[OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS 1.8.6 beta 3 available

[Stephan Wiesand]

The OpenAFS Release Team is pleased to announce that the prerelease
1.8.6pre3 is now available.

Source files and available binaries can be accessed via the web at:

  http://dl.openafs.org/dl/candidate/1.8.6pre3/

or via AFS at:

  UNIX: /afs/grand.central.org/software/openafs/candidate/1.8.6pre3/
  UNC: \\afs\grand.central.org\software\openafs\candidate\1.8.6pre3\

This prerelase brings performance improvements, improved diagnostics,
support for the latest Linux mainline kernel (currently 5.7) and
macOS 10.15 "Catalina", and a number of bug fixes.

Note that aklog and klog.krb5 will now require the -insecure_des
switch in order to work with the weak and deprecated single-DES
encryption types.

To build this release with GCC 10, the parameter "-fcommon" has to
be passed to the compiler, which can be achieved by setting the
environment variable CFLAGS to -fcommon when running configure:

  "CFLAGS=-fcommon ./configure"


For the full list of user visible changes foreseen for 1.8.6, please see

  http://dl.openafs.org/dl/candidate/1.8.6pre3/RELNOTES-1.8.6pre3


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