1.5.62 is the recommended production-ready release of OpenAFS for Microsoft Windows users. It supports all Microsoft Windows operating systems from Windows 2000 through Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 including both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. The 1.5.62 release continues the recent efforts at optimizing the performance of the Windows client and improving its scalability.
For UNIX, Linux, and MacOS X (including Snow Leopard) the recommended production-ready release of OpenAFS is 1.4.11. The 1.5.62 Windows client is fully compatible with all AFS server versions. Please visit http://www.openafs.org/windows.html for up to date information on the status of the OpenAFS for Windows client. Microsoft Windows: This production release is a major release. Important changes since 1.5.60 include: * CRITICAL: Fixes two errors that can result in data loss when storing data to the file server. 1. Failure to Store Portions of Unaligned Writes 2. Failure to Store Data to File Servers Lacking Large File Support Read the announcement for more details: http://www.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-announce/2009/000305.html * CRITICAL: The cache manager daemon thread could terminate when the machine enters suspend mode. This daemon thread performs the background check of down servers, offline volumes, callback expirations, etc. * CRITICAL: Integrated Logon (afslogon.dll) was terminating unexpectedly. Error checking has been improved and NULL pointer dereferences after Lsa API calls fail have been eliminated. * For the first time, the OpenAFS SMB Server supports the DCE RPC services SRVSVC and WKSSVC. Browsing \\AFS with the Explorer Shell or NET VIEW will now be faster and provide additional functionality. No longer will cell names longer than 12 characters be truncated. * Improvements to DFS Referral request processing have been implemented. * Unnecessary DNS lookups of share names are avoided improving performance. All platforms: * Numerous invisible changes to improve code maintainability, portability and enhanceability. All Unix platforms: * Non-Kerberos PAM modules work correctly again. MacOS X * MacOS 10.6 (Snowleopard) is now supported, both 32 and 64 bit mode. * Updates to the AFSCommander preferences pane. * Installer now permits cell names with dashes. This release is the recommended production release for all Microsoft Windows environments. Source code and binaries can be downloaded from http://www.openafs.org/windows.html http://www.openafs.org/release/openafs-1.5.62.html Please send reports of successful deployments to [email protected] and report problems to [email protected]. Jeffrey Altman for the OpenAFS Gatekeepers _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-announce mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-announce
