OpenAFS Release 1.8.6 available

The OpenAFS Release Team is pleased to announce the availability of OpenAFS
version 1.8.6 for UNIX/Linux. Source files can be accessed via the web at

http://www.openafs.org/release/1.8.6/

or via AFS at

UNIX: /afs/grand.central.org/software/openafs/1.8.6/
UNC: \\afs\grand.central.org\software\openafs\1.8.6\

This release brings performance improvements, improved diagnostics,
support for the latest Linux mainline kernel (currently 5.7) and
macOS 10.15 "Catalina", and a number of bug fixes.

Note that aklog and klog.krb5 will now require the -insecure_des switch in
order to work with the weak and deprecated single-DES encryption types.

To build this release with GCC 10, the parameter "-fcommon" has to be passed
to the compiler, which can be achieved by setting the environment variable
CFLAGS to -fcommon when running configure: "CFLAGS=-fcommon ./configure".

For the full list of user visible changes in this release, please see

http://www.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.8.6/RELNOTES-1.8.6

Bug reports should be filed to [email protected].


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