OpenAFS Release Notes - Version 1.6.1 _________________________________________________________________ All server platforms: Critical bugfixes. All systems: Major bugfixes. _________________________________________________________________ Sites running 1.6.0 fileserver are urged to update immediately to avoid data loss. Sites running 1.6.0 UNIX clients are urged to update immediately to avoid excess network traffic. All platforms: - Updated idle dead handling to avoid issues with retrying calls which could succeed but error and then error on a retry. - libafscp updates. - uafs userspace cache manager updates. All server platforms: - A bug which can lose data on a fileserver for volumes which are replicated or backed up has been fixed. Sites running 1.6.0 are urged to upgrade immediately! (130295) - Fix salvaging of volumes with large numeric IDs. - Further correct tracking of alternate and changed addresses in the fileserver. - Do not perform Rx keepalives during disk IO to allow timeouts to occur in event IO cannot complete. - Properly associate link tables recreated during salvage with the volume group ID. - Demand attach: better error handling during volume attachment. - Confirm vnode lengths are as expected during fileserver operations. - Demand attach: better handling of volumes being passed for salvage and being returned from salvage. - Conditions which cause a restored volume to immediately need salvage are now properly tracked. - Bosserver properly honors rxbind mode. - Ensure salvager returns volumes to fileserver even when no applicable vnodes are found. - DAFS: perform additional verification of data restored about clients and callbacks. All UNIX platforms: - Correct handling of server NAT pings to avoid unnecessary growth of NAT ping traffic. - Fix hard mount retry behavior to retry all servers. - Several lock order inversions which could deadlock fixed. - Handle issues updating mtab. - Fix fs setserverprefs to work again for DB servers. FreeBSD: - Track kernel API changes for 9.0 Linux: - Support for kernel versions through 3.4. - Avoid potential panic due to an error being returned as a positive number when doing inode operations. - Fix vcache lock ordering during readdir. - Updated RPM packaging. - Updated dkms support. - Updated systemd support. MacOS: - Fix panic at shutdown due to not stopping network listener. - Updated Kerberos support for additional issues in Lion. NetBSD: - Updated support for 5.0 userspace binaries. - Add support for 6.0. Solaris: - Avoid panic on shutdown when mount failed. - Disable SSE instructions when compiling to avoid panics on non-SSE hosts. Windows: - Properly handle VNOSERVICE, which indicates a fileserver has done an idle timeout of a call. - Improved tracking of volume groups. - Do not recycle buffers in the current file if they are in the active chunk and up to date. - Support Windows 7 Advanced Firewall. - Default to maximum 2 CPUs unless registry overrides. - Failover and retry for VBUSY. - Properly fetch unix mode when requested.