OpenAFS Release Notes - Version 1.4.5 _________________________________________________________________ All systems: Minor bugfixes. New systems: MacOS 10.5. _________________________________________________________________ All systems: - fileserver address tracking is improved to avoid potentially merging unrelated hosts. - Documentation updates. - namei fileserver now does fsync()s in background batches for performance improvements. - Kerberos ticket support corrected in bundled Kerberos 4 utilities on 64 bit platforms. - fileserver includes limited per-host thread quota support to avoid resource starvation. - fileserver deals with more damaged volumes without asserting. - vos validates dumpfiles before attempting restores. - vos clone will no longer potentially delete the parent volume. - Client no longer permits empty UUID to be created. - fs uuid command for checking, regenerating UUID added. - Updates for gcc 4.2. - fileserver treats w (write) permission as granting read lock permission in addition to write. AIX: - Bundled NAS Kerberos is now supported. (5.x) - LAM aklog module is provided. (5.x) - Associate cache files with correct filesystem to avoid snapshots when performing maintenance on local filesystems. Irix: - Makefile updates. Linux: - Kernels throigh 2.6.23 are known to work. - Updates to syscall table probing. - Bug fix in keyring PAG support to avoid oops. - updated sample RPM configuration. - sparc32 lwp support updated. - Avoid potential oops in symlink support in certain older kernels. - Avoid potential deadlock during vmalloc. - Corrected locking while interacting with kernel task list. MacOS: - Several panics fixed, including remove_fsref. (10.4 and later) - IP address changes now tracked. - Corrected support for dropboxes (li access without r) with cp and Finder. - fstrace and ancillary files now included. - man pages are now installed in the default MANPATH. - Servers will be timed out quickly if there is no route available. - Temporary files from remove-while-busy now cleaned up correctly. Solaris: - Updates to accomodate kernel interface changes. (10u4 and later) - knfs and NFS translator support updated. - Changes to accomodate version 5.4 xbsa library. - Updates for new SunStudio defaults.