[Macpartners] OpenAFS 1.4.1

[Mateja Miljacki]

Subject: [OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS 1.4.1 is now available
Reply-To: openafs-info at openafs.org

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The OpenAFS Gatekeepers are pleased to announce the release of version
1.4.1 of OpenAFS.  This release is a Critical Update for organizations
running 1.4.0 and 1.4.1 release candidate AFS File Servers.

Major changes in this release
- ----------------------------------

  + Critical bugs in the file server have been fixed.  These bugs
    could result in symptoms such as resource leaks, reduced  
performance,
    and crashes.   All organizations that have deployed version 1.4.0
    or any of the 1.4.1 release candidates are urged to upgrade to this
    release.

  + Improved File Server functionality:

    - Mobile clients and those behind Network Address Translators will
      experience improved performance due to improvements in the file
      server's ability to maintain associates when clients move to new
      IP addresses or port numbers.

    - The algorithms used to recycle callback registrations now  
implement
      a Least Recently Used search resulting in a significantly fairer
      and less disruptive distribution of callback breaks among the pool
      of clients.

  + Support for MacOS X 10.4 (Tiger)

    Thanks to Chas Grundman and Derrick Brashear for all of their
    hard work.  Thanks to Ed Moy and Chas Williams for patches  
supporting
    the Intel version of the port.

  + Support for Client Managed Byte Range Locks on Microsoft Windows

    Thanks to Asanka Herath for the implementation and Swiss Federal
    Institute of Technology for their support.

Other changes since 1.4.0:

  + A change to the audit logging of the viced Create File operation
    to include the file identifier assigned to the created file.

  + Leaks in the RX library have been corrected.

  + (Windows) Improved management of server availability checks will
    improve performance from behind NATs.

  + (Windows) SMB Virtual Circuit management has been improved resulting
    in better performance and removal of several hard to reproduce bugs.

  + (Windows) ICMP packets received due to port unreachable messages no
    longer adversely impact RX performance.

  + (HP-UX 11i) 64-bit (large file) inodes are supported.

  + asetkey is now included to ease Kerberos 5 integration for server
    administrators.

  + A new fileserver statistics collection including callback statistics
    was added.

  + Updated man pages are now available.

Supported Platforms: (! == new)
- - --------------------------------
AIX    4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5,2, 5.3
HP-UX  11i (pa-risc), 11.22 (pa-risc), 11.23 (ia64)
Solaris 7 (sparc,x86), 8 (sparc,x86), 9 (sparc,x86), 10  
(sparc,x86,amd64)
MacOS X 10.3 and 10.4!
Microsoft Windows 2000, XP (x86), 2003 (x86), 2003 R2 (x86)
Linux 2.4 kernel: x86, x86-uml, amd64, ia64, pa-risc, ppc, ppc64,
                   s390, s390x,  sparc, sparc64
Linux 2.6 kernel: x86!, x86-uml, amd64, ia64, ppc, ppc64,
                   s390x, sparc64
OpenBSD (x86) 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8
NetBSD (x86; server only) 1.5, 1.6, 2.0, 2.1, 3.0
FreeBSD (x86; server only) 4.7, 5.3, 6.0-beta
SGI Irix 6.5


Downloads:
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OpenAFS 1.4.1 can be downloaded from the web at:

     http://www.openafs.org/release/openafs-1.4.1.html

and via AFS at:

     /afs/grand.central.org/software/openafs/1.4.1/


Jeffrey Altman
on behalf of the OpenAFS Gatekeepers

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Mateja Miljacki, ACSA
mateja at apple.com
Systems Engineer
o: 617-718-9955
http://www.apple.com/education/technicalresources/
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