[OpenAFS-devel] OpenAFS release team weekly meeting

[Michael Meffie]

OpenAFS release team weekly meeting
Date: January 08, 2021
Participants:
- Stephan Wiesand, Release Manager
- Benjamin Kaduk
- Yadavendra Yadav
- Michael Meffie
- Cheyenne Wills
- Mark Vitale

The weekly release team meetings are held on Fridays at 17:00 UTC (12:00 EST)
in release-team@conference.openafs.org on jabber. Please request login
information if you would like to participate. Logs are available at:

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News
====

Happy New Year all!


1.8.x stable
============

Items for 1.8.7pre1
* Was waiting for 10831 to be merged onto master. (merged now)
* Last item on Todo ist is changes for FBSD

Cheyenne reports he is testing a small patch for linux 5.11rc support.

topic:rx/restart-hang will be pulled up to stable by Stephan (perhaps
deferred until 1.8.8)

13876	rx: Avoid new server calls for big-seq DATA pkts
13758	rx: Avoid new server calls for non-DATA packets
13875	rx: Avoid lastReceiveTime update for invalid ACKs


1.9.x devel/master
==================

Ben says the next topics for review are audit-pipe,
linux, macOS, and FBSD

Mark requested 13170 merge.


Infrastructure
==============

* The nightly linux-rc buildbot builders are still offline.
  Stephan asked Mike if they can be fixed.

Patches
=======

Recently submitted for branch 'openafs-stable-1_8_x':

14476 Remove dead code
14483 aklog: Make dummy write AIX-specific
14481 aklog: use any enctype in get_credv5
14482 aklog: avoid infinite lifetime tokens by default
14477 aklog: free kbr5_creds before returning from rxkad_get_token
14480 aklog: retry getting tokens for KRB5_KT_NOTFOUND error
14479 aklog: Use HAVE_ENCODE_KRB5_ENC_TKT_PART for aklog impersonate
14478 aklog: Free client/server princs in get_credv5

Recently merged onto branch 'openafs-stable-1_8_x':

14450 b65b33da4e vldb_check: Check for volume lock inconsistencies
14461 37187ba294 auth: Close fd on SetExtendedCellInfo write error
14452 b201d2a3a9 Remove DUX/OSF code
14451 c55607d732 LINUX: Return errors in our d_revalidate
14449 dc5e7825fb vos: avoid 'half-locked' volume after interrupted 'vos rename'
14448 a518b0c439 vos: Cleanup function definitions
14447 ab30c00f6a vos: Remove dead code
14446 00095ea2ef vos: Cleanup indentation whitespace
14445 ebbeb69286 vsprocs: Remove dead code

Recently submitted for branch 'master':

14488 afs: Remove SRXAFSCB_GetDE
14487 WINNT: Restore missing '#ifdef PC'

Recently merged onto branch 'master':

10831 2630e70550 Move key-related warnings to common server code
13603 faa9d8f11f rx: Split out rxi_ConnectionMatch
13602 c439332791 rx: Remove unneeded rxi_ReceiveDataPacket params
13876 a36832e2d8 rx: Avoid new server calls for big-seq DATA pkts
14473 cd35aa9e2a afs: Fix XBSD check for VNOVAL va_uid
13758 3f9a08db86 rx: Avoid new server calls for non-DATA packets
13875 7b20494601 rx: Avoid lastReceiveTime update for invalid ACKs

-- 
Michael Meffie <mmeffie@sinenomine.net>