From: Christos Zoulas Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:13:17 +0000 (-0400) Subject: add information pertinent to 6.2-rc1 X-Git-Url: https://git.fsl.cs.stonybrook.edu/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3bdfcd247839bd373b575fcc7ab30ad84bd24ee1;p=am-utils-6.2.git add information pertinent to 6.2-rc1 --- diff --git a/README.release-announce b/README.release-announce index 655b7eca..5abf2b0c 100644 --- a/README.release-announce +++ b/README.release-announce @@ -1,63 +1,43 @@ -To: am-utils-announce@am-utils.prg -Cc: am-utils@am-utils.prg -Subject: am-utils-6.2a2 released +To: am-utils-announce@am-utils.org +Cc: am-utils@am-utils.org +Subject: am-utils-6.2-rc1 released -We've released am-utils-6.2a2, the second test release in the 6.2 series -(with autofs, sun-automount support, and more). There are a few new -features (mostly matching similar enhancements in the 6.1 series), some bug -fixes, performance improvements, etc. You can download am-utils-6.2a2 as -well as other releases from: +We've released am-utils-6.2-rc1, first and final release candidate in +the 6.2 series (with nfsv4 support, autofs supports, and quite a few more +features). This will be the first official release since 2006, so expect +a lot of bug fixes and improvements. - http://www.am-utils.org/ - -*** Notes specific to am-utils version 6.2a2 - -New amd.conf global parameter: nfs_allow_any_interface. By default it is -set to 'no' which means that Amd accepts local NFS packets only from -127.0.0.1. If set to 'yes' then Amd will accept local NFS packets from any -local interface; this is useful on hosts that may have multiple interfaces -where the system is forced to send all outgoing packets (even those bound to -the same host) via an address other than 127.0.0.1. +You can download am-utils-6.2-rc1 as well as other releases from: -Add support for specifying the host to match in the mount selectors netgrp -and netgrpd. Now one can use either netgrp() or -netgrp(,). - -Support new mount options for type:=pcfs mounts: longname, nowin95, -shortname, user=N, group=N, mask=N, and dirmask=N. + http://www.am-utils.org/ -Two new amd.conf [global] parameters: nfs_retry_interval_toplvl and -nfs_retransmit_counter_toplvl. They are similar to nfs_retry_interval and -nfs_retransmit_counter, and allow you to set the "timeo" and "retrans" NFS -mount parameters, respectively, but ONLY for Amd's top-level mounts (which -are NFSv2/UDP currently). This is useful because on some systems you may -wish to set these parameters differently than the OS default, so as to -better tune Amd's responsiveness under heavy scheduler loads. +*** Notes specific to am-utils version 6.2-rc1 + +Filesystem Support: + - Add support for NFSv4 + - Add support for Lustre + - Add support for ext{2,3,4} + - Add support for linux autofs version 5 + - Add support for TMPFS and UDF +New features: + - Add amq -i (prints information about maps) + - Add synchronous unmount code for amq -uu + - Allow a comma-separated list of LDAP servers for failover +Changes in behavior: + - Empty variable assignments, now unset the variable value. + - Share LDAP connections between different maps to save resources +Portability fixes: + - Changes to work with Linux-2.6.x, Linux-3.x and NetBSD-5.x, NetBSD-6.x, + FreeBSD 7.x, Solaris +Bug fixes: + - Many bug fixes, see ChangeLog - minor new ports: - i386-pc-linux-fc5 (Fedora Core 5) - i386-pc-linux-suse10.1 (beta 8) - i386-unknown-freebsd6.0 (RELEASE) - i386-unknown-freebsd6.1 (RELEASE) - i386-unknown-netbsdelf2.1 - i386-unknown-netbsdelf3.0 (RELEASE) - i386-unknown-openbsd3.8 - i386-unknown-openbsd3.9 - powerpc-apple-darwin8.5.0 - powerpc-apple-darwin8.6.0 + * Please send us the 'config.guess' and 'amd -v' outputs + so we can complete this list. - Bugs fixed: - * one serious memory leak in amfs_generic (caught by Coverity) - * assorted potential (but rare) NULL pointer dereferences (Coverity) - * correctly print nfs_args->addr info (sin_family/port/addr) - * pawd should resolve path repeatedly until no more to do - * handle old-style filehandles correctly (for mount points longer - than 28 chars) - * use-after-free bug in amfs_lookup_mntfs (Coverity) - * don't turn off attribute cache for regular NFS mounts (improves - performance) - * detect G/DBM support via gdbm_compat library (Debian) - * detect NDBM support in libc (FreeBSD 6) + * many race conditions found and fixed by Krisztian Kovacs. Cheers, Erez and the am-utils team.