OpenAFS 1.5.75 released (Production Version for Windows; Test Version for other platforms)

1.5.75 is the recommended production-ready release of OpenAFS for
Microsoft Windows users.  It supports all Microsoft Windows operating
systems from Windows 2000 through Windows 7 and Windows Server
2008 R2 including both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures.  The 1.5.75 
Windows client is fully compatible with all AFS server versions.

1.5.75 is a necessary upgrade for sites which have taken the MS10-020 
update on Windows hosts, as this update did further validation of SMB 
traffic which was incompatible with previous versions of the OpenAFS 
client.

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
1.5.74 are:

- Revised SMB QuerySecurityInfo to address issues caused by MS10-020
   (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/980232)

- Prevent use of the AFSCache file contents if mapped to a new address.

- Make fs newcell include behavior compatible with the non-Windows
   version.

- Provide a registry option (FreelanceImportCellServDB) to pre-create
   mount points in the AFS root for all cells in CellServDB.

- Fix a memory leak in the cm_FreeServerList() routine.

- Reduce privilege when reading registry CellServDB.

- Add support for RPC Pipe Service NetWkstaGetInfo levels needed for
   Windows 7.

- Prevent overflow when computing quota percentage in Explorer Shell.
   (126846)

- Generate meaningful errors for ACL operations on freelance AFS root.

- Fix error handling on InlineBulkStatus RPCs.

- Show configuration pages for all types of MSI installations.

- Improve freemount AFS root directory handling and operations.

- Properly validate GetVolumeStatus pioctl responses.

- Commit file length changes and dirty buffers when flushing a file.

All platforms:

- Prevent rx_rpc_stats global lock from being a bottleneck.

- Path MTU discovery is now provided to allow traffic to pass networks
   with sub-1500 byte MTUs and poor fragment handling.

- Further reduce Rx NAT ping transmission when enabled.

- Update Kerberos 5-based token handling in rxkad from upstream Heimdal.
   (127554)

- Update version numbers emitted during build to reflect what is actually
   being built.

- Add "-human" switch for human-readable units in fs diskfree and
   listquota. (124529)

- vos provides reasons for locked volumes when known.

- Do not count retransmission and ping acks as non-idle for Rx
   connections.

- Rx: provide service-specific data getter and setter routines.

- Update build-time Kerberos detection.

- Updated userspace AFS client.

- FUSE version of userspace AFS client.

- Beginning of a modernized test suite.

- Additional documentation.

- Updated documentation, notably the Administrators Guide.

- Substantial code cleanup.

All server platforms:

- Update handling of vnode allocation failures.

- DAFS: allow salvaging volumes not known to the fileserver, to allow
   cleanup of data not attached to a current volume.

- Properly handle volumes slated for destruction.

- Handle volumes with many files properly.

- Force core file generation in bosserver by overriding default resource
   limits when possible.

- DAFS: Provide fast-restart equivalent option.

- Update vlclient and vldb_check.

- Avoid potentially corrupting a volume on creation if files are left from
   previous failed cleanup.

- Note volume changed during salvage as needed.

- DAFS: do not assume invalid addresses are in fileserver address hash
   table.

- Avoid tying up fileserver threads with volumes that are being taken
   offline.

- Do not set inUse on volumes for non-DAFS other than in fileserver.

- Break origin's callback on target of rename operation.

- Avoid unneeded parent directory link updates during some rename
   operations.

- Do not open /dev/console for writing in the fileserver.

- DAFS: avoid spurious restarts when binary restarts are configured.

- Avoid spurious and unneeded calls to sync(), which can slow down the
   fileserver.

All Unix client platforms:

- Update version of files for disk cache.

- Do not call afs_FlushVCBs with xvcache lock held, to improve
   parallelization.

- Add mariner log messages for creating and removing files.

- Don't hold xvcache lock while creating symlinks, to improve
   parallelization.

- Provide -dynroot-sparse mode to not show all cells in CellServDB in
   dynroot mode.

- Avoid a potential crash in aklog in linked cell handling.

- Log MTU-caused packet retransmission.

- Prevent crashes caused be fs checkservers while cache is being set up.

- fs getserverprefs now has a buffer large enough for the default
   CellServDB.

- Report server address when logging warnings.

- Avoid panic in GetCapabilities when cell is not known.

- Lock process name and id for advisory lock warnings when possible.

- Handle need for allocating additional Rx packets.

- Properly handle errors from InlineBulkStatus operations.

- Fix errors returned from fcntl() on readonly files locked for write.

- Flush pending changes to the server on LOCK_EX unlock.

- Reflect length changes as a result of callbacks even when file is open
   for write.

- Avoid hanging due to error exit when attempting to store a large file to
   a non-largefile fileserver.

- Recover from afs_GetVolSlot errors.

FreeBSD:

- Bugfixes for kernel VFS and network routines.

Irix:

- Provide makesname().

Linux:

- Avoid syscall probes when keyrings are present, by default. (125215)

- Remove "Big Kernel Lock" from VFS operations.

- Use filehandles for all Linux 2.6 versions to avoid need for matched
   afsd. (127530)

- Updated RPM packaging.

- Fix dkms configuration provided with RPMs.

- Hold reference on pages during background I/O for cache bypass.

- Fix cache bypass handling of non-largefile fileservers.

- Protect truncate_inode_pages mappings with mutex or semaphore as needed.

- Fix pagevec use in cache bypass. (127505)

- Updates for 2.6.35

MacOS:

- Improve launchd configuration.

- Avoid hanging on recursive cache file lock acquisition when user
   notification is enabled.

- Fix and re-enable bulkstat mode.

OpenBSD:

- Build updates.

Solaris:

- Precluding unmount while AFS is busy.

- Avoid deadlocking when releasing the VFS object.

- Stop network interface poller in kernel on AFS shutdown.

- Avoid issues with lookups on empty directory names. (127356)

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/macos.html
      http://www.openafs.org/release/openafs-1.5.75.html

Please send reports of successful deployments to
openafs-info <at> openafs.org and report problems to openafs-bugs <at> openafs.org.

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Derrick Brashear
for the OpenAFS gatekeepers