() errors are now properly reported. MacOS * Properly handle setpag errors. PAGs are not supported. * Check for unloaded kernel extensions when decoding AFS panics. * Disable "get tokens at login" in prefs pane if AD authentication plugin is configured. * aklog AuthorizationPlugin now provided. * Preferences Pane behavior fixed for 1.6 series (version detection is used to select default behavior). * A potential kernel panic during bulkstat operations is fixed. (128511) * 64-bit MacOS kernel performance is greatly improved. (128934) OpenBSD * Bug fixes for issues introduced previously in 1.5 series. * Support through OpenBSD 4.8. Solaris * Switch to ioctl() syscall replacement for Solaris 11 since syscall 65 is not safe. * Fix support for Solaris pre-10. * Corrected Solaris 11 startup script. * vcache mappings freed on shutdown to avoid panic. * Properly report errors for AFS system call callers. OpenAFS 1.5.78 (2010-11-04) All platforms * Revisions to Rx to fix performance issues. * Make fs getfid behave consistently across all platforms. (128372) * Properly check IDs handed to pts when creating users or groups so useful error messages can be provided. (128343) * Correct byte order handling of port in afsconf_LookupServer for SRV records. * Force a full dump when releasing to a site which was previously marked "don't use", in case the previous clone was out of date. All server platforms * Demand salvage of attached volumes now correctly track attachment state. * Avoid a potential crash due to failure to hold a lock when attaching a volume fails. Microsoft Windows * Track SMB connections by SID rather than username. * Error write attempts to known-readonly volumes earlier. * Validate directory buffers to avoid potential crashes. * Handle VIO errors from bulkstatus. * Make PMTU discovery configurable and register error handlers for it. All UNIX client platforms * Use larger I/O sizes in memcache to improve performance. * Avoid potential alignment issues doing I/O for pioctl calls. FreeBSD * Avoid panicing if the listener process is not findable. * Avoid deadlock issues while performing lookups. Linux * Handle stale file handle errors for some cache partition types. * Avoid blocking with xvcache lock when attempting to free in-use vcaches. * Build fixes for older kernels. * Properly configure LWP to use ucontext() on platforms where it should. * Eliminate spurious errors from AFS system call returns. (126230) MacOS * Attempt to honor configured Kerberos defaults in Preferences Pane. OpenAFS 1.5.77 (2010-09-08) All platforms * Rx path MTU detection will terminate detection in cases where the minimum required packet size cannot be transferred. * vos dryrun mode now shows effects for syncvldb single volume case. * vos dryrun mode now shows "status after" for syncvldb and syncserv. All server platforms * RXAFS_GetStatistics64 now returns statistics properly. Microsoft Windows * Attempt to properly identify the local system SMB connection for token tracking. * Remap timeout and offline errors to proper NT RPC errors. * Properly fail over to other replicas on bulkstat IO errors. * Properly error delete-mode createfile if a file is set readonly. * Validate directory entry buffers to avoid crashing the service. * Log file modes properly. * Log cell name when logging server information. All UNIX client platforms * cacheout program for discarding callbacks is now built. * bulkstatus kernel locking is corrected to avoid a potential panic. Dragonfly BSD * userspace support update FreeBSD * Updated vnode locking for children returned via lookup(). * Avoid file open undercount with needed calls to FakeOpen/FakeClose(). * Use vnode_pager_setsize to properly track file size during kernel IO. * Update system call installation. * Fix shutdown of Rx kernel listener to avoid potential dereference after it's gone. * Avoid closing vnodes during vnode recycle. * Fix bogus call to FlushVS for vnode reclaims. Linux * Packaging updated for current configure options and built files. * Cache bypass now holds reference on pages during readpage. * s390x setgroups32 patching update. MacOS * DNS resolver is reinitialized on IP address change. (126440) OpenAFS 1.5.76 (2010-08-16) All platforms * Updates to build-time configuration. * Fix XDR support in Rx to match header definition. * vos status now shows transaction creation, not action creation. * Rx avoids reporting loopback adapters when listing interfaces. All server platforms * Demand-Attach Fileserver always built and installed (dafileserver, davolserver, dasalvager). * Return VNOVOL from fileserver when a volume is deleted. * Ignore duplicate tags during volume restore operation. * Update inode array after salvage repairs volume. * Zero a corrupted header in memory during salvage to avoid further corruption. * Fix NAMEI backend to allow low-numbered volumes to work properly. * ptserver does not include cell name as part of length check for names. * Updated error messages for unblessed volumes. * vlserver avoids buffer overflow with regex pattern * Attach-time failures now note failures as the rest of the fileserver would. * Server argument logging will no longer overflow stack. * Provide fast-restart-like unsafe-nosalvage option for DAFS. * Deal with host hash collisions in the fileserver. Microsoft Windows * Avoid crashing when interpreting a drive letter as potentially matching a cell name. * Properly handle volume package errors. * Allow page recycling from known-readonly content without ensuring they are not dirty. * 32 bit tools installer should not override client configuration. * Ensure root scache item has a valid callback when use is attempted. * Freelance directory changes now properly invalidate and replace the old root object. All UNIX client platforms * Support disconnected reconnecting with specified UID for PAGless platforms. * Proper disconnected vnode reference tracking. * Update server site blacklisting to not return success if nothing was blacklisted. * Avoid a panic during vcache contention due to CVInit vcache racing. (127645) FreeBSD * Update for network stack in 8.1/9.0. HP-UX * Bug fixes. Linux * 2.6.36 support * Disable PMTU error packet handling. * flock() fixes. * Debian packaging updated. * freezer interface updates. MacOS * Hold references to disconnected mode written vnodes properly. Solaris * Handle NFS translator module references for amd64. * INODE fileserver backend support now exists for amd64. OpenAFS 1.5.75 (2010-07-07) All platforms * Prevent rx_rpc_stats global lock from being a bottleneck. * Path MTU discovery is now provided to allow traffic to pass networks with sub-1500 byte MTUs and poor fragment handling. * Further reduce Rx NAT ping transmission when enabled. * Update Kerberos 5-based token handling in rxkad from upstream Heimdal. (127554) * Update version numbers emitted during build to reflect what is actually being built. * Add "-human" switch for human-readable units in fs diskfree and listquota. (124529) * vos provides reasons for locked volumes when known. * Do not count retransmission and ping acks as non-idle for Rx connections. * Rx: provide service-specific data getter and setter routines. * Update build-time Kerberos detection. * Updated userspace AFS client. * Beginning of a modernized test suite. * Additional documentation. * Updated documentation, notably the Administrators Guide. * Substantial code cleanup. All server platforms * Update handling of vnode allocation failures. * DAFS: allow salvaging volumes not known to the fileserver, to allow cleanup of data not attached to a current volume. * Properly handle volumes slated for destruction. * Handle volumes with many files properly. * Force core file generation in bosserver by overriding default resource limits when possible. * Update vlclient and vldb_check. * Avoid potentially corrupting a volume on creation if files are left from previous failed cleanup. * Note volume changed during salvage as needed. * DAFS: do not assume invalid addresses are in fileserver address hash table. * Avoid tying up fileserver threads with volumes that are being taken offline. * Do not set inUse on volumes for non-DAFS other than in fileserver. * Break origin's callback on target of rename operation. * Avoid unneeded parent directory link updates during some rename operations. * Do not open /dev/console for writing in the fileserver. * DAFS: avoid spurious restarts when binary restarts are configured. * Avoid spurious and unneeded calls to sync(), which can slow down the fileserver. Microsoft Windows * Revised SMB QuerySecurityInfo to address issues caused by MS10-020 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/980232) * Prevent use of the AFSCache file contents if mapped to a new address. * Make fs newcell include behavior compatible with the non-Windows version. * Provide a registry option (FreelanceImportCellServDB) to pre-create mount points in the AFS root for all cells in CellServDB. * Fix a memory leak in the cm_FreeServerList() routine. * Reduce privilege when reading registry CellServDB. * Add support for RPC Pipe Service NetWkstaGetInfo levels needed for Windows 7. * Prevent overflow when computing quota percentage in Explorer Shell. (126846) * Generate meaningful errors for ACL operations on freelance AFS root. * Fix error handling on InlineBulkStatus RPCs. * Show configuration pages for all types of MSI installations. * Improve freemount AFS root directory handling and operations. * Properly validate GetVolumeStatus pioctl responses. * Commit file length changes and dirty buffers when flushing a file. All UNIX client platforms * Update version of files for disk cache. * Do not call afs_FlushVCBs with xvcache lock held, to improve parallelization. * Add mariner log messages for creating and removing files. * Don't hold xvcache lock while creating symlinks, to improve parallelization. * Provide -dynroot-sparse mode to not show all cells in CellServDB in dynroot mode. * Avoid a potential crash in aklog in linked cell handling. * Log MTU-caused packet retransmission. * Prevent crashes caused be fs checkservers while cache is being set up. * fs getserverprefs now has a buffer large enough for the default CellServDB. * Report server address when logging warnings. * Avoid panic in GetCapabilities when cell is not known. * Lock process name and id for advisory lock warnings when possible. * Handle need for allocating additional Rx packets. * Properly handle errors from InlineBulkStatus operations. * Fix errors returned from fcntl() on readonly files locked for write. * Flush pending changes to the server on LOCK_EX unlock. * Reflect length changes as a result of callbacks even when file is open for write. * Avoid hanging due to error exit when attempting to store a large file to a non-largefile fileserver. * Recover from afs_GetVolSlot errors. FreeBSD * Bugfixes for kernel VFS and network routines. IRIX * Provide makesname(). Linux * Avoid syscall probes when keyrings are present, by default. (125215) * Remove "Big Kernel Lock" from VFS operations. * Use filehandles for all Linux 2.6 versions to avoid need for matched afsd. (127530) * Updated RPM packaging. * Fix dkms configuration provided with RPMs. * Hold reference on pages during background I/O for cache bypass. * Fix cache bypass handling of non-largefile fileservers. * Protect truncate_inode_pages mappings with mutex or semaphore as needed. * Fix pagevec use in cache bypass. (127505) * Updates for 2.6.35 MacOS * Improve launchd configuration. * Avoid hanging on recursive cache file lock acquisition when user notification is enabled. * Fix and re-enable bulkstat mode. OpenBSD * Build updates. Solaris * Precluding unmount while AFS is busy. * Avoid deadlocking when releasing the VFS object. * Stop network interface poller in kernel on AFS shutdown. * Avoid issues with lookups on empty directory names. (127356) OpenAFS 1.5.74 (2010-04-22) All platforms * Add "vos setaddrs" command. * Rx library lock contention avoidance between rx_NewCall and rx_EndCall. * Rx library races due to inconsistent use of rx_connection conn_data_lock to protect the flags field. * Rx library inconsistent use of RX_CALL_TQ_WAIT which could result in deadlocks. * Rx library must signal transmit queue waiters when flushing. * afsmonitor shows busy counts now. * afsmonitor displays xstat callback statistics. * Provide expandgroups for pts mem on a supergroups server. * Provide supergroup option to liste nested groups during pts mem. All server platforms * Avoid volume lock contention during DAFS startup. Microsoft Windows * Avoid a race when updating cell vldb server lists that can result in a crash. * Avoid a deadlock when managing CM_SCACHESYNC_STOREDATA state operations for directory objects. * Add new Windows Application Event log messages for VBUSY, VRESTARTING, ALL_BUSY, ALL_OFFLINE, and ALL_DOWN. * Reduce lock contention by waiting for cm_buf_t I/O operations. * Split the cm_buf_t flags field to separate the flags that are protected by the cm_buf_t mutex from those protected by the buf_globalLock. * In cm_UpdateVolumeLocation, avoid searching for a ".readonly" volume on a numeric volume name. * File buffer allocations whose offsets are beyond server EOF should be locally allocated and zero filled. The file server should not be issued a FetchData rpc which is guaranteed to fail. * Enable integrated logon to work with Windows 7/2008 when user logons are performed with a non-Domain Kerberos principal. * Add Protection Error messages to aklog output. All UNIX client platforms * Provide a FUSE-interfacing userspace afs client. * Updates to libuafs userspace cache manager. * Probe servers using GetCapabilities instead of GetTime, thus requiring fewer RPCs. * Fix DNS SRV record handling for cell lookup. FreeBSD * Fix sleep/wakeup routines. * Update for 8.0 release. Linux * Handle high memory addresses correctly. MacOS * Make 32 bit AFS syscalls work again. * Work around finder "Duplicate" failure (caused by setting modes on symlinks). * Disable bulkstat again (will be re-enabled at or before .75). * Provide symlink type hints during readdir. OpenAFS 1.5.73 (2010-03-24) All platforms * NAT keepalive support at Rx level. * Corrected SRV record support for cell name canonicalization. All server platforms * Fix volume callback notification to not notify unaffected clients. (126497) * Allow root directory recreation by salvager. (94658) * Numerous DAFS fixes. * Improvements to callback table overflow handling. (126451) * bosserver now shuts down cleanly on SIGTERM. Microsoft Windows * Prevent the Explorer Shell extension from crashing if symlink creation failed. (126406) * A Rx level NAT ping has been implemented. A registry value enables. * Adds krb5 error message translation to aklog, afscreds, afslogon.dll, the network identity manager afs provider and translate_et. * Default mode bit settings for file and directory creation are now provided, and can be configured. * An SMB request trace facility is provided and can be enabled for debugging. All UNIX client platforms * Rx idle deadtime does not stop file writes. * Disconnected AFS no longer has a race condition during remove ops. * Fakestat avoids a condition which could cause it to block on network activity. * Several fixes to handle interruptions in vos operations. (33360, 125535) * Allow more sysnames in a sysname list. * Attempt to enforce timeouts on AFSDB lookups. AIX * Clean up properly on mount failure. * Add entry to /etc/vfs to allow umount to work. Linux * Several issues to deal with older kernels. * Avoid leaking the global lock in the /proc cellservdb code. * Keyring destruction now cleans up all tokens. * Keyring quotas are not enforced against root. MacOS * Some FSEvents hinting for authentication events now done. (23781) * Update uninstaller. (125634) * Rewrite afssettings and fstab code to avoid licensing issue with APSL. * Growl client for user monitoring of AFS events included. * Properly support insert-only dropboxes. * Add bulkstat support. * Include support for moving in Finder across mount points. * Preferences Pane includes support for Kerberos 5 ticket renewal. OpenAFS 1.5.72 (2010-02-15) All platforms * Provide internationalization support in com_err. * Fix array length checking to avoid crashes when checking for a volume type based on name in vos. All server platforms * Provide backward compatible "-f" flag to salvager for force mode. Microsoft Windows * Restore use of DNS AFSDB and SRV records by kaserver clients. All UNIX client platforms * Fix client cache file truncation to not lose chunks when truncating a large file. * Ensure a cache writeback hook is installed in the client (bug from 1.5.71). * Avoid spurious free memory warnings during clean shutdown. * Fakestat mode avoids AFSDB lookups. * "fs storebehind" now correctly reports errors on readonly volumes. * Additional documentation for "fs getcacheparms" * Forced new uuid generation with "fs uuid -generate" now works enforced permission correctly. MacOS * Add optimized Rx event handler in kernel. * Installer now allows installing an older version. * Panic decoder can now deal with MacOS 10.5 again. * MacOS ._ files are now correctly not looked up as cellnames. Linux * To deal with SELinux file labeling, try cache accesses with current credentials in event of failure. * Rx XDR encoding bug on i386 Linux is fixed (bug introduced in 1.5.71). IRIX * Code compilation fixes. OpenBSD * Update for OpenBSD 4.6. OpenAFS 1.5.69 (2010-01-19) All platforms * Configuration of BOSserver no longer defaults to weekly restarts enabled. * Provide BOS restricted mode by default. * Add support for "vos endtrans" command. * Default to providing full output from vos listvol. * Correct additional-address tracking in the fileserver. * Improve Rx performance by not unnecessarily dropping and reacquiring call locks in read and write processes. * Avoid crashes when monitoring volserver transactions across potential transaction garbage collection. * Numerous warning fixes. All server platforms * Avoid saving fileserver state in demand attach fileserver when panicing. * Demand attach fileserver allows other callers to schedule salvages. * Demand attach "bos salvage" now works correctly with restricted mode. Microsoft Windows: * Numerous changes to the client-internal btree directory handling to prevent errors. * fs examine reports owner and group ids as signed values (PTS groups are negative). * Preclude corruption due to races writing to smb buffers. * Allow MTU settings in registry to be used. * Apply MTU to both send and receive sizes. All UNIX client platforms * Avoid double-freeing Rx call structure if reading a response from the file server results in a short read. * Handle negative lengths in FetchStatus results correctly. * Properly clean up allocated memory at shutdown. * Default to AFSDB compiled into the cache manager. * Avoid inadvertant disclosure of stat() information to clients not so entitled. * Correct a bug with AFSDB lookups introduced with SRV record support. MacOS * Install kernel panic processing tool in /Library/OpenAFS/Tools. * Include debugging symbols for kernel extension in additional package. * Support "Application Firewall" users. * Avoid ._cellname AFSDB lookups. * Compile preferences pane as a universal binary. Linux * Use splice to speed up storing files. * When using memcache, avoid duplicating work in readpages. * Use dget_parent to safely find an inode's parent. * Disable access time updates in our superblock. * Avoid crashing doing writeback if no credentials were stashed at file open. * Simplify keyring support. * Properly clean up vcache in event of failed mount. FreeBSD * Update for current FreeBSD 8. Solaris * Abstractly manipulate groups as now required. * Abstractly access time instead of using lbolt directly. OpenAFS 1.5.68 (2009-12-08) All platforms * aklog now attempts to convert non-AFS errors to human-readable strings. * Make stack not executable when compiling assembler source with GCC. * Numerous source warning cleanups and code reorganization. All server platforms * Compute midnight for volume statistics calculation from local time. * Salvager now orphans duplicate special inodes when running to allow recovery in event of a problem, instead of simply ignoring the issue. * Support to ensure a server panic attempt leaves a core and thus restarts in a timely manner, rather than potentially hanging. Use panic to attempt cleanup before leaving a core when possible. * Volume sync data reported during bulkstatus is now set correctly. * Provide better tuning for fileserver file descriptor caching. * Allow more than 128 threads in fileserver by modifying host structure in-use tracking. * Avoid crashes getting volume server status during transaction cleanup. * Improved logging of offline volume conditions. * Correct volume statistics when cloning a volume. * Avoid referencing host structures in the fileserver which are marked for deletion. * Demand attach fileserver corrections to avoid coring during an aborted startup. * host array bounds checking corrections to avoid buffer overflow. * Handle special inodes correctly when promoting an inode fileserver readonly volume to read-write. Microsoft Windows * Set the DOS Readonly attribute on a file/directory whenever the unix mode combined with the mask 0200 is true. Previously there was a discrepency between the mask used for testing for readonly behavior and that used for setting the attribute. * Disable AFSVolSync based .readonly "whole-volume callback" support because the all file servers prior to 1.5.67 (and perhaps 1.4.12) do not properly assign a value to the AFSVolSync structure in bulk status RPC responses. * Improve the error output from aklog to output the value from krb5 error_message() if the afs_com_err output indicates an unknown value. * Convert VBUSY and VRESTARTING to CM_ERROR_ALLBUSY and do not permit them to be exposed to the smb redirector. * Convert STATUS_TIMEOUT responses to STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT to avoid confusion within the smb redirector. * Fix the byte order assigned to port numbers associated with AFSDB record lookups. They must be network byte order not host byte order. * Add dynamic server ranking based on RPC round trip time measurements. All UNIX client platforms * Additional shutdown-time memory leaks removed. * Improved logging of resource contention. * Provide dumping for Rx debug packet tracking support in source. * Update afscp test client to build, and provide an unlock client. * Client buffers for directory parsing can now be allocated beyond the fixed set formerly provided. * Work around race condition when manipulating read-only volume callbacks. * Bugfixes to get PAG value pioctl. * Bugfixes to SRV record support. Linux * Path MTU tracking code cleanup. * Avoid an oops due to racing with vcache recycling thread. * Changes to keyring PAG handling: for sufficiently new kernels, use only keyring-based PAGs, and disable group PAGs entirely. * Updates to the kernel page cache interface: writing pages will now not spuriously leak page locks, and will avoid requiring duplicate work. * Credential references are now tracked using native atomic counters. * Kernel mutex/semaphore lock ordering fix to avoid deadlocks. * Manipulate disk cache with credentials used to initialize it, to avoid security issues. MacOS * Fix fstrace message catalog location. * Fix kernel fstrace logging. OpenAFS 1.5.66 (2009-10-25) All platforms * Avoid calling exit() in library code. * Add rx window size and peer timeout tuning APIs. * Correct rx peer timeout handling to disallow 0ms timeouts. * Correct calculation of rx RTT by disregarding retransmitted packets. * vos manpages updated to reflect changes in recent versions. * GNU-style long options (e.g. --cell) are now supported in all commands. * fs listacl can now print a command to recreate the current ACL. All server platforms * Fix a race on transaction objects in the volserver which can cause a crash. * Avoid destroying and setting to NULL the callback connection when it could still be being used. * Correct unlink handling in salvager. * Improve error messages due to I/O errors in the volserver. * Correct an issue which caused converted RO to RW volumes on namei fileservers to not come online immediately. Microsoft Windows * Official support for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2. * Prevent a file server bug (FetchData returning an invalid length instead of zero) from causing an "unexpected network error" when writing to files. * Promote DNS SRV records as superior to DNS AFSDB records. Support arbitrary port numbers for vldb servers. * Add AFSVolSync based .readonly "whole-volume callback" support. With this functionality, multiple objects from a .readonly volume can have their status validated by issuing a single RXAFS_FetchStatus RPC. * Remove drive mapping functionality and service start/stop from afscreds.exe. * Remove drive mapping functionality from afs_config.exe. * Use {HKLM,HKCU}\SOFTWARE\OpenAFS\Client DWORD "ShowMountTab" to restore access to drive mapping functionality in afscreds.exe and afs_config.exe. * Adjust SMB error return codes to avoid returning STATUS_TIMEOUT which results in the SMB redirector disconnecting. * Network Identity Manager OpenAFS Provider now provides its own "AFS lock" notification icon to report the status of "have tokens, have no tokens, service not started, service started but inaccessible". Hovering over the icon lists the cells for which tokens exist (if any) and the OpenAFS version number. Double-clicking executes the Network Identity Manager default action. * Prevent pioctl calls from retrying indefinitely when a sharing violation error occurs. All UNIX client platforms * Correct a condition which could discard the error from initializing a fetch request. * Avoid using invalid references to afs_Conn connection structures, and thus potentially producing invalid data when a retry is needed. * SRV records are now supported for discovering AFS servers. Linux * Correct writepage behavior. * Fix error code handling in the writepage code. * Avoid leaking page locks, which could potentially hang a machine. MacOS X * Preferences Pane improvements. HP-UX * Avoiding attempting to handle critical signals in servers, so that core file handling works correctly. OpenAFS 1.5.65 (2009-10-06) All platforms * Code compilation warning fixes, to enable better finding and tracking bugs. * Provide configure-time switch to enable code warning compilation. All server platforms * Demand-attach fileserver now makes volume LRU list operations exclusive operations to avoid races during adding to the list. * Fileservers now avoid potential "negative length" fetches. * A leak in host tracking objects in the fileserver has been fixed. * Salvager now unlinks all files by full path, to deal with the change to not chdir for core file tracking. * Salvager avoids asserting if the volume header is unreadable. * Demand-attach fileserver puts back volume references from fssync handlers when done. Microsoft Windows * Improved service response to suspend and shutdown event notifications. * Avoid a bug in the file server that can result in an invalid length being returned as part of a fetch data response if the client attempts to read beyond the length of the file. * Do not publish a default stream object for directories and mount point objects. This was impacting the ability of some Windows XP systems to save roaming profiles. All UNIX client platforms * A bug which could cause erroneous handling of lengths on data reads has been fixed. * A bug where erroneous length returns from the fileserver could result in a false error has been fixed. Linux * Background page copies are now supported for enhanced disk cache read performance. * Blocking readahead is supported in readpages() to reduce overhead. * Use readpage() instead of read() to access cache data to avail disk cache users of the kernel backing cache for improved performance. * Minimize credential handling for improved performance. MacOS X * Preferences Pane cleanup. Solaris * Provide a fs_pathconf method with sensible defaults. * Provide a _PC_FILESIZEBITS method to fix some NFS translator consumers. OpenAFS 1.5.64 (2009-09-22) All server platforms * The demand attach fileserver now puts back volume references gotten via the fssync interface. * The demand attach fileserver had a structure reference error, which has been correected. Microsoft Windows * Restores Windows 2000 compatibility. * Fixes a data consistency error between the output of NetWkstaGetInfo and NetServerGetInfo RPCs, specify the Lan workstation group name "AFS", and report server name as "AFS" instead of "\\AFS" when the caller asks for "\\AFS". * Enables executables to be run from \\AFS on Windows 7. Returns "Name not found" instead of "File not found" when a directory or file name cannot be found. This avoids loader errors when system dlls cannot be located in the executable directory. * Prevents cache manager from marking the file server "down" when the data returned in response to either RXAFS_FetchData64 or RXAFS_StoreData64 is invalid. * Adds pioctl data validation to the AFS Explorer Shell extension. All UNIX client platforms * A bug which could cause a kernel panic in 1.5.63 has been corrected. This would manifest as a GetDCache panic or oops. Linux * aklog -setpag works again with recent kernels when keyring is in use. MacOS * When Fast User Switch is in use, AFS login is now handled correctly by the integration tool included with the preferences pane. * Several packaging bugs have been corrected. OpenAFS 1.5.63 (2009-09-11) All platforms * The restorevol command is now documented and installed as a user command. * The uss command now properly translates vldb entries to its expected format when handling them in all cases. * Documentation now refers to Kerberos instead of kaserver. All server platforms * bosserver now handles BosConfig.new when restarting, allowing configuration to be replaced at restart time rather than with bos delete and bos create. Documentation is updated to reflect this. * The demand attach fileservice not longer potentially hangs trying to terminate demand-salvages which have already exited. * The demand attach fileservice has been modified to avoid spurious 'SYNC_putRes: write failed' warnings when some protocol messages cannot be acknowledged due to the sender terminating the connection. * In the event of failure to contact the vlserver or ptserver, the fileserver will not exit and trigger a forced salvage. It will continue to try in the background to contact the needed services. * The salvager can now repair certain cases of a damamged vnode index. * The accessDate metadata for a volume is now updated correctly. Microsoft Windows * CRITICAL: Some applications for example those based on Cygwin were unable to access data stored in the AFS name space. Explorer Shell also experienced inconsistent behavior. This is fixed. * CRITICAL: Multiple AFS pioctl requests issued nearly simultaneously by applications could result in pioctl responses being received by the wrong requester. This in turn could result in application crashes. symlink.exe, fs.exe, afslogon.dll, afscreds.exe, and the netidmgr afscred.dll plugin were all affected. * Some XP machines running 1.5.62 had trouble saving roaming profile data. This is fixed. * Integrated Logon (afslogon.dll) did not function with domain specific configurations. * Ensure that access denied and over quota errors experienced while storing data to the file server do not result in on-going retry attempts. All UNIX client platforms * Except on Solaris and AIX, the compiler may now be overriden at configure time by setting the CC environment variable. * afsd now properly deals with large cache partitions. FreeBSD * Build shared libafsauthent and libafsrpc. Linux * Kernel module DKMS support now installs an unstripped module to allow debugging information to be collected. MacOS * Preferences pane properly updates token information. MacOS 10.6 * klog will now properly handle passwords of 8 or fewer characters with an AFS string to key on hosts able to run 64 bit binaries. * A panic at AFS shutdown due to "NO PCB" on a udp_lock has been addressed. * The panic decoder script included in the source now properly handles 32 and 64 bit panics. NetBSD * Avoid defining AFS_KERBEROS_ENV globally as it creates a circular dependency. * Build shared libafsauthent and libafsrpc. OpenBSD * Build shared libafsauthent and libafsrpc. OpenAFS 1.5.62 (2009-08-28) All platforms * Numerous invisible changes to improve code maintainability, portability and enhanceability. Microsoft Windows * CRITICAL: Fixes two errors that can result in data loss when storing data to the file server. 1. Failure to Store Portions of Unaligned Writes 2. Failure to Store Data to File Servers Lacking Large File Support Read the announcement for more details: http://www.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-announce/2009/000305.html * CRITICAL: The cache manager daemon thread could terminate when the machine enters suspend mode. This daemon thread performs the background check of down servers, offline volumes, callback expirations, etc. * CRITICAL: Integrated Logon (afslogon.dll) was terminating unexpectedly. Error checking has been improved and NULL pointer dereferences after Lsa API calls fail have been eliminated. * For the first time, the OpenAFS SMB Server supports the DCE RPC services SRVSVC and WKSSVC. Browsing \\AFS with the Explorer Shell or NET VIEW will now be faster and provide additional functionality. No longer will cell names longer than 12 characters be truncated. * Improvements to DFS Referral request processing have been implemented. * Unnecessary DNS lookups of share names are avoided improving performance. All UNIX client platforms * Non-Kerberos PAM modules work correctly again. MacOS X * MacOS 10.6 (Snowleopard) is now supported, both 32 and 64 bit mode. * Updates to the AFSCommander preferences pane. * Installer now permits cell names with dashes. OpenAFS 1.5.61 (2009-08-06) All platforms * Correct another race condition in the Rx library that could result in an unexpected panic while freeing the Rx call iovq. * rx packet resend and data packets sent counts were incorrect. * fs setquota, fs setcachesize, vos setfields, and vos create now accept human readable orders of magnitude. (K, M, G) * fs listquota fixed to permit large quota sizes to be displayed. * Correct documentation of bosserver permissions requirements. * Modify vlserver to avoid potentially corrupting the database through volume id reuse. * Generalized support for fast Rx timeout due to network down/unreachable. All server platforms * Allow audit logs to be sent via sys5 IPC message queues instead of logged directly. Microsoft Windows * If a file server becomes inaccessible while the cache manager has dirty buffers to write, the afsd_service buf_IncrSync thread can attempt to use 100% of the cpu. * Fix "fs newcell" which was broken in 1.5.60. * Do not attempt to synchronize dirty buffers if the associated volume is known to be unavailable. * Modify behavior of a Freelance mountpoint target that does not specify a cell. Instead of assuming the target volume is in the Freelance.Local cell, use the workstation "Cell" specified in the registry. A mountpoint target of "#root.cell." will now mean the root.cell volume in the workstation cell for the current session. If the workstation cell changes from "athena.mit.edu" to "andrew.cmu.edu", the referenced volume will also change without requiring that the mount point targets be altered. * Add cm_FindServerByUuid(). Re-implement RXAFS_InitCallBackState3() to permit the server Uuid to be used to lookup the server object and from that determine the cell. This permits callbacks that are received from alternate addresses to be processed with a known server object. Previously a request from an unknown server would clear all callbacks from all cells. * Fix a bug that prevented optimal performance when using a non-zero value for 'daemonCheckVolCBInterval'. As a reminder, when "daemonCheckVolCBInterval" is set to a non-zero value, all .readonly volume callbacks are automatically renewed 90 minutes before their expiration. * Fix automatic ranking of vldb servers whose values are obtained from the CellServDB file. * Add failover for RX CALL TIMEOUT errors when the volume is readonly or the call is to a vldb server. * Add registry based cell search functionality to NetIdMgr, afs_config.exe, and klog.exe. * afsconf_GetCellInfo() has been modified to perform gethostbyname() lookups on the host names in the CellServDB instead of using the specified IP addresses. This provides aklog, pts, vos, etc. the same CellServDB behavior that the Windows Cache Manager uses. * When updating the stat cache entry callback of a .readonly object from the volume group object, update the file server reference to ensure it matches the most update to date callback. * Add proper support for processing callbacks from multi-homed file servers. Instead of comparing servers by cm_server_t pointer, compare them by UUID when the UUID is known. * During a shutdown short circuit the offline volume check daemon functionality. * Return the error code of RXAFS_FetchData / RXAFS_StoreData in preference to an error code reported by rx_EndCall. * Add "PerFileAccessCheck" registry value to permit testing against experimental file servers that include per-file acl support. This value is intentionally undocumented. It is not to be used by production environment deployments. * Fix a bug introduced in 1.5.60 that prevents the afs netidmgr provider from obtaining tokens when referrals are in play. * Add "fs chown" and "fs chgrp" commands to permit the owner and group of objects stored in AFS to be set from Windows. * Avoid performing background daemon operations when the machine is going into suspend mode. * Perform offline volume checks in most recently used order. * Prevent crash when a data version for a cache object goes backwards. * Multi-thread safe library versions are now being generated and used. mtafsubik.lib, mtafsutil.lib, mtafsvldb.lib, mtafsvol.lib. * Microsoft SMB Redirector (mrxsmb.sys) support for ExtendedSessTimeout values are now available on XP through Windows 7. Add functionality to autodetect if such support is present on the machine. If so, configure it if necessary and dynamically adjust the AFS Rx timeout values accordingly. All UNIX client platforms * Fix out-of-tree source builds. MacOS * GUI installer now asks for local cell information. * AFS Commander preferences pane is now installed by default. Solaris * Avoid kernel panics due to null pointer dereferences in the network interface poller kernel thread. OpenAFS 1.5.60 (2009-05-31) All platforms * Retry volserver transaction creation on failure. * Allow building HTML and PDF documentation from included XML copies of User Guide, Admin Guide and Quick Start Guide for Unix. * Documentation updates and additional documentation. * Add -encrypt support to pts client. * Convert MR-AFS fs commands to OSD commands. All server platforms * Updated background sync process in fileserver to avoid a race which could result in a volume being taken offline. Microsoft Windows * On April 9th Microsoft released a Hot Fix for Windows Server 2003 SP2 that corrects a deadlock in the smb redirector and also adds new functionality that permits the AFS SMB server to be given a longer timeout than is normally the case. New functionality has been added to configure these additional LanmanWorkstation\Parameter values. (This functionality has been backported to XP SP3 and is scheduled to be released on June 5th.) * Fix RT#124787, a race condition between "fs flush ", "fs flushvolume", or "fs flushall" and on-going directory operations that can result in afsd_service.exe crashing. * Release Notes, User and Administrator guides are now shipped as indexed Windows HtmlHelp Files. (.chm). Shortcuts are provided from the Start Menu. * A method of specifying Client CellServDB information within the registry has been added that can be used to either override the CellServDB file or force the use of DNS lookups for a given cell. See the release notes for details. * The pioctl interface now properly handles drive letter substitution to UNC paths. (SUBST <\\afs\cell\path>) * The BackConnectionHostNames registry value configuration was broken when dynamic re-establishment of Netbios Name registrations was added. This release restores the functionality. * All hidden vos.exe commands are now revealed. * Attempts to store the same dirty file chunk from multiple threads are now prevented. * The IsPathInAfs test in Explorer Shell Extension and fs.exe now permits broken symlinks to be treated as being in AFS. * vos.exe commands that output 64-bit integer values once again do so. This was broken in 1.5.59. * Cygwin Import Libraries are provided in the SDK for all OpenAFS DLLs. This permits building cygwin applications against OpenAFS libraries. * NSIS installer does a much better job of cleaning up files left over from previous installs. * libafsconf.dll moved from Client\Program to Common directory as is is now used by all modules for CellServDB processing. All UNIX client platforms * Write back changes on last store for memcache to avoid discarding changes. * Abstract disk cache support to allow for path, fh, inode based caches with no need for messy ifdef structures each time a new type is added. DragonflyBSD * Support as a userland port. FreeBSD * Corrected structure definition for userspace cache manager to allow builds to complete. Linux * Corrected client locking support. * Updated patch to stop deadlocking in the kernel during mmap. * Avoid oops when setting up groups for PAGs to match keyrings. * Use Linux fh-based cache in cases where possible by default. MacOS 10.3: * Corrected structure definition for userspace cache manager to allow builds to complete. OpenBSD * Support for OpenBSD 4.5. Solaris * Corrected support for server-side vos split interface. OpenAFS 1.5.59 (2009-04-06) Microsoft Windows * Increased service priority class to "High" to match the priority of system components that are dependent upon the a timely response. * SMB error responses avoid returning errors that could confuse the Microsoft SMB redirector into disconnecting the connection to \\AFS. All UNIX client platforms (except MacOS X 10.4 and 10.5) * OpenAFS 1.5.59 contains fixes for the client issues addressed by the security advisories OPENAFS-SA-2009-001 and OPENAFS-SA-2009-002. Linux platforms * Support for prerelease Linux 2.6.30 kernels. OpenAFS 1.5.58 (2009-03-30) All platforms * Code cleanup and prototyping. * Avoid unnecessary blocking in Rx periodic cleanup code. All server platforms * Fileserver CopyOnWrite routine optimized for performance. * Make fileserver callback dumps 64 bit safe. * Fix byte order issues with fileserver host hashing. * Fix buffer size issues with butc. * Fix several Ubik recovery issues. * Avoid leaking file references in the fileserver. * Fix a race in DAFS while closing vnodes, and another offlining volumes. * volserver interfaces for volume splitting client. Microsoft Windows * [RT 124293] A race condition exists which can result in a crash. * [RT 124276] If the vldb is out of sync with the contents of the file servers, afsd_service will retry too many times when a file server reports a volume as not being present. Now if the list reported by the vldb is the same as the previously seen list, then the retry is aborted. * [RT 124276] Read-only volume failover was broken in 1.5.53 whenever accessing a volume results in VNOVOL or VMOVED. * [RT 124276] Prior to 1.3.70 the volume server reference list was not reference counted and would be prematurely freed while in use. When reference counting was added in 1.3.70 a bug was introduced that could result in service reference list corruption. * Add Windows Application Event Log warning messages for "Client SMB MPX value too large" and "Client SMB Buffer Size too small". * Renaming of files across directory boundaries would result in an invalid handle error when attempting to access the files after the move. * Fix the handling of Tran2 Set Path Info RPCs. Do not fail when a smb file descriptor cannot be found. The whole point of using a Path Info function is because an smb file descriptor wasn't allocated. * More edge cases in which dynamic addition of Freelance root.afs entries would get the wrong FID or where the root.afs directory would not be refreshed. * Buffer overflow could occur if the workstation cell name was longer than 64 characters. Crashes could occur in afscreds.exe, afslogon.dll, and afsd_service.exe. * VNOSERVICE and VOFFLINE errors were leaking and were exposed to the smb client. * Log file server uuid values as part of the cm_server object when available. Dump the cm_server object list in response to "fs memdump". * Optimize the performance of resetting access control lists when tokens are set or removed. * Remove symlink recursion tests and increase max symlink count to 64 from 16. * Windows specific Rx performance improvements. * Support for Network Identity Manager 2.0 All UNIX client platforms * Avoid issues with freeing resources at shutdown. * Numerous fixes to disconnected AFS. * Disconnected AFS fixes for replaying changes without double-freeing. * Attempt to use krb524 principal conversion in aklog if available. AIX * Kerberos configuration at build time corrected. Linux * Default to dynamic allocation of AFS kernel cache entries to allow growth for inotify()-pinned entries. (beagle, famd, etc) * Change client truncation routines to avoid locking issues. * IA64 port clients fixed on Linux 2.6. * RPMs now install fstrace message catalog. * Support through kernel 2.6.29 tested. * Fix locking issues on CellServDB file in /proc. OpenBSD * Support OpenBSD 4.4 OpenAFS 1.5.57 (2009-01-23) All platforms * Conditional compilation of rxdebug support is now possible. * Documentation updates. * Further race connditions in Rx have been corrected. All server platforms * Salvager no longer attempts to recreate headers in the wrong partition. * Volumes are properly marked in use on creation and subsequently on examination with vos. Microsoft Windows * Undo the "UAC manifest fix" applied to afs_config.exe. * Ensure that Freelance allocation of vnodes follow the AFS convention of odd vnodes are directories and everything else is an even vnode. * Add Freelance logic to mount point and symlink evaluation functions. * Enhance smb_ParseASCIIBlock() so that it can handle all of the STRING formats defined by the CIFS Technical Report 1.0. * Validate the output of smb_ParseASCIIBlock() in all callers. Return CM_ERROR_BADSMB if the STRING field cannot be parsed. CM_ERROR_BADSMB will cause the contents of the packet to be logged. * If multiple SMB Raw Write operations were taking place at the same time, there could be data corruption because unique event objects were not generated for each Netbios receive operation. All UNIX client platforms * Userspace AFS library can now deal with large files when supported by the platform. * Numerous updates to disconnected AFS support, including changes to allow reconnection to work in more circumstances. FreeBSD * FreeBSD unstrategy code has been updated. Linux * A race during file truncation has been corrected. * System call probing routines have been updated. * 2.6.29 is now supported. MacOS * 10.3 support has been corrected. OpenBSD * Initial OpenBSD 4.4 support. Solaris * Updates to allow compiling on newer OpenSolaris are now included. OpenAFS 1.5.56 (2008-12-30) All platforms * libuafs (userspace cache manager) updated to correct several errors. * Additional rx debugging support is available as a conditional compile. * A race condition in Rx leading to a panic has been corrected. * Rx idle time tracking has been corrected. * ubik clone server support has been corrected. All server platforms * Salvager no longer leaves cores in vice partitions. * The vol-dump tool now supports dumps larger than 2gb where possible. * Operations on multiple files now report all FIDs in the audit log. * butc XBSA support now works correctly on amd64. Microsoft Windows * The NetIDMgr AFS Provider automated configuration logic was broken by the introduction of Kerberos referrals. If the realm of the identity cannot be determined, the workstation cell is now assumed to belong to the newly created identity. * Avoid a reference count under flow during rename operations. * Avoid a crash caused by treating an arbitrary length directory search mask as an 8.3 mask. * Prevent rename operations if a case insensitive match for the target name already exists and does not refer to the object being renamed. * Increase the maximum number of background daemons to 64. * Fix the UAC manifest applied to afs_config.exe All UNIX client platforms * Updates to disconnected AFS support. FreeBSD * FreeBSD 7.1 is now supported. * amd64 FreeBSD is now supported. Linux * Generic fh (exportfs API) cache type is now available. * Avoid some oopses due to backing_dev_info inode fields not being filled. * 2.6.28 is now supported. MacOS * 10.3 support has been corrected. Solaris * Large partition support has been corrected. * Filesystem-agnostic cache is now available on Solaris 10 and 11. OpenAFS 1.5.55 (2009-11-10) All platforms * Salvager avoids leaving core files in vice partitions. * NFS translator fixes. * Unresponsive server handling fixes. * A volserver race which could result in duplicate transactions is fixed. Microsoft Windows * Fixes a panic caused by corruption of the SMB virtual circuit list. (race condition) * Fixes a panic caused by receipt of a UTF-16 string that cannot be converted to UTF-8. * Implements a more aggressive recovery algorithm for Netbios errors that result in loss of communication to the AFS SMB server. * Improve pioctl response time when testing whether or not a PATH is in AFS. * Adds support for linked cells. * Increases the length of the cell and realm names that can be input into the Network Identity Manage AFS provider configuration dialog. All UNIX client platforms * Disconnected AFS avoids infinite recursion during rmdir. Linux * Support for 2.6.28 (not complete for NFS translator modules). * Support for using exportfs API for filesystem-agnostic cache. * Disable backing store readahead. * Avoid deadlocks when writing back mmapped files larger than the cache. * Avoid Oops when doing PAG garbage collection. OpenAFS 1.5.54 (2008-10-08) All platforms * Updates for new Tivoli X/Open API finding. * A double-free is corrected in Rx. All server platforms * Ubik cleans up file descriptor cache correctly when doing recovery. * Enhanced vldb error checker included. Microsoft Windows * Prevent a crash that could occur when multiple file / directory change notifications are processed simultaneously. MacOS * AFS claims more free space so Finder will attempt file copies. Linux * Avoid spurious ENOENT when calling gwtcwd() on a volume root. * Avoid spurious ENOTDIR during fakestat. OpenAFS 1.5.53 (2008-09-26) All platforms * rx avoids many packet leaks. * rx jumbogram disabling now works (and is the default). All server platforms * Demand Attach fileserver tries to avoid issues tracking offline status of volumes. Microsoft Windows * Many potential deadlock conditions due to out of order lock acquisitions have been corrected. * A race condition resulting in an undercount on the cm_scache_t reference counts has been corrected. * An empty string when sent as an ioctl path is now properly interpreted as meaning the current directory. This affects "fs lsm", "symlink list", etc. * Fix smb string parsing differences where the smb protocol documentation does not match the actual Windows implementation. * Random access denied errors fixed. * A file server lock synchronization issue was corrected in SMB NTCreateX and NTTranCreate operations. This bug prevented properly operation when loading roaming profiles. * Fix a heap overwrite error during server probe operations if a new server is added while a probe operation is in progress. * Fix an LSA memory leak that was the result of an LSA error. * Do not leak cm_cell_t objects if the VLDB server lookup fails. * Only initialize rx mutex/lock objects once. * Do not nul terminate the AFS volume name when reported to Windows. * Improve VNOVOL error handling. Prevent updated vl information from being destroyed immediately after it was acquired. This bug prevented proper fail over when volumes are moved or removed from a server. * Remove volume id from the server volume list in response to VMOVED and VNOVOL errors. * "fs flushXXX" commands now destroy locally built B+ directory trees. * Prevent mixture of locally modified directory pages and file server directory pages. * Fail over to alternate vl servers if a ubik error is returned. All UNIX client platforms * Disconnected AFS now supports read-write mode. * volserver now builds correctly. AIX * AIX 6 is now supported. FreeBSD * FreeBSD 7 is now supported. Linux * cache bypass is now supported. * 2.6.x kmod compilation now uses kernel compile options always. * Support through 2.6.27. MacOS * Show more space free so Finder doesn't get confused. Solaris 10 * Default to namei rather than inode. OpenAFS 1.5.52 (2008-08-18) All platforms * Initialize volume updateDate at volume creation. * Avoid potential corruption of directories during salvage. * Check for out of memory condition during allocation of additional Rx packets. Microsoft Windows * Restore support for Windows 2000 (broken in 1.5.50). * Perform additional validation on volume names in mount points during creation and evaluation. * Fix several deadlocks, races, and reference count issues. * Further optimize SMB Directory Search processing and minimize the number of InlineBulkStatus RPCs sent to the file server. * Enable "bos restricted" operations. * Fix the create of submounts used by the AFSCreds and afs_config drive mapping tabs. * Fix a short name truncation bug. (1.5.50) * Fix the error code reported when attempting to delete a file on a readonly volume or one that is marked with the readonly DOS attribute. * Fix a heap corruption error when reading the CellServDB file location. * Add the "RxUdpBufSize" registry value. The new default is 256KB. * Do not include trailing NULs in the directory search output. (1.5.50) * Pre-allocate 64 Rx Packet buffers per thread in order to improve performance. * For debugging: add smb lock requests and stat cache lock allocations to the output from "fs memdump". NetBSD * Workaround broken sigwait() to allow fileserver to shut down correctly pre NetBSD 5.0. Solaris 10 * Default to namei fileserver; Allow inode fileserver at configure time by override. NFS translator * Try harder to avoid kernel panics for malformed requests. OpenAFS 1.5.51 (2008-07-29) All platforms * salvager tries harder to arrange for clients to get VBUSY while salvaging single volumes. * salvager avoids certain corruption when salvaging directories. * Rx connection clones disabled. Microsoft Windows * The 32-bit EXE 1.5.50 installer failed to properly install the C Runtime library. When used as an upgrade OpenAFS would continue to work but when used as a new installation, OpenAFS binaries would fail to load. * Fixes the "fs" and "symlink" commands to properly parse Unicode path prefixes during the pioctl remote procedure call. This bug would result in file not found errors for files and directories that clearly exist. (Bug introduced in 1.5.50) * Large File support is disabled. (Bug introduced in 1.5.50) * Removes the possibility of a deadlock during volume location update operation if all of the reported file servers are unreachable at the time of the update. * Ensures that reference counts are properly incremented/decremented on Rx connection objects used for volume location RPCs. * Over Quota errors during cm_FSync() calls would lead to an infinite loop as the error was never propagated to the caller. All UNIX client platforms * Bugfixes to disconnected AFS support in the cache manager. OpenAFS 1.5.50 (2008-07-16) All platforms * volserver puts recloned volumes back online before returning the volume to the fileserver, avoiding spurious VNOVOL errors. * Updated TSM X/Open API support available. * Demand Attach fileserver will not crash due to accesses during volume cloning. * Substantial documentation updates. * Demand Attach fileserver state tracking and analyzer tool improvements. * UAFS userspace cachemanager updates. * Corrected support for anti-meltdown protection in the client. Microsoft Windows * UNICODE Character Set Support. * Pioctl interfaces to the cache manager have been refactored to provide layering between the SMB specific code and the general purpose ioctl operation. * Garbage collect dead SMB virtual circuits as soon as they are no longer being referenced. This avoids problems with outstanding locks not being dropped when the virtual circuit becomes invalid. * Remove the IBM Administration Reference documentation and replace it with the OpenAFS Command Reference Manual. * Avoid calling rx_SetDeadTime and rx_SetHardDeadTime functions each time a connection is about to be used. Do not hold a lock on the rx connection object while it is being selected. This avoids a race between threads attempting to set the timeout values and removes a bottleneck that was hampering performance. * Ensure that the smb directory attribute is set for all directory objects. * Replace the VC Runtime EXE installer with the MSI installer in the NSIS installer scripts. Solaris * Support for updates to OpenSolaris. Linux * Correct dentry revalidation for cross-directory renames. * Updated rpm packaging materials for 1.5 release series and 2.4 kernels. * Corrected syscall table probing. * NFS translator updates for current kernels. OpenAFS 1.5.39 (2008-06-24) All platforms * Updates for Demand Attach fileserver. Microsoft Windows * Fix two memory leaks. * Fix one missing lock. * Handle access denied errors when writing dirty buffers. * Fix two errors that would cause the *experimental* AFS Servers to crash. OpenAFS 1.5.38 (2008-05-24) All platforms * Add read-only disconnected support. OpenAFS 1.5.37 (2008-05-21) All platforms * Includes a number of optimizations for testing. OpenAFS 1.5.36 (2008-05-09) All platforms * Rx optimizations now attempt to deal with high latency WANs. * Client will not wait infinitely for a server which is not providing data. Additional servers will be polled without marking the server which is not providing data down. * vos move will not erroneously unlock locked vldb entries on failure. All server platforms * Fileserver avoids a potential infinite loop when a client relinquishes an address. * Fileserver large setting now configures more threads. * Fileserver properly registers uuids of new clients. * Ubik servers do not improperly hide updates from clients. * Fileservers reserve enough file descriptors such that each thread can cache one to avoid spurious errors. Microsoft Windows * Fix a cm_buf_t reference count leak when attempts to write dirty buffers to the file server from within cm_IncrSyncer() fail. * Prevent udebug from crashing. * Another VNOVNODE issue fixed. When writing a dirty buffer to the file server, if VNOVNODE is received, mark all buffers as invalid without further attempts to contact the file server. =======> Changes back to 1.3 have not yet been incorporated here <======= OpenAFS 1.3 * -nosettime is now the default for afsd. Use "-settime" to get the old behavior. * OpenBSD is now supported. * Mountpoint directory information is now only faked for cross-cell mountpoints when using the -fakestat flag (e.g. for the directories under /afs, but not for most other volumes mounted inside the cell). The -fakestat-all switch can be used to fake information for all mountpoints. * When fakestat is enabled on MacOSX, the Finder can be used to browse a fully-populated /afs directory. However, this precludes reliable use of entire volumes as MacOS bundles (i.e. containing a Contents directory in the root of the volume). * Mountpoint directory information can be faked by the cache manager, making operations such as stat'ing all cells under /afs much faster. This is enabled by passing -fakestat to afsd, but might not be stable on all platforms. OpenAFS 1.2.9 * The kaserver now defaults to not allowing interrealm authentication, due to security vulnerabilities in the krb4 protocol. The new "-crossrealm" flag to the kaserver is provided to reenable interrealm authentication if desired. * RedHat Linux 9.0 is now supported. * Solaris 9 12/02 is now supported. Solaris 7 and 8 x86 should now work again. * On Linux machines using 2.2 series kernels, 2.2.19 or higher is now required. * An OpenAFS 1.2.9 afsd will not work with kernel modules built from an earlier OpenAFS release. In general, using a mismatched afsd and kernel modules set is unsupported; it is not recommended that you use such a configuration on a regular basis. OpenAFS 1.2.8 * Mountpoint directory information is now only faked for cross-cell mountpoits when using the -fakestat flag (e.g. for the directories under /afs, but not for most other volumes mounted inside the cell). The -fakestat-all switch can be used to fake information for all mountpoints. * HPUX 11.0 is now supported. * It is now possible for AFS to use Kerberos 5 directly, via rxkad 2b. See the OpenAFS 1.2.8 Release Notes for more information on using this capability. * An NFS translator kernel module is now included and compiled by default for Solaris only. OpenAFS 1.2.7 * MacOS X 10.2 is now supported. FreeBSD 4.3 and later support is included in this release, but is still under active development and should only be used by those doing active development on the OpenAFS FreeBSD client. * When fakestat is enabled on MacOSX, the Finder can be used to browse a fully-populated /afs directory. However, this precludes reliable use of entire volumes as MacOS bundles (i.e. containing a Contents directory in the root of the volume). * The fileserver will now use Rx pings to determine if clients are reachable prior to allocating resources to them, to prevent asymmetric clients from consuming all fileserver resources. OpenAFS 1.2.6 * Mountpoint directory information can be faked by the cache manager, making operations such as stat'ing all cells under /afs much faster. This is enabled by passing -fakestat to afsd. * Solaris 9 FCS and Solaris 7 and 8 x86 are now supported. OpenAFS 1.2.5 * A remote denial of service attack in the AIX and IRIX clients has been fixed. Users of those platforms are strongly encouraged to upgrade. * Fixed race conditions in fileserver that could result in crash. OpenAFS 1.2.4 * Server logfiles now more consistant about format in which hosts are referred to. * vfsck on Solaris will now allow force runs (using -y flag) even if old inodes exist. OpenAFS 1.2.3 * Cell aliases for dynroot can be specified in the CellAlias file in /usr/vice/etc or /usr/local/etc/openafs, in format "realname alias", one per line. They can also be managed at runtime with "fs newalias" and "fs listaliases". OpenAFS 1.2.2 * Solaris 9 and Linux PA-RISC are now supported. * fileserver will not erroneously delay legitimate errors for 3 seconds after 10 errors are returned (e.g. stat() on a directory you can't read). * Rx MTU calculation now works for Irix, Solaris and Linux * If afsd is started with the -dynroot flag, /afs will be locally generated from the CellServDB. AFSDB cells will be mounted automatically upon access. * The namei fileserver allows vice "partitions" to be directories instead of partitions and will attach and display accordingly. Creating the file "AlwaysAttach" in the /vicepX directory is used as the trigger to attach it. * TSM support for butc no longer requires editing a Makefile, simply specify the --enable-tivoli-tsm configure option. * Linux builds no longer require source changes every time the kernel inode structure changes; the OpenAFS sources will now configure itself to the actual inode structure as defined in the kernel sources. OpenAFS 1.2.1 * vfsck on Digital UNIX and Solaris will now refuse to fsck mounted mounted partitions. OpenAFS 1.2.0 * AFS now supports --prefix and the other directory options of configure. By default AFS builds assuming it will be installed in /usr/local. In order to get traditional AFS directory paths (/usr/afs and /usr/vice/etc) use the --enable-transarc-paths option to configure. More details on the new directory layout are found in README. OpenAFS 1.1.1a * Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 - Consistent versioning: Installation, AFS Control Center, Client dialog boxes and properties pages for executables display a consistent OpenAFS version number. Installation detects previous installation and prompts the user for upgrade options. * Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 - Installation features: During installation the user can select the source of the CellservDB file, AFS home cell, and drive mappings. During installation a drive path mapping can include a variable that will be substituted with the current UserName that is logged in. * Windows 2000/NT - Integrated logon: The Integrated Logon feature works now. * Windows 95/98/ME - Logon script features: The Windows 95/98/ME client now offers a command-line option for starting up the AFS client without authenication. It is now possilbe to start the AFS client first and obtain tokens, and map drives all through Windows scripts. This helps using Windows 95/98/ME client in Kerberos 5 environment. * Windows 2000/NT - LANA numbers: AFS client now scans the LANA numbers to establish the correct NETBIOS connection. NetBEUI is no longer needed. The user no longer needs to find the correct LANA number. * Windows 2000/NT - OpenAFS naming consistancy: Further progress has been made to remove references to "Transarc AFS" and replace with "OpenAFS". OpenAFS 1.0 * AFS now builds with configure. The README for building has been updated and includes full details. * A client system can now have multiple sysname values for @sys. They will be searched in order when looking up files in AFS. The -newsysname argument to fs sysname can be repeated to set multiple sysnames. * A new system group is created for new cells (system:ptsviewers with id -203). If this group exists, members of this group can examine and read the entire protection database. They can examine all users and groups and can get the membership of any group. * A new program, pt_util has been added to the distribution. This program allows users to print the contents of the protection database or to edit the protection database without running a ptserver. It can be used to set up a new cell without ever running in noauth mode. Run pt_util -h for help. * The fs setcrypt and fs getcrypt commands have been added. These commands allow the system administrator to require that the client encrypt all authenticated traffic between the client workstation and AFS. The encryption used is weak, but is likely better than sending unencrypted traffic in most environments. Some functions, such as looking for a volume may not be encrypted, but data transfer certainly is. By default data is not encrypted. At this time no significant experimentation with server performance has been conducted. * By default AFS is compiled with AFS_AFSDB_ENV, enabling the -afsdb option to be given to afsd on startup. If this option is used, then new cells will be looked up using AFSDB records stored in DNS if they are not found in CellServDB. This means that users can create cross-cell mountpoints in directories they control to access cells not in root.afs, and that cells in root.afs need not be in the client's CellServDB. * AFS database servers can be marked as read-only clones. Surround the hostname in square brackets on the bos addhost command and the database server will never be elected sync site. This is useful for cells distributed over a wide region. * The AFS servers now support the -syslog flag. This flag causes them to log to syslog rather than to files. This flag is not supported on NT. For all servers besides the salvager, the flag can also be specified as -syslog=facility, where facility is an integer facility code from syslog.h. A -syslogfacility option is provided for the salvager to accomplish the same goal. * If the --enable-fast-restart flag is given when configuring AFS, then the salvager supports the -dontsalvage flag which causes it to exit without salvaging any volumes. If this is configured into the third command of a fs process, then the fileserver will start without salvaging. It will fail to attach volumes that need salvaging and they can be salvaged manually. This provides significantly better server startup performance at the cost of administrative complexity. * If the --enable-bitmap-later flag is given when configuring AFS, then the fileserver creates bitmaps for free vnodes on demand, allowing faster starts. * If bosserver finds a BosConfig.new file at startup, it reads this file and renames it to BosConfig. This allows bosserver to be reconfigured at next restart. * The bosserver can be placed in a restricted mode in which AFS superusers are only granted limited access to the server host. The following functionality is disabled when restricted mode is in use: bos exec bos getlog (except for files with no '/'s in their name)* bos create * bos delete bos install bos uninstall specific exceptions are made for functionality that "bos salvage" uses: A cron bnode who's name is "salvage-tmp", time is now, and command begins with "/usr/afs/bin/salvager" may be created. This bnode deletes itself when complete, so no special "delete" support is needed. This functionality may be removed in the future if a "Salvage" RPC is implimented. The file with the exact path /usr/afs/logs/SalvageLog may be fetched, since that is how bos salvage [...] -showlog is implimented. Restricted mode is enabled using a new bos command (bos setrestricted) or bossever command line switch (bosserver -restricted). Restricted mode can be disabled by a) sending the bosserver process a SIGFPE (which will then allow restricted operations until the next restart or setrestricted command) or b) editing /usr/afs/local/BosConfig (or BosConfig.new), and restarting the bosserver. * The bos UserList of trusted administrators can now contain cross-realm Kerberos principals. * udebug now takes --server not --servers. * Several error messages have been improved to include volume numbers. * Several new ports have been included for UNIX platforms: Darwin (ppc_darwin_12 and ppc_darwin_13), Linux 2.4 (i386_linux24), Linux on the Powerpc (ppc_linux22 and ppc_linux24), Linux on the Sparc (sparc_linux22, sparc64_linux22 and sparc64_linux24). * Incomplete FreeBSD and Alpha Linux ports are included. The FreeBSD port has a working server and the Alpha Linux port has a partially working client. * A native client for Windows 95/98/ME has been added to the distribution. With this program, a gateway machine is no longer required for Windows 9x to access AFS files. One drive letter will be created on your machine by default - Z:. The Z: drive will be the root of the AFS tree, allowing you to browse all sites that have AFS servers available. Additional drive letters can be defined for other AFS directories. A Windows Explorer shell extension is included that allows you to right click on items within an AFS tree to bring up an "AFS" menu item and perform various operations on a file or directory. The most useful item is "Access Control Lists", which allows you to view and edit the permissions of a particular directory. Command line tools are also available in the install directory. These commands include klog, unlog, tokens, kpasswd, symlink, fs and pts. The installable includes a readme file that contains more information on how to use the client program and known issues. * Support for large caches in afsd. Cachefiles are stored in subdirectories. The default is 2048 files per subdirectory, which should work fine in most situations. You can use the new afsd option -files_per_subdir to change this number. Note that the first time you run afsd with this patch, your cachefiles will get moved into subdirectories. If you subsequently run an older version of afsd, you will lose all your cached files.