[OpenAFS-devel] OpenAFS release team weekly meeting

[Michael Meffie]

OpenAFS release team weekly meeting

Date: November 4, 2021

Participants:
- Stephan Wiesand, OpenAFS Release Manager
- Benjamin Kaduk, OpenAFS Guardian
- Cheyenne Wills
- Michael Meffie

The weekly release team meetings are held on Thursdays at 16:00 UTC (12:00 EDT)
in release-team@conference.openafs.org on jabber. Please request login
information if you would like to participate. Logs are available at:

    https://conference.openafs.org/release-team@conference.openafs.org/


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

* Stephan plans on having a 1.8.8.1 release this week for linux 5.14 and 5.15
* Stephan pulled Cheyenne's Linux 5.15 backport (osi_Msg fix) for 1.8.x.
* Linux 5.14 - 14830
* Everything else will be deferred to next 1.8.x

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

* Cheyenne reports issues encountered issues on 5.16-rc. Linux 5-16rc
  defaults to preemptive kernel which required access to GPL only
  rcu symbols. Currently distros are not using the preemptive kernel option.

Patches
=======

Updated for 'openafs-stable-1_8_x' branch since 2021-10-28:

14831 Linux 5.15: Convert osi_Msg macro to a function

Merged onto 'master' branch since 2021-10-28:

14824 prdb.txt: correct fixed header length

Updated for 'master' branch since 2021-10-28:

14839 JAVA: remove unsupported JAVA component
14838 autoconf: Remove/update obsolete autoconf macros
14822 afs: improve timeliness of afs_Daemon housekeeping tasks
14821 afs: further clarify afs_Daemon wait logic
14820 afs: clarify afs_Daemon wait logic
14818 bozo: Use buffered I/O to send notifier data
14817 afs: maintain proper time diffs in afs_CacheTruncateDaemon
14753 Avoid rxi_tracename overflow
14749 rx: Build src/rx/test
14710 vos: Check end-of-dump magic before deleting volume
14041 tests: Add vldb db format tests
14778 vos: Avoid dumping volume to tty
14777 usd: Add USD_IOCTL() is seekable check
14356 volser: Always fetch locked entry in CheckVolume
14355 volser: refactor CheckVolume
14834 bozo: Set BOZO_GetInstanceInfo output string with strdup
14833 bozo: Set BOZO_EnumerateInstance output string with strdup

-- 
Michael Meffie <mmeffie@sinenomine.net>