[OpenAFS-announce] First OpenAFS 1.8.4 release candidate available

[Stephan Wiesand]

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