[OpenAFS-devel] OpenAFS Release Team weekly meeting

[MS Vitale]

OpenAFS Release Team weekly meeting

Date: November 16, 2023
Participants:
- Stephan Wiesand, OpenAFS Release Manager
- Ben Kaduk
- Cheyenne Wills
- Mark Vitale

The OpenAFS Release Team meetings are held each Thursday at 12:00pm Eastern,
9:00am Pacific on Libera.Chat IRC channel #openafs-releaseteam.

There will no meeting on Thursday November 23 in observance of the U.S.
Thanksgiving holiday.

Release team working status is maintained at:

    https://wiki.openafs.org/devel/Whiteboard/

Stable (1.8.x)
==============
Final additions to 1.8.11 are under review:
15527 Make OpenAFS 1.8.11pre1
15551 Update NEWS for 1.8.11 pre-release
15596 Linux: Fix to use time_t instead of time64_t
15598 dir: Allow 256-byte directory entry names in salvager 
15599 dir: Introduce struct DirEntryFlex
15600 Linux 6.7: convert to inode a/mtime accessor funcs

Development (1.9.x/master)
==========================
Cheyenne continues to monitor linux-next changes.
So far OpenAFS 1.8.x require only 15600 (mentioned above)
to build on the current Linux 6.7 release candidate.

The connleaks topic has been prioritized for review for master:
14851 rx: prevent leak of cache manager NAT ping rx_connections
15135 rx: Reap client conns in rxi_ReapConnetions
15349 rx: Avoid unnecessary locking in rxi_ReapConnections


Recent Changes
==============

Merged onto 'openafs-stable-1_8_x' branch since 2023-10-23:

15589 Linux 6.6: convert to ctime accessor functions

Updated for 'openafs-stable-1_8_x' branch since 2023-10-23:

15600 Linux 6.7: convert to inode a/mtime accessor funcs
15596 Linux: Fix to use time_t instead of time64_t
15599 dir: Introduce struct DirEntryFlex
15598 dir: Allow 256-byte directory entry names in salvager
15551 Update NEWS for 1.8.11 pre-release

Merged onto 'master' branch since 2023-10-23:

15591 macos: Add support for MacOS 14.X (Sonoma)
15597 Linux 6.7: convert to inode a/mtime accessor funcs
15573 dir: Introduce struct DirEntryFlex
15574 dir: Allow 256-byte directory entry names in salvager
15595 Linux: Fix to use time_t instead of time64_t

Updated for 'master' branch since 2023-10-23:

15135 rx: Reap client conns in rxi_ReapConnections
15349 rx: Avoid unnecessary locking in rxi_ReapConnections
14951 rx: prevent leak of cache manager NAT ping rx_connections
15429 macOS: Remove duplicated signing files from PKGROOT
15452 macos: Update SDK for Ventura 13
15158 rx: Use atomics for rx_securityClass refcounts
14621 rx: Define symbolic names for Rx magic numbers
14607 ubik: remove superfluous checks of rx_NewConnection return
15553 ubik: ensure correct election deadline
14608 ubik: ensure correct election timeout for vlserver
15594 dir: Eliminate dtest false negative failures
15592 budb: Remove superfluous rx_SetRxDeadTime
15593 README
15563 rxkad: rxkad_CheckResponse correct handling of krb5 localauth tokens