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1*8bae5d40SchristosTo: am-utils-announce@am-utils.org
2*8bae5d40SchristosCc: am-utils@am-utils.org
3*8bae5d40SchristosSubject: am-utils-6.2-rc1 released
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5*8bae5d40SchristosWe've released am-utils-6.2-rc1, first and only release candidate in the
6*8bae5d40Schristos6.2 series (with nfsv4 support, autofs supports, and quite a few more
7*8bae5d40Schristosfeatures).  This will be the first official release since 2006, so expect a
8*8bae5d40Schristoslot of bug fixes and improvements.
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10*8bae5d40SchristosYou can download am-utils-6.2-rc1 as well as other releases from:
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12*8bae5d40Schristos	http://www.am-utils.org/
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14*8bae5d40Schristos*** Notes specific to am-utils version 6.2-rc1
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16*8bae5d40SchristosFilesystem Support:
17*8bae5d40Schristos    - Add support for NFSv4
18*8bae5d40Schristos    - Add support for Lustre
19*8bae5d40Schristos    - Add support for ext{2,3,4}
20*8bae5d40Schristos    - Add support for linux autofs version 5
21*8bae5d40Schristos    - Add support for TMPFS and UDF
22*8bae5d40SchristosNew features:
23*8bae5d40Schristos    - Add amq -i (prints information about maps)
24*8bae5d40Schristos    - Add synchronous unmount code for amq -uu
25*8bae5d40Schristos    - Allow a comma-separated list of LDAP servers for failover
26*8bae5d40SchristosChanges in behavior:
27*8bae5d40Schristos    - Empty variable assignments, now unset the variable value.
28*8bae5d40Schristos    - Share LDAP connections between different maps to save resources
29*8bae5d40SchristosPortability fixes:
30*8bae5d40Schristos    - Changes to work with Linux-2.6.x, Linux-3.x and NetBSD-5.x, NetBSD-6.x,
31*8bae5d40Schristos      FreeBSD 7.x, Solaris
32*8bae5d40SchristosBug fixes:
33*8bae5d40Schristos    - Many bug fixes, see ChangeLog
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35*8bae5d40Schristos- minor new ports:
36*8bae5d40Schristos	* Please send us the 'config.guess' and 'amd -v' outputs
37*8bae5d40Schristos	  so we can complete this list.
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39*8bae5d40Schristos- Bugs fixed:
40*8bae5d40Schristos	* many race conditions found and fixed by Krisztian Kovacs.
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42*8bae5d40SchristosCheers,
43*8bae5d40SchristosThe am-utils team.
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45*8bae5d40SchristosPS. Many thanks for Christos Zoulas for a huge amount of work he put in
46*8bae5d40Schristostowards this long-awaited release.
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