[OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS 1.6.2 release candidate 3 available

Stephan Wiesand openafs-info@openafs.org
Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:13:50 +0100


The OpenAFS 1.6 Release Managers announce that release candidate
1.6.2pre3 has been tagged in the OpenAFS source repository, available
at:

       git://git.openafs.org/openafs.git

as tag: openafs-stable-1_6_2pre3 .

Source files and available binaries can be accessed via the web at:

       http://www.openafs.org/release/openafs-1.6.2pre3.html

or

       http://dl.openafs.org/dl/candidate/1.6.2pre3/

or via AFS at:

       UNIX: /afs/grand.central.org/software/openafs/candidate/1.6.2pre3/
       UNC: \\afs\grand.central.org\software\openafs\candidate\1.6.2pre3\

Among many fixes and enhancements, this release candidate includes
support for Linux kernels up to 3.7, OS X 10.8 and recent Solaris releases.

This is believed to be very close to 1.6.2 final. The Kerberos related
changes mentioned in the last announcement are not yet ready, and will
probably be part of the next stable release.

Please assist us by deploying this release and providing positive or
negative feedback. Bug reports should be filed to openafs-bugs@openafs.org .
Reports of success should be sent to openafs-info@openafs.org .

Paul Smeddle and Stephan Wiesand, 1.6 Branch Release Managers
for the OpenAFS Release Team