Derrick J Brashear wrote: > The OpenAFS Gatekeepers announce the availability of OpenAFS version > 1.4.6. Source files and available binaries can be accessed via the > web at: > > http://www.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.4.6/ > > or via AFS at: > > /afs/grand.central.org/software/openafs/1.4.6/ > \\afs\grand.central.org\software\openafs\1.4.6\ > > This is the current recommended release for all Unix platforms; For > Windows, we recommend use of the current 1.5 series release for best > performance, and we do not expect to provide OpenAFS 1.4.6 binaries > for Windows. > > This release contains only bugfixes for the fileserver over 1.4.5. No > other changes are present; For all subsystems other than the > fileserver this release is identical to OpenAFS 1.4.5. > > - fileserver host tracking code had a missing lock on a host structure; > that lock has been added. > > - fileserver handling for clients which are giving up callbacks did not > hold a lock, making it unsafe and allowing clients to potentially > crash the server by racing. > > - fileserver will now leave a corefile when it is doing a shutdown due > to error conditions. > > - fileserver again allows ufs as a valid filesystem type (regression in > 1.4.5). > > - cbd handler for fileserver status data has an interpretation error > which > could cause crashes corrected. > > - fileserver accurately tracks number of callbacks on a given file. > > Bug reports should be filed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Thanks are due as usual to our dedicated team of binary builders (Doug > Engert, > Chaskiel Grundman, Simon Wilkinson) without whom the broad range of > released binaries would not be possible. Additionally, the revised web > pages for the binary releases are possible thanks to the work of Steve > Devine and Eric Holp. > > Derrick J Brashear > for the OpenAFS gatekeepers The freshmeat.net entry has been updated.
Stuff that needs fixing: * The release notes link is broken on the news page. * No 10.4.6 package is listed on the MAC OS X page. http://www.openafs.org/macos.html Sincerely, Jason _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
