[OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS 1.8.0 alpha 1 available

[Benjamin Kaduk]

The OpenAFS Guardians are hapy to announce the availability of the first
prerelease candidate of OpenAFS 1.8.0.
Source files can be accessed via the web at:

        https://www.openafs.org/release/openafs-1.8.0pre1.html

or via AFS at:

        UNIX: /afs/grand.central.org/software/openafs/candidate/1.8.0pre1/
        UNC:  \\afs\grand.central.org\software\openafs\candidate\1.8.0pre1\

A large number of bugfixes and new features are included, and there are also
behavior and functional changes that may require administrator action as
part of the upgrade; please consult the release notes for details.

Please assist the guardians by deploying and testing this release and
providing positive or negative feedback.  Bug reports should be filed
to openafs-bugs@openafs.org ; reports of successes should be sent to
openafs-info@openafs.org.

Benjamin Kaduk
for the OpenAFS Guardians