[OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS 1.7.22 released for Microsoft Windows

[Jeffrey Altman]

OpenAFS 1.7.22 is the next a series of OpenAFS clients for the Microsoft
Windows platform that is implemented as a native file system.
Significant changes since 1.7.21:

 * Improved garbage collection and reduced kernel memory usage

 * Redesigned I/O processing pathway results in higher throughput
   across a broad range of use cases as measured by 'iozone'.

 * New Symlink implementation provides improved compatibility
   with applications aware of NTFS Symlinks. Symlinks can be
   created and deleted using the Win32 API.

 * More accurate reporting of volume state information via
   FILE_FS_VOLUME_INFORMATION..

 * Many bugs fixed.

1.7.22 is the recommended release of OpenAFS for Microsoft Windows
users. It supports Microsoft Windows client operating systems from
Windows XP SP3 through Windows 8 and Windows Server operating
systems from 2003 SP2 through 2012.  The 1.7.22 Windows client is
fully compatible with all AFS server versions.

For UNIX, Linux, and MacOS X the recommended production-ready release of
OpenAFS is 1.6.2.

Source code and binaries can be downloaded from

     http://www.openafs.org/windows.html
     http://www.openafs.org/release/openafs-1.7.22.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