[OpenAFS] Additional 1.6.10pre1 binaries available for testing

[Stephan Wiesand]

Additional binaries for the first 1.6.10 prerelease are now available =
for
the following platforms:

OpenSUSE 12.3, 13.1, factory, tumbleweed
SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2, 11 SP3
Solaris 10 (x86 only) and 11 (x86 and SPARC)

and can be accessed through the link/paths given in the announcement.

Thanks are due to Andrew Deason for providing the Solaris builds and
to Christof Hanke for the SUSE ones.

On Aug 18, 2014, at 22:02 , Stephan Wiesand wrote:

> The OpenAFS 1.6 Release Team announces that the first 1.6.10 release =
candidate
> 1.6.10pre1 has been tagged in the OpenAFS source repository, available =
at:
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>  git://git.openafs.org/openafs.git
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> as tag: openafs-stable-1_6_10pre1 .
>=20
> Source files and available binaries can be accessed via the web at:
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>  http://dl.openafs.org/dl/candidate/1.6.10pre1/
>=20
> or via AFS at:
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>  UNIX: /afs/grand.central.org/software/openafs/candidate/1.6.10pre1/
>  UNC: \\afs\grand.central.org\software\openafs\candidate\1.6.10pre1\
>=20
> Binaries are available for Fedora 19/20 and RHEL 5/6 thanks to Stephen =
Quinney.
> For other platforms, they will be uploaded as they become available.
>=20
> Besides many other fixes and enhancements, this release candidate =
includes the
> following changes:
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>  * volscan(8), a swiss army knife utility for gathering information =
about
>    volume content efficiently on the fileserver hosting it, was added.
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>  * The client now reports just under 2 TiB free space in /afs. =
Previously,
>    it reported 9 GiB on most platforms, which could cause problems =
with
>    software checking for sufficient free space before attempting to =
write
>    files larger than that.
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>  * Client support for Linux kernels up to at least 3.16
>=20
>  * Support for FreeBSD 9.3 and 10.1
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> For the full list of user visible changes foreseen for 1.6.10, please =
see
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>  http://dl.openafs.org/dl/candidate/1.6.10pre1/RELNOTES-1.6.10pre1
>=20
>=20
> There is a known issue with out-of-tree builds. This is being worked =
on in
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>   http://gerrit.openafs.org/11392
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> and the final solution will be included in the 1.6.10 release.
>=20
>=20
> 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 .
>=20
> 1.6 releases are no longer targeting MS Windows.
>=20
> Stephan Wiesand, 1.6 Branch Release Manager
> for the OpenAFS Release Team