[OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS Release 1.8.4 available

[Stephan Wiesand]

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