[OpenAFS-devel] OpenAFS Release Team weekly meeting

[Michael Meffie]

OpenAFS Release Team weekly meeting

Date: October 26, 2023
Participants:
- Stephan Wiesand, OpenAFS Release Manager
- Ben Kaduk
- Cheyenne Wills
- Michael Meffie
- 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.

Release team working status is maintained at:

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

Stable (1.8.x)
==============

* Discussion on gerrit 15573, which is currently blocking 1.8.11pre1. Mark
  is currently updating the change per Ben's comments.
  
* 1.8.11pre1 to be released after 15573 is merged

* NEWS was updated for 1.8.11

Development (1.9.x/master)
==========================

* Ben is reviewing 15573

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

Merged onto 'openafs-stable-1_8_x' branch since 2023-09-28:

15590 Linux 6.6: Pass request_mask to generic_fillattr
15589 Linux 6.6: convert to ctime accessor functions
15558 linux: Replace fop iterate with fop iterate_shared
15575 LINUX: Pass an array of structs to register_sysctl
15562 rx: Check for callNumber before NULL server call
15549 cf: Use static allocated structs for cf tests
15548 clang: Don't redefine printf in salvage.c
15547 Retire the AFS_PTR_FMT macro
15546 dir: check afs_dir_MakeDir return code in DirSalvage
15545 dir: distinguish logical and physical errors on reads
15544 afs: refactor directory checking in DRead
15543 vol: Re-evaluate conditons for cond vars
15542 build: package ltmain.sh in the libafs_tree
15541 afs: Use literal NULL for NULL function pointer
15540 cf: Avoid nested C functions built by autoconf
15539 ukernel: Fix AFS_GUNLOCK panic in rx_ServerProc
15538 vlserver: Use bounded string copy in FindByName()
15537 bozo: Log a warning if the bosserver is not started in restricted mode
15536 afs: Let afs_ShakeLooseVCaches run longer
15535 afs: Fix EIO error when reading a 4G or larger file
15533 afs: Skip IsDCacheSizeOK for CDirty/VDIR
15532 afs: Check dcache size when checking DVs

Updated for 'openafs-stable-1_8_x' branch since 2023-09-28:

15551 Update NEWS for 1.8.11 pre-release

Merged onto 'master' branch since 2023-09-28:

15561 Linux 6.6: Pass request_mask to generic_fillattr
15560 Linux 6.6: convert to ctime accessor functions

Updated for 'master' branch since 2023-09-28:

15591 macos: Add support for MacOS 14.X (Sonoma)
15587 doc: Update example output for 'fs getfid'
15586 fs: Report errors more consistently from GetCell()
15585 fs: Still print fid for 'getfid' if GetCell fails
15584 fs: Get parent dir cell for 'fs getfid -literal'
15563 rxkad: rxkad_CheckResponse correct handling of krb5 localauth tokens
15555 rx: Add 'getters' for Rx timeout values
14607 ubik: remove superfluous checks of rx_NewConnection return
15553 ubik: ensure correct election deadline
14608 ubik: ensure correct election timeout for vlserver
14621 rx: Define symbolic names for Rx magic numbers
15574 dir: Allow 256-byte directory entry names in salvager
15573 dir: Introduce struct DirEntryMax
15557 rx: Avoid increasing a specified Rx harddead timeout
15556 tests: Add C-TAP tests for Rx connection/call timeouts
14739 viced: Always avoid saving HashTable to fsstate
14731 viced: Set HashTable size at startup
14738 viced: Ignore on-disk fsstate HashTable data
14737 viced: Log some basic fs_stateRestore stats
14728 viced: Log more state restore errors
14727 viced: Raise fsstate loop detection limits
14726 viced: Set FS_STATE_DUMP_MODE earlier
15588 config: move VIOC_SETBYPASS_THRESH define to vioc.h
15577 afs: introduce afs_IsHardMountEligible
15576 afs: refactor hard-mount evaluation
15089 bozo: Parse command lines with cmd_Tokenize() and cmd_Split()
15088 cmd: Introduce cmd_Tokenize() and cmd_Split()
14566 make-release: create SHA256 checksums too
15582 fs: add option to evaluate symlink or mtpt
15552 AIX: Add rxkad-k5 support in aklog_dynamic_auth
15571 rx: Add pthread_attr_destroy to remove thread attributes
15187 LINUX: Introduce allow_version_mismatch param
15186 afs: Introduce AFSOP_EARLY_INIT
15570 afs: Add diagnostic messages in afs_InitCacheFile