[OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS 1.3.76 released

[Derrick J Brashear]

OpenAFS 1.3.76 is now available for download from the openafs.org web
site.

In addition to the gzipped tarfile of source, binary distributions of
OpenAFS 1.3.76 are available for Windows XP and 2003 as both an MSI and an 
installer package.

For Windows, 1.3.76 is the currently supported stable client. The 
following paragraphs detail changes in the Windows client; Note that if you
have XP and are moving to service pack 2, you need 1.3.70 or later.

For UNIX, 1.3.76 is a milestone in the 1.4 release cycle. Starting in 1.3.70, 
platforms with pthreads support provide a volserver which like the fileserver 
and butc backup system uses pthreads. Solaris versions 8 and above, AIX, IRIX, 
OpenBSD, Darwin, MacOS and Linux clients support large (>2gb) files, and 
provided fileservers have this option enabled. HP-UX may also support large 
files, but has not yet been verified. We hope sites which can do so will make 
use of 1.3.75 on their UNIX platforms and provide feedback to help us fix any 
remaining issues before 1.4 is released.

The Windows client adds multihomed fileserver support, and fixes a bug in 
freelance (dynamic afs root) support which produced random entries in
\\AFS\all

The UNIX client fixes a configure issue with setting an afs sysname 
when building for Linux, cleans up the depinstall target for Irix,
and attempts to deal with an unlink time problem on Linux.

All platforms include a fix for LWP which affected vos and possibly 
other user mode LWP-using code, and and another fix which speeds up vos 
listvol.

Derrick Brashear
for the OpenAFS gatekeepers