[OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS 1.5.13 release available

[Jeffrey Altman]

The OpenAFS Gatekeepers announce the availability of OpenAFS
version 1.5.13.  Source files and available binaries can be
accessed via the web at:

     http://www.openafs.org/release/openafs-1.5.13.html

or via AFS at:

     UNIX: /afs/grand.central.org/software/openafs/1.5.13/
     UNC:  \\afs\grand.central.org\software\openafs\1.5.13\


Microsoft Windows:
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For Microsoft Windows users, 1.5.13 is the latest recommended release
including:

# Official support for all Windows Vista releases
# MIT Kerberos for Windows Network Identity Manager Plug-in
# Support for 64-bit Large Files
# Support for 64-bit Windows XP/2003/R2
# Implements Windows Byte Range Locking backed by AFS File Server Locks
# Implements Inline Bulk Status RPCs which speeds up directory listings
# Uses GetCapabilities RPCs to probe the server status
# Logs fs crypt state to the Windows Event Log
# Supports DebugOutputString debugging of the RX Library
# New command: fs uuid [-generate]
# Improved CIFS protocol capatibility
# Hard Dead and Connection Timeout values restricted to the CIFS Session
  Timeout value.
# Improved handling of Windows Standby/Hibernate modes when network
  access is not available.  The AFS Client Service will no longer panic
  in response to a network outage.
# Improved performance of SMB file open requests.
# Improved SMB directory search performance when the search mask matches
  a single existing entry.



Other Operating Systems:
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Release 1.5.13 of OpenAFS is the next in a series of new feature
builds for UNIX leading up to the 1.6 stable release series.
Significant modifications since 1.5.12 include:

Linux:
 - updates for 2.6.20 rc1
 - remove private cred pool from kernel code.

MacOS:
 - fix packager script

Solaris:
 - avoid direct access to cred structure when possible.

All platforms:
 - reinitialize resolver on afsdb lookup failure.
 - avoid truncating BosConfig on error
 - Fix possible panic in split cache code
 - Don't leak unreferenced vnodes during incremental releases.
 - Avoid endianness issue with kernel rxkad to avoid bogus token errors.
 - Fix Rx to not use INIT as a macro (for Perl AFS and other external
   users)
 - Avoid double free in Rx when talking to AFS 3.4 peer.


Please assist the gatekeepers by deploying this release and providing
positive or negative feedback. Bug reports should be filed to
openafs-bugs@openafs.org.  Reports of success should be sent to
openafs-info@openafs.org.

Jeffrey Altman
for the OpenAFS Gatekeepers