[OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS 1.5.73 released (Production Version for Windows; Test Version for other platforms)

[Derrick J Brashear]

1.5.73 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 1.5.73 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 1.4.12.

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
1.5.72 are:

- Prevent the Explorer Shell extension from crashing if
   symlink creation failed.  (126406)

- A Rx level NAT ping has been implemented. A registry value enables.

- Adds krb5 error message translation to aklog, afscreds, afslogon.dll,
   the network identity manager afs provider and translate_et.

- Default mode bit settings for file and directory creation are now
   provided, and can be configured.

- An SMB request trace facility is provided and can be enabled for
   debugging.

All platforms:

- NAT keepalive support at Rx level.

- Corrected SRV record support for cell name canonicalization.

All server platforms:

- Fix volume callback notification to not notify unaffected clients.
   (126497)

- Allow root directory recreation by salvager. (94658)

- Numerous DAFS fixes.

- Improvements to callback table overflow handling. (126451)

- bosserver now shuts down cleanly on SIGTERM.

All Unix client platforms:

- Rx idle deadtime does not stop file writes.

- Disconnected AFS no longer has a race condition during remove ops.

- Fakestat avoids a condition which could cause it to block on network
   activity.

- Several fixes to handle interruptions in vos operations. (33360,125535)

- Allow more sysnames in a sysname list.

- Attempt to enforce timeouts on AFSDB lookups.

AIX:

- Clean up properly on mount failure.

- Add entry to /etc/vfs to allow umount to work.

Linux:

- Several issues to deal with older kernels.

- Avoid leaking the global lock in the /proc cellservdb code.

- Keyring destruction now cleans up all tokens.

- Keyring quotas are not enforced against root.

MacOS:

- Some FSEvents hinting for authentication events now done. (23781)

- Update uninstaller. (125634)

- Rewrite afssettings and fstab code to avoid licensing issue with APSL.

- Growl client for user monitoring of AFS events included.

- Properly support insert-only dropboxes.

- Add bulkstat support.

- Include support for moving in Finder across mount points.

- Preferences Pane includes support for Kerberos 5 ticket renewal.

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/macos.html
      http://www.openafs.org/release/openafs-1.5.73.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