Binaries for the first 1.6.8 prerelease are now available for the following platforms
Solaris 10, 11 FreeBSD 8.4, 9.1, 9.2, 10.0 RHEL 5, 6 Fedora 18, 19, 20 OpenSUSE 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, factory, tumbleweed SUSE Linux Enterprise 11SP2, 11SP3 and can be accessed through the link/paths given in the announcement. Thanks are due to Andrew Deason, Ben Kaduk, Christof Hanke and Stephen Quinney for providing those. On 2014-04-01, at 16:54, Stephan Wiesand <stephan.wies...@desy.de> wrote: > The OpenAFS 1.6 Release Team announces that the first 1.6.8 release candidate > 1.6.8pre1 has been tagged in the OpenAFS source repository, available at: > > git://git.openafs.org/openafs.git > > as tag: openafs-stable-1_6_8pre1 . > > Source files can be accessed via the web at: > > http://dl.openafs.org/dl/candidate/1.6.8pre1/ > > or via AFS at: > > UNIX: /afs/grand.central.org/software/openafs/candidate/1.6.8pre1/ > UNC: \\afs\grand.central.org\software\openafs\candidate\1.6.8pre1\ > > No binaries are available yet, but they'll be uploaded as they're built. > > Besides many other fixes and enhancements, this release candidate includes > the following significant changes: > > * 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. > > * 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. > > For the list of user visible changes foreseen for 1.6.8, please see > > http://dl.openafs.org/dl/candidate/1.6.8pre1/RELNOTES-1.6.8pre1 > > > Please note that 1.6.7 will be a security only release based upon 1.6.6. > The details of this are not yet public, but the relevant changes will be > part of the final 1.6.8 release, even though they aren't included in the > 1.6.8pre1 prerelease. > > > Please assist us by deploying this prerelease and providing positive or > negative feedback. Bug reports should be filed to openafs-b...@openafs.org . > Reports of success should be sent to openafs-info@openafs.org . > > 1.6 releases are no longer targeting MS Windows. > > Stephan Wiesand, 1.6 Branch Release Manager > for the OpenAFS Release Team > > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-announce mailing list > openafs-annou...@openafs.org > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-announce _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
