# Notes related to an OpenAFS 1.8 branch
-The current plan is to make a branch for 1.8 off of master in early July 2014.
+The current plan is to make a branch for 1.8 off of master on or about
+24 September 2014.
This will allow all of the improvements and cleanup that have accumulated
on master to be in a stable release series, while letting potentially
destabilizing changes such as rxgk and pthreaded bos land on master to
Things to be done pre-branching:
-* Make roken and hcrypto use libtool to build
+* Make roken, hcrypto, and kopenafs use libtool to build
* Make sure libtool is used properly elsewhere, in particular to install
shared versions of libafsrpc and libafsauthent, which we ship in
1.6 but do not currently install on master
* `src/rxgk`; it is not going to be usable in 1.8
* `src/mcas`; it is not going to be usable in 1.8
-* `make dest` support? Pretty-please?
Things to be removed from master post-branch:
* push to empty out libutil as much as possible.
* rip out LWP support
* it is tempting to remove kauth, but probably not possible due to agreements with IBM.
+* `make dest` support? Pretty-please?
+* upserver
+* non-DA fileserver and associated bitmap-later and fast-restart configure knobs