[OpenAFS-devel] OpenAFS release team weekly meeting

[Michael Meffie]

OpenAFS release team weekly meeting

Date: August 24, 2018
Participants:
  * Stephan Wiesand (Release Manager 1.6/1.8)
  * Michael Meffie
  * Mark Vitale

The weekly release team meetings are held on Fridays at 14:00 GMT on jabber
(xmpp) in release-team@conference.openafs.org.  Please request login
information if you would like to participate. Logs are available at
https://conference.openafs.org/release-team@conference.openafs.org/

News
====

Linux 4.19rc1 expected on Sunday. Buildbot still green on
daily builds.

Expect to release OpenAFS 1.6.22.4, 1.8.2.1, 1.6.23pre1 next week.

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

Expect to release 1.6.22.4 and 1.6.23pre1 within a week.

1.6.23pre1 NEWS has been reviewed.

Topic '1.6.22.4' gerrits; Linux 4.18 support.

13294 LINUX: Update to Linux struct iattr->ia_ctime to timespec64 with 4.18
13293 autoconf: refactor linux-checks.m4
13292 autoconf: refactor ostype.m4
13291 autoconf: refactor acinclude.m4

1.8.x series
============

Expect to release 1.8.2.1 within a week for linux 4.18 support.

master
======

Andrew submitted a series of experimental patches to auto-mount volumes with
native linux mount points. (Currently limited to Linux kernel versions
3.10 to 3.18.)

Topic "linux-native-mounts":

13285 LINUX: Introduce 'afsd -automount'
13284 LINUX: Turn on AFS_NEW_BKG
13282 LINUX: Minor osi_vfsop.c cleanup
13283 LINUX: Add mounting via Linux mounts
13281 afs: Add AFS_USPC_SHUTDOWN bkg request
13280 DARWIN: Use tb->code_raw for BOP_MOVE

Topic: solaris-kstats

13170 SOLARIS: provide cache manager stats via kstat
13278 afs: consolidate duplicated wait-for-cache-drain code
13168 afs: more cache truncation stats

Topic: static-analysis

13208 Resolve possible memory leaks
13207 afs: test condition mismatch resolved
13206 localtime can return NULL if unable to read system clock
13196 Add checks to ensure *alloc was successful
13175 Resolve a few dereference of null pointer issues
13171 Resolve use of uninitialized vars.
13163 strlcpy restricted to array length.
13162 afsweb: possible array overrun
13161 afsmonitor: avoid possible double free
13158 Fix static expressions in conditionals
13157 Correct some redundant if() clauses
13156 If realloc() == NULL we lost the pointer to old memory
13155 Resolve missing printf args
13154 Close files when completed
13136 Prevent sscanf format widths from overrunning array
13135 fix fprintf conversion specifiers
13133 bucoord: avoid memory leaks on early returns from bc_Restorer
13089 Fix possible memory leaks
13085 Set defaults for complex if statements

Patches
=======

Recently submitted for branch 'master':

13290 afs: avoid stalled fileservers
13287 rxkad: Update ticket5 from heimdal
13285 LINUX: Introduce 'afsd -automount'
13284 LINUX: Turn on AFS_NEW_BKG
13282 LINUX: Minor osi_vfsop.c cleanup
13286 volser: ensure GCTrans transaction walk remains valid
13288 afs: make sure to call afs_Analyze after afs_Conn
13289 afs: avoid stalled fileservers
13283 LINUX: Add mounting via Linux mounts
13281 afs: Add AFS_USPC_SHUTDOWN bkg request
13280 DARWIN: Use tb->code_raw for BOP_MOVE

Recently merged onto branch 'master':

10564 03e804b62 Configure glue for rxgk

-- 
Michael Meffie <mmeffie@sinenomine.net>