Download OpenAFS 1.6.20

AFS is a distributed file system originally from the American Carnegie Mellon University. It was subsequently further developed and published by Transarc Corporation, which in turn was acquired by IBM in the mid-1990s. In 2000, IBM released an open source version of AFS released, under the catchy name OpenAFS. For more information, please refer to this page. The developers of OpenAFS have released version 1.6.20 for the Linux and Unix platforms. The corresponding announcement looks like this:

OpenAFS 1.6.20 – Security release for UNIX/Linux

OpenAFS 1.6.20 is the next in the current series of OpenAFS stable releases for UNIX/Linux systems. Versions through 1.6.19 contained a number of security issues of low to medium severity, fixed here.

All platforms

• Fix for OPENAFS-SA-2016-003: file and directory names leak due to reuse of directory objects without zeroing the contents

OpenAFS 1.6.19 – Maintenance release for UNIX/Linux

OpenAFS 1.6.19 is the next in the current series of OpenAFS stable releases for UNIX/Linux systems. Besides other bug fixes and minor improvements, this release includes fixes that prevent cases where a database write could be lost or an old version of the database be used instead of the latest version.

All platforms

• Documentation improvements
• Fixes for test failures

All DB server platforms

• Avoid potentially writing to an out of date volume location or protection database, or losing a database write, which could happen in rare cases under special conditions during database leader election

Solaris clients

• Allow the fsinfo::: DTrace provider to work with AFS files

Linux clients

• Don’t commit more data to a file than was actually copied during writes, which could happen on architectures with a page size > 4 KiB
• Fixed build on PPC64 with GCC 6.1
• Fixed build on x86_64 with recent GCC