[OpenAFS-devel] OpenAFS release team weekly meeting

[Michael Meffie]

OpenAFS release team weekly meeting

Date: Jan 19, 2018
Participants:
  * Stephan Wiesand (Release Manager 1.6)
  * Ben Kaduk (Release Manager 1.8)
  * Michael Meffie
  * Marcio Barbosa

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/

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

1.6.22.2
--------

Expect to release 1.6.22.2 early next week.

- macos high sierra support
  topic:highsierra

12833   macos: make the OpenAFS client aware of APFS
12832   macos: packaging support for MacOS X 10.13
12831   macos: add support for MacOS 10.13

- linux 4.15 support
  topic:Linux-4.15

12834   Linux: use plain page_cache_alloc
12835   Linux 4.15: check for 2nd argument to pagevec_init

- changes to address getcwd() issues on RHEL7.4
  topic:RH74_shakeloose_refactor

12859   LINUX: consolidate duplicate code in osi_TryEvictDentries
12860   LINUX: Avoid d_invalidate() during afs_ShakeLooseVCaches()
12858   LINUX: consolidate duplicate code in canonical_dentry
12857   LINUX: add afs_d_alias_lock & _unlock compat wrappers
12856   LINUX: create afs_linux_dget() compat wrapper
12855   Revert "LINUX: do not use d_invalidate to evict dentries"
12854   Revert "LINUX: eliminate unused variable warning"

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

Planning to release 1.6.23pre1 next week;

Candidates for 1.6.23 are gerrits >= 12645 listed under

   https://gerrit.openafs.org/#/q/status:open+project:openafs+branch:openafs-stable-1_6_x

2 remaining ubik fixes are to be backported to 1.8.x/1.6.x.

   12716   ubik: update ubik_dbVersion during SDISK_SendFile
   12640   ubik: check if epoch is sane before db relabel


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

Mike to backported the autoconf refactor.
Staged for pre5 (from last week's notes)
- spec file fixes
- autoconf refactor
- Andrew's deadlock avoidance in check_Dentry_race (12868),
- ubik write fail bug fix (12716)
- freebsd sysname/OS support updates


master
======

Recently merged

    12862   FBSD: catch up to missing sysnames
    12640   ubik: check if epoch is sane before db relabel
    12716   ubik: update ubik_dbVersion during SDISK_SendFile

Review discussions

    12680   autoconf: detect ctf-tools and add ctf to libafs


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Michael Meffie <mmeffie@sinenomine.net>