[OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS 1.7.12 released for Microsoft Windows

[Jeffrey Altman]

OpenAFS 1.7.12 is the latest in a new series of OpenAFS clients for the
Microsoft Windows platform that is implemented as a native file system.

The significant changes since 1.7.11 are:

 * Windows cache coherency issues fixed.

 * Fix BSOD condition
   . when multiple threads attempt to open the same file system
     object simultaneously resulting in memory corruption.
   . the stack is exhausted as a side effect of an out of
     memory condition.

 * Prevent a potential AFS FileLock leak during file cleanup.

 * Improved handling of VNOVOL and VOFFLINE errors when produced
   by the file server during a volume backup, readonly release
   or salvage operation.

 * Reduced CPU utilization.

1.7.12 is the recommended release of OpenAFS for Microsoft Windows
users. It supports Microsoft Windows client operating systems from
Windows XP SP3 through Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server operating
systems from 2003 SP2 through 2008 R2 SP1.  The 1.7.12 Windows client is
fully compatible with all AFS server versions.

For UNIX, Linux, and MacOS X the recommended production-ready release of
OpenAFS is 1.6.1.

Source code and binaries can be downloaded from

     http://www.openafs.org/windows.html
     http://www.openafs.org/release/openafs-1.7.12.html

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

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