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2Cc: am-utils@am-utils.org
3Subject: am-utils-6.2-rc1 released
4
5We've released am-utils-6.2-rc1, first and only release candidate in the
66.2 series (with nfsv4 support, autofs supports, and quite a few more
7features).  This will be the first official release since 2006, so expect a
8lot of bug fixes and improvements.
9
10You can download am-utils-6.2-rc1 as well as other releases from:
11
12	http://www.am-utils.org/
13
14*** Notes specific to am-utils version 6.2-rc1
15
16Filesystem Support:
17    - Add support for NFSv4
18    - Add support for Lustre
19    - Add support for ext{2,3,4}
20    - Add support for linux autofs version 5
21    - Add support for TMPFS and UDF
22New features:
23    - Add amq -i (prints information about maps)
24    - Add synchronous unmount code for amq -uu
25    - Allow a comma-separated list of LDAP servers for failover
26Changes in behavior:
27    - Empty variable assignments, now unset the variable value.
28    - Share LDAP connections between different maps to save resources
29Portability fixes:
30    - Changes to work with Linux-2.6.x, Linux-3.x and NetBSD-5.x, NetBSD-6.x,
31      FreeBSD 7.x, Solaris
32Bug fixes:
33    - Many bug fixes, see ChangeLog
34
35- minor new ports:
36	* Please send us the 'config.guess' and 'amd -v' outputs
37	  so we can complete this list.
38
39- Bugs fixed:
40	* many race conditions found and fixed by Krisztian Kovacs.
41
42Cheers,
43The am-utils team.
44
45PS. Many thanks for Christos Zoulas for a huge amount of work he put in
46towards this long-awaited release.
47