[OpenAFS-testers] OpenAFS 1.2.6 Release Candidate 1 now available for testing

[Garry Zacheiss]

A compressed tar file of OpenAFS 1.2.6-rc1 is now available at:

  http://www.openafs.org/dl/openafs/testers/openafs-1.2.6-rc1.tar.gz

Changes include:

  - Compilation errors on Solaris 9 and Redhat Linux 7.3 with the
    2.4.18-5 kernel should now be fixed.

  - The client should now compile on Solaris 7 and 8 x86.

  - "fakestat" support had been integrated, and can be enabled by
    starting afsd with the -fakestat command line switch.

  - .__afs temporary files should now be created and removed properly on
    Linux. 

  - Deadlock problems on Linux clients due to lost wakeups should now be
    fixed.

  - "vos listaddrs" is now capable of printing UUIDs.

  - The Linux client has gcpags support, which is disabled by default.  

  - Darwin/MacOS X clients will no longer syslog excessively when long
    running applications are run out of AFS.

  - The Kerberos-aware AFS pam module is now built correctly.

  - Solaris 7 and 8 clients will now properly check for 32-bit file size
    limitations.

and several other bug fixes.

    Please try out this candidate release and report your findings.

Garry, for the OpenAFS Gatekeepers