OpenAFS 1.5.56 released (Production Version for Windows including UNICODE; Test Version for other platforms)

1.5.56 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 1.5.56
release continues the recent efforts at optimizing the performance of
the Windows client and improving its scalability.

In the 1.5.56 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 recommended production-ready release of
OpenAFS is 1.4.8.  The 1.5.56 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 1.5.55 include:

 * The NetIDMgr AFS Provider automated configuration
   logic was broken by the introduction of Kerberos
   referrals.  If the realm of the identity cannot be
   determined, the workstation cell is now assumed to
   belong to the newly created identity.

 * Avoid a reference count under flow during rename operations.

 * Avoid a crash caused by treating an arbitrary length directory
   search mask as an 8.3 mask.

 * Prevent rename operations if a case insensitive match for the
   target name already exists and does not refer to the object
   being renamed.

 * Increase the maximum number of background daemons to 64.

 * Fix the UAC manifest applied to afs_config.exe

FreeBSD:

 * FreeBSD 7.1 is now supported.

 * amd64 FreeBSD is now supported.

Linux:

 * Generic fh (exportfs API) cache type is now available.

 * Avoid some oopses due to backing_dev_info inode fields
   not being filled.

 * 2.6.28 is now supported.

MacOS:

 * 10.3 support has been corrected.

Solaris:

 * Large partition support has been corrected.

 * Filesystem-agnostic cache is now available on Solaris 10 and 11.

All client platforms:

 * Updates to disconnected AFS support.

All server platforms:

 * Salvager no longer leaves cores in vice partitions.

 * The vol-dump tool now supports dumps larger than 2gb where possible.

 * Operations on multiple files now report all FIDs in the audit log.

 * butc XBSA support now works correctly on amd64.

All platforms:

 * libuafs (userspace cache manager) updated to correct several errors.

 * Additional rx debugging support is available as a conditional
   compile.

 * A race condition in Rx leading to a panic has been corrected.

 * Rx idle time tracking has been corrected.

 * ubik clone server support has been corrected.

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-1.5.56.html

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

Jeffrey Altman
for the OpenAFS Gatekeepers