Public bug reported: I'm sure it wasn't so much a decision to ship this version in Bionic as an artefact of freeze dates, etc, but 1.8.0~pre5 is seemingly not a very good place to be. In OpenDev infrastructure we have noticed unfortunate behaviour like serving corrupt files and then holding onto them in the cache. Some terse notes are at [1]
We have some discussions with developers involved in upstream who have confirmed that the early 1.8 series have a range of known issues that can cause such problems [2]. So, yeah, I think upgrading this is not really a matter of just nice to have, but it's pretty much unusable since the version currently in the base distro just does really nasty things like random corruption. There doesn't seem to be too many obstacles to incorporating later versions; [3] has 1.8.2 packaged and I have built 1.8.3 for Bionic from upstream sources too [4]. Either of these seem like better choices for LTS. I haven't marked this as a security issue, but there are certainly security related bugs fixed. If there is anything I can do to help, please let me know... [1] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/opendev-mirror-afs [2] http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-infra/%23openstack-infra.2019-06-12.log.html#t2019-06-12T03:49:41 [3] https://launchpad.net/~openafs/+archive/ubuntu/stable [4] https://launchpad.net/~openstack-ci-core/+archive/ubuntu/openafs ** Affects: openafs (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1832690 Title: Bionic 1.8.0~pre5 version is dangerously out of date To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openafs/+bug/1832690/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
