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@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+Version 1.56
+------------
+Add "forcemandatorylock" mount option to allow user to use mandatory
+rather than posix (advisory) byte range locks, even though server would
+support posix byte range locks. Fix query of root inode when prefixpath
+specified and user does not have access to query information about the
+top of the share. Fix problem in 2.6.28 resolving DFS paths to
+Samba servers (worked to Windows).
+
Version 1.55
------------
Various fixes to make delete of open files behavior more predictable
@@ -8,7 +17,11 @@ handling fcntl(F_SETLEASE). Convert cifs to using blocking tcp
sends, and also let tcp autotune the socket send and receive buffers.
This reduces the number of EAGAIN errors returned by TCP/IP in
high stress workloads (and the number of retries on socket writes
-when sending large SMBWriteX requests).
+when sending large SMBWriteX requests). Fix case in which a portion of
+data can in some cases not get written to the file on the server before the
+file is closed. Fix DFS parsing to properly handle path consumed field,
+and to handle certain codepage conversions better. Fix mount and
+umount race that can cause oops in mount or umount or reconnect.
Version 1.54
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