OpenAFS 1.5.63 released (Production Version for Windows; Test Version for other platforms)

1.5.63 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 1.5.63
release continues the recent efforts at optimizing the performance of
the Windows client and improving its scalability.

For UNIX, Linux, and MacOS X (including Snow Leopard) the recommended
production-ready release of OpenAFS is 1.4.11.  The 1.5.63 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.


Microsoft Windows:

This production release is a major release.  Important changes since
1.5.62 include:

 * CRITICAL: Some applications for example those based on Cygwin
   were unable to access data stored in the AFS name space.
   Explorer Shell also experienced inconsistent behavior.  This is
   fixed.

 * CRITICAL: Multiple AFS pioctl requests issued nearly simultaneously
   by applications could result in pioctl responses being received
   by the wrong requester.  This in turn could result in application
   crashes.  symlink.exe, fs.exe, afslogon.dll, afscreds.exe, and
   the netidmgr afscred.dll plugin were all affected.

 * Some XP machines running 1.5.62 had trouble saving roaming profile
   data.  This is fixed.

 * Integrated Logon (afslogon.dll) did not function with domain
   specific configurations.

 * Ensure that access denied and over quota errors experienced
   while storing data to the file server do not result in on-going
   retry attempts.

All platforms:

 * The restorevol command is now documented and installed as a user
   command.

 * The uss command now properly translates vldb entries to its
   expected format when handling them in all cases.

 * Documentation now refers to Kerberos instead of kaserver.

All UNIX platforms:

 * Except on Solaris and AIX, the compiler may now be overriden at
   configure time by setting the CC environment variable.

 * afsd now properly deals with large cache partitions.

All server platforms:

 * bosserver now handles BosConfig.new when restarting, allowing
   configuration to be replaced at restart time rather than with bos
   delete and bos create.  Documentation is updated to reflect this.

 * The demand attach fileservice not longer potentially hangs trying
   to terminate demand-salvages which have already exited.

 * The demand attach fileservice has been modified to avoid spurious
  'SYNC_putRes: write failed' warnings when some protocol messages
  cannot be acknowledged due to the sender terminating the connection.

 * In the event of failure to contact the vlserver or ptserver, the
   fileserver will not exit and trigger a forced salvage. It will
   continue to try in the background to contact the needed services.

 * The salvager can now repair certain cases of a damamged vnode index.

 * The accessDate metadata for a volume is now updated correctly.

FreeBSD:

 * Build shared libafsauthent and libafsrpc.

Linux:

 * Kernel module DKMS support now installs an unstripped module to
   allow debugging information to be collected.

MacOS:

 * Preferences pane properly updates token information.

MacOS 10.6:

 * klog will now properly handle passwords of 8 or fewer characters
   with an AFS string to key on hosts able to run 64 bit binaries.

 * A panic at AFS shutdown due to "NO PCB" on a udp_lock has been
   addressed.

 * The panic decoder script included in the source now properly
   handles 32 and 64 bit panics.

NetBSD:

 * Avoid defining AFS_KERBEROS_ENV globally as it creates a circular
  dependency.

 * Build shared libafsauthent and libafsrpc.

OpenBSD:

 * Build shared libafsauthent and libafsrpc.


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-1.5.63.html

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

Jeffrey Altman
for the OpenAFS Gatekeepers