[OpenAFS-devel] OpenAFS release team weekly meeting

[Michael Meffie]

OpenAFS release team weekly meeting

Date: Dec 15, 2017
Participants:
  * Stephan Wiesand - Release Manager 1.6
  * Ben Kaduk - Release Manager 1.8
  * Michael Meffie
  * Harald Barth

New meeting time
================

The weekly release team meetings have been moved to a new time slot:

   Friday, 14:00 GMT (2:OOEST)
   XMPP: release-team@conference.openafs.org

Participation is welcome.  Please request login information if you would like
to participate.

1.6.x stable series
===================

1.6.22.1
--------

This point release will be announced this week.  This is a minimal point
release to support for Linux 4.14 (the most recent linux release) plus build
fixes to keep up with modern compilers.

Changes to be includes are:

topic:linux-4.14
12758 Linux: Test for __vfs_write rather than __vfs_read
12759 Linux: Use kernel_read/kernel_write when __vfs variants are unavailable
12797 afs: fix kernel_write / kernel_read arguments
12810 Fix macro used to check kernel_read() argument order

build fixes:
12724 vol: add missing include of stdint.h to volinodes.h
12740 Correct m4 conditionals in curses.m4


1.6.23pre1
----------

A pre-release to address the getcwd() issues reported on RHEL 7.4 will be
issued. Sites are encouraged to report results of the prerelease.

12792 LINUX: consolidate duplicate code in osi_TryEvictDentries
12791 LINUX: consolidate duplicate code in canonical_dentry
12789 LINUX: create afs_linux_dget() compat wrapper
12787 Revert "LINUX: eliminate unused variable warning"
12794 LINUX: refactor afs_dentry_count for clarity
12788 Revert "LINUX: do not use d_invalidate to evict dentries"
12790 LINUX: add afs_d_alias_iter_lock & _unlock compat wrappers
12795 LINUX: RH7.4: shakeloose no longer calls d_invalidate
12786 DEBUG: shakeloose diagnostics

Other candidates for 1.6.23pre1:

12741 macos: add support for MacOS 10.13
12743 macos: make the OpenAFS client aware of APFS
12742 macos: packaging support for MacOS X 10.13

1.8.x/master
============

The following change is available for review in gerrit to address the issue
report on the openafs-devel list regarding the recent release of GNU glibc 2.26.

12800 Replace <rpc/types.h> with <rx/xdr.h>

-- 
Michael Meffie <mmeffie@sinenomine.net>