[OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS 1.6.11.1 release available

[Stephan Wiesand]

The OpenAFS Release Team is pleased to announce the availability of =
OpenAFS
version 1.6.11.1 for UNIX/Linux. Source files can be accessed via the =
web at:

  http://www.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.6.11.1/

or via AFS at:

   /afs/grand.central.org/software/openafs/1.6.11.1/
  \\afs\grand.central.org\software\openafs\1.6.11.1\

OpenAFS 1.6.11.1 is the next in the current series of stable releases of =
OpenAFS
for all platforms except Microsoft Windows. This point release brings =
only a very
few client side changes:

 * Support for recent Linux kernels up to 4.0

 * A fix for building the kernel module on FreeBSD with recent clang

Systems not requiring one of those can continue to use the 1.6.11 =
release.

For the full list of user visible changes in 1.6.11.1, please see

  http://dl.openafs.org/dl/1.6.11.1/RELNOTES-1.6.11.1

Bug reports should be filed to openafs-bugs@openafs.org .

The list of known issues is the same as for 1.6.11. In particular:

 With all released versions of OpenAFS, including this one, there is a =
risk
 of database corruption if a database server is shut down and then =
brought
 up again quickly with an altered database. Details are discussed here:

 =
http://grand.central.org/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=3D131997&user=3Dguest&p=
ass=3Dguest

 This issue will likely be addressed in the next release. Meanwhile,
 administrators are advised to make sure that the coordinating server =
(the
 "sync site") has noticed that the peer server is down before the latter =
is
 started again if its local database is modified in any way. This may =
take
 up to 75 seconds.


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