[OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS 1.5.72 released (Production Version for Windows; Test Version for other platforms)

[Derrick J Brashear]

1.5.72 is the recommended production-ready release of OpenAFS for
Microsoft Windows users.  It supports all Microsoft Windows operating
systems from Windows 2000 through Windows 7 and Windows Server
2008 R2 including both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures.  The 1.5.72
release restores AFSDB support for kaserver users.  The 1.5.72 Windows
client is fully compatible with all AFS server versions.

For UNIX, Linux, and MacOS X (including Snow Leopard) the recommended
production-ready release of OpenAFS is 1.4.11.

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 minor release.  Important changes since
1.5.71 are:

- Restore use of DNS AFSDB and SRV records by kaserver clients.

All platforms:

- Provide internationalization support in com_err.

- Fix array length checking to avoid crashes when checking for a volume
   type based on name in vos.

All server platforms:

- Provide backward compatible "-f" flag to salvager for force mode.

All Unix client platforms:

- Fix client cache file truncation to not lose chunks when truncating
   a large file.

- Ensure a cache writeback hook is installed in the client (bug from
   1.5.71)

- Avoid spurious free memory warnings during clean shutdown.

- Fakestat mode avoids AFSDB lookups.

- "fs storebehind" now correctly reports errors on readonly volumes.

- Additional documentation for "fs getcacheparms"

- Forced new uuid generation with "fs uuid -generate" now works
   enforced permission correctly.

MacOS:

- Add optimized Rx event handler in kernel.

- Installer now allows installing an older version.

- Panic decoder can now deal with MacOS 10.5 again.

- MacOS ._ files are now correctly not looked up as cellnames.

Linux:

- To deal with SELinux file labeling, try cache accesses with current
   credentials in event of failure.

- Rx XDR encoding bug on i386 Linux is fixed (bug introduced in 1.5.71)

Irix:

- Code compilation fixes.

OpenBSD:

- Update for OpenBSD 4.6.

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-1.5.72.html

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

-- 
Derrick Brashear
for the OpenAFS gatekeepers