User-Visible OpenAFS Changes

OpenAFS 1.6.2

  All platforms

    * Fix buffer overflows in fileserver and ptserver.

    * Abort an rx connection when given an unknown service (Gerrit 7593).

    * "idle dead" behavior improvements.

    * Documentation updates.

  All server platforms

    * Fix rare file corruption during background sync (Gerrit 8796).

    * Fix corrupting clients' metadata cache during certain errors (Gerrit
      6957).

    * Avoid saying a volume doesn't exist when accessed as the volume is
      going offline (Gerrit 7488).

    * Fix fileservers to properly report >2 TiB partitions.

    * Fix stale volume info from vos examine on non-DAFS filservers.

    * Fix possible volume corruption with vos convertROtoRW.

    * Fix bosserver to preserve all command-line options over restart.

    * Fix bosserver to properly kill hung processes during shutdown.

  All UNIX client platforms

    * Fixes for memcache, especially on Solaris.

    * Increase the size of the DNS resolver answer buffer to allow sites
      with a long response list to use SRV and AFSDB records.

    * Fix a crash when a server appears to run out of addresses (Gerrit
      7487).

    * Fix cache corruption when reading from a file another client is
      simultaneously writing to (Gerrit 7994).

    * Improve handling of disk cache disk errors.

  Linux

    * fix DKMS configuration for DKMS 2.2.

    * Avoid generating inode number 0 with md5 inodes (Gerrit 7276).

    * Fix a crash when reading /proc/fs/openafs/unixusers (Gerrit 7914).

    * Make PAG-less access use the real UID of the calling process
      instead of the effective UID, when determining what credentials to
      use (Gerrit 7931).

    * Fix possible abuse of fs mkmount.
      Prior to 1.6.2, users could crash a client by nesting volume mounts.

    * Fix fileserver memory corruption on RHEL 6
      Prior to 1.6.2, fileservers on RHEL 6 may crash under heavy load.

    * Fix client page cache corruption on Linux
      When multiple clients read and write to a file, the reading client
      may see first page (4096 bytes) of a file as nulls.

    * Support Linux kernels up to 3.7.

    * Support newer glibc versions.

    * Improve client systemd unit file.

    * Update Red Hat packaging.

  OS X

    * Fix crashes on shutdown.

    * Prevent unloading the module before shutdown completes.

    * Security improvement for the OpenAFS preference pane.

  Solaris

    * Support newer versions of the Sun Studio compiler software.

    * Support compiling on newer versions of Solaris 11 and Solaris 10.