[OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS 1.4.12 release available

[Derrick J Brashear]

The OpenAFS Gatekeepers are pleased to announce the availability of 
OpenAFS version 1.4.12.  Source files and available binaries can be 
accessed via the web at:

       http://www.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.4.12/

or via AFS at:

       /afs/grand.central.org/software/openafs/1.4.12/
       \\afs\grand.central.org\software\openafs\1.4.12\

OpenAFS 1.4.12 is the current recommended release for all Unix platforms; For 
Windows, we recommend use of the current 1.5 series release for best 
performance, and we do not expect to provide OpenAFS 1.4 series binaries for 
Windows.

OpenAFS 1.4.12 contains fixes for a number of issues, including:

Linux:
- Support kernels through 2.6.33.
- Allow discovery of PAG number from userspace.
- Fix locking to avoid several oopses.
- Avoid RPM conflicts with e2fsprogs-devel.
- Handle SELinux backed caches.

MacOS:
- Include a preferences pane.
- Improve performance in dynroot mode.

Solaris:
- Handle ZFS caches usefully.

All platforms:
- Fixes to avoid a double free in the Rx RPC library.
- Rx tries to time out connections faster for network unreachable
   conditions.

All server platforms:
- Numerous fixes to host tracking in the fileserver.
- Fileserver now does not need to salvage for several conditions which can
   be handled with a clean shutdown.

All client platforms:
- Support MIT krb5 1.8 via weak crypto API calls.
- Avoid missing chunks when truncating large files.
- Try harder to write even if server connection gets idle timeout.
- Clients do not blindly trust length in server reply.

Bug reports should be filed to openafs-bugs@openafs.org.

Thanks are due as usual to our dedicated team of binary builders
(Chaz Chandler, Douglas Engert, Christof Hanke, Mike Meffie, and Simon 
Wilkinson) without whom the broad range of released binaries would not be 
possible.

Additional builds will be available for 1.4.12 as they become available, and 
Linux RPMs will be provided as possible for new kernels.

Derrick J Brashear
for the OpenAFS gatekeepers