[OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS 1.7.15 released for Microsoft Windows

[Jeffrey Altman]

OpenAFS 1.7.15 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 1.7.14 are:

 * Avoids kernel deadlocks
   . One triggered by Sophos and Kapersky anti-virus
     utilities
   . One triggered by a high rate of process creation
     and destruction
 * Corrects unexpected afsd_service termination during status
   cache object recycling
 * Prevents kernel memory corruption
 * Adjusts file extent release strategy
 * Permits pioctl processing via SMB interface

1.7.15 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 1.7.15 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-1.7.15.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