Second OpenAFS 1.8.4 release candidate available

The OpenAFS Release Team is pleased to announce that the second 1.8.4
release candidate, 1.8.4pre2, is now available.

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

  http://dl.openafs.org/dl/candidate/1.8.4pre2/

or via AFS at:

  UNIX: /afs/grand.central.org/software/openafs/candidate/1.8.4pre2/
  UNC: \\afs\grand.central.org\software\openafs\candidate\1.8.4pre2\

This prerelase brings support for the client under Linux mainline kernels
up to 5.3, on top of the features already present in 1.8.4pre1 which
include 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/1.8.4pre2/RELNOTES-1.8.4pre2


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