[OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS 1.4.1 is now available

Jeffrey Altman openafs-info@openafs.org
Mon, 24 Apr 2006 01:24:11 -0400


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The OpenAFS Gatekeepers are pleased to announce the release of version
1.4.1 of OpenAFS.  This release is a Critical Update for organizations
running 1.4.0 and 1.4.1 release candidate AFS File Servers.

Major changes in this release
- ----------------------------------

 + Critical bugs in the file server have been fixed.  These bugs
   could result in symptoms such as resource leaks, reduced performance,
   and crashes.   All organizations that have deployed version 1.4.0
   or any of the 1.4.1 release candidates are urged to upgrade to this
   release.

 + Improved File Server functionality:

   - Mobile clients and those behind Network Address Translators will
     experience improved performance due to improvements in the file
     server's ability to maintain associates when clients move to new
     IP addresses or port numbers.

   - The algorithms used to recycle callback registrations now implement
     a Least Recently Used search resulting in a significantly fairer
     and less disruptive distribution of callback breaks among the pool
     of clients.

 + Support for MacOS X 10.4 (Tiger)

   Thanks to Chas Grundman and Derrick Brashear for all of their
   hard work.  Thanks to Ed Moy and Chas Williams for patches supporting
   the Intel version of the port.

 + Support for Client Managed Byte Range Locks on Microsoft Windows

   Thanks to Asanka Herath for the implementation and Swiss Federal
   Institute of Technology for their support.

Other changes since 1.4.0:

 + A change to the audit logging of the viced Create File operation
   to include the file identifier assigned to the created file.

 + Leaks in the RX library have been corrected.

 + (Windows) Improved management of server availability checks will
   improve performance from behind NATs.

 + (Windows) SMB Virtual Circuit management has been improved resulting
   in better performance and removal of several hard to reproduce bugs.

 + (Windows) ICMP packets received due to port unreachable messages no
   longer adversely impact RX performance.

 + (HP-UX 11i) 64-bit (large file) inodes are supported.

 + asetkey is now included to ease Kerberos 5 integration for server
   administrators.

 + A new fileserver statistics collection including callback statistics
   was added.

 + Updated man pages are now available.

Supported Platforms: (! == new)
- - --------------------------------
AIX    4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5,2, 5.3
HP-UX  11i (pa-risc), 11.22 (pa-risc), 11.23 (ia64)
Solaris 7 (sparc,x86), 8 (sparc,x86), 9 (sparc,x86), 10 (sparc,x86,amd64)
MacOS X 10.3 and 10.4!
Microsoft Windows 2000, XP (x86), 2003 (x86), 2003 R2 (x86)
Linux 2.4 kernel: x86, x86-uml, amd64, ia64, pa-risc, ppc, ppc64,
                  s390, s390x,  sparc, sparc64
Linux 2.6 kernel: x86!, x86-uml, amd64, ia64, ppc, ppc64,
                  s390x, sparc64
OpenBSD (x86) 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8
NetBSD (x86; server only) 1.5, 1.6, 2.0, 2.1, 3.0
FreeBSD (x86; server only) 4.7, 5.3, 6.0-beta
SGI Irix 6.5


Downloads:
- -----------
OpenAFS 1.4.1 can be downloaded from the web at:

    http://www.openafs.org/release/openafs-1.4.1.html

and via AFS at:

    /afs/grand.central.org/software/openafs/1.4.1/


Jeffrey Altman
on behalf of the OpenAFS Gatekeepers

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