OpenAFS 1.5.51 released (Production Version for Windows including UNICODE; Test Version for other platforms)

1.5.51 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 1.5.51
release continues the recent efforts at optimizing the performance of
the Windows client and improving its scalability.

In the 1.5.51 release of OpenAFS for Windows, each of the AFS Client
Service, the AFS Explorer Shell Extension, and the command-line tools
are UNICODE character set enabled.  No longer is OpenAFS restricted to
accessing file system objects whose names can be represented in the
locale specific OEM code page.  This has significant benefits for end
users.  Most importantly it permits non-Western languages to now be used
for file system object names in AFS from Microsoft Windows operating
systems.  Now that Unicode names are supported, Roaming User Profiles
and Folder Redirection will no longer fail when a user attempts to store
an object with a name that cannot be represented in the OEM code page.

For UNIX, Linux, and MacOS X the recommend production-ready release of
OpenAFS is 1.4.7.  The 1.5.51 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.

Windows:

This production release is a major release.  Changes since 1.5.51 include:

   * The 32-bit EXE 1.5.50 installer failed to properly install
     the C Runtime library.  When used as an upgrade OpenAFS would
     continue to work but when used as a new installation, OpenAFS
     binaries would fail to load.

   * Fixes the "fs" and "symlink" commands to properly parse Unicode
     path prefixes during the pioctl remote procedure call.  This
     bug would result in file not found errors for files and directories
     that clearly exist.  (Bug introduced in 1.5.50)

   * Large File support is disabled. (Bug introduced in 1.5.50)

   * Removes the possibility of a deadlock during volume location
     update operation if all of the reported file servers are
     unreachable at the time of the update.

   * Ensures that reference counts are properly incremented/decremented
     on Rx connection objects used for volume location RPCs.

   * Over Quota errors during cm_FSync() calls would lead to an
     infinite loop as the error was never propagated to the caller.

All platforms:

   * salvager tries harder to arrange for clients to get VBUSY while
     salvaging single volumes.

   * salvager avoids certain corruption when salvaging directories.

   * Rx connection clones disabled.

All Unix platforms:

   * Bugfixes to disconnected AFS support in the cache manager.

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-1.5.51.html

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

Jeffrey Altman
for the OpenAFS Gatekeepers