-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(<group-name>) or
-netgrp(<group-name>,<host-name>).
-
-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.
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