From openafs-info@openafs.org Tue Mar 12 20:03:16 2019 From: openafs-info@openafs.org (Stephan Wiesand) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 20:03:16 +0100 Subject: [OpenAFS-announce] First OpenAFS 1.8.3 release candidate available Message-ID: <658B5DFF-685E-45C0-A0ED-C033D6E4C4CE@desy.de> The OpenAFS Release Team is pleased to announce that the first 1.8.3 release candidate, 1.8.3pre1, is now available. Source files and available binaries can be accessed via the web at: http://dl.openafs.org/dl/candidate/1.8.3pre1/ or via AFS at: UNIX: /afs/grand.central.org/software/openafs/candidate/1.8.3pre1/ UNC: \\afs\grand.central.org\software\openafs\candidate\1.8.3pre1\ This prerelase brings a variety of bug fixes as well as performance and documentation improvements, and support for the latest Linux mainline kernels and macOS 10.14 "Mojave". For the full list of user visible changes foreseen for 1.8.3, please see http://dl.openafs.org/dl/candidate/1.8.3pre1/RELNOTES-1.8.3pre1 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. Stephan Wiesand, OpenAFS Release Manager on behalf of the OpenAFS Release Team From openafs-info@openafs.org Mon Apr 29 17:50:38 2019 From: openafs-info@openafs.org (Stephan Wiesand) Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 18:50:38 +0200 Subject: [OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS Release 1.8.3 available Message-ID: <488CDF66-F2BA-4880-B194-F7126E60A653@desy.de> The OpenAFS Release Team is pleased to announce the availability of OpenAFS version 1.8.3 for UNIX/Linux. Source files can be accessed via the web at: http://www.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.8.3/ or via AFS at: UNIX: /afs/grand.central.org/software/openafs/1.8.3/ UNC: \\afs\grand.central.org\software\openafs\1.8.3\ This release brings a variety of bug fixes as well as performance and documentation improvements, and support for the latest Linux mainline kernels and macOS 10.14 "Mojave". For the full list of user visible changes in this release, please see http://www.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.8.3/RELNOTES-1.8.3 Bug reports should be filed to openafs-bugs@openafs.org. Stephan Wiesand, OpenAFS Release Manager on behalf of the OpenAFS Release Team From openafs-info@openafs.org Fri Jul 26 19:10:26 2019 From: openafs-info@openafs.org (Dave Botsch) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 14:10:26 -0400 Subject: [OpenAFS-announce] Save the Date for 2020 AFS Workshop Message-ID: <20190726181026.GQ12813@cnf.cornell.edu> The 2019 workshop held in Pittsburgh was a huge success. Thanks to the speakers who gave fun informative talks. And thanks to everyone who attended. And we're already planning for next year -- June 15-17, 2020 in Columbus OH at Ohio State University. Thanks! -- ******************************** David William Botsch OpenAFS Foundation Board botsch@cnf.cornell.edu ******************************** From openafs-info@openafs.org Fri Aug 23 18:55:07 2019 From: openafs-info@openafs.org (Stephan Wiesand) Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 19:55:07 +0200 Subject: [OpenAFS-announce] First OpenAFS 1.8.4 release candidate available Message-ID: <8A382177-B6E4-442C-BDEF-B5E4F8F81B28@desy.de> The OpenAFS Release Team is pleased to announce that the first 1.8.4 release candidate, 1.8.4pre1, is now available. Source files and available binaries can be accessed via the web at: http://dl.openafs.org/dl/candidate/1.8.4pre1/ or via AFS at: UNIX: /afs/grand.central.org/software/openafs/candidate/1.8.4pre1/ UNC: \\afs\grand.central.org\software\openafs\candidate\1.8.4pre1\ This prerelase brings performance improvements, improved diagnostics, support for Linux on the PPC64 Little Endian platform, fixes and enhancements for Red Hat packaging as well as a number of bug fixes, among those some that should help avoid false ENOENT errors on Linux which can cause symptoms like getcwd() failures. Note there's a change in ptserver's behaviour when run in restricted mode, which is now consistent with the documentation: Non-members of the system:administrators group are no longer allowed to issue the adduser, setfields and delete pts commands, and all members of system:administrators are now allowed to issue pts commands in this mode, not just the admin principal. For the full list of user visible changes foreseen for 1.8.4, please see http://dl.openafs.org/dl/candidate/1.8.4pre1/RELNOTES-1.8.4pre1 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. Stephan Wiesand, OpenAFS Release Manager on behalf of the OpenAFS Release Team From openafs-info@openafs.org Fri Sep 20 16:28:16 2019 From: openafs-info@openafs.org (Stephan Wiesand) Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 17:28:16 +0200 Subject: [OpenAFS-announce] Second OpenAFS 1.8.4 release candidate available Message-ID: <41470B81-DA50-48B3-9E27-DA1C4DC13BF1@desy.de> The OpenAFS Release Team is pleased to announce that the second 1.8.4 release candidate, 1.8.4pre2, is now available. Source files and available binaries can be accessed via the web at: http://dl.openafs.org/dl/candidate/1.8.4pre2/ or via AFS at: UNIX: /afs/grand.central.org/software/openafs/candidate/1.8.4pre2/ UNC: \\afs\grand.central.org\software\openafs\candidate\1.8.4pre2\ This prerelase brings support for the client under Linux mainline kernels up to 5.3, on top of the features already present in 1.8.4pre1 which include performance improvements, improved diagnostics, support for Linux on the PPC64 Little Endian platform, fixes and enhancements for Red Hat packaging as well as a number of bug fixes, among those some that should help avoid false ENOENT errors on Linux which can cause symptoms like getcwd() failures. Note there's a change in ptserver's behaviour when run in restricted mode, which is now consistent with the documentation: Non-members of the system:administrators group are no longer allowed to issue the adduser, setfields and delete pts commands, and all members of system:administrators are now allowed to issue pts commands in this mode, not just the admin principal. For the full list of user visible changes foreseen for 1.8.4, please see http://dl.openafs.org/dl/candidate/1.8.4pre2/RELNOTES-1.8.4pre2 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. Stephan Wiesand, OpenAFS Release Manager on behalf of the OpenAFS Release Team From openafs-info@openafs.org Mon Oct 7 18:37:52 2019 From: openafs-info@openafs.org (Stephan Wiesand) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2019 19:37:52 +0200 Subject: [OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS Release 1.8.4 available Message-ID: <9EBD9F4F-1978-4859-ABA4-149470A749B7@desy.de> The OpenAFS Release Team is pleased to announce the availability of OpenAFS version 1.8.4 for UNIX/Linux. Source files can be accessed via the web at http://www.openafs.org/release/1.8.4/ or via AFS at UNIX: /afs/grand.central.org/software/openafs/1.8.4/ UNC: \\afs\grand.central.org\software\openafs\1.8.4\ This release brings support for the client under Linux mainline kernels up to 5.3, performance improvements, improved diagnostics, support for Linux on the PPC64 Little Endian platform, fixes and enhancements for Red Hat packaging as well as a number of bug fixes, among those some that should help avoid false ENOENT errors on Linux which can cause symptoms like getcwd() failures. Note there's a change in ptserver's behaviour when run in restricted mode, which is now consistent with the documentation: Non-members of the system:administrators group are no longer allowed to issue the adduser, setfields and delete pts commands, and all members of system:administrators are now allowed to issue pts commands in this mode, not just the admin principal. For the full list of user visible changes in this release, please see http://www.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.8.4/RELNOTES-1.8.4 Bug reports should be filed to openafs-bugs@openafs.org. Stephan Wiesand, OpenAFS Release Manager on behalf of the OpenAFS Release Team From openafs-info@openafs.org Wed Oct 23 00:35:23 2019 From: openafs-info@openafs.org (Benjamin Kaduk) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 16:35:23 -0700 Subject: [OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS Security Releases 1.8.5, 1.6.24 available Message-ID: <20191022233523.GK69013@kduck.mit.edu> --uZ3hkaAS1mZxFaxD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline The OpenAFS Guardians are happy to announce the availability of Security Releases OpenAFS 1.8.5 and 1.6.24. Source files can be accessed via the web at: https://www.openafs.org/release/openafs-1.8.5.html https://www.openafs.org/release/openafs-1.6.24.html or via AFS at: UNIX: /afs/grand.central.org/software/openafs/1.8.5/ UNC: \\afs\grand.central.org\software\openafs\1.8.5\ UNIX: /afs/grand.central.org/software/openafs/1.6.24/ UNC: \\afs\grand.central.org\software\openafs\1.6.24\ These releases include fixes for three security advisories: http://openafs.org/pages/security/OPENAFS-SA-2019-001.txt http://openafs.org/pages/security/OPENAFS-SA-2019-002.txt http://openafs.org/pages/security/OPENAFS-SA-2019-003.txt OPENAFS-SA-2019-001 and OPENAFS-SA-2019-002 are for information disclosure over the network via uninitialized RPC output variables; they differ in that -001 affects RPCs that failed, whereas -002 can occur even for successful returns. OPENAFS-SA-2019-003 is a denial of service condition whereby anonymous attackers can cause pthreaded database servers to segmentation fault (NULL dereference). Please see the release notes and security advisories for additional details. Bug reports should be filed to openafs-bugs@openafs.org. 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The workshop takes place Monday, June 15 - Wednesday, June 17 in Columbus, OH at Ohio State University. We believe that all members of the AFS community have something valuable to share with others. We invite you to submit a session proposal to share your experience with colleagues in the AFS community. Sessions types at the workshop include presentations, panels, tutorials, and roundtable discussions. Everyone is encouraged to speak. Why Present =E2=80=A2 Friendly Audiences =E2=80=A2 Rewarding Experience =E2=80=A2 Share Your Knowledge =E2=80=A2 Contribute to the Community Topics of Interest Have a neat new tool you wrote that saves you time and effort? Tell us about it. Have an idea you want to try out on a bunch of people? Tell us about it. Have you done some performance tuning, benchmarking, or automated testing? We would love to hear more! =E2=80=A2 Site Reports =E2=80=A2 Best Practices =E2=80=A2 Case studies and use cases for AFS =E2=80=A2 =E2=80=9CBirds of a Feather=E2=80=9D (BOF) sessions =E2=80=A2 AFS projects =E2=80=A2 Training & tutorials =E2=80=A2 Or anything else you would like to discuss or showcase. Proposals should contain: =E2=80=A2 Your name and affiliation =E2=80=A2 Session title =E2=80=A2 A brief summary of the topic =E2=80=A2 Time requirements Multiple proposals are welcome from the same individual or organization. Speakers should also register for the Workshop. Please send your proposals for consideration to openafs.workshop@gmail.com with the subject 2020 cfp. --=20 ******************************** David William Botsch On behalf of the Board, OpenAFS Foundation, Inc. ********************************