First OpenAFS 1.8.4 release candidate available

The OpenAFS Release Team is pleased to announce that the first 1.8.4
release candidate, 1.8.4pre1, is now available.

Source files and available binaries can be accessed via the web at:

  http://dl.openafs.org/dl/candidate/1.8.4pre1/

or via AFS at:

  UNIX: /afs/grand.central.org/software/openafs/candidate/1.8.4pre1/
  UNC: \\afs\grand.central.org\software\openafs\candidate\1.8.4pre1\

This prerelase brings performance improvements, improved diagnostics,
support for Linux on the PPC64 Little Endian platform, fixes and
enhancements for Red Hat packaging as well as a number of bug fixes,
among those some that should help avoid false ENOENT errors on Linux
which can cause symptoms like getcwd() failures.

Note there's a change in ptserver's behaviour when run in restricted
mode, which is now consistent with the documentation: Non-members of
the system:administrators group are no longer allowed to issue the
adduser, setfields and delete pts commands, and all members of
system:administrators are now allowed to issue pts commands in this
mode, not just the admin principal.

For the full list of user visible changes foreseen for 1.8.4, please see

  http://dl.openafs.org/dl/candidate/1.8.4pre1/RELNOTES-1.8.4pre1


Please assist us by deploying this prerelease and providing positive or
negative feedback. Bug reports should be filed to [email protected].
Reports of success should be sent to [email protected].

Stephan Wiesand, OpenAFS Release Manager
on behalf of the OpenAFS Release Team