[OpenAFS] Additional 1.6.8pre2 binaries available for testing

[Stephan Wiesand]

Additional binaries for the second 1.6.8 prerelease are now available =
for
the following platforms

RHEL 7 rc (& clones)
OpenSUSE 12.2, 12.3, 13.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2, 11 SP3

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

Thanks are due to Stephen Quinney for providing the EL7 builds and
to Christof Hanke for the SUSE ones.

The cache consistency issue observed on Linux clients at one site
turned out to be an older problem and probably has existed for several
years. It will be addressed in OpenAFS 1.6.9.

We currently intend to release 1.6.8 next Wednesday, without further
changes to 1.6.8pre2.

On May 2, 2014, at 19:59 , Stephan Wiesand wrote:

> Additional binaries for the second 1.6.8 prerelease are now available =
for
> the following platforms
>=20
> RHEL 5, 6 (& clones)
> Fedora 18, 19, 20
>=20
> and can be accessed through the link/paths given in the announcement.
>=20
> Thanks are due to Stephen Quinney for providing those.
>=20
> While there are possible issues not addressed in this prerelease (see
> 00README.txt), most sites are unlikely to encounter them. And if they
> do, the data points would be most valuable.
>=20
> On Apr 24, 2014, at 20:01 , Stephan Wiesand wrote:
>=20
>> The OpenAFS 1.6 Release Team announces that the second 1.6.8 release =
candidate
>> 1.6.8pre2 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_8pre2 .
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>> Source files can be accessed via the web at:
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>> http://dl.openafs.org/dl/candidate/1.6.8pre2/
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>> or via AFS at:
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>> UNIX: /afs/grand.central.org/software/openafs/candidate/1.6.8pre2/
>> UNC: \\afs\grand.central.org\software\openafs\candidate\1.6.8pre2\
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>> Solaris binaries are already available, thanks to Andrew Deason.
>> Binaries for other platforms will be uploaded as they're built.
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>> Please take note of the following significant changes in 1.6.8:
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>> * The default fileserver sync behavior changes from "delayed" to
>> "onclose". This means that explicit syncing only happens when a
>> volume is detached. This was the recommended option in previous
>> stable releases, and it's believed to improve data integrity.
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>> * When a client is shut down, it will give up its callbacks. The =
Windows
>> client has been doing this since 2007. Note that older fileservers
>> (1.3.50 to 1.4.5 and 1.5.0 to 1.5.27) had a bug in the implementation =
of
>> the relevant RPC that could cause crashes or other undefined behavior
>> when this happens.
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>> For the list of all user visible changes foreseen for 1.6.8, please =
see
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>> http://dl.openafs.org/dl/candidate/1.6.8pre2/RELNOTES-1.6.8pre2
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>> The only changes in this release candidate since pre1 are the =
security
>> and DoS fixes from 1.6.7 and a FreeBSD specific build fix.
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>> This is likely to be the final candidate. Further changes before the
>> 1.6.8 release are only foreseen if new problems are found during pre2
>> testing.
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>> 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 .
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>> 1.6 releases are no longer targeting MS Windows.
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>> Stephan Wiesand, 1.6 Branch Release Manager
>> for the OpenAFS Release Team

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Stephan Wiesand
DESY -DV-
Platanenenallee 6
15738 Zeuthen, Germany