[OpenAFS-devel] OpenAFS release team weekly meeting

[Michael Meffie]

OpenAFS release team weekly meeting

Date: October 7, 2021

Participants:
- Stephan Wiesand, OpenAFS Release Manager
- Benjamin Kaduk, OpenAFS Guardian
- Cheyenne Wills
- Mark Vitale
- 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
============

* 14825 pulled up to 1.8.x by Stephan

14825 rx: Reorganize LWP rxi_Sendmsg to use 'goto error'

* Cheyenne reports a fix is in progress for the issuse on Linux 5.14,
  reported openafs-info this week.

* All the changes for freebsd 12 have been pulled up to 1.8.x

* Current plan is to issue a 1.8.8.1 release with the changes for FreeBSD
  plus the fix for linux 5.14.


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

* Ben merged a set of commits over the weekend.

* recvmmsg patches still to be reviewed.

* The things currently sitting open are the "remove kdump" stack, safe
  string functions/bosserver, and some of the test suite work Andrew did
  (IIRC as precursor to rxgk-phase2)

Patches
=======

Updated for 'openafs-stable-1_8_x' branch since 2021-09-30:

14825 rx: Reorganize LWP rxi_Sendmsg to use 'goto error'
14813 afs: clarify cold and warm shutdown logic

Merged onto 'master' branch since 2021-09-30:

14800 tests: Introduce afstest.pm
14542 fs: add option to evaluate symlink or mtpt
14001 FBSD: Use GENERIC kernel headers by default
14823 afs: Call afs_FindVCache with DO_STATS, not 1
14230 IRIX: Remove pre-65 code
14231 afs: Remove 'retry' arg from afs_FindVCache
14765 bos: Improve string safety

Updated for 'master' branch since 2021-09-30:

14771 bucoord: Fix doDispatch() array-paramater gcc warning
14770 Fix PrintInode() mismatched array parameter warnings
14797 bozo: Add bnode_GetNotifier()
14766 bozo: Let the bnode operations allocate output strings
14819 bozo: Use safe string functions to format core filenames
14818 bozo: Use buffered I/O to send notifier data
14824 prdb.txt: correct fixed header length
12744 Do not merge: Check buildbot verification
14777 usd: Add USD_IOCTL() is seekable check

-- 
Michael Meffie <mmeffie@sinenomine.net>