[OpenAFS-announce] First OpenAFS 1.6.10 release candidate available

[Stephan Wiesand]

The OpenAFS 1.6 Release Team announces that the first 1.6.10 release =
candidate
1.6.10pre1 has been tagged in the OpenAFS source repository, available =
at:

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

as tag: openafs-stable-1_6_10pre1 .

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

  http://dl.openafs.org/dl/candidate/1.6.10pre1/

or via AFS at:

  UNIX: /afs/grand.central.org/software/openafs/candidate/1.6.10pre1/
  UNC: \\afs\grand.central.org\software\openafs\candidate\1.6.10pre1\

Binaries are available for Fedora 19/20 and RHEL 5/6 thanks to Stephen =
Quinney.
For other platforms, they will be uploaded as they become available.

Besides many other fixes and enhancements, this release candidate =
includes the
following changes:

  * volscan(8), a swiss army knife utility for gathering information =
about
    volume content efficiently on the fileserver hosting it, was added.

  * The client now reports just under 2 TiB free space in /afs. =
Previously,
    it reported 9 GiB on most platforms, which could cause problems with
    software checking for sufficient free space before attempting to =
write
    files larger than that.

  * Client support for Linux kernels up to at least 3.16

  * Support for FreeBSD 9.3 and 10.1

For the full list of user visible changes foreseen for 1.6.10, please =
see

  http://dl.openafs.org/dl/candidate/1.6.10pre1/RELNOTES-1.6.10pre1


There is a known issue with out-of-tree builds. This is being worked on =
in

   http://gerrit.openafs.org/11392

and the final solution will be included in the 1.6.10 release.


Please assist us by deploying this prerelease 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 .

1.6 releases are no longer targeting MS Windows.

Stephan Wiesand, 1.6 Branch Release Manager
for the OpenAFS Release Team