Last night version 1.7.3 was released which fixes as many of the
outstanding issues that have been reported with sufficient detail
to reproduce.
The current known issues are:
- Open a Microsoft Office 2010 document from \\AFS and suspend
the machine. Upon resume the document will be in read only
mode. This will be fixed in a future release when power mgmt
support is added to the afs redirector.
- A failure loading Group Policy information on 32-bit Vista due
to a crash in an instance of svchost.exe at boot. This is being
investigated. Once the cause is identified it will be fixed in
a future release.
Missing features:
- Native Heimdal integration. Requires a fix to the Kerberos
Compatibility SDK.
At the recent European AFS Conference and in private e-mail many
site administrators have indicated that they need the OpenAFS client
to be stable on Windows 7 no later than March 2012. In reality that
means to me that OpenAFS 1.8.0 must be released no later than
mid-January. This does not leave a lot of calendar time. It is the
end of the semester and the holidays are a few weeks away. If your
organization is planning on relying upon the OpenAFS Windows client,
please test it thoroughly now.
Send bug reports to [email protected].
Thank you
Jeffrey Altman
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