[OpenAFS-devel] OpenAFS release team weekly meeting

[Michael Meffie]

OpenAFS release team weekly meeting

Date: July 22, 2021

Participants:
- Stephan Wiesand, Release Manager
- Benjamin Kaduk
- Michael Meffie
- Cheyenne Wills
- Mark Vitale

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

* 1.8.8 pre-release 2 tagged as openafs-stable-1_8_8pre2
* Announcement updated on https://openafs.org
* Planning on releasing 1.8.8 final in one week assuming no issues
  reported before then.

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

Various activity on master, including reviews of FDH_BLOCKSIZE changes, and how
those would affect AIX support, lead to various changes to improve the situation
for AIX.

Cheyenne's AFS_LINUX_ENV cleanup patches landed in the master branch; targeted
for 1.8.9.

Yadav posted updates for 14691 (comment changes); which is intended to address
the issues when running with crowdstrike falcon.

Jeff A posted changes to gerrit and the mailing list about the rx SACK table as
a bit-field. Ben reviewed and earlier version of 14465 and so is confident that
it will be good overall.

The recent work to improve translate_et to support the UAE errors is blocked on
14648 and some questions on 14649.

The kdump removal patches look to be ready to merge, since some of the
questions in 14629 are addressed in a later commit.

Patches
=======

Merged onto 'openafs-stable-1_8_x' branch since 2021-07-15:

14699 Make OpenAFS 1.8.8pre2
14700 Update NEWS for 1.8.8pre2
14668 cf: Resolve implicit function definition for memset
14667 afs: Free pioctlToken in extractPioctlToken
14666 bos: Let xdr allocate rpc output strings
14665 bos: do not assume fs just if dafs bnode is stopped
14698 libadmin: Be sure to free the server list in ListCellsRPC
14664 libadmin: Let xdr allocate rpc output strings
14663 afs: Update style in afs_tokens.c

Updated for 'openafs-stable-1_8_x' branch since 2021-07-15:

14641 Update NEWS for OpenAFS 1.8.8
14642 Make OpenAFS 1.8.8

Merged onto 'master' branch since 2021-07-15:

14707 AIX: Fix undefined symbols
14702 rxgen: rename list -> rxgen_list
14662 vol: Introduce and use FDH_BLOCKSIZE
14703 tsm41: Fix libs for AIX 7.2
14388 Cleanup AFS_*LINUX_ENV usage
14701 AIX: Add buildsystem support for AIX 7.2
14706 tests: Avoid WTERMSIG($?) in rx/perf-t
14705 opr: Avoid sigwait on SIGWAITING
14704 tests: Add missing va_end in cmd/command-t
14389 Cleanup usage of LINUX_VERSION_CODE for older kernels
14387 Change AFS*_LINUXnn_ENV to AFS*_LINUX_ENV
13540 fs: Avoid unnecessary cell DNS lookups

Updated for 'master' branch since 2021-07-15:

14691 afs: defer afs_remunlink when task->fs is NULL
14623 Remove kdump
14692 doc: rx-spec Update for accuracy with current Rx implementations
12688 afs: introduce negative volume cache
14649 finale: translate_et (Unix) support for UAE
14653 volser: correct filecount when restoring a volume
14693 doc: rx-spec Document the Extended SACK Table protocol extension
14465 rx: compare RX_ACK_TYPE_ACK as a bit-field
6895 rx: race can lead to sending RX_PACKET_TYPE_BUSY
14648 libadmin: add support for UAE error translation
14694 ubik: consider AFSCELL env if -cell isn't provided
14568 libafscp: add support for rxkad_krb5 keys
14570 auth: introduce afsconf_PickLocalSecObj()
14596 auth: refactor GenericAuth()
13300 LINUX: Introduce '-atsys vfs'
14647 libadmin: skip authentication setup for tests that don't need it
14646 libadmin: allow tests to skip authentication setup
14697 rx: collect and report the number of dropped ACK packets
14696 rx: detect packet reflection
13302 LINUX: Introduce chroot-specific sysname lists
14695 afsd: Introduce -atsys option
13299 afs: Refactor and consolidate sysname code

-- 
Michael Meffie <mmeffie@sinenomine.net>