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Release Team Whiteboard

This page is maintained by the OpenAFS Release Team for OpenAFS release and development discussions. The OpenAFS Release Team meetings are held on IRC.

  • Thursday at 12:00pm EDT, 9:00pm PDT
  • Libera.Chat #openafs-releaseteam channel

See https://gerrit.openafs.org for proposed changes.

Platform notes

Linux 6.12

Linux 6.12 available and the required commits for master have been merged. The commits for 1.8_x have been pushed to gerrit for review and are scheduled for a 1.8.13.1 release.

  • 15966 Linux: Use folios for aops->write_begin/end
  • 15965 Linux: Refactor afs_linux_write_begin() variants
  • 15964 Linux: Define Clear/Set PageError macros as NOPs

Linux 6.13

Linux 6.13 is in development. There are changes in the Linux 6.13 kernel module build process that has broken the openafs kernel module build.

  • 15982 cf: Build AFS_component_version_number by configure
  • 15981 cf: Remove mkvers.c and Makefile.version-CML

Note that 15982 and 15981 are the start of cleaning up how the version information is generated and used within the openafs build.

Open Stable commits for review (next stable release)

Notes and the list of commits needing review for the next stable release.

Next openafs-1_8_x

The use of a minor point releases (e.g. 1.8.12.2) has been adopted to handle changes to support kernel / compiler changes or to to handle a quick bug fix. Major point releases (1.8.{x}) will be used to handle other types of changes.

The following gerrits are in review the next minor point release (1.8.13.1)

  • 15969 Make OpenAFS 1.8.13.1
  • 15968 Update NEWS for OpenAFS 1.8.13.1
  • 15966 Linux: Use folios for aops->write_begin/end
  • 15965 Linux: Refactor afs_linux_write_begin() variants
  • 15964 Linux: Define Clear/Set PageError macros as NOPs
  • 15955 ptserver: Add xdr_namelist to liboafs_prot.la.sym

The following have been submitted to gerrit for the next 1.8.x release and need reviewed:

  • 15851 rxkad: Consolidate refCount decrement
  • 15855 rx: Remove includes for MIN/MAX in rx_packet.h
  • 15850 rx: Use atomics for rx_securityClass refcounts
  • 15817 volinfo: Refuse zero and non-numeric -volumeid
  • 15812 AIX: Don't specify -qlanglvl=stdc99 for libuafs
  • 15811 AIX: Declare syscall()
  • 15810 AIX: Avoid COMPAT_43 for clang
  • 15809 macos: Remove vestigial AFS_MOUNT_AFS references
  • 15808 LINUX: Test for rcu_read_unlock with rcu_read_lock
  • 15807 Remove almost all bcopy/bzero/bcmp calls
  • 15801 rx: Print free and allocated counters as unsigned values
  • 15806 make-release: create SHA256 checksums too
  • 15805 make-release: Run git describe once
  • 15804 make-release: Create output directory if needed
  • 15803 make-release: Remove unused optional version argument
  • 15802 make-release: Clean up whitespace and spelling

Stable Wish List

Minor bug fixes in master

The following changes are wish list for a stable back-port. They have been merged into master and are pending back-ports to stable

  • 14725 viced: Use calloc for fsstate data
  • 14724 viced: Fix minor log message mistakes
  • topic:unlinked-vcaches
  • topic:connleaks
  • 13376 bozo: mark failed bnodes as stopped/shutdown Fix bos stop hang when simple bnode process fails.
  • 12612 afsd: Correctly detect invalid cache dirs Fixes a crash if the afsd parameters are changed and the cache is not removed.
  • topic:rxstat-localauth Add rxstat -localauth option so the stat gathering utils can be run easily on a server.
  • 15158 rx: Use atomics for rx_securityClass refcounts Fix crash due to missing rx data field lock.
  • 15636 LINUX: Refactor afs_osi_Sleep
  • 15637 LINUX: Block non-fatal signals when sleeping Improper handling of non-fatal signals when sleeping.
  • 15613 RedHat: Use KillMode=process for systemd client systemd
  • 15634 RedHat: Introduce client systemd helper script systemd
  • 15647 RedHat: Make client unit start/stop more robust systemd
  • 15633 RedHat: Retry umount /afs on systemd shutdown systemd

Minor bug fixes in pending master

The following changes are wish list for a stable back-port. They are still in review for master.

Development

Next Stable Version - 1.10.x

Proposed gerrits for creating the next stable version:

Development Wish List

rxgk

Topics for discussion

  • Not requiring root access for running the openAFS servers
  • Cleanup of AFS_component_version_number

Other development wish list