[OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS 1.5.11 released

[Derrick J Brashear]

The OpenAFS Gatekeepers announce the availability of OpenAFS version
1.5.11.  Source files and available binaries can be accessed via the web 
at:

        http://www.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.5.11/

or via AFS at:

/afs/grand.central.org/software/openafs/1.5.11/
\\afs\grand.central.org\software\openafs\1.5.11\

This is the current recommended release for all Windows clients; For
Unix, we recommend use of the current 1.4 series release for best
performance.


                    OpenAFS Release Notes - Version 1.5.11
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Windows: Major bugfixes
Other platforms: Minor bugfixes
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* Bugfixes:

Microsoft Windows:

The 1.5.11 release fixes one critical error:

  * when an application calls "FlushFile" the dirty buffers held
    by the AFS Cache Manager would successfully be flushed but an
    error would be reported to the application.  This frequently
    resulted in the application exiting.

    This problem has adversely affected a number of source code
    repositories including both CVS and Subversion.

The 1.5.11 release fixes one other issue:

  * When Windows Offline Folders are turned on, the Explorer
    shell will specify the source file name in a RenameFile operation
    in all uppercase.  This would result in a file not found error
    if if there is only a single file that would be matched if not
    for case-sensitivity.  As of this release, a case-sensitive match
    is attempted and if that fails at most one file will be renamed
    (at random) if there is a case-insensitive match.

An update on Microsoft Vista support:

  * 1.5.11 will panic if Microsoft Vista enters one of the Standby
    modes.  In Vista, the Microsoft Loopback Adapter is shutdown
    during a Standby operation which causes afsd_service.exe to lose
    its LANA binding.  This will be addressed in a future release.

MacOS:

* Both 10.4 and 10.5 have had the network interface statistics gathering
   code corrected; 10.5 will no longer panic in rxi_GetIFInfo.

Linux:

* amd64 system call table range checking is improved to work correctly in
   more cases.

* Changes to deal with newer Linux kernels have been incorporated.

Derrick
for the OpenAFS gatekeepers