[OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS 1.5.59 released (Production Version for Windows; Test Version for other platforms)

[Jeffrey Altman]

1.5.59 is the recommended production-ready release of OpenAFS for
Microsoft Windows users.  It supports all Microsoft Windows operating
systems from Windows 2000 through Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server
2008 including both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures.  The 1.5.59
release continues the recent efforts at optimizing the performance of
the Windows client and improving its scalability.

For UNIX, Linux, and MacOS X the recommended production-ready release of
OpenAFS is 1.4.10.  The 1.5.59 Windows client is fully compatible with
all AFS server versions.

Please visit http://www.openafs.org/windows.html for up to date
information on the status of the OpenAFS for Windows client.



Microsoft Windows:

This production release is a major release.  Important changes since
1.5.58 include:

 * Increased service priority class to "High" to match the
   priority of system components that are dependent upon the
   a timely response.

 * SMB error responses avoid returning errors that could
   confuse the Microsoft SMB redirector into disconnecting
   the connection to \\AFS.

For all Unix platforms (except MacOS X 10.4 and 10.5):

 * OpenAFS 1.5.59 contains fixes for the client issues addressed by
   the security advisories OPENAFS-SA-2009-001 and OPENAFS-SA-2009-002

For Linux platforms:

 * support for prerelease Linux 2.6.30 kernels.



This release is the recommended production release for all
Microsoft Windows environments.

Source code and binaries can be downloaded from

     http://www.openafs.org/windows.html
     http://www.openafs.org/release/openafs-1.5.59.html

Please send reports of successful deployments to
openafs-info@openafs.org and report problems to openafs-bugs@openafs.org.

Jeffrey Altman
for the OpenAFS Gatekeepers