Download OpenAFS 1.7.12

AFS is a distributed file system originally from Carnegie Mellon University. It was then 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 1.7.12 for the Windows platform. The corresponding announcement looks like this:

OpenAFS 1.7.12 released for Microsoft Windows

OpenAFS 1.7.12 is the latest in a new series of OpenAFS clients for the Microsoft Windows platform that is implemented as a native file system.

The significant changes since 1.7.11 are:

• Windows cache coherency issues fixed.
• Fix BSOD condition
  • when multiple threads attempt to open the same file system object simultaneously resulting in memory corruption.
  • the stack is exhausted as a side effect of an out of memory condition.
• Prevent a potential AFS FileLock leak during file cleanup.
• Improved handling of VNOVOL and VOFFLINE errors when produced by the file server during a volume backup, readonly release or salvage operation.
• Reduced CPU utilization.

1.7.12 is the recommended release of OpenAFS for Microsoft Windows users. It supports Microsoft Windows client operating systems from Windows XP SP3 through Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server operating systems from 2003 SP2 through 2008 R2 SP1. The 1.7.12 Windows client is fully compatible with all AFS server versions.

For UNIX, Linux, and MacOS X the recommended production-ready release of OpenAFS is 1.6.1.

Source code and binaries can be downloaded from

http://www.openafs.org/release/openafs-1.7.12.html

Please visit for up to date information on the status of the OpenAFS for Windows client.

Please send reports of successful deployments to openafs-info@openafs.org and report problems to openafs-bugs@openafs.org.

Jeffrey Altman
for the OpenAFS Gatekeepers