OpenAFS 1.5.30 released. Production Version for Windows.

1.5.30 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 including both 32-bit
and 64-bit architectures.  The 1.5.30 release continues the recent
efforts at optimizing the performance of the Windows client and
improving its scalability.

For UNIX, Linux, and MacOS X the recommend production ready release of
OpenAFS is 1.4.5.  The 1.5.30 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.

For Microsoft Windows:

This release fixes the following bugs present in 1.5.29:

  * CRITICAL: A buffer reference count leak was introduced in 1.5.29.
    This will cause the cache to fill and then no additional data will
    read nor written.

  * The Network Identity Manager AFS Provider 64-bit version would
    crash if an AFS token configuration was set to use krb524 or
    krb4 as the acquisition method.  KFW 64-bit includes neither
    krb524 nor krb4 support.

  * PTS auto-registration would fail if the Kerberos referrals
    protocol was used to obtain the Kerberos v5 service ticket for
    AFS.  This would occur if KFW 3.2.x is installed and there is
    no [domain_realm] entry for the AFS volume database service
    host domains.

  * [Primarily on Vista] After a system resume or a network adapter
    configuration change, communication with the AFS client service
    could be lost.

  * Fix "FollowBackupPath" to work with normal mount points.

  * [Vista] A deadlock condition has been observed after resuming
    from more than four hours of sleep.

Other changes resulting in performance enhancements include:

  * A new HKLM registry configuration option has been added
    to provide hints to the Network Identity Manager AFS
    Provider when new identities are created.  These hints
    inform the AFS provider which cells should be configured
    for an identity based upon the realm of the identity
    principal.  See the release notes for details on
    the HKLM\SOFTWARE\OpenAFS\Client\Realms\ key.

MIT Kerberos for Windows 3.2.2
  The recommended version of Kerberos for Windows to use with
  OpenAFS is version 3.2.2.  KFW can be downloaded from MIT or
  Secure Endpoints.  64-bit Windows installers for KFW are only
  available from Secure Endpoints.
     http://www.secure-endpoints.com/index.html#kfw

Known issues in the Windows client:
   . Beta versions of the Network Identity Manager AFS plug-in must
     be uninstalled prior to the installation of OpenAFS 1.5.26
   . Windows Vista does not support the WinHelp file format used
     by afscreds.exe and afs_control.exe.  A download is available
     from Microsoft.
   . On Windows Vista, afscreds.exe is not User Account Control (UAC)
     compatible and must be "Run as Administrator" in order to
     start/stop the AFS client service.


Please send reports of successful deployments to
[email protected] and report problems to [email protected].

Jeffrey Altman
for the OpenAFS Gatekeepers