[OpenAFS-devel] OpenAFS Release Team weekly meeting

[Michael Meffie]

OpenAFS Release Team weekly meeting

Date: April 9, 2026
Participants:
- 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/

Discussion
==========

* NEWS updated for 1.8.16pre1
* Ben pushed the git tag openafs-stable-1_8_16pre1

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

Merged onto 'openafs-stable-1_8_x' branch since 2026-03-12:

16753 macOS: Package some LWP binaries as x86_64 only
16758 libtool: Make libfoo.krb depend on libfoo
16751 Fix -Wdiscarded-qualifiers warnings from strrchr()
16738 Linux: Use __getname()/__putname() to alloc name
16729 Linux: Use set_default_d_op() to set dentry ops
16709 Linux: implement aops->migrate_folio
16707 Linux: Use sockaddr_unsized for socket->ops->bind
16708 Linux: Pass 3rd parameter to filemap_alloc_folio()
16706 Linux: Move afs_root()/_fill_super() in osi_vfsops
16705 LINUX: Log warning on recursive folio writeback
16704 Linux: Avoid write_cache_pages() for ->writepages
16703 Linux: Introduce LINUX_WRITE_CACHE_PAGES_USES_FOLIOS
16702 LINUX: Re-dirty folio on writepages recursion
16701 Linux: Use get_tree_nodev

Updated for 'openafs-stable-1_8_x' branch since 2026-03-12:

16740 Make OpenAFS 1.8.16pre1
16739 Update NEWS for OpenAFS 1.8.16pre1
16024 viced: Always avoid saving HashTable to fsstate
16266 Always free XDR-allocated buffers

Merged onto 'master' branch since 2026-03-12:

16732 libadmin: Correct endianness for host and port arguments
16716 afsio: Add -crypt option to fidread
16750 Fix -Wdiscarded-qualifiers warnings from strrchr()
15914 OPENAFS-SA-2024-002: verify FetchACL returned a valid string
16736 cmd: fix typo in "command" string in tests and pkgbuild script
16699 Linux: Use __getname()/__putname() to alloc name
16724 cmd:fix spelling of 'arguments' in CMD_USAGE message
16700 Linux: Use set_default_d_op() to set dentry ops

Updated for 'master' branch since 2026-03-12:

16765 doc: Update the build instructions in howto-build-openafs
16766 doc: Add installation instructions to howto-build-openafs
16764 doc: Update requirements instructions in howto-build-openafs
16763 doc: Add howto-install-kerberos document
16620 afs: Add new pioctl PUnlogCell
16761 auth: Prevent buffer overflow in ParseHostLine
16762 afsio: Add -synthesize option to fidwrite
16728 rx: Add multiple services unit test (multiservice)
16727 rx: Add multiple calls unit test (multicall)
16721 vol: Correct fssync-debug 'vnode' partition parsing
16538 rx: Remove unused rx_GetLocalStatus()
16720 afs: remove dead CBDEBUG code
16752 Correct spelling of 'occured' to 'occurred' in comments and messages
16755 kauth: terminate StringToKey password buffer
16723 bucoord: Fix pointer signedness warnings for afs_int32/afs_uint32
16730 bu_utils: avoid div-by-zero in fileMarkSize
16757 venus: Add afsio listacl command
16754 afsio: clarify help text for -as-user option
15581 config: Document ioctl/pioctl namespace management
16715 libafscp: Fix ncompare volume comparison function
16747 libafscp: Fix malformed ACL check in afscp_FetchACL
16722 Fix misspelling of 'occurred' in comments
16710 doc: Add afsio overview man page
16733 rxdebug: Initialize rx_debug_mutex
16718 cmd: simplify duplicated condition in AproposProc
16719 cmd: fix spacing in assignment to _get_config_string
16717 cmd: replace magic number 39 with character literal in quote()
16711 cmd: remove unnecessary comment after replacing magic number
16714 macOS: Generate checksum files during 'make packages'
16713 macOS: Consolidate redundant paths in pkgbuild.sh.in



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Michael Meffie <mmeffie@sinenomine.net>