release announcement template

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   If you want to move the tag, use --force
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-- email announcement to am-utils-announce@am-utils.org (look for "standard"
-  announcements I made in the past)
+- email announcement to am-utils-announce@am-utils.org.  See
+  README.release-announce as sample.

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+To: am-utils-announce@am-utils.prg
+Cc: am-utils@am-utils.prg
+Subject: am-utils-6.2a2 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:
+
+       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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+- 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
+
+- 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)
+
+Cheers,
+Erez and the am-utils team.